I am not sure if this is the right group but I didn't see languages group.
I have the following statement:
if (e.SourceRow["COL1"] as string != e.TargetRow["COL2"] as string)
{

I'm using a managed Custom Action hosting the CLR from a c++ dll using wix .
That works great except when I need to use the Custom Action more than once
cause in that case it crashes. After some debuging I found that the error
raises when I call  the method ...

I have a bunch of files I need to put into Compressed (zipped) Folder,
MyFiles.zip file, similarly to what Windows XP does when you send files to
compressed zipped folder.  What is the simplest way to compress these files
into a .zip?

In the following code (over-simplified, of course), the generic method calls
itself recursively, quickly resulting in a StackOverflowException:
public T[] GetArray<T>( T value )
{

As per our requirements we have a web service which internally connects
(Simple HTTP Post Request) to a remote server to initiate some work. We are
calling the web service method asynchronously from a .NET Web Application
hosted on IIS. In our setup the web request form a client ...

I was thinking of using appdomains and loading a winform assembly in each
one.  This would be a client application.  Creating an appdomain seams
lighter than a process and I can share data between appdomains.  Any reason
why I shouldn’t?  Any examples?  I can create an appdomain ...

I need some info on text and xml files......
How many users can simultaneously read a text or xml file...
I've a web appliaction which needs to access a text file and a xml file..
The current users of the system are around 1000 people...

I am working on a project where they want to append to a file but the data
has to be in HEX. I am getting the result from a SQL query and I want to buld
a string for the new record.  but again the output is expected to be in a HEX
format with a record length of 64 bytes.

I am using ASP.NET 2.0, I need to obtain a reference to
System.Web.Security.CookieProtectionHelper . To do that, I need to load
System.Web.dll. However, this library is already executing and if some how I
can obtain a reference to this library then it might save me a bit of

Is there a way to find the size of the entire array in .NET
I tried using Marshal.SizeOf() but apprently it gives me an
ArgumentException if I use a value type.
So if I have an array;

Is there a way I can find what CPU family my application is running on?
I am trying to find if the processor is a 64bit or 32bit.
Is there an API exposed in the framework?
Any help will be helpful.

I'm using dotNet V1.1, C# .
I create a class library as follows:
using System;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

Is there a possibility to statically link used .NET components into my
programm... (to enable it runs on machines that do not have .NET Framework)
Like static link of MFC libraries..
Thanks in advance.

I've been chasing this frustrating problem for a while, and have
finally got some handle on whats going on.
We've got a C# service that needs to call CoInitializeSecurity with
appropriate settings (so that we can call into Virtual Server's COM API

This thing came up while discussing on the practices for Exception
Handling. One of my freinds has strong feeling to not to do soomething
like:
try