I have a string...
abcdefghijklmnop
I know the 'abcdefg' and i know the 'jklmnop', but I dont know the >hi<.
How do I assign this >hi< to a string so that I can play with it later?

Is there any easy way to use the System.Compression tools in .NET 2.0
to compress an entire directory ?
All my source code is kept in a single directory so I have written a
utility that recursively backs up the directory and compresses each

Is it possible to generate a CHM file dynamically, from an html file or a
word document, through code. I searched on the net, but could not find any
answers.
I would like to generate a help file, for a particluar form/page on the fly.

how can I run an  application without a graphic interface  , I mean an
application that works in the background licke the msn messenger , I know
that I can hide the window form , but that makes the program very slow !!

I have a little problem with a webservice. I reproduced the problem in the
following simplified example.
I just create a new C# ASP.NET webservice and a c# console application.
I added a new class test to the namespace of the webservice which I try to

I'm trying to load an image and copy it to an array of bytes.
The image is a png 32bit format. The code I have is:
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public void LoadImage(path) {

Why is it that I get these errors on this function
1.) The out parameter 'Avalues' must be assigned to before control leaves
the current method
2.) Use of unassigned local variable 'Avalues'

I am developing an application whose main goal is to read from a dynamic
.asp Internet URL. This URL automatically produces an RSS file, which I
further want to load into my application so as to manilupate the source
and render the results into an HTML page using ASP.NET and C#.

New to .NET, I'm working on an Winforms client application using VS
2005 beta2. My needs considering data storage are the followings:
(1) Small files (0 < length < 10 mb), containing lots of small
'objects' that need to be loaded into memory at runtime, in order to

 In c#,  How to dispaly the records from a AccessDB to a Windows Forms
DBgrid..
 Is there any need of creating datasources like in VB data access.

How can I tell programmatically if an application is running on a server or
workstation, e.g. windows 2000 server or windows 2000 professional for
example?
Thanks,

Hello, Im in need of a BASIC interpreter source code in C#. If anyone
can point me to something like this, it would be appreciated.

How do I find out what control a DragDrop event comes from?  I initially
presumed that it was the "sender" parameter.  But this always seems to be
the destination.
Ie ...

Is it possible to display something in a combobox and store something else?
For example, can I display "Query for active employees" and save the actual
query in the same combobox item?  That way I can automatically retrieve the
specific query for the option the user chose.

I am running an application called AcroComm.exe to poll time clocks here at
our company. I have written a small C# app that will poll the clocks based
on information found in a DB. My problem is that AcroComm will sometimes
stop polling  in the middle of the process and terminate. ...