I thought that if I have a project with an "app.config" file, then during
compilation this file will be copied to the output directory (and renamed to
the name of the output dll). Is this an incorrect thought?
If not, what could be the reason it does not occur when I build my ...

I need to retrieve a list of groups from Active Directory.
Then i need to retrieve a list of users from a group.
I'm unfamiliar with Active Directory objects.
Can i connect to Active Directory with LDAP, without specifying a particular

I need a bullet proof way to combine a root and a relative path to form a FQ
rooted path (similar to a VDir in IIS).  Path.Combine alone will not do the
job in all cases.  I also need to be sure the no funny business can go on in
the passed "path" that would produce a path not in ...

I have a C# ASP.NET project in VS.NET and it used to build, debug and run
fine.
I had to disable IIS5.1 to run Java based code on JBoss for a month.
Now I re-inabled IIS and tried to run my C# project in debugger:

I have a Label, a ListView, and a multi line TextBox on my form.
I assign some Unicode strings to all. However, only the TextBox show the
 characters (Chinese I believe) correctly. The ListView and Label show
"boxes", unrecognized characters.

In the .NET 2.0 Beta 2 documentation, the following is wrtten about
anonymous methods:
Unlike local variables, the lifetime of the outer variable extends until the
delegates that reference the anonymous methods are eligible to garbage

Hi all, being new to C# (not to C++), when I create a windows form and run
it, regardless if the windows operating system is using the "new" XP theme
or the "old" 95/98/2000 styled theme, my forms use the old 95/98 style
theme.

How to we tell if a DataSet is null in a ASP.Net C# Windows Form?
Is it possible that a DataSet is not null but has no DataTable?
What will be the simplest code?
Thanks for help.

        I'm planning to define a window service that will run a process in
the server 2003. Once I run the applications I get a message which says
install the service first.
        The problem is I cannot run the (installutil.exe from the command)

I am asking myself wheter IEnumerable has any inherent semantics? The
docs seem to be very unclear to me.
More specifically: When using a "foreach(...)" construct to enumerate a
Stack, Queue oder ArrayList using the IEnumerable interface - can I

The C# 3.0 spec (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/future/) contains a
feature called "Implicitly typed local variables".
The type of the variable is determined at compile time based on the
expression to the right of the = sign:

In a simple code I do something like this in a synchronous connection:
-*server*-----------------------------
ClientTcp=ListenerTcp.AcceptTcpClient();
NetworkStream nstream=ClientTcp.GetStream();

I am trying to learn how to use the VS .NET C# 2005 Code. As an XML
example, I chose the one here:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2004/March/XmlTransformations.asp
The problem is it does not work under the VS C# 2005. It requires a

Is there a way to find which version of .NET an app uses?
ie (1.0, 1.1, 2.0)
Thank you

How can redirect the standard output to a file from inside the same process.
It can be easily done if one process launches another process with
startinfo.RedirectStandardOutput to true.
Process p = new Process();