I have a solution that consists of a WinForms app and a Pocket PC app.  Each
of these two projects shares a 3rd project that is a compiled library file
(DLL).
The items in the library are pretty much common to both apps but there are a

I am trying to use the NorthWind database or anything with SQLEXPRESS on VS
2005 RC. I can see SQLExpress started with the tool SQL Server Configuration
Manager. But when i select DataBase | New Connection | Data Source |
Microsoft SQL Server - I see other SQL servers but not ...

Hi I'd like to pass an entire enumeration to a method. Not sure how
it's done. Eg:
enum MyEnum
{

I have an  windows forms application that accesses a SQL database
I have a few questions as to connecting to the database.
This application will run 24 hours a day. It is a monitoring application and
will store events that happen in the database (These events happen randomly

I am using a CryptoStream to encrypt and then save an xml file.  However,
when reading it back in, I am getting a CryptographicException.  I am hitting
this because I have some large xml files ( > 10MB) and I only need a certain
node...I use an XmlTextReader to find the node I ...

Sure... IEnumerable was inconvenient suggesting a separate class to service
the enumeration, IEnumerator, and multiple operations: Current, MoveNext,
Reset. (I'll warp the definition of "operation" for a second if you don't
mind).

I retrieve a table with only 2 columns.  One is a auto-generated primary key
column and the 2nd is a string.  When I add a new row to the dataset to be
updated back to the database.  What should I do with the 1st column ? (Below
I have a "1" in place for now).  Also, Does the ...

If I wrote some arithmetic in matlab, and I will call them in c#, and
call the drawing function in matlab. How can I do that?

I want to have my textbox display a scrollbar if there is more text than will
fit, but to make it invisible if it will all fit.  Is this possible?
The default behavior if all the text fits is a visible, but grayed out
scrollbar.

Hi together,
I have got a "sliding" form which becomes active when a user clicks on
a button in another form. In my function which starts the "sliding"
mechanism is a call to this.Show() to make the sliding form visible

Hi there, I try to make final decision on the choice of installation tool
that our team should use for .NET applications.
It is supposed to be robust (but not omnipotential) and well established.
After some time looking around we came down to 2 choices. Open source NSIS

I have written a descendant of CustomValidator, but I don't want it to have a
default value for ForeColor. Is there any way to remove the
DefaultValueAttribute from the descendant's ForeColor?

.NET 1.1... I'm wondering if there is any approach more convenient to get a
list of FileInfo objects than the following. For example, if I wanted to get
1 list of all the Exe's and all the Dll's and all the Txt's in a folder, if
appears I need to do something like the following:

I've implemented IPC between two applications using named pipes and
binary serialization, but have noticed that the binary formatter is
rather slow.
It seems that the binary formatter reflects the entire type everytime

Very newbie question here:
Any suggestions on how to bind an XML file to a combobox and datagrid?  I've
had no problem reading the data in a datagrid.  But the combobox is another
story.