where can i find some documents pertaining Industry standards and practices
for c#/dot net programming?  I am looking at my code and one of my friends
old code (he is a dot net guru times 10 ) and his code looks very different
than mine.

Here is another problem with generics I come across.
Let's say I want to implement a structure performing some operations on some
numeric type.
I can not than just return this expected type since the compiler is not sure

I need to open an email in outlook (exchange) with most of the fields
filled out and a file attached. I don't want to send the mail right
away as the user must be able to edit the body text.
How can I accomplish this from a Windows Form written in C# ?

When I'm doing BinaryFormatter.Deserialize() over a TCP socket. When I'm
closing the TcpListener by invoking the TcpListener.Stop(); I get:
System.IO.IOException with message  "Unable to read data from the transport
connection."  that InnerException of type System.Net.Sockets ...

A couple of questions that probably has been asked before but I can't find
anything on the newsgroup.  I have a communication SDK file written in C and
C++ that I am trying to access via C#.  Is there an easy way to do this?  If
not, should I just rewrite the SDK in C#?

Am I right in thinking .NET Framework 1.1 was delivered with a recent Media
Player upgrade, or something?
How many Windows XP systems are likely to already have .NET Framework 1.1 on
them without the owner/user realizing it?

I understand, basically, what this C# 3.0 code does, but I am unclear
on how it determines the data type of num and index in the lambda
expression in the following code.  Nor can I see how it gets the array
index into the index parameter?

How can I understand if two object obj1 and obj2 have same type?
Can I do: if (obj1.GetType()==obj2.GetType()) return true;?
Moto u1;
Moto u2;

I have a DataSet with two tables and a DataRelation.  When  I populate the
DataSet and define a master detail relationship through the DataRelation,
the grid bound to the master table shows both the master and detail rows
while the grid bound to the detail table shows the detail ...

I have a quick question, so here goes:
I wish to create a new excel spreadsheet, and then add a batch of data on
each row (for example, row 1, then row 2 and so on...). And then save and
close said spreadsheet.

I'm using a datalist control to display all data from a table, upon
execution the datalist contains the right number of rows but the content is
the same, it displays only the first line of my table...
any idea?

I have several instances where I wire up an event handler like this:
// Instantiate object
childClass parentObject = new childClass();
// Wire up event

I am currently working in .net. Now i need to know that in order to
build a server/client architecture which one is more suitable Vc++ or
.net. There is a server in our company that has been build over vc++,
now we are looking for any chances of shifting it to .net. BTW speed of

I am not able to access some fields of my table in .mdb database, which
was created by some one else.
when I reach to the wizard step where I can choose fields to make
relations, I dont have checkboxes next to some fields. They are

When you right-click on a file in Windows and choose Summary, Advanced, you
get a set of properties which (in the case of a digital camera photo) tell
you quite a bit about the picture.
In some cases these are EXIF properties of the image file.  I know how to