I made a control that in its onload sets the dockstyle to Fill,
I only want this in runmode not in the IDE forms designer.
Is there some attribute or define i can rely or use to prevent some code
parts to execute in the designer view ?

I am using Datareader and stored procedure in C# ADO.NET.
When I am running the stored procedure in the SQL Query Analyzer and
recieve two rows (as I hace expected)
col1 col2

Let's say I have two classes, DNA, SocialSecurityNumber, and
Fingerprint.
There is a one-to-one-to-one relationship between the classes but no
"wired" link between them.

I'm not sure if I understeand the garbage collector. Is this code legal, or
will days well destroyed when this function exits:
       private int[] GetDays()
           int[] days = new int[2];

Assume we have the following classes and interfaces.
We have a class called Inventory that is associated to a class called
Product.
We have some classes that is derived from this Product class and from two

I could serialize a class until I added this member to it:
private Dictionary<string><TableMapper> = new
Dictionary<string><TableMapper>();
The class has the [Serializable()] attribute, but now it won't serialize.

I have lines of data coming from a server being written to a
RichTextBox... The problem is that if I let this program run for a long
period of time there are hundreds of lines of text showing up in the
RichTextBox..

Ok, I know there's an answer out there somewhere, but it's getting very
frustrating.....
The DocumentCompleted fires for each frame... how do you tell when the
entire document is done?

Any pointers on how to (1) read a Base64 encoded string from a text file
and (2) write it to a binary file?
I have a ton of files that are being generated from a legacy system.  Each
file contains a (1) content type one one line, a (2) filename, and (3) the

I have started programming with .NET 2.0 using Microsoft Visual Studio
2005
Version 8.0.50727.42  (RTM.050727-4200)
Microsoft .NET Framework

I need help figuring out how to get the MD5 hash of large files.
I cannot go about the traditional way of reading the entire file into a byte
array, because then the huge file is placed in memory, and bye bye system
resources! I know there might be way using streams, but I am unsure ...

with a C# client (and/or server, but server not important)?
   I've got a scalable high speed (uses completion ports) C++ TCP/IP
communication server but I'd like to write a C# client that other C# devs at
our company can just drop in and use (it's an event and message passing

I have a time-consuming job in button's click event;
I wnat to show a "Please waiting.. " message on the form.
I put a Label (named labResult ) on the form , and write the codes below,
but the message did not appear.

Why is something as simple as #region diffrent in vb and c#?!
I know they are two totally dif languages, but come on!
vb:
#Region "Title"

Apologies - am having a bit of a "senior moment"...
Is there a way to convert a string containing escaped characters into a
verbatim string literal?
I.e. converting something like