Here's my full code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

What sharp (from c sharp) stand for or where does it comes from?
thank you

I am doing the first walk through on the Visual Studio .Net walkthrough book
to learn a little about programming.  I am having issues with the first
tutorial not running correctly.  It seems that the build fails with what the
book tells me to do.  

How can I call the C# compiler (csc.exe) from all the directories of my
computer? Actually I can only call it from the directory where it is.
Thank you

Sorry, for the somewhat confusing subject, but my problem is equally
odd (imo).
So, I have an assembly that contains an abstract class (File) and 5
other classes that all subclass it (Exe, Dll, Txt, Config, Sql).  I'm

I finished writing my program, and i want to create an "about" messagebox,
the thing is that i'm not sure that i should use the messagebox tool. what is
the right tool to make an about window (and how does it done?), and how can i
set it's location?

I hope someone can help me on this.  I have two controls on a form.
the first is a comboBox the second is a datagrid.  Both controls are bound
to tables in
a common dataset.  What I am trying to get to happen is to have the value

private static void InitializeArrays()
        {
            FileStream stream = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Read);

Is this valid:
string[] allSwitchValues = readSwitches.ReadToEnd().Split('|');
I have no way to test it just yet (although it didn't seem to create
compile errors). Originally I had it divided into two variables on two

I've started looking at Aspect Oriented Programming but I've stumbled at a
problem I can't solve.
I want to add an Aspect that would notify a UnitOfWork that the current
DomainObject has changed so that it can be marked as Dirty.

Here is what I want to do:
Presently in my registry I have:
(Default) = "C:\Program Files\myApp"  and this value is scattered all over
registry in several keys and subkeys.

does anyone knows what do I need to do in order a download manager. I
need to create a proxy that for files X will perform a special task and
for all the rest will open the regular download dialog box.
the problem is that I do not know where to start: what reference to

i'm trying to write an exception handler for my application, so in case an
exception occurs anywhere in my application, the exception has to be
catched.
At this moment i'm doing it via the following code:

Hiya
I'm trying to get a list of news groups from a server into a array list by
using the following code, and then display the choosen group. When i compile
and run the code the only thing it displays is

I have been using Ethereal to capture and view the XML messages being
passed back and forth from my web service client to my web service.
When calling the service over the internet, I choose my network card
connection to the internet in Ethereal and it captures all the traffic