I've a string which needs to be converted to valid XML string. The original
string might have characters such as "%", "!", "+", etc.
Is there any function available in C# that could do this?
Thanks,

Hi all,
I'm trying to create a clickable link, but the pesky apostrophe is
preventing the link from getting displayed properly. I'm displaying the
contents of a folder (with contains the apostrophe), with the filename as a

I was trying to break some polymorphism, expecting it not to work, but I'm a
curious sort.
I was seeing what happens when a derived class tries to hide an inherited
method with a private new method, expecting an error or warning; I got

In programs like Hyena, you can use AD to view programs installed on
systems. How could I do something like this in .NET? I know there is a
directory control, but im not sure how to query AD to get the installed
software list on a remote system that is turned on. I posted this to ...

If I wanted to write something so that, when an exception was thrown, and
the stack unwound, the stack trace was captured with the values of the
parameters (instead of just the parameter signature for method), is this
possible without  exception-wrapping the guts of each method?

I want to write a console application which will connect to another machine
and FTP files from that machine to mine.  
Does .Net have classes which would allow me to do this natively in the .Net
platform?  (Any examples???)

I'm trying to build a number of  projects which depend on other projects
from other solutions. All projects output class libraries. After each
project is build I install them in the GAC. The problem I get is when I
build a project that references one of these libraries. VS ...

When I use this code:
public void CreateColumn<T>( string sName)
       {
           T thetype = default(T);

I created a class to submit an xml document to a webpage.
When I use my class in a console application, everything submits correctly.
However, when I attempt to use my class from an asp.net webpage, then it
always gives me this exception

I am working on a C# Class Library that does Remoting. I would like my
library to call my web service so I added a Web reference to my service
with out problems.
I am encountering problems when I try to instantiate an object of the

I've been trying for a few weeks now to make a program in Visual Studio
2005 that has a combobox to select all the tables in a database. This
is a part I already have. When you have selected a table the program
should make a editbox for all the columns in the table with a fitting

I have one control that absolutely must load before any other controls,
due to some initialisation code within it. Is there a way of getting
this control to load first? Moving the code from the load event to the
constructor isn't an option to get around this issue.

the following leads to an error (note that TEST is not defined):
#if TEST
string s = @"
#"; // <-- the error is "preprocessing directive expected"

I have a C# client app that sometimes needs to do thousands of specialized
file renames of files on a file server in the same domain.  If the files
reside locally on the client machine, the renames take only a few seconds.  
If the files reside on the file server, a set of 30,000 ...

I had an interview today and I got destroyed :(
The question was why have a stack and a heap?
I could answer all the practical stuff like value types live on the
stack, enums are on the stack, as are structs, where classes are on