I've followed 2 very similar tutorials on creating a windows service
and an installer.  But, after successfully compiling it, I try to do
the InstallUtil command, but I get a badimageformatexception.  I tried
to do some searching on that exception, but all I could find was a

I am experiencing a wierd problem...
I have a C#.Net application Server which uses Sockets.
It listens on port 11000. and it runs as a Windows Service.
If I run it as a consple Application, I can connect to that

I have a user control consisting of a picture box inside a panel (to
permit scrolling). When the user clicks and drags on the picture box,
I use ControlPaint.DrawReversibleFrame to draw a dashed selection
rectangle.

Hi, all
When we click or select Print in IE, a print windows pop-up, is there anyway
to capture this message and get the information of the print window (i.e.
pages ,paper,defualt printer,...) and i can control the printing job

Does anyone know the difference, in practical terms, between
Thread.Sleep (10000)  and  Thread.CurrentThread.Join (10000)??
The MSDN says that with Join, standard COM and SendMessage pumping
continues, but what does this mean in practice for a typical Windows

How can I know that the Manual Reset Event object done WaitOne(). I have
a condition and I want to do Set() to Manual Reset Event in it but I
have to know that there WaitOne() was done on it before. How can I know
that?

I have a char[] that i convert to a string as follows
m_tHeader.m_sshortname is defined as char[8];
string result = new string(m_tHeader.m_sshortname);
The problem is that any '\0' chars in the array remain in the string and

I have a rather annoying problem. In .NET 1.1 I could have 20 controls
(labels, textboxes etc) without any problem and the painting went
satisfying. Now in .NET 2.0 whenever I have more that about 5-10 controls on
one form, the painting is extremely slow. I use a lot of nesting ...

I posted earlier but no replies.
I have made some progress and have managed to figure out (i think)
syntax for connecting to the act database from c# only problem is it
doesn't connect. When i ask for the error code it's -87 which is listed

NewBie question.
How can access the project setting in C#?
I can access the project setting in VB (My.Settings).

I'm having a little trouble using the Regex.Replace method.  I am
trying to perform a search and replace based on string pattern.  I've
been successful in replacing string from it's starting position to the
end of the string value, however, I want to better define an ending

I want to add a shortcut on the user's desktop, the shortcut is a URL to a
website (like http://www.microsoft.com)
How can I do it with c#?

Windows XP
MS SQLExpress
VS 2003
.NET 1.x SP1 {for Application}

I'm just wondering if there is any easy solution to change the pop-up
display that is shown when a color property is displayed in the
properties grid?
We've got a property grid in our application and we don't want

I am writing a shared object (Dll in Windows) and I am making extensive
use of the STL.
I am getting lots of warnings like this:
ClassA.h(139): warning C4251: 'ClassA::indexarray' : class