All,
It was possible before in Pascal, C++, etc. to define our custom data type
or redefine the existing type, like in Turbo Pascal we could assume that
shortint is int and use all references to shortint like all these variables

How do I see, from within my main method, in what context my assembly,
containing my service program, is executed ??
I want to be able to detect if the assembly is executed by the service
system (say started from the Services applet) or if it was executed from a

Complete newbie at C#.
Class below stripped  for brevity.
How do I return a private "Status" from a public method?
I may need a set/get but I don't know how to do that on an enum.

I have a web application that needs to be displayed in the browser such that
it takes up the *whole* window, i.e.browser's back/forwards buttons and
menus etc shouldn't be displayed. How can this be done?
Thanks.

I would like to automaticly select a item in a datagridview using the value
of column[0]. I do not have the index. Just the value (which is a string).
How can this be done?
Thanks.

I have a winforms app that I'm reading some records from a datareader and
writing them out to a file like so
SqlDataReader dataReader = sqlCommand.ExecuteReader();
TextWriter textWriter = new StreamWriter(strFileName);

I have a regular expression (^(.+)(?=\s*).*\1  ) that results in
matches.  I would like to get what the actual regular expression is.
In other words, when I apply ^(.+)(?=\s*).*\1   to " HEART (CONDUCTION
DEFECT)  37.33/2  HEART (CONDUCTION DEFECT) WITH

I want to play video file in my c#.net application (windows), the input for
the video file is in html format, i;e i will give the link like <a
href:=http://................ like this
and from the site i've to play that video in my windows application.

I am just trying to get my head around whether I can use a single
SQLConnection for the life of the application or whether I should create it
only when needed.
I want to create cached SQLCommand objects that are then prepared to reduce

I am learning C#.NET and I donst understand difference between meaning
and usage of "readonly" and "const" keywords. Could you explain me
please.
Thank you

In our C# windows application, if we build up a SqlCommand array, saying
TestCommand [20].
And in the SqlCommand array, later on we try each TestCommand[0], ...,
TestCommand[19],

I'm new to C# and I am building website which allows users to fill out
various forms.  All is going well, however I'm having a bit of trouble
with one particular issue.
The main page enables users to enter information, and connect to other

Is it possible to find object in array with specific property value?
Just like dataset filter?
Thanks!

I am writing a class that will do some binary file IO. The class will
need to read a header from the binary file, and it will also need to
read a varying number of records in the file. I currently have two main
methods: Open(string FilePath) and Close(). I would like to read all of

Does anyone know of a .net class that allows for non-sequential reading
of binary files? It would offer a Seek() function or something similar.
The BinaryReader appears to only read forward from the beginning of the
data (much like the SqlDataReader does).