I am developing in VS2005, but I have some third-party DLL's that appear to
only work correctly when compiled in VS2003.  ("Incorrect" operation is
defined as a busy-wait that kicks in on a message loop, hogging a full CPU
thread even when nothing is happening.)

I am still having problems with switching thru tasks in such a way that it
will work properly for me ... here is the basic information and a code
snippet follows below ..
My program is running and I need to switch to another (directx based)

Anyone know how I can determine the free space of a volume that is
mounted within a folder, rather than on a drive letter?
The DriveInfo class seems to want to work only off drive letters.
What I'm trying to do is write a simple program to generate a disk

The generated INSERT statement in a typed dataset has an INSERT statement
followed by a SELECT statement which gets (I think) the value of the
autoincremented ID.
Question. How do I get hold of this value ?

I'd like to have a specific method execute on the click event of a
control.  The common syntax is:
Control1.Click += new EventHandler( Control1_Click );
void Control1_Click( object sender, EventArgs e )

Is there any way to either derive a sealed class, or access private
members of a sealed class? Either that, or is there a way to run
internal methods in a sealed class outside the current assembly? I
don't mind if the solution is hackish, the dll i'm writing is already

Is there a way to bind a nullable Enum property to a combo box?
When choosing a value, and then leaving the combo box, the value reverts
back to the original value.  It seems the databinding doesn' accept the
new value.

I have Dictionary that has custom class as its key. For that class I
implemented both Equals(object) and IComparable<T>. I keep getting
KeyNotFoudException.
What should I do?

I've a C# windows application (not asp.net)  that needs to upload
simple XML files to a URL on a website.
I've tried WebClient such as
WebClient Client= new WebClient();

After applying the "Localizable" attribute to my form using the (form)
properties window in VS, I was expecting to see "[Localizable(true)]"
preceding my form's class in code (added automatically by the IDE). I don't
however. Can someone point out where this info is stored. ...

I am part of a team building a stock exchange software  - Order
Management system'.
The current system that we have supports 200,000 orders per day.
All of this data is needed in memory.Ofc ourse this system was built in

I have a .NET solution that contains a dll project and a tester application
project which, of course, invokes the dll. The dll project has exception
handling in it. What's happening is that when I run the executable from
within the .NET studio environment, thrown exceptions are ...

Howdy all,
in my program, I have a ushort variable and a string variable and if I
try to compile it, I'm receiving this error message: "Cannot convert
type 'string' to 'ushort'".

I am writing some code to generate csv from xml. This works fine in the
main, but I have a question regarding the handling of commas in the data.
What is the normal way to handle this?
For example, say part of the data in the xml is the string "a string , with

Is there a C++ typedef equivalent in C#?
Thanks,