Could someone please tell me if using one of the new dual-core CPUs will
speed up the process of compiling a program using Visual Studio 2005?
I have a solution that includes about 10 projects on it and it takes a long
time to compile.  My biggest issue is that I am the kind of ...

How do I launch, say, Microsoft Word from within a C# Win app?  Word should
launch exterior to my app, of course.  Is it easy to set size and position
of where Word window will be placed?
Thanks,

I have a hashtabel m_haschtbl = new Hashtable();
I need to get out my objects from my hashtable in the same order like they
were stored. the order is very important..
I have used  IDictionaryEnumerator en = m_hasctbl.GetEnumerator();

How do I create a class to access this file ?

I'm facing an error:"String was not recognized as a valid DateTime"
whille accessing DateTime from webservice.
And when I try to set DateTime to the same webservice it fails with
error:"Date value is of wrong type"

Hi, I am making a calculator. I have a double wich I am parsing to
string and writing to label. How could I make that double or string
would be only 14 length + space for negative sign (-).
So I need formated double or String.

We have a Windows app which contains UI code and all classes that perform
business logic and make calls to database stored procs (located on a
database server - i.e. not local to the app).
My boss wants to bring all those classes to a business server and out of

I am experiencing something funny here where I have two equivalent
queries: If I run them through query analyzer, the first runs slower
than the second, but if run through C# application, the first runs
faster than the second.

I want to get an event every time the ip address of a network adapter
changes.
How can I do it with C# and .Net1.1?
Alternatively all events of the Dhcp Source would do too.

how i can set that the timer will press the button every X time
automatically on my form with VS 2005, what is the code for that?
Thanks

Is there a relatively easy way to send text from a Win32 process to a
.NET process, preferably in VC++ for the Win32 side and C# for .NET.

I'm getting confused about "which-name-give-to-what" developing my
applications using Visual Studio.
If I have to develop a "Utilities" library containing some classes for
logging and other classes used for cryptography shall I build a new

I have a ClassLibrary/Solution named as AClassLibrary, ie AClassLibrary.dll.
I want to change to the name of the solution/DLL to reflect the reality like
AClassLibraryDLL.dll.
How do I change the solution name and save the whole lot into a new location

I have created a class library say, EmployeeDataDLL.dll. This is a data
access to the backend database.
How do I create an object of the class inside this dll from a Windows form ?

Here's another easy one...
I have quite a bit of data in an XML file, but I'm new to Microsoft's
XML API (System.XML), and I would like to know how one would go about
reading the value of an element as an int, rather than a string as