I'd like to compare two datetime values in milliseconds.  The
datetime.compare method appears to show only seconds.  Milliseconds of a
datetime are available as a property of each datetime, but I am assuming
there is an easier way than comparing the milliseconds, seconds, minutes ...

Hi if I want to show a progress bar in my web application
how can i do it
Like this much % of task has been completed as its shown when installing
some desktop application

I have a text file would like to read the word by word.

I need to list all the key/value pairs of and HTML tag. I already have
the complete tag as an text string.
For example: (Worst case scenario where standards was not followed in
the past)

I need to use a few SQLDataReader objects in my application. I need to do
something like that:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(string);
conn.Open();

What will be the maximum characters the string can hold?
string fileText;
fileText = File.ReadAllText("c:\temp"myText.txt");
If my file size is about 30 KB, can the fileText store all the text?

What books, sites would you recommend that teach how to build an auction site
like ebay in C# and asp.net?
Thanks.

I can successfully send a character from my C# program to the serial
port to a device.  But when I have that device send me back a character
and I read it in, I get the same character that I sent out!
What is going on here.  I have verified that the device is indeed

How can I programmatically  check to see if windows installer 2.0 is
installed? Is there
a registry setting I can check?
Thanks!

I have two threads in my application, one that decodes audio to a
stream and one that encodes a stream to a file.
If I run them as two seperate processes I can pipe the output from one
to the input of the other - and all is well.  The writes to standard

I'm trying to derive a class from the Label class and things are not going
quite right.
I derived the class by doing the obvious:
public class LabelGrid : Label

I have a file (c:\myFile.zip) in the Server.
How can I read the file into a Stream?

I have windows form program. While that form is building to show, I
want to show another window (kinda splash screen so I can show the user
the program is loading..)
Can someone suggest a good approach?

I have a decent amount of programming experience in C/C++ and have
recently heard very good things about C#. So I decided to take a
look...
The lexical elements and language layout make it a little closer to

Just curious from performance and size perspective, if in a code I use
a class (like Path), I need to include corresponding using to use it in
the code (in this case System.IO).
My question is  which is good