I'm backporting a component to .NET 1.x, and it required me to use a custom
collection, StringList, instead of List<string>. StringList is derived from
CollectionBase and is marked serializable.
Here's my problem: I can't get design-time property values to persist. Here

What is the best practise to sove this problem:
property with defalut value will not be called in auto-generated code
?
for example

I do know how to convert a FileStream to MemoryStream.
Could somebody help me?

I want to pass a List<string> to a method which requires a List<object>
parameter. I wonder if there is a comfortable way for typecasting the
stringlist without having to copy each item.

I need to render text graphics using custome font.
I am running into issues where PrivateFontCollection will hang sometimes
when I instantiate it.
PrivateFontCollection fc = new PrivateFontCollection();

I want to let a user account like John have the wirte privilege of a
specifed folder.
How can I do that by C#?

I'm writing an application who 'sniffs' port 80.
The sniffing works 'perfect', I receive a byte array with the data sent over
the port.
My problem is the following, when I write the array to a txt file most of

I am extremly new to c# - I have been programming in VB6 for 9 years.
I am going to migrate a program that I created years ago in VB6 to C# (just
for fun! for those interested).
I have an object called a motor. This motor has a table (not an equation),

I'm trying to parse the title and url out of a bunch of menu javascript
statements to convert a Macromedia menu to ASP.NET menu control.
The line I'm searching is of the form:
mm_menu_1222090555_0.addMenuItem("MyTitle","window.open('MyURL.htm',

Does anyone know of a way to use XPath with relatively well-formed HTML,
but not well-formed enough to be XHTML and parseable with .NET
System.Xml?
Any hacks to translate MSHTML into an XmlReader that .NET can then work

I am trying to populate a dataviewgrid with records from a database that are
duplicates.  I have created 3 views to get the information I want, but if I
try to apply a filter to my bindingsource control, I am returned all
records, not just the duplicates. Here are my 3 SQL views:

I have a form which loads some database fields on the form that are bounded
to some textboxes. The dataadapter allows for select, update etc. But when I
change the information in the textboxes on the form, it is not updated to the
database. I use the function calls.

In my web application(C#) . I am adding one excel sheet and then save and
closing that excel file. In the finally bloack i gave
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(clsExcel);   
But when i go and see in the TaskManager --> Processes Tab  its still having

I´ve a problem with accessing the fields of a data row.
I created a row of my table "Metainfos":
private fp_databaseDataSet.MetainfosRow newMetainfosRow;
and then I can access for example the field "JournalName" in this

How do i convert the following C# code to Delphi?
public static uint GenerateSiteID(string SiteName)
{
uint id = 0;