I admit it - I don't have the foggiest notion how to use the timer
class(es) in c# - i've looked at tutorials, and it's still completely
unintutive to me. Anyone nice enough to get me started on the following
problem would be my favorite person in the world!

I have found many tutorials showing how to access data in an Excel
spreadsheet using a COM object in .net. But, as far as I can tell, this
requires Excel to be installed.
Is there anyway I can access the Excel file without the user needing

In the application I am working on, the user makes a request of information
from the database. As there is a great deal of information to go through and
possibly return, to speed things up, the request for data only returns the
first 25 rows of data. So thas the user knows how ...

I have a legacy structure that appears on a communications line that has 16 bit, 8 bit, 2 bit and 1 bit fields in it.
The best I have been able to do with this was to use FieldOffset for the 8 and 16 bit fields.  I then defined enums with the
FlagAttribute to generate the 1 and 2 ...

How would i go about removing html in a string.
input:
some text <a href="link">link</a>
output:

I must call an external application (a simple console .exe) with a few
parametres within my own application (written in C# - Visual Studio 2005).
how to do that? I do not want to see interface of this application, I just
want that to do something for me.

One more easy problem for a newbie, How do i convert a byte into an integer?
Thank you so much!!!!!

I got a treeview and set the allowdrop to true.
Then I drag items from listview in a form of string, copy.
However, I cannot drop on the tree view, it always shows in no-no sign.

I am working in a domain environment. I am on a client machine and
wants to edit registery of domain server. I am currently in a Domain
user account and member of Domain administrators on the domain
controller. I am able to open registry manully by connecting the remote

Please help me for understanding of use of Hidden Feild in Programming,
I am a beginner of C#.NET, can anyone give me the idea about hidden
feild like hidden textBox, hidden textArea etc... and in which secaniro
this progrmmaing technique is used for with example.

I had created a Remoting Custom Exception that inherits from System.Exception.
Now, i meet the same problem that has been posted by previous thread
http://www.dotnetmonster.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/dotnet-csharp/56784/Server-Side-cust
om-exception
Below is the coding that i wrote,

I'd like to store something such as the following the my app.config
file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>

I want to use C# to view a computer's share folder, but I don't know
the actual share folder name, so first I need to get a list of the
share folder, can anyone tell me how to do so? Thanks.

i have a method like this
public void MethodName(byte[] data)
{
}

I want to detect if the "Control" key is pressed when I selected items on a
listview and drag these listview items?