What is the best way to generate unique token in C#?
I need it to generate a unique link like:
http://my_page_url+token
after clinking on which, the form of changing user password will be

Is there a way to tell if path is on a local drive instead of a mapped drive
or network. Thanks
- Fred

In C++ you could define a member offset pointer which worked on any instance
of a class.
i.e.
class MyClass

In creating a C# web service, I am having trouble returning a DataTable
object as the result of a web method.  I have no problem returning native
types like string or int, but cannot return a .NET DataTable object.  The
problem occurs when I try to compile the client side C# ...

do I need to explicitly close IDbConnection and IDbCommand objects? Or are
they disposed of when the method they are used in ends?
Normally I use a construct like:
using (IDbConnection conn = GetConnection()) // where "GetConnection gets a

iam in the final year in computer scince department.
i have to choose a project to work in all this year and at the final i have
to give them the project and documentaion and live demo of what i did?
iam very confussed about what to choose to do in this project .

I wrote a small app, which could read text file and fill the data from
text file to a newly created excel file. It works fine on my computer,
but did not succeed on someone's. I caught an exception which told it
occurred when "trying to read or write protected memory. It usually

I'd like to build a C# application that has some sort of plugin or
additional modules depending on what functionality the client user has
requested.
The idea is that I have an SQL database table that can be updated from a

I need a C# windows service to run every few days or so (say every 10
days)... the service starts up automatically w/ WinXP.
What would be the best option to use, System.Timers or System.Threading
& how would I get it to run & start over every 10 days; as in the

Is there any other controls in CSharp that is exactly the same as
datagrid? Datagrid looks boring with the same old grey columns style.
Appreciate any advice.

I have a  console application whose purpose is to run the OSQL utility
from
my console application.
When my application is run, the OSQL utility is started and it has to

Hi. I have a form. This form calls thread.
Inside this thread i have while loop:
               while ((bufferCount = FileStream.Read(buffer, 0, 64000)) > 0
&& !Stop)

   First I am not trying to write a client to talk with hotmail
straightly. I am trying to write some codes to send emails through a
SMTP
server. I wrote a C++ version using pure socket programming and SMTP

I want to read the contents (only the filenames) from the ftp server.
The code which I have throws connection timeout exception :: "A
connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly
respond after a period of time, or established connection failed

I observed something strange in some quick testing code:
        void Button1Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo("th-TH", false);