Short:
Is it possible to make an owner-drawn ListBox do a complete re-draw where
items are re-measured?
In my application a simple change to one of the items in the listbox could

I am developing a console application and i would like to get userinput
for
Database User & Password.
The Password should be input as **********

I am working on ASP.NET 2.0 and C#. I am developing one application in
which I have one field as Work Experience. For that I have 2 dropdown
menus, one for year and other one for month. I want to convert overall
work experience in total number of months. I have single column in DB

In case anyone is wondering...
(this is based on a conversation with "Juan C. Santaella"
<santaell@telcel.net.ve>,
I'm sharing here so anyone won't have to go through what I went through

My application when run, needs to close all outgoing ports (excluding
80,443,25).  With packet filtering I've figured out how to block "new"
traffic, but how do close an existing, established connection - that is,
some server program that is waiting on connections at a certain ...

I want to implement nested transactions in C#.
When I write BEGIN TRANSACTION inside another BEGIN TRANSACTION in an
SQL Script it works fine. But when I call BeginTransaction() inside
another BeginTransaction() in a c# code on same connection object it

Using VS2005 I'm trying out some unsave code but have some strange results.
My english is not well so I give example:
       private void testToolStripMenuItem2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {

I need to take a string, make the first character lowercase and prepend an
underscore character to it.  Something like this:
"California"
"_california"

I would like to get some information from the Properties.Settings of an
application which can be done via
...  Properties.Settings.Default.XYZ;
The problem now is that the identifier (XYZ) is not constant. There are

so, myself and the other developers i work with were looking at the v3.0
specifications. extensions look great, buy what is the point of implicit
variables with the 'var' type?
before you bash me too much, keep in mind, we're a delphi shop, moving to c#

I'm building a Windows Form application that will use a Microsoft
Access mdb file as a data store.
I have a section of code that is executed when the main form is closed
that _should_ update a setting value in a table in my mdb file. The

I'm doing Windows Mobile 5 programming and since MS has not exposed
most of the functionality i have to call DllImport a lot, I haven't
done much interop with unmanaged code, I'm looking for the best
tutorial (pubished work or web site link) on how to make sense of how

I have a client application and a webservice. Both are in the same
solution. If I reference the local webservice and run, and step into
the webservice no problem. My question is, when I want to publish the
webservice, do i have to keep changing the reference from the local

Is there a Report viewer or designer add in available Visual C# Express?

I want to create an application which includes two forms A and B.  The
following is a list of my requirements.
1. B is created in A's constructor.
2. A and B can not be resized. they can only be minimized or maximized.