I am trying to set a scheduled task for one of my ASP.net application
that I developed on a monthly basis. This application requires a login
authentication. I am sending the url of the login page in the Windows
scheduled task. But I also want to send the username and password as

When learning a language such as C#, would you say it is better to learn the
fundamentals using the command-line compiler and a simple text editor such
as notepad compared to using a full-fledge IDE such as VS.NET 2005 which
gives code-insight, debugger, etc?

I'm new to VS2005, I used VS2003 a bit, and I remember it didn't act
like this.
My code looks like :
try

Does C# support passing arguments ByVal & ByRef?  If so, what is the default
(ByVal?)? And, if so, how do you explicitly specify either?
Thanks.

I am looking at some best practices concerning the naming of identifiers in
C# and am puzzled on what to do with Public and Private identifiers that are
related, such as private fields and their corresponding public properties.
From "Visual C# .NET Step by Step" (pages 29 & 30):

i have a RichTextBox that has rtf formatted text in it! now i want to add a
string to the beggining of the RichTextBox text and then two newlines.  I am
struggling with it though, no matter what i do it seems to corrupt the rtf
formmated text below!  any ideas anyone?

 I have problem related to Caching of data. I am reading large xml
file and putting this xml in dataset, since this dataset will contain
many datatable's inside. And each datatable might be big in data. Each
user will contain its seperate xml file, so when I create xml file for

1. app start
2. user clicks Login Button
3. Application connects to the serwer ( check login and download dir list -
1mb )

I'm new to C# and want to start by making a starfield with stars coming from
the middle and ou while getting brighter.
First of all, how to I make a single pixel ? And secondly, how to do this
fast without any flicker at all ?

I want to make a class that :
- will have one and only one object
- when you try to make another object of this class , an IDE error should be
seen . like using undefined variable , or any thing like that ..

I get dataset from database. I need to take specific datatable out of
it and add it to second dataset to pass back from webservice.
ds.Tables.Add(dsPart.Tables[0]);
I get exception "Datatable already belongs to another dataset"

I am having trouble connecting to a C# web service I created and deployed on
a service running IIS.  The following message appears when I try to add a web
reference to the client application -->
The XML page cannot be displayed

What is the difference between App.config and .settings file ?
The .settings file is available in .NET 2.0 and not under. Am i right ?
How do you manage mulitple settings configuration ? Is it using the
<Profiles /> ?

My web app needs to determine the file size in bytes for image file urls
stored in db. Does .NET provide a method that can determine the file size in
bytes ?

In following code, is it OK not to dispose local brush explicitly before
exiting the procedure?
private void MyDrawItem ( Graphics g, Color BackColor, Rectangle r )
{