I'm developing a APP that reads an Excel spreadsheet, does data
manipulation, and writes to a SQL Server table.  I working with C#, Visual
Studio 2003, and Framework 1.1.  When I connect to the Excel workbook I'm
using OLEDB.

Please direct me if this is the wrong group to ask.
I'm writing a c# program to visit website and autodownload files that
may be prompted.
For example, I visit http://www.mytestwebsite.com and the page will

My question is about calling this method CollectData below but I get a
compile error that I shouldn't have because the type parameter is correct.
The compile error is the following:
C:\PK\Development\Products\UTCAS\4.0\SRC\MeltPracApplication\Dialog\Composit

I have Windows XP home edition running on my box, my question is
--Can I install Visual Studio 2005 professional edition on Windows XP
home and do Web Development ?
I will appreciate a quick reply, thank you for your help and time.

I'd like to execute a batch file.  However, I just get a quick DOS
window flash when I run this code:
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo p = new
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo

Hi all great programmers and great coders
Please can anyone explain clearly the following:
 usage of indexers?
 is it used widely (in most applications)?

I apologize for the extensive cross-posting but I'm getting desparate.
We have a web page calling one or another web service.  Both web service
communicate with Sharepoint 2003, and both temporarily change impersonation
using WindowsImpersonationContext class and then revert back ...

when i am using session variable i found one error that unreachable core error. how to rectify this error

in a multi client environment .
at the same time two clients open the Application.
one client updated some data in the database.
at that time another client wants to update some data.. the other client

I'm programming an application based on CAB infrastructure in the
client side (c# .net 2005)
Since my application must be sequencally, i wrote all the code in the
UI thread.

I request your suggestion for the following requirement.
One of the requirements of my applications is to gather data from
multiple vendors about their products - the number of fields vary from
50 to 150 fields. Based on the data collected from all the vendors, my

Disclaimer:
I apologize if this is the wrong place for this type of question, but
if so,
I don't know where the right place is and I'd be very grateful if

I would like to have a class library in dotNet, where I have an in-memory
bytestream of a pdf file and I want to convert it to a string (extract the
text from the file).
A method like this in C#:

Hi, I could use some help in setting a C# callback function that an
external unmanaged dll will call on a event. Using a delegate and use
the external callback set function doesn't work.
The carbage collector says hello here (-;

I have here a little sample which does reflection on a class.
I striked me that 1.1 is nearly two times faster.
Could me somebody give a hint why?
For the sample: Compile it via "csc.exe /optimize+ Program.cs" with the two