I'm trying to read a number from a text file into a type int.  I've read
the byte into an int, i.  I then try to do something like int number =
(int) (char) i.  However, number still has the ASCII value of the number.

In my form, I have four buttons that do different tasks.  The
button.Text field is set as &Next Project, so the N will be underlined.
In the preview of the form, it shows up with the N underlined.  Yet
when I run my program, the text shows up with no underlining.  I have

I have a windows app that looks like a dialog box.
It displaya a message, with Yes/No buttons.
And the Message can be different each time the windows app is started.
Can I pass in the message as an argument into the windows app, so that I can

I have a C++ application that load C# applets.  A method use an IntPtr
parameter because I want to be 32/64-bit compatible.  The problem is in
the .tlh file generated.  This parameter is a long and not an INT_PTR
and I don't know why ?

Assuming a class contains an event handler (say from a timer), and  -
upon the event being caught - deletes itself from a dictionary, is this
legal?  Will the GC ever clean this up (a breakpoint on the Dispose
method below never gets called, and a memory profile seems to show the

I'm drawing a linear gradient and its very "banded". The colors are far
enough part that it should be plenty smooth enough but I always get the same
number of bands regardless.
I've tried to set

How do i know if windows has been locked (via ctrl-alt-del)?
I need to know because I'm running my app as a service and I want to
suppress sounds when the desktop's locked (it currently plays them).

simple question: i have a byte[] array.. how do i write to the console the
last 2 bytes of the byte[] array? thanks in advance

           I would like to have a multiple key dictionary to find a value
based on the given key.
Here is the example to demonstrate what I mean.
I have an Employee class

           Can any one provide an example or resources about an application
updater block? I have an application and I want to check for new updates
available on server. If there any updates available then I want to update my
local application assemblies.

I'm a newbie so sorry if there is a simple answer to this! I'm using C#
in Visual Studio Express at the moment.
I've downloaded NUnit v 2.2.8 and can load and run the tests they
supply (e.g. nunit.util.tests.dll) so the install of NUnit seems OK.

Have just downloaded Visual C Sharp 2005 Express Edition and when i
attempt to create a new project i get this message:
"Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an
indication that other memory is corrupt."

Can someone explain to me what the difference is between big indian,
and little indian?  I see people talk about the need to convert between
the two... What are they?

by default when you right click a tree the control selects the node
if you add a right-click event (so that I can put sepearate ContextMenus
depending on what type of node the user clicked on) then that default
behavior is overrided, and it no longer selects the node the user

I am putting a key for my application to run at startup in
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
My goal is to allow individual users to toggle this on and off, so I
was placing the key under CurrentUser.