I want to count my document length, my windows' winword file contains
images, and many more that are not text, so how should the count
function treat those ? thanks

Is it possible to get the current loop index in a foreach block ?

I need to be able to return a string from a VB6 method:
Public Sub GetMessageAsParameter(ByRef message As String)
 message = "GetMessageAsParameter worked!"
End Sub

What is, in general, the preferred practice to transfer data between
business objects and the data layer? To be more specific, I have a
couple of business objects with state data that are stored in external
storage. The data layer take care of communicating with the storage and

I want to execute (call) an eventhandler of an object. In this case a
menu item. I want to see which item is checked and the checked one has
to execute the Click event handler, as it was clicked. But I'm a little
lost on how to call it.

Is there a way to create a chm file dynamicaly?
for example merge 2 html files together to create a chm file? or 2 chm
files?
Are there any c# object that can read the chm file?

I have a public sealed Class A that implements the interface I.
Now I want to pass an ICollection<A> as a parameter to a method that takes a
parameter of the type ICollection<I> but I get the error:
Can't convert from System.Collections.Generic<A> to

I am trying to capture empty lines, for example :
1. ABCDEF
2.
3. abcdef

I have used COM dll's wuthin my C# apps and have had no problems.
I simply add a reference to the dll and C# does the rest.
When I tried this on several other dll's (all built the same way) I get
the following error:

could you tell me what is the equivalent under .NET of TRACE macro used
under VC++ ?
I would like to display some status of my program in output window for
an easier debugging.

I am trying to send email using this fucntion can you guys help me please
find the mistake
I am using my Gmail Credentials and the only exception error I get is
Failure sending email

How to get the USERNMAE of all the process which are running on local
/remote system. I have go through the "System.Diagnostics.Process class" but
I couldn't find any useful information. It's there any way to get this
information without WMI.

I want to timeout Read method of System.Stream class after 30 secs. of
no activity given a certain opened connection. That is, because some
incoming connections to my application just don't give any signal and
my Read method keeps waiting from the socket for some data to be read

After I remove all items from a combobox, the last selected item
remains in the display area.  I've tried:
mycbox.SelectedText = string.Empty;
and

How does one access dynamic controls by name (or wahtever other means)?  I
have the following:
Dim newbtnPick As New Button
newbtnPick.Name = "SliceButton" & CurSliceNum