Can anyone tell me the prons and cons having C# program calling an
executable or DLL?
I always do not like the idea of having one executable calling another
executable since I can have more control by calling interfaces exposed

Please can someone point me to a code sample where larges files can be
dragdropped onto a form and files are copied using backgroundworker and
progressbar status ?
Thanks in advance

I'm working in VS 2003 using C#, MSSQL 2000 and Windows 2003 Server.
When I try to run any web application I receive the following error:
Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server. The Project is not configured to be debugged.
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I am not clear if there is there any difference in usage between
Closing (mybase) and FormClosing ? Any advice on that ?
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If i can use keys of different types on an Hashtable object, what's
stopping me from putting all my values on the same Hashtable?

I want people who are reading Beginning C# Objects: From Concept to
Code by Jacquie Barker from Apress to get together and discuss any
problems they come across during the read. We can discuss exercises and
three case studies provided at the end of this book.

I download the POS .Net class library. The download stated that I should be
able to to see samples. I don not know where they can be found on my
computer. Also, how could I find the class libraries that been downloaded?

In his recent newsletter embedded expert Jack Ganssle says that
programming students, as well as professional developers should readh
"great code" (hight quality/well-crafted code that works).  He even
gives to examples.  One is uC/OS-II operating system and the other is

can any one give advantages and disadvantages to using static methods in a
class.
shall we use complete static methods in a class ?
thanks

In one of my forms I need hold an array of objects (same class) that is
dynamic at runtime.  Instead of using an array I am looking at ArrayList or
Hashtable.  Any suggestions?

is there a way to access every record from a SqlDataReader via
"foreach" ?
I want to write a class which (besides doing some other stuff)
retrieves a recordset using SqlCommand.ExecuteReader().

I want to make a really simple form with C# and windows forms, which is
trivial with Java, but I'm unable to reproduce it with .NET. I can't
believe it's impossible.
I want a simple window with a textbox and a listbox below it. I don't

I'm parsing a comma-delimited record but I want it to do something if some of
the string is between "".  How can I do this? With the Excel import it does
it correct. I'm using String.Split().
Basically, this is what I want to do: Use string.Split() on the whole string

I've got a little problem with choosing the best decoding strategy for
some nasty problem. I have to deal with very large files wich contain
text encoded with various encodings. Their length makes loading
contents of file into memory in single run inappropriate. I solved this

Hi group
I wish to understand, from a developer viewpoint,
what means the error message:
"abnormal termination program"