Hello, I'm a Java programmer and I'm new to C# (I've read something but
I've no real programming experience). I'm programming a form that
displays some data from an external source (i.e. a com port) ad
displays it. The updating cycle is about every second. The windows form

I'm developing a C# program using Visual Studio 2005 Professional
Edition.
In the main form I have inserted a ListView control that is populated
in a different way depending on the item selected in a ComboBox.

I'm writing a C# program that interfaces with a SQL Server 2005
database (I use Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition as compiler).
I have defined the classical ADO.NET SqlDataAdapter, DataSet and
DataTable objects so that, once the database has been loaded with the

The following code only returns one item several times. How can I get the
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DataSet l_ds = outlook.getCalendarDataSet();
string l_s = l_ds.GetXml();

    I have a dataset with 3 datatables. I need to export the dataset
to Excel work book.
       I need to have 3 worksheets in the workbook, each of the
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I wrote tiny sample of smart client using Win32 API and get parent IE's
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[DllImport("User32.dll")]
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I have a question on why I am getting an error of  "Cannot implicitly
convert type 'testGenerics.testCollection' to
'testGenerics.IMyCollection<System.IComparable>'. An explicit
conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)"    for the following code.

I have some data values that will will rarely change over the life of the
program. I don't think it is wise to save it in a database. Is it ok to save
them in Properties.Settings if I have many different values? Example I want
to save information about the user of the software, ...

I created a Crystal Report based on a Stored Procedure which has parameters.
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Can somebody help please?
Thanks

In C# I can set up an Enum so that number are represented as keywords, which is very useful.
Is there such a datatype in a database?
I suppose I could use an extra table, with the ID column as the number, and a corresponding column
with strings representing the keywords. This ...

Does anyone have a link to Visual Studio 2005 directcx 2d sprite
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Jack
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With ToolStripMenuItem objects i created a 'Tools' menu and from that
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This ToolStripMenuItem is inside a Form, i tryed with different

1. When to derive a class from IDisposable?
2. Does the statement below indicate that "MyDisposable" is an abstract
class that needs its children classes to implement methods and all objects
of children classes will be "Disposable"?

What is a good one line method for doing a "length safe"
String.Substring?
The VB classes offer up the old Left function so that
   string s = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left("kelly",200)

I have this Hashtable of Hashtables, and I'm accessing this object from
multiple threads, now the Hashtable object is thread safe for reading,
but not for writing, so I lock the object every time I need to write to
it, but now it occurred to me that maybe I could just lock one of ...