Is there a syntactically cleaner way to do this:
if (!(MyObject is Whatever))
{
    // ...

I've written a function that might return multiple e-mail addresses. I've
been returning them in an XML string, and parsing it using ReadString, but I
get the error below. (Code for ReadString is also included).
Does anyone have any advice as to the best way to proceed?

In a database table we will have a column "Round" for which round of feeding
the record applies to at a cattle ranch.  The  value will always be either
1, 2, or 3 since we feed just that many times per day (kind of like
breakfast, lunch, and dinner).

I'm trying to speed up a piece of code that is causing performance issues
with our product. The problem is we are using serialization to convert the
object to a string, this is costing us performance degrade. Does anyone know
any better way to archive this which just not degrade ...

I'm using TCP/IP to send a Bitmap object over Sockets. This is my first
time using C# at all so I don't know if this is the "right" way to do
it. I've already found out several times the way I was doing something
was really inefficient and could reduce 10 lines of code with 2, etc.

Hi group, i need a bit of help with this:
public abstract class BusinessComponent<TData, TDataMapper>
where TData : BusinessEntity,new()
where TDataMapper : DataMappers.DataMapper<TData>, new()

I have, the following question:
I have a WindowsForm with ProgressBar  progressBar1 and Button button1.
After onClick event on  button the following method executes:
button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

Is there some way to export an event log to a .evt file?  I ask because
what we're trying to set up is a really easy way for a user to email the
contents of our event log back to us in the event of some problem.
Emailing isn't a big deal, the SmtpClient class is a breeze, and ...

I'm curious as to if .NET provides any direct means to modifying its own
grammar? e.g., if say I want to had some "features" to C# which can easily
be reinterpreted back into the original C# but I do not want to have to
write a full blow parser just to change some simple thing.

Is there any way to build or distribute a C# application with a
Powerpoint component, so that the application can display Powerpoint
presentations on PCs that do not have Microsoft Office installed?
Thanks for any insight!

In the windows form designer of VS C# 2005 Express edition
Align to Grid is greyed out. Is this intentional or just my
installation?

Hi, guys!
How can I make ListView to be transparent?
Transparency in C# seems to be a problematic part at all. It's not truly
transparency I used to in Delphi.

How can I save the text edited in a richTextBox into a field of an Access
table.
I have an error using the following code:
OleDbCommand toto = new OleDbCommand("UPDATE Table1 SET Field1 = '" +

When my data is updated in my sql server database there are a number of jobs
that my current process performs that analyzes the new data. This only
happens once a day very early in the am.
When I want to add a new job I have to add new code to the current process.

i have a string variable which can take one of a set of many values.
Depending on the value I need to take different (but related) actions. So I
have a big if/else-if construct - but what is a better way of doing this?
if ("control" == commandString)