I've been trying to put an image on the background of a datagrid,
I used the overriten property BackgroundImage, but it was useless (maybe I'm
missing something).
Could someone help me with this... I want to put a gradient on the

I read some articles about stringBuilder vs string.
I'm using the loop, so I must use string builder.
My example:
String s1;

Hello I'm trying to get to grips with variable scope.
I have a very basic programme i'm working on - and am once again being
confused by scope of variables.
I am just trying to write a new method which will read a file into a

When an object is register to event (delegate marked as event) with one of
its methods, what happen when the event is raised if the object is dead
(finalized)?
In this case the delegate invocation is trying to invoke a method on a null

I have a little question about operator >> between integers: does
anyone know why, when I write:
"1 >> x", the returned value is 1 for all values multiple of 32 and 0
else (this does not hurt me, 1 does).

Hi I have finally made progresss with my use of the open file dialog
box!
I have now made my own method that opens the dialog box and returns the
file selected.

Is there an event which could notify me when a TcpClient has something
to read? Or do I just have to do
while (!networkStream.DataAvailable) Thread.Sleep(50);

Below are some c# code, the c variable gets the value 122. I know that the
datatype byte can hold a numeric value up to 255. I don't understand how (a
& b) becomes 122...
byte a, b, c;

I'm trying to create application with as much as possible methods
derived from base class. I use two base classes "Document" and
"DocumentItem", each document has collection of documentItems. When I
cast object of Document class on one of its subclasses collection of

I have a console app that converts fields from a database into xml
files and am having problems with 'Greater Than' and 'Less Than'
symbols being converted into their html equivalents (</ >)
automatically. I need them to stay as < > so that HTML controls render

I realy dont get the point of interfaces
If i have this code
Public class MyClass
{

I receive XMLcontent codded in ISO-8859-1.
XML file contains Polish character set so that i need to notice somehow
when they are coming. My program cuts this characters and replaces them
with "". I have english copy of windows.

-> How to convert any image(8,16,24,32 or 64-bit) to 8-bit grayscale
-> i have tried to convert a 24-bit image to grayscale using setpixel
and getpixel functions, in vb.net
but i am unable to save that image in grayscale format.How do i do

I am going to build my firs Windows Application that involves a Database.
Now this database and its tables are quite large so i got a couple of quizes
regarding performance etc just to get me started...
One of the tables includes over a milion customers. This is not a great idea

When trying to install the Composite Ui Application Block software I get the
following error message
"An unexpected error occurred generating the Visual Studio Solution files.
You may have to manually create solution files for the projects you have