The following code result in the following compilation error: Error 1
Cannot implicitly convert type 'int' to 'short'. An explicit conversion
exists (are you missing a cast?)
short a = 1;

I want to add guaranteed delivery (or at least guarantee sent) to some code
using SmtpMail.Send().  The method is void.  Does Send() throw exceptions if
it cannot connect to the Smtp server or has some other error?
I could then store the message on an MSMQ and retry later.  What ...

I am trying to read the appsettings section of a configuration file
using the ConfigurationManager object (ASP.NET application) with the
following three lines but for some reason the ConfigurationManager does
not recognize there is an appSettings section in the file and the last

 I have a question : the ComboBox control have NO single border, and height
is at least 1 pixel higher than TextBox.
There is absolutely NO good reason for making a ComboBox looking that way.
My question is WHY Microsoft did that in the 3 versions of Visual

I am having trouble with my first effort at developing a web service.
I have a methods, outlined below which should return a DataTable.
[WebMethod(Description = "Gets details for contact for the ID provided")]
public DataTable GetContactsforCompany(string sID)

I am working on a VPP and i would need some help.
I built my VPP using the model in the Sept 06 issue of Visual Studio
Magazine article RESTful ASP.NET app (Page 46).
I got the code done (In C# instead of VB.NET) and if i use the url

I have a CSS file which shows things perfectly in IE, but it doesn't
work in Opera.  If I change the CSS file for opera then it doesn't work
in IE.  We only support these two browsers.
What I need to do is find out which browser I am in.  If it is IE then

Hello, I'm hoping someone might be able to help me out. I'm creating a
shared assembly with my interface definitions similar to the following.
When I try to compile the RemotingInterface, everything works. When I
go to compile the RemotingServer assembly, I receive the following

I want to catch the event when I click the listview.
However, if the listview is empty, I cannot catch the click event.

I have created a UserControl that encapsulates a third party data grid.
My goal was to create my own DataSource and DataMember properties that
forward the binding to the third party grid, then use binding like
normal.

I looked high and low for code to do this and finally found some VB
code that did it right.
This is a C# flavor of it.
       public event EventHandler<EventArgs> MyEventToBeFired;

I'm trying to define an enum which will be used from unmanaged c++, C++/CLI
managed c++ and from C#.
I defined the following enum in a VS dll project set to be compiled with the
/clr switch:

Since a thread doesn't have a Stop feature and I'm not supose to use abort,
I'm wondering how I stop a thread?
My problem is that I simply want to excute a function in the background and
possibly "restart" it.

Where is a Modules window of list of modules in C#.Net in VS8?
How to enable and disable Browse info in C#.Net?

I have an occasion where it would be useful to add attributes to
individual enum members, and I can do that very well enough, the
problem is: how do I access them "after the fact"?
the obvious