What concepts do I have to know to access data between two threads safely?
Right now I'm using a delegate method and Invoke to call a function in the
other thread that handles the data. This method seems a little bulky and I
read that it can have problems as it stalls.

Anyone out there today?  Happy Thanksgiving!
I am writing a Window app that has a TreeView control.  I am creating the
nodes dynamically from an XML file, and I have some icon images that I have
associated with each of the "top" nodes.  The users, after some usability

I want to change a ProgressBar in a separate Thread.
My current code is the following:
private void changeProgressBarThread()
{

Hi All, Does any1 know which Win32 API is called when you hit the
Start/ShutDown button on WinXP/2000? Basically I am looking for the API
which grays the entire background and highlights the shutdown message box on
the fore ground

Can anyone recommend any books for User Interface Engineer for Windows
Forms application?
At the company I work at, we've gone GUI component happy. Basically GUI
tools (i.e. Infragistics) are placed into the product for the sake of a

I need to create a web form for use on our company intranet. When the
form loads, it needs to grab Active Directory user info from the machine
which the user is logged on. Can anybody point me in the right
direction? Thanks!!

I've been going through the newsgroup, picking up best practices and
things not to do, as I think it helps to make a good programmer a very
good one.  But rather than fishing, I figure that there are many out
there who are tired of fixing someone else's poorly written code as it

I have a generic data layer DLL that expects to read its connection
string from it's own config file.  The dll and config file have been
placed in the bin directory (VS.NET2005).  However, due to shadow
copying, the config file does not get placed in the same directory as

I have an application with a notifyIcon. When my application's main form is
hidden by some other window I would like to bring it in front by
single-clicking the NotifyIcon. However, I can't get it done. In the Click
event I've used all sorts of methods:

Hi ppl,
I've got a problem when trying to install the .net framework 1.1!
Recently I formatted my pc. I already had .net 1.1 + VS2003 installed.
Now I downloaded the SDK from microsoft site and when I run the

(Sorry about the previous post, it got transmitted before it was complete)
We try to separate implementation and interface defintions, but we run into
a problem. I hope the guru's can solve this, as we seem to lack only a
single 'step' to have "full separation"...

How can I add javascript to my code view of my default.aspx file and
get my meny to show?
Here is the code I want to display (it's obviously a menu):
<!-- menu script itself. you should not modify this file -->

My C# app is being called from a callback from an unmanaged DLL. One of
the parameters of the callback is of type BOOL. I am using PInvoke to
marshal this to a (managed) bool. The problem is that no matter if we
pass TRUE or FALSE, the bool is always marshalled as true.

Is there a place in the .NET framework where simple time constants are
defined?
For example:
How many days are there in a week?   Hours in a day? Minutes in an hour?

I am able to make a contact form for my site no problem--it works great.
However, I am making a contact form so that customers can reach other
members who have registered on my site.  The problem I am running into is
this, when the SmptClient.Send tries to send to an email address ...