This is two questions in one really. First, I wonder how to convert the
values in a Dictionary to an array. Here's the dictionary:
private Dictionary<Uri, Schema> schemas = new Dictionary<Uri, Schema>();
Uri is the System.Uri class, and Schema is a class I made. Now, I want

I have come to like just about everything in VS2005 except for the
"partial class" feature. Sometimes when I add a control to a web form,
it is not referenced in the partial class [no Intellisense]. Before
VS2005 I could simply add my own reference, now I can't. Where can I

I have a byte array read from a file using Stream IO, and containing a
mixture of 16-bit integers, strings, etc..
The problem: what is the best way to convert two byte sequences into 16-bit
integers in a way similar to what I used to do with C or C++ formatted IO?

I have a command line application and i want to read a string that
contains couple of words.I should read this line untill I reach a group
of charecters such as {b,c,d}.
How can I do it?

I'm having troubles with uploading files to the ftp server using
FtpWebRequest. I occasionally get an Exception saying: "The underlying
connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive". but
what's wired i get this exception just after upload is finished when i

I am new to C# and I don't know how to cast dynamically an object to a
specific type . I have the object and its type (as a Type object).
For example, I read some data from a query (which has been created
dynamically) and get a list of objects and theirs types (string, Int64,

I have inherited a sharepoint web part from my predecessor that is
displaying an issue. It calls FindAll() to locate a specific security
group, and then enumerates through the group to retrieve the user's
display names and email addresses.

Trying to figure out the difference between these 2 browser
I am embedding a MS office Document (Word/Excel) in a WebBrowser on a Form
With AxSHDocVw I can do the following to save the current document
object o = new object();

I'm trying to put a tooltip on a label in csharp...  I found an example
that says to add some code to the InitializeComponent() method, but that's
in the .Designer.cs file - which says to not edit it.
Is there a different way to go about it that is designer friendly?

Picking your collective brains again, this time regarding the storage of the
key used in symmetric encryption.
Let's say you have a requirement to add encryption to a C# project, so you
might choose the TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider class:

In studying for the 70-316 I ran across the question below. I'm a little
confused by the 'correct' answer. Why is it necessary to wrap the Validate
method in a try/catch block? Doesn't the Exception that's thrown in the call
to Validate propagate up the call stack to the parent ...

I started a background thread to preform some time intensive tasks for
a GUI frontend. This background thread uses a C++ object which requires
a windows message loop so I started one in it by calling
Application.Run(). Now I can see that messages from the C++ libraries

I have been wandering about the best way to sandbox memory leaks in 3rd
party libraries when using them from the .Net framework.
I have a 3rd party library, written in C++, that leaks a lot of memory
but I still had to use it.

i have a small application setting in tray.
The main form is hidden but has a media player component on it which
plays a url link (radio tuner...).
Anyway, my application take about 35MB of ram.

I wrote a C# program that uses System.Data.OleDb (MS Access). For a
certain operation, it calls bunch of ExecuteScalar(). The problem is,
if any of those ExecuteScalar failes, then the whole DB becomes
unstable data. So can I set a rollback point or group them in a one