Is it possible to have a component which is global to the entire
application? I need to have a single component act sort of like a server
which components in any of the forms can access.
For example if I drop a component on Form1 & Form2 and that component has a

I am new to Regular Expressions and need some assistance with my Zip
Code field validator.  I am currently using the following regex to
validate a zip code:
     ^(\d{5}(( |-)\d{4})?)|([A-Za-z]\d[A-Za-z]( |-)\d[A-Za-z]\d)$

I'm using a ListView control to display pictures similarly to how
Windows Explorer displays pictures in "Thumbnails" view.  The images are
stored in an ImageList component.  I would like to provide the ability
to rotate the images and I'm having some issues.

For those who haven't read my previous post, I have a problem with a
UserControl. When I try to display it on a form, controls seem to
appear one after one. In the following example, it's less visible
because controls don't execute any code... Is someone has an idea of

I am overwriting a textbox to add some extra properties.
That all work fine.
However when I put the extra properties into a class and make that class a
property of my own textbox it is shown with a gray color text in the

I haven't found exactly what I've been trying to do.
All I am trying to do for now is just display usernames from Active
Directory into a ListBox control on a page.  I have found some code
however that will just capture a Full Name from Text Box and display

I need to remove access to a shared directory before to execute a
process on the directory.
And put back the access on it after the execution.
So I wanted to set the permission of the Everyone user to Deny, execute

I wrote [my first] a windows service in c# (applause) and now I want to
add the ability to edit its settings.  Basically this service checks an
email account at certain intervals and forwards the emails to another
email address.  I want to be able to configure how often it runs (it

I'm using Guid.NewGuid() for generate unique ID
will there be 4 '-' alway in guid?
thanks,
Praveen

can someone tell me if it's possible to add a href/link inside a
datagridview?

Can anyone tell me how can I get a protected method of an abstract
class using reflection?
I need to invoke a method like this and I was trying invokeMember on
the type of the derived class with an object of the derived class. This

Anyone know if its possible to iterate through a hashtable in the same order
that the table was populated?
Im currently using an enumerator to iterate, but the order is quit different
from when the items where inserted into the hashtable.

I have 4 user controls that are used in a wizard form. Since I also wanted
to re-use those controls when editing the same information that are created
with the wizard. I used a class (Facade pattern) to ease the interaction
with 4 user controls. The problem is that each of the ...

Is that a good idea or right thing to call Connect(remoteIP, remotePort) in
both UDP client and server?
This is to make sure they only receive data from each other, not from
someone else, provided that both server and client port are fixed.

I'm using from OWC 11 (Office Web Components) the PivoteTable control for a
cube visualization. The database is SQL Server 2005. Localhost everything
works ok, but from another pc the control is empty and raise the follow
error: