I have some loop that should copy X amount of bytes to some byte[] buffer.
the byte buffer array is fixed length during the loop
but outside the loop the length can change.
the loop can be called also inside other loop...

I would like to query (where possible) the power consumption of the local
PC. Obviously this requires hardware support, but similar apps leads me to
believe that this is possible. I looked at wmi (below) but this is empty on
my XP machines... any other ideas on how to get this ...

I'm working on a data file and can't find any common delimmiters in the
file to indicate the end of one row of data and the start of the next.
Rows are not on individual lines but run accross multiple lines.
It would appear though that every distinct set of data starts with a

Does anyone know of such application which can take any application
from system and make it a child window inside its frame?
Example - Notepad doesn't support tabbed interface. So, if you have
multiple Notepad windows open, you can use THE APPLICATION to take

We have a c# console app that hits a db stroed proc to get data, it
keeps timing out.  we tried increasing the timeout value in the
connection string, but that's not helping.  it runs for about 30 sec
then times out.  the stroed proc is taking about 45sec to return, but

Is it possible to create inside MDIForms additional child forms which also
have form children?
For my application it is necessary to create a hierarchy of forms, e.g.
MainMDIForm

Hi NG,
is there a way to copy a buffer pointed to by a IntPtr directly into a two
dimensional byte-array?
I tried this, what obviously doesn't work:

I'm new to C#, new to a project, and wondering about the differences
between two ways of handling a particular situation in our code.   In a
nutshell, what is the performance difference between "is" and "as"
operations?

This is a long one, so I'll summarize:
1. What are your opinions on raising an exception within the
constructor of a (custom) exception?
2. How do -you- validate arguments in your own exception constructors?

Anyone knows how to convert the ticks into seconds or milliseconds?
beginTick = GetTimestamp();
endTick = GetTimestamp();
totalTick = endTick - beginTick;

Hello everyone I hope you are having a good evening.
This evening I made a method that allows me to find the process id's of
running processes of a given 'friendly name' - using
System.Diagnostic.Process.

I want to create a class with a static property as follows:
class MyClass
{
  private static List<MyHandler> RegisteredHandlers =

I would like to run a nant (.build) file from C# code. I don't know
which class to use (from the NAnt.Core namespace, etc) because I
haven't found documentation/examples for them such that I can call them
in C# code.

I am trying to subclass a button to create a control similar to the
Firefox/IE dropdown button. My first step is to draw the 'down arrow'
on the button. I overrided the OnPaint method thusly:
protected override void OnPaintBackground(PaintEventArgs pevent)

I have to applications communication over a socket. All messages are
sent by xml. What is the best method to read the response xml? Do I
need a delimiter to delimit the xml documents? Can I use something like
this: