Hi all -
Is there a standard way to handle special chars in strings in dotnet?  I'm
using csharp and having two seperate problems...
1. Passing in args...

We have several generic List objects in our project.  Some of them
have about 1000 items in them.  Everytime we have to find something,
we have to do a for loop.  There is one method which does the
searching, but that method receives the object, and the string to

thanks in advance..
if I have an array of objects, without using the array list.,
how do i add an additional element to the array dynamically while
preserving the current contents of the array?

Correct me if I am wrong but doesn't C# handle the "root namespace" on the
project properties differently than vb.net?
In vb.net, I have setting the root namespace on the project properties.
Then for the most part I don't need an explicit namespace in each class.  If

The easiest thing I can see is to use this little class:
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/busdatescalculation.asp
And read holidays from a text file into a Hashtable.
Example of the functionality I need:

I have to Point variables that are being set on MouseDown and MouseUp
events --
mousedownPoint = new Point(e.X, e.Y);
mouseupPoint = new Point(e.X, e.Y);

I would like to add a progress bar to a datagridview column. Could
someone tell me how can I do that?
THanks.

I have a client app sending messages over the socket on a certain port.
In the client app: I do this for every message I need to send:
1. Create a socket and connect.
2. Send message

I am creating a custom control and i want it to behave like a radiobutton :
If multiple radiobuttons are on a panel clicking one unchecks the others.
How is this achieved ?
I want to do the same with my own control when i put multple of them on a

I am in the process of creating a C# automation application that will
work off of notifications in other applications.  I want to be able to
monitor the WM_NOTIFY event for various controls and then take the
corresponding actions (simple automation stuff).

Does anyone know if it's possible to get the Win32 handle to the serial port
used under the hood in System.IO.SerialPort?
The reason I want it is so I'd be able to make changes the DCB struct. I
want to set the fRtsControl to RTS_CONTROL_TOGGLE so the RTS signal will be

How do I unload a form in C#?

Hi ,is there any way one can restrict users to copy files with
extensions that we dont want on our networks or local pcs. Users are
local administrators of their pcs.
PS. If this is not possible using GPO etc, is there an external

Platform: Visual Studio 2005
Language: C#.NET
Could you please help me find a pretty good component which can act as an
Add-In to Visual Studio 2005 to carry out "Scientific Mathematical

how can I generate the code documentation out of my xml comments?
before .net 2.0 I uses NDoc...by they don't get it work with generics til
now....
thanks!