I have a situation where I am working with a user class and I need to
reference the form.  Is it best to pass the form object to the constructor
of the class on instantiation, or to access it another way?
Thanks,

I'm using this column type binded to a datasource column. I would like
to use a string collection in another column of the same data source.
is this possible? is there like a ...databinding.add("items"... i
could use for this. please & thanks.

I've to pass one xml node at a time to a Web Service.
The Web Service will create an xml document and then will validate it
against a schema with qualified names.
What is the right parameter type I have to use: XmlNode, XmlElement or what?

I want to write a method to read the first column from a textfile and output
them in 2 arrays to the main program. I don't know the length of the column
beforehand. I use out to avoid needing to assign the array a value, but
still, I get the following complaint:

To make it easier for translators to convert my program to their local
language, I'm using XML files as translation dictionaries since its
much easier for deployment and production purposes.
This is a sample XML File:

Are there events that are fired when I insert the handheld into or I remove
it from the cradle?
*OpenNETCF.Desktop.Communication.ActiveSync* class has *Active* (indicates
that a connection is established between

Following is a method of the Control class defined in
System.Windows.Forms
protected virtual void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
{

I am an experienced vb.net programmer looking to learn C#. Is there a good
book or tutorial designed for those of us in mind?

I could use win32's FindWindowEx, but I need to know the window's
title bar text, or the window's class name that was registered with
win32's RegisterClass (does anyone know what that would be?).
Is there a C# solution using Process?  Seems ugly to use win32

I'm developing a small app and need a database for storing data on the fly.
I've looked a little into SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and it seems to be
working fine. I've added it to the prerequisites and performed a publish.
However, when I try to deploy it to a XP/Vista system ...

Consider the code below.  Class mytest is instantiated, then set to
null.  In its constructor, the class instantiates a timer, which writes
out 'Hello' every 5 seconds.  The odd thing is that even after the
mytest object is killed, 'Hello' is still printed every 5 seconds.

Can anyone describe me how to use the Ajax in the .Net Appplications
with sample example...

I understand all of the basic C# logic but am trying to think of a
pretty basic program to put together.  Does anyone have any programs
they have created that helped them learn when they were starting out?
Anything helps.

On my main form, I click a button to bring up a second form.  When the
second form comes up, I want to do the following:
1.  change this.Cursor to Cursors.Wait
2.  Execute the EnumerateServers (or whatever) method.

C# Language Specification 1.2 says:
<<Exceptions that occur during destructor execution are worth special
mention. If an exception occurs during destructor execution, and that
exception is not caught, then the execution of that destructor is terminated