I got a webservie that supply users with binary files based on a parameter
id. The method is void and I stream the file by:
HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "application/xxx";
HttpContext.Current.Response.BinaryWrite(arrResult);

I'm writing a small program in C# that will sit in the system tray and
"monitor" Windows Media Player. I want the program to grab the file
name (and checksum) of whatever video a user is playing in Media
Player. I've looked at the WMP SDK, but haven't really found something

You can you program against generic interfaces generically?  
For example, how can I make the following code which works for the
non-generic interface also work for the generic counterparts?
public bool Equivalent(ArrayList x, ArrayList y) {

Still new to csharp. I am coming from a C++ background.
In C++ I would create a few top level variables in the application
class. These are effectively global variables which can be accessed
throughout the application because the application object is known.

I could call chkMyCheckBox_CheckedChanged() myself, but this is the
response to the click, not the click itself.  While this is fine for a
button, it is insufficent for a check box, as the check box should
update its position.  Of course, I could just set the check box to the

Quick question related to Visual Studio's automatic code formatting. Often I
like to write my variable declarations with spacing to line them up, like
this (not sure if this spacing will come out right for everyone, but
hopefully you get what I'm after):

we receive e-mails with attachments; and an attachment is nothing more
that an xml file.
Question: how can I get this attachment each time a mail arrives and
pass it as a parameter to some remote method ProcessXml(XmlDocument

I had used "WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectory"
but it returns a string contains html format
I thought it returns a string that contains files names
how we can resolve that?

New to C# and VS 5 and .NET. I have attempted to write a service via
various examples and after several failed attempts to write an
installer via the VS 5 wizards,etc I tried to install the service
manually using Installutil.exe utility.

Hey Guys,
Would anyone mind explaining why a foreach will implicitly do unsafe
casts, and if there is a way to turn this off?
Here is an example:

In my c# application
when i use this   FileStream fs = File.Open("C:\\Temp\\497_01\\\
\Assumption.txt",FileMode.Open);
1. it works fine, when i ran the exe locally. (e.i : c:\> c\temp

I have some text lines to print that are much longer than the width of
the paper, maybe as much as 6 times.  For a given page, I'd like
everything that doesn't fit to print on a second page, and whatever
doesn't fit there to go on a third page, etc, so that I can piece

I've got some C# code that sort of does what I want:
Looking at the xml files in area:
http://www.keepitsimplekid.com/xml
I want to change Untitled Ad at the top of the xml to the name of the

below is a code snuppet of a table server class i wrote
this the best way to return default values for null from a datatable or is
there a better way....
still learning all the net framwork

Hello, I'm wondering why a variable in my selectcommand is not
working.
In Page_Load I have this:
String current_user = User.Identity.Name;