My VS2005 doesn't seem to remember the editor formatting settings for C#. I
enter them all and it's ok, but next time I run VS they are gone.
Has anyone else had this problem ?

I have a complex C# application (winforms) that I am taking over. I do
maintenance and add small features here and there. what I need is:
1. a tool that will help with testing. that is, with every new code
modifications, I want it to automatically run a script that activates

Right now I have FxCop and Red Gate ANTS... any other good tools I should
add to my toolbox or lot at? thanks!

I am searching for a class which is able to update a sql-server db-structure
about definitions for example in a xml-file. I have a database which
structure have to be updated after a update of my application. Can anybody
give me a tipp, where I can find something about that - or ...

If I have tens of thousands DataRow in a DataTable and allow the end user to
pick any DataColumn(s) to check for duplicated lines, the data is so large,
is there a better API, algorithm can be used for this purpose?
Thanks a lot!

 I want to deserialize part of xml into a object. For this i am
having class that implements the IXmlSerializable interface. For this
class i get the xmlnode object that has the xml.
How do i read this xmlnode object in the readxml of

Hi fellows,
I want to customize the dialog box that appears when you double click
any entry in the address box dialog in
outlook 2007. I searched the web with many saerch keys but no luck.

Microsoft.DirectX.DirectSound.SecondaryBuffer buff=new ...
...
buff.Play(0,data,BufferPlayFlags.Default);
The play method seems to be asynchronous. Then how can I know when it

I created a generics list:
List<FileView> updatedfilesArr =
(List<FileView>)DataListFiles.DataSource;
and I would like to find an item in the list according to a given

Dear Windows Form Designers
I am developing an application that uses a TabControl with several
Tabpages.
On the different Tabpages I wish to allow users to have the access to

Hi, What is the best way to use an array to find moving averages. I
want to calculate a 15 day and 41 day m/a. I know my array will need
to contain 12 columns, but the rows need to be dynamic. The row size
will need to be aminium of 50 rows. So far Im thinking of either

I need to capture a mouse click event when inside a visual third party
ActiveX which unfortunately comes without published events.
In Win32 I used to manage such  problems on Application level with WM_
messages, but almost beginner in .NET & C#  environment, I don't see the

Can someone give a quick example of how to check for activity on a TCP
port?  For example, I'd like to watch and listen for activity on port
80.  Once activity is detected, I'd like an event to be triggered.
Thanks in advanced.

Other than to create confusion, does the unary plus operator serve any
purpose at all?
All C# numeric types have a unary plus.  The syntax is something like:
x = +y;

I would like some code to use a particular type of variable but have the
option to change it to another type of variable.
I assume I can use #define. Any chance there's a replacement for typedef?
Thanks.