I'm using FxCop to go through my code and it's showing bad things in my
code. It is saying that you should never ever catch a general exception, and
since in my (apparent) foolishness I'm catching all errors in my user
interface I've got a fair few of these in my code. I'm doing ...

I am creating a remiander application. I want the user to enter the
time in the box(can be a textbox).
                                ____________
the format should be   |    05:37:15    |

I am trying to do an Overlapped ReadFile on a HID device and it just isn't
working for me.  The WaitForSingleObject keeps giving me an error "The
system cannot find the file specified."
This code need to work in 64bit and 32bit, so I am using IntPtr for pointers

I have generated a typed dataset containing two tables in vs2005. Tables
have one to many relationship. I would like to populate both the tables
using preferably just one call to stored procedures which return data for
both the tables. What is the best way to do it? Do I need to ...

Hi All;
I am building a Windows form with multiple panels. I have a large panel as
the base on the form, with a tab control on top of it, docked to fill, and
multiple panels on the tab control. The base panel is docked to top of the

I have few db write and read to execute, so I use transaction.
Is that a problem or is that a regular way that I only use transaction on
some cmds only, and other cmds I do not use trasaction, esp those read
actions, or even use another dbconnection to read?

Hello. I'm new to C#. I've searched this group, and tried other google
searches, and have not found an answer to this question already.
The question is pretty simple. I like the Console.WriteLine format of
passing a string containing {0}, {1}, etc, followed by a parameter

I'm in a slight dilemma.
I have an updater program that checks for pending updates and
downloads them if the users chooses to.
Since i dont need a windows form to check if there is an update , I

I want to handle a running process. ex:  explorer.exe
How can i handle that process(explorer.exe). and is it possilbe to
stop that process from runing.

I'm trying to get an image from a webserver here in the network. I
managed to create a socket connection and filter out the response
headers. I load the body of the reply into a MemoryStream, but when
trying to use Image.FromStream(), I get an invalid argument error.

I am trying to download a file using HttpWebRequest and
HttpWebResponse, but everytime I download a file its just the HTML.
The URL I am providing contains query string parameters as well as a
user name and password.  Anyone have any suggestions.

I am familiar with C, C++ and Java and just started diving into
C# .NET but ran into a recent snag.  I have been trying to add a
function to a custom mp3 tag editor that can convert "gibberish" like
"¿ï±îºÁ ¿ôÀݾÆ" to it's original form in Korean as "울까봐 웃잖아" (I

I m wondering what can I do to improve my code, everytime I am coding
I feel like it could be done better. I started on c# a good months ago
and feel conformtable but sometimes I Need to look up stuff.
maybe someone can suggest a good book on good practices for c#?

in the following code i am handling the Paint event;
this event is associated with the Form1_Paint() method;
I want to recall this method. i.e the Contents of the form should be
updated every  5 seconds.(Designing the Analog Clock. How to Update

Hi, I'm using vs2005, .net 2 for windows applciation.  I have a form with 1
datagrids whose datasource comes from 2 dataview that are based on 2 dataset
datatables(depends on the stat of the application then one of the dataview
will be selected as datasource for the grid).  Both ...