I am enjoying making generalized methods to serve common needs, such as:
ImageProcessing.MakeQuickResize();
ImageProcessing.Sharpen();
FileOps.CreateYearAndMonthAndDayDirectoryBasedOnDate()

I used the classes (SqlCommand, SqlConnection)  of part of System.Data
namespace.
I got an error which mentioned "Could not load file or assembly  assembly
'System.Transactions, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,

<<<< Sorry for a repost because i really really need help with this one. >>>
I am trying to develop an application that allows the users to drag a few
file(s) from a zip archive to a destination.
My question is, how do i determine where the drop destination is because i

Does any one know why the creation of a COM object in .NET works when
it runs in the "Main" thread of a console application if the STAThread
tag is used, but same code causes the call to
Activator.CreateInstance(Type) locks up when called from another

Does anybody know of a good open source (C# technology) that can be
used to design HTML pages.
I know we can use Visual Studio or Winword or Frontpage but I am
looking for a tool that can be customized for us and and can be

I want to create a news/stock/sport ticker for my desktop. I want to have
the ability to select my news source, (cnn, msnbc, etcs) sport source(espn,
nfl, nba, etc) and my stock source (nasdaq, nyse, etc) then once that
information is selected store it in a XML file, then have my ...

In C++ there is the static function CreateNamedPipe used to startup a pipe
server and the function CreateFile(pipename, ... to start the client side.  
Is there similar functionality available in C#? Specifically something for
CreateNamedPipe?

The unmanaged resources should be cleaned up by the source code directly,
like for example database connection.
I am wondering how to distinguish between managed and unmanaged resources,
how to decide what is managed and what is unmanaged resource? For example

I'm trying to call a method in a parent control from the child control but
I get this error:
'System.Windows.Forms.Control' does not contain a definition for 'doSomething'
What am I doing wrong?

I'm new to C# - recent background mainly ASP.NET with VB.NET.
Anyhoot, I needed to create a C# statement analogous to VB's IIf:
VB.NET
Dim e As Boolean

How do i parse a string "ABC 2005 (12)" and convert it to "ABC 2005
(Dec)" in C#?
The number within the brackets represent month..
am new to c# and breaking head for couple of hours over this seemingly

I am not very experienced with C# and have a question regarding
storing and accessing data in an array list.
Whilst reading a datarow sorted on 3 fields (thID, dthID and locID -
all 3 are type int), I need to store unique combinations of the 3

Consider the following code:
void Test(int i)
{
  System.Console.WriteLine("int function");

To reproduce, run the code.
Observed:
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException was unhandled
Message="InvalidArgument=Value of '0' is not valid for

I understand that the MSBee project helps you support .NET 1.1 projects
in VS2005.  I don't understand the details though.  So, here is my
situation.
I have a .NET 1.1 WinForms project that I need to support (and