string USMesg;
USMesg = "?Credits?Remaining?";
byte[] bArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(USMesg);
After I execute the code, the first two bytes are:

somebody asked me a question:
string is derived from object class, right? (i said yes)
so how it could be object class declares method returning string?
thanks for any explanation / link / whatever :)

I tried to write a utility for copy video file from DVD-RW Rom. When I
tried to access file from DVD-RW ROM, it trows exception "Access to
the path 'J:\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.BUP' is denied.". I tried below code
for file copy utility.

Does anyone know of a site or have code for a function that will generate a
random string or random number?
I need one where I can tell it what type of value I need and where I can set
the length of the desired output.

(Originally posted to WindowsForms newsgroup with no response, is there a
Visual Studio newsgroup?)
There are times when I mistakenly double-click a control and then VS goes to
the code window and either generates the code signature for the default

I have an form that sends a message (an employee code) to another
form.  When that form receives the message it plops that value in a
textbox and I want to run the code in the validation event of that
control without calling the validation event handler directly.  I was

I have a control that is subclassing a label control and I want to a a
property that is a List of a custom class.  The collection editor
_seems_ to work fine. I can add new items to the list and it saves
them.  I can even run the application and everything works...then at

i use visual studio 2005 with c#
i try to to locate windows and controls in the window.
when i use the function GetClassName (located in user32.dll) i get the
Class.

I wrote a class for playing wav file, the code:
   class SoundPlayer
   {
       //  flag values for SoundFlags  argument on PlaySound

I am trying to do a simple task: convert bitmap to raw and back to
bitmap as fast as possible.
Here are the 2 methods I am using:
private byte[] ToRaw(Bitmap bmp)

Can anybody tell me exactly what a provider is?  And give an example?

I would like to start unit testing my projects, I'm the sole developer in a
startup with stacks of projects that needed to be done yesterday (nice sob
story, I know) - point is I keep breaking things!  Moving too fast to get a
new feature out and I'm breaking stuff left and right ...

Hi guys, what i'm trying to do is do frame processing with the
possibility of the app to not be in focus.What happens if the capture
window gets hidden is that no more frames are sent to the
callback...I've tried fyield to no avail.I'd greatly appreciate it if

Has anybody got a link for a tutorial on how you develop a component that
doesn't have a visual appearance, i.e. a component that - when dropped on a
form - creates an icon in the frame at the bottom of the form designer (like
e.g. Timer, NotifyIcon etc).???

In my project I want to search thru a text in a text box or RichTextBox.
When I search I want to list all lines that contain the string I am
searching for.
e.g.