Its reversing order of attributes (XmlElements) set in Serializer
class.
namespace Windstream.Business
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I am in the process of upgrading my application to Visual Studio 2005 and the
.Net 2.0 Framework. When I run my application in Debug, I get several hundred
lines of the following message in the Output View:
"A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred ...

Hi in Delphi its a piece of cake to show and hide a mainform eg
mainform.show mainform.hide.
However, after finding similar actions in C# seem to result in destroy
of form object, which causes errors maybe I am wrong, but here is what I

It seems that when I call the Timer.Stop(). That my main form does not
appear correctly. All Added Controls, label box's, buttons are missing.
Hopefully someone will have a simple answer: My code is below, and thank you
all in advance.

My question is regarding how to best return "collections" from a
method call. Should you return an actual object or an interesting/
appropriate interface of the object, to the caller? (This is not
really restricted to returning collections but that's the example I'm

I have a txt file that I am reading and displaying on a page. The text
in the txt is...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Discontinued P/N                  Replacement P/N

I'm creating ComboBox class which uses entity list as datasource where
entity class name is passed as string. Entity list is filled dynamically at
run time.
So need to add entities of different types to corresponding entity lists.

I believe that C# uses Unicode by default for string characters. Does that
mean that double-byte langauges such as Chinese can be used without doing
anything special... including DB persistance? I.e., are all characters
automatically double-byte?

My rateonale is:
   -1 mod 3 = must be 3
   0 mod 3  = 0
   1 mod 3  = 1

I am processing cXml orders and the xml begins with the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE cXML SYSTEM "http://xml.cxml.org/schemas/cXML/1.2.017/
cXML.dtd">

Is it possible to set a page's metatags programmatically?  And if so,
how is it done?

It strikes me that System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog seems te
'remember' which directory it was in last, even when a new
OpenFileDialog-object is created for every access to the file system.
This 'persistence' also holds between different invocations of the same

Hi, still very new to programming but am a little stumped by how to do this
idea i  have.
I need to make a moving average which takes every nth value in a data series
to build a running total which can then be divided by the length of the

Hello, my headerfields are wider than the datafields, so I wanted to
have my headerfields read vertically like:

how to force a .net application to use .net 2.0 ?
this windows service  is about 4 years old and im pretty sure is using .net
1.x runtime. Is there soem setting in the installer that says to use .net
2.0 instead of .net 1.0? this windows service is developed in visual studio