I'm working in Visual Studio 2005 and C#.
I'm using the following code to turn a Word 2002 document into a blob. This
blob will be passed as a parameter to a stored procedure in an Oracle
database. The error I'm getting makes me think I'm not converting the entire

I use #if DEBUG in several places in my code and I realized that when I
change the build type to Release the lines under #if DEBUG were still
executable.
In fact my production code has a lot of failures due to this problem.

I need the equivalent of a pointer to a member function (as used in C++) but
in C# 2.0. I know it must be a special way of using delegates but don't know
how to make the function associated with the delegate capable of accessing
the private parts of the class.

I need to read data coming from serial port of type ushort(16-bits,
unfortunately this can not be changed).  I have tried reading using
ReadChar (32-bits) and ReadByte(8 bits) with no success.  When trying
to use Port1.ReadChar() somehow the data get messed up.  If I try to

My desktop application (C# 2.0) works just fine and makes tons of
requests via WebRequest and WebClient objects. However, users that are
behind Proxy servers are not able to use the app.  I'm sure my head is
not right on this issue and i need to seek advice.

In the Visual Studio VB user interface when I want to create an event handler
for a control, I go to the code view for the form and in a combo box at the
top left I pick the control. All the events for the control are in another
combo box on the right. When I click the event, my ...

I have an array that holds 4 values ( they contain random numbers). I would
like to find the lowest value (if there is a tie i would like to find one of
the tie.) then remove that value. I am new to Programming and C#.
Thanks for any help you can provide

Trying to format a column to text so that I can have leading 0's in
some numbers.
Can't have quotes around the numbers so need to format cells.
tried

Ok this is for other who like me just can't get enough of complications!
i have two app_code directories one for cs and one for vb
it works ok, but now i need to reference a cs class from a vb class.
How is this done?

I wrote a routine to replace Math's Exp method but it turns out to be almost
2x slower ;/ (well, actually its about 1.5x in release)
I'm essentially using a lookup table and interpolate between integer
values(but even just looking up its still as slow).

I am new in serial port programming. I am currently doing a program
that communicates to DSP board through COM1 port. But I am using
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The language that I am using is C#. I am
using the built in class SerialPort provided by Microsoft. When I send

I am having one arraylist which i want to share accross threads.
What i am doing is traversing through element of arraylist in both the
thread. Means just reading element of that arraylist.
So my question is do i need to use lock while traversing.  As i am not

I have an application that fetch data thru a store proc and display in a
datagrid, but after successful execution of proc the data grid is not
visible.Please go thru the following code and plz let me know what is
missing.The data grid propertiy "Visible is true".

I have a single form C# application called MainUI.  On MainUI I have a
listbox that will log certain activity occuring in a seperate class file.  
For example, the Class has a function that loops through a directory and
determines the filenames within the directory.  Within this ...

The app in question is lives on a Windows 2003 server with .NET 2.0 running
IIS 6. The page of the app in question processes 2000 get requests a second
during peak loads.
The app uses a Static Object. In this object is a generic List<String>. For