As someone who regularly gives presentations on Garbage Collection, and
application profiling and tuning, I found this Slashdot article the other
day to be really funny:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/17/0552247

for some unknow reason the UI of the VS2008 didnt
respond to any kind of input even like Ctrl+F4 or Exit
Command. The Save,Open,Save As, commands didnt
respond and the IDE gave me that MessageBox, but best

Here's the solution I've been able to put together thanks to Jon
Skeet. Poseted in case anyone else wanders upon this (or the previous
thread) while grepping the web for the solution.
Jeff

My newly installed Visual C# 2008 is failing to show the "Visual C#
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connection might be unavailable."  Well, the internet connection is just

I have a requirement to read element values (can be in thousands) from an
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I was thinking we could first write all the values from xml to some
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where can I get the current selected list delimiter which is defined for
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There is nothing in CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat which seems to
be the right value.

I need to know what is the limit of column you can put in a datatable
which is inside a dataset.
i search on MSDN but i was only able to find the maximum amount of
rows which is 16millions something. Column must have a limit also i

I am looking for a smart way to assure a file is indeed a text file
within a C# method and not binary.
For example: Will "thisMysteryFile.dat" be legible if opened in a
RichTextBox ... or is it a binary file?

In COM I have an interface method that takes in
IMyInterface::MyMethod([in] ULONG ulCount, LPCWSTR* ppwszStrings);
So the client can do something like:
LPWSTR lpwszNet[2] ={L"String1" , L"String2"};

I was reading about partial methods in the upcoming C# 3.0 with a
friends and we were having a discussion about their usefulness.
One on hand, they seem to be ok at providing a solution for allowing a
class to be extended at compile time by users of the class, and as

I' working on an ASN.1 parser. The Content Octets (data values) are
stored in a byte[]. The conversion of byte[] to char[] is fairly
trivial. BMP is a special case of UCS, using the lower 65 thousand
characters. Reference http://en.wikipedia ...

I want to merge two form into one, with 2 buttons choosing which form must
apper and hide the other. And the 2 forms must be in the same position.
Someone help me indicating which any class or tutorial.
Thanks

In one of my application i am using System.DirectoryServices to get
some data from Sun One Directories.
I am using Asp.net & C# 2.0
I am worried about the performance. I have following doubts.

I have an MDI form with one child form (called firstform), which has a
button. The button creates a new instance of a form(called secondform) with
a button on it also, and this new form is also set to be an MDI child.
When the button on the first form is clicked, the second form ...

i have detected the event of treeview node mouse click. All i want is
that when a user clicks, a menu appears.
How can i create a menu? Not the static one, that appears on the top.
The one that appears just like when you click the desktop screen and