Using VS 2005.
I have an app that has a DataGridView control. This control has two
columns, the first column is a standard TextBox, and the second column
is a CheckBox.

I have a method, in which I populate a local variable from a singleton
method value like the following
int age = SingletonAge.GetInstance().CurrentAge;
then I use age in two places in the method. Out of cuiosity, which is

I have a method which populates a dataGridView:
public void fillTest4DataGridView ()
{
 this.dataGridView1.Rows.Clear ();

I'm trying to have my application use a special config file which is
shared across servers, and want to include a custom section (for URLs
of report services associated with database instances).  However, my
section doesn't seem to be recognized (GetSection("ReportServerUrls")

.NET 2.0
I have a stored procedure which calculates a value and return that value.
I'm wondering if I should use ExecuteNonQuery, ExecuteScalar or
ExecuteReader on this stored procedure. I want that return value from the

I'm running the below script to open a popup window.  Works great!
I'd like to find out if there's a way to include Mouse Coordinates in
the top and left parameters so that when my button is clicked, the
popup opens in the same location.

I know this is not necessarily a C# question but the code I am
wrinting is C# and I wasn't sure whereelse to ask the question.
I have taken some web code (from codeproject.com) that performs FTP
commands and used this in C# code to retrieve a list of files in a

In the sample presented by Microsoft for "DataGridView Custom Column"
that represents a MaskedTextBoxColumn, it seems it has a problem in
setting properties of maskTextBox using visual tools(Editing
DataGridview's columns visually), that it stores null values after

I know that we can open Visual studio command prompt from start menu. But i
have been assigned a task in which i have to do that in coding. So that when
i run the c# program, the visual studio command prompt should open. I have
seen a syntax for opening the windows command prompt ...

I am serializing a class containing boolean fields and noticed that values
are serialized (written on the XML file) as "True" and "False" (capitalised
first letter). However, when validating against a Schema, XMLSpy complains
xs:boolean only defines a "true" and "false" as valid ...

Not sure what to use here. I have a fairly simply XML document and I'd like
to "load" it into a related class so that I can access data using class
properties, etc. I've been reading thing about "serialization", etc. but
can't quite find the right article. Maybe I'm looking at ...

Currently I am writing a program which sends and receives messages
through serial port to a device. I am using C# and Microsoft Visual
studio 2005 for windows program. But my problem is when i try to write
in serial port from my windows a Timeoutexception is thrown. I use

Hi, Folks!
Is there a way to configure VS.2003 to add the parameter "/win32res"
when it is compiling a project so that you can specify your own Win32
resource file?  I know that VS.2005 has this setting under project

I am working on an application (developed using c#2.0) which needs to do a
big job and when you start the job in a single thread it takes long time to
complete. So, we want to break the job and run in multiple threads. I heard
about .Net Thread pool class but it has some ...

I have a client and server that enjoy the following simple dialogue:
Client connects
Client sends request
Server sends response