I'm a newbie in .NET technology.
I've already developed Serial communication applications in C++
(WIN32).
And I wanted to migrate to .NET technology.

I want to develop a DotNet C# Windows Application. Is it possible to
do that only with open source
software? Are there disadvantages if I use other software?
Thank you very much for all information.

I want to provide a helper to apply a certificate to svcutil generated
class(s) that derives from ClientBase<TChannel>.  But the compiler can't
find "TChannel". I have System.ServiceModel referenced, it finds ClientBase.
The stub looks like this...  Any ideas appreciated. Thanks.

Hi, im having a very weird problem. I can create a new project and set the
form's background to an image i made in photoshop and run the program, no
code written. the image is displayed as grayscale. i have tried many
different images, formats, and projects yet it wont work. ...

is it possible to get the all MenuStrip, ToolStrip and all sub menu items,
without using reflection?

I have a excel file, also saved as tab delimited file. Now this tab
delimited file has text(as table) for eg
date               empid  empsal
10/01/2007      1        20000

I have a tab delimeted file.  I want to read this file and want to put in
data table. I have the following code. Tab delimeted has 3c columns and 43
lines of data.  The following code just reads the columns after it crashes.  
How to fix it and How can I populate the data for each ...

I have some pretty large XML Files
was wondering does dot net XML
do any buffering or does it just load the complete document into memory
tks

I'm running the below script to open a popup window.  Works great!
How Can I get "Mouse Coordinates" (X,Y) to include them as Left and
Top parameters
so that the popup window opens "where the button was clicked"?

what are difference between C# 2.0 (.net 2.0) and C# 3.0 (.net 3.0 (3.5))?
I have book programming C# 4rd edition from o'reilly on my country language.
Is it alright that i learn C# from this book?
I'm not completely newbie, i learned python as my first language (leaning py and

I have dynamically generated (at runtime) entity class based on entity class
generated by pgsqlmetal:
public class Klient : EntityBase.xKlient {
public Klient() { }

I have linq entity type with public constuctor having all properties as
parameters like
class MyEntity: IModified {
protected string _a_a;

I have a text box wich I would like to
change the color of some of the text,
preferably with text commands,
like with some terminal protocols.

I am building a web page where people can link in a youtube video by
copying and pasting the link that is provided by youtube. How can I
use a regular expression to capture the URL only from the link below:
<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://

 I am trying to read and write another application app.config file. I am
trying to follow this code that i got from internet
xeConfigurationFileMap fileMap = new ExeConfigurationFileMap();
       fileMap.ExeConfigFilename = @"C:/app1.exe.config";