Currently there are some good ORM tools like NHibernate and LLBGL.
Microsoft is working on it's own one ( I think it's name is
EntitySpace) but not released yet.
I want to know members idea about selecting one of these ORMs:

I'd like to create a generic algorithm to analyse an enum's elements for
custom attributes. All I have at hand is is a type name to create an enum
type info from. But if I call Type.GetType(enumTypeName) it returns null or
throws an exception.

Does anyone out there happen to have experience using VC# (or
any .NET
really) to control the serial port for demanding use?  My ultimate
goal would be to stream an arbitrarily large size (MB+) file out over

I am having some problems with the PrinterSettings.
I am trying to figure out why I can't get duplex printing to work.
In doing so I have a problem where when I set the
PrinterSettings.PrinterName equal to the printer I get "Function evaluation

Is it possible to setup the user scope settings during the install of
a application.
In VS2005 I create a setup project.
I add a installer class into my application project and override the

I need to have custom event subscribe and unsubscribe methods in some code in
my application when I ran into this problem.
I created this simple class to demostrate the compile problem.
The use of TestSuccess event compiles, but the use of TestFailure doesn't.

I have a stream with an mp3 file inside that i am receiving and saving
locally on disk. Is there a way to start playing that file while
download isn't completed?

Hello, I'm a newbee to .net. I've created a typed dataset in VS. When I
insert a row, it shows that it's there but in fact the row is not committed
to the database. When I restart my app, the new row is gone. Could someone
help me out on this?

I'm a c# sharp beginner and need to fire an event when a list changes
in size (element added or removed). Can i make my own event that fires
when this happenes?
Thanks in advance

I'm a little bit consfused as to when to use each of these options.
For example, if i want to decorate a class with some information,
I could decalre a const or read only field and have this information both at
run time and write time (compile time ;)), just like an attribute. And ...

I am using a com component in my C# application.
But i getting error while i tried to call multiple events from my
application.
I'm getting the error "Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040202"

I want to read the below xml using XPath queries.
I am getting "object reference is nothing" output, though i think the
code is correct and it should get the object required.
Please help me out.

I have in my app. a view of pages and generate UniCode UTF8 then I write to
doc file, but want to make the doc file in word. I know how to write some
tekst in a word document generated by C#. But how to set fonts and size,
because if I just convert to word size is not rigth and a ...

I have a public property,
private String _Name;
public String Name
{

how can i match a string, of unknown length, when it may OR MAY NOT
contain spaces?
for example, these should all match "testing":
testing