I have a Windows Form based C# application which has a MenuStrip component.
I have a child thread running in the application.
Now I have to Enable/Disable the ToolStripMenuItem from within the Child
Thread. The problem is that since it doesn't have an InvokeRequired property

Please I have a web application
in which I read an Excel spreadsheet into
a DataTable and then bind the DataTable to
a DataGridView.

Is storing ColorDialog.Color as simple as colorDialog.Color.ToString()?
And to retrieve it just get that value that was stored and then use it to
assign your color to wherever you need it.
I have not tried it yet, but I would like to know if that is all it takes.

I need to develop aid for City/State Entry. I'm planning on having
list of cities in dataset and user would have those pop up while
typing. Kind of like what Excel does when you type in column something
that already was entered in same column

I have a C# UI Control that allows Google maps to be displayed in a
Windows Form.  I am using the WebBrowser control in a secondary thread
to accomplish this.  I make several calls to InvokeScript to move,
size, etc. the maps and 99% of the time it works great.  However,

Check out the site: www.progtalk.com.  They have a great article to
expand and collapse rows of a grid.  The cool part it, that the
expanding and collapsing happens using Javascript.  I think the exact
link is: http://www.progtalk.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=1

I would like my application to check an outside file (dll) to see that it
has not been modified or tampered with.
Is it possible to somehow generate a unique hashcode from the file itself
and check that? If so, what method would you use?

I need to monitor a file system to tell when a certain file (type) has
been copied to a folder. It would seem logical to have some
pre-packaged mechanism to detect completion of the copy, but it
apparently does not exist. (The detector triggers as soon as the file

I am beginner in C#. I am writing an application which will monitor
for all the events that are generated in my application and log it in
a file. Is there any way to put a hook on message queue and achieve
that or is there by any means i can subscribe my method to respond to

In certain code blocks I don't want to do anything when an error is
raised. I simply want that application must remain stable instead of
crash. For the following code, is there a way to ignore declaration of
Exception ex:

create table hi
( Fname varchar(10)
lname varchar(10)
)

Below is simple working program(main is missing) that works but I wonder
about a few things and that has to do with the IndexOf that is used.
IndexOf calls the overrided Equals below.
My first question is: Is it  really necessary to have the GetHashCode it

Hallo NG!
I'm looking for an example showing how to use multithreading with for
example ping (I know how to use ping).
I'm sure I have seen one but I can't find it now.

This seems like a crazy question but I wanted to find out if anyone
knows which one of those two conditions are better (faster, smaller
memory footprint, can be optimized by the compiler, etc..)
1- if(i > 0) {// do stuff}

I am looking to globalize a website that contains currencies. I am
going to be using the ToString(string) method to format the currency
which uses the currenct CultureInfo class. Is there any way to get the
Currency code such as USD or EUR appended to the front of the currency