I know that is not the appropriate group for asking this question,
but I do not know of any better forum.
Can anyone plz explain clearly what normalization is? The first three
normal forms upto 3NF and BCNF. I know the first one but the remaining

I would like to keep the last line in a multiline textbox in view despite
programmatically adding lines in the box
. how do I do that?
thank you.

Does anyone know how to reference the object created via an object
initializer when setting a child property? It's hard to write into a
sentence. Suppose the following summary class for a categories in a DB.
public class CategorySummary {

what all versions of .net framework support COM isolation (.manifest files)

as a beginner with VS/C#, could somebody tell me which tools i must have to
develop quickly and efficient.
Which reportting tool, grid, toolbar, design components to create programms
in Vista/XP Style.

I'm creating DbLinq MDI WinForms application.
It allows edit customers list in DataGridView. Every row change is submitted
separately.
As Nicholas recommends, it is reasonable to create database Context object

I cannot get any (hex) number in the "0x80"-"0x89" range (inclusive)
to write properly to a file. Any number in this range magically
transforms itself into "0x3F". For instance, debugging shows that
"0x83" = UInt16 "131" and that converts to Char (curly) "f". Any

I've written a windows service in C#.
The service copies certain files using a FileSystemWatcher.
However, where it copies the files to is a windows share (\\ipaddress
\sharename).

.. and it is only January. This might get worse. =)
I really like languages like C#, that has a foreach on IEnumerable<T>.
But sometimes you need to go by index and you have to for-loop.
In C-dervived languages it typically looks like this:

 Is c# able to develop a input method? If yes,  do you know where is
the toturial?
thanks
from Peter (cmk128@hotmail.com)

My problem is this.  Our clients create different fields they want to
collect and we allow them build dynamic filters, reports etc...
We run some TSQL to actually create the column and all works very well.  We
are now adding a lot more functionality to our filters and could really ...

May be I've just been awake a bit too long but I can't seem to find
the AllowDrop property on a System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox object in
the design mode.
I've set it in the code window but I am just a bit confused why it

myNetworkStream.Write(byte[], int offset, int size);
From the MSDN documentation:
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Remarks:

Not sure if this is the correct newsgroup for this, but I'm in a jamb and
need some input.
I came across a problem that I think is related to the C# compiler in Visual
Studio 2008. The behavior is described by by Kathleen Dollard

I was reading another post and saw an argument (sort of) that brought
up a good question.
I have written a fairly large library of algorithms that occur in
programming all the time. It mixes the C++ STL and the Power