In C#, what's is the difference between object vs Object, exception vs
Exception?
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I need to display a MaskedTextBox that has 2 different prompt characters. Is
this possible (maybe using the MaskedTextProvider)? If so, can you please
show me an example on how to do it.
Many thanks

   If I have my COM+ component which gets loaded from a service
(loaded in IIS for example) and if that component crashes it is
limited only to that component. The service as such is fine except
that the calls for the crashed components are gone. Now, if I have a

I have an application in which there exist a thread that handles directx
rendering. It runs on a dual core system with windows vista and xp.
It is set to have highest priority and simply loops with
while(isRendering)

I have a problem with an application which runs smoothly but once every few
seconds shudder.
Having used the .net stopwatch class I now know that a certain loop
generally runs very quickly but sometimes it takes ten times as long.

I am trying to find what is the very best approach to business objects
in Windows Forms. Windows Forms presents an awesome opportunity to use
DataTables and I would like to continue doing so.
I have worked with dynamically generated DataTables with customized

I have a generic list of objects. Each object contains multiple objects and
one of the object has some properties. Now I need to filter the list based on
those properties. Whats the best way for me. I tried foreach loop but I am
unable to write the filter criteria. All the ...

I profile my code and find its spending a lot of time doing implicit
conversions from similar structures.
the conversions are mainly things like this
class Point

I have a WinForm with two DataGridView controls with drag and drop
enabled between the two.
I have a scenario where a DataGridView control can have rows
dynamically inserted at random positions when a user drags an item

I am trying to grab the last bunch of text after the last forward
slash (/) in a url string. For example, I want to match "want" from
the string "http://www.hello.com/whatever/you/want". Using "/(.+)$" as
my regular expression yields "/www.hello.com/whatever/you/want", which

I'm generating a report on a web site based on user entered query
parameters.
Obviously, displaying it as a web page is dead easy.
Now, they want me to offer a "download as Word" option. (RTF would do

I'd like to create a generic method that returns a list of objects derived
from a class that "wraps" a guid.
public static List<ID> GetList<ID>(...) where ID : MyGuidWrapper {
...

I know my windows service works when i run it in debug mode on my dev
machine.
It also works in release mode on my dev machine. But, when I move the
service to

I would like to know if anyone remember in one of the first office
suites microsoft had a planner which ask a lot of questions about
goals and advancement if so where can i find that info now

I have a class that has 3 different constructors in it.  In the base
constructor I want to have it set some default data.  I don't want to
have the overloaded constructors do these same operations (event to
the extent of creating a function that each constructor calls).