I have 2 general c# questions I was hoping someone could answer...
1.  Is it possible to return a struct by ref?...
class A
{

alright...one more try at this...at least it got people talking about
it...This is just what I think would be good features...(which of course
doesn't mean jack)...but I think it's good to discuss...
1.  static extension methods

I am developing a WCF based app on Vista using IIS 7.0 but it will be
deployed on Microsoft Server 2003 with IIS 6.0. The app uses WSHttpBinding
and mutual Certificate authentication. The app works fine in the Vista IIS7.0
environment, but when moving it to the test environment ...

Hello to all.
Please help me.
I'm inserting a date into sqlserver 2005 using C#3. my problem is while
insert is successfull my date and time.

Trying to validate a password with a regularexpressionvalidator
But cant get the regex to work correctly
I' look for a Alpha-numeric password of at least 7 in length and no upper
limit in length

Would anyone happen to know how to determine if a digital signature
used MD5 or SHA1 as the digest algorithm?
I have a requirement to verify the authenticity of VeriSigned exe
file, and while validating the certificate chain is simple enough, I

OK, I've really been struggling with the best way to go about this.
I have a read-only DataGridView bound via a BindingSource to a particular
table in a strongly typed DataSet/DataTable.  I can sort, and everything
works fine.

What is the recommended way for using Linq within a 3 Tier project?
Many thanks

I'd like to return a class from a property. The class must be abstract as it
cannot exists without the parent class but the parent class should have the
ability to create it & expose it through a property.
e.g

I have a (3-tier) desktop application that I developed entirely in C++,
comprising mostly of Win32 Dlss as well as some ATL COM objects.
I want to "port the application to the internet", so that it can be run
over the internet - I'm sure there is more than one way to do this. BUT

I have been trying to parse a webpage in my own free time and I have
come to yet another regex I can't quiet seem to get. I wanted to get
the data inside the <table> tags, however the html and other daata
inside it span multiple lines and nothing I use seems to work.

I created a basic Hello World type of function and compiled it as a VB6
ActiveX DLL in the hopes that I could call it from C#. When I try to add a
reference to the DLL in the C# IDE I get an error message stating:
The reference could not be added. Please make sure that the file is ...

Hello people,
I have a performance query regarding LINQ that I would like some opinions.
Currently we have a business logic framework that is used in n-tier
applications.  We read data from a database using a data reader and use this

I have the following code
           NorthwindDataContext nw = new NorthwindDataContext();
           string orderByFieldName = "ProductName";
           var data1 = (from p in nw.Products orderby