How do I select 10 random records from a table?
Thanks,
Miguel

Hi, all!
Some weird thing happens...
I'm trying to create a shortcut programmatically in C#. I need to
create a shortcut with the "target" parameter using slash. Actually

I have an application that uses the system.io.ports.serial class to
receive data from a serial device.  The device is sending a data stream
of stx then 15 readable ascii characters then a cr.  My datareceived
event looks like:

So I have this perfectly fine and running app, that uses managed C++
forms.
Problem#1:
[1] I pass a Bitmap reference to a class, hoping to modify it in one

I'm reading in a book about .NET and here they something that sound wrong
but I'm not abolutely sure.
They say that a DataSet contains methods to update data in the database is
that really correct ?

A windows service I've created runs on all boxes except Windows 2000
server.
The windows service initializes (i.e., the Service:ServieBase class
gets constructed),

I encountered a problem with a query of the following form:
var q2 = from p in Persons.OfType<Cust>
 where p.AccountID == accid
 where !(from x in PersonDistLocationMatch

How does this connection pool function actually ?
As I have been told is that when the connection is returned to the pool
the connection to the database is still open. What you do is that you just
return a still open connection to the pool.

I need to use lambda expressions or other way to
specify default query for dlinq entity type.
Code below causes compile error shown in comment.
How to fix ?

Is there an easier way to determine if a specific assembly is loaded into
the current AppDomain?
I'm thinking that there has to be a way to do it without looping through all
currently loaded assemblies, yet I couldn't find how to do it without

A DataSet is using XML to represent data that is stored locally.
I just wonder how can I look at these XML data that describe the DataSet?
//Tony

since < has a meaning in c# for regular expressions and \< says it's
an unrecognized escape sequence, I'm pretty lost parsing html tags
without replacing them first with another character or string.
Does anyone have a hint for me on how to get c# Regex class to find

Hi, just learning extension methods and the first parameter confuses
me.  I understand using the this keyword to indicate the class we wish
to extend, but is the first parameter also used to catch something
passed ?  Or is is it just to specify the class we wish to extend?

I thought I could use the property grid to nicly
edit some of my data, however it seems to require each field to be a
property,
wich I didnt realise was implied in the name of it lol.

I am coming back to a project and I dont remember what the following
Regex says
I do know it removes all \r\n from the string, but I dont see how.
Can someone explain this one?