Im Trying to Add a Font to PrivateFontCollection
it keeps crashing on File Not Found Exception
ive Tried full path and without full path
File.Exists returns true.... I dont understand this

I'm trying to make an application in which people can type in their
own selection filter for an external application. For this, I need to
be able to compare a string to a value in much the same way a search
box does: "*" for a wildcard, AND and OR as their respective

A simple Google search didn't result anything (although I'm not known
for my Google usage skills), but how would I stop the operation when an
exception occurs?
(For example, how would I prevent "int four = 2 + 2;" from being

I am given a 5 channel sound card, and need to play different sound at
different channel.
How can I do that in csharp?
Or precisely, did the dotnet framework support this functionality?

Ive got my custom property grid to work ok,
but Id realy like to distinguish fields wich dont have their default value,
is there any way to specify diferent colors for different lines?
theres a couple of long pages on propertygrid on msdn,

I have a class called Address. It holds strings to represent different parts
of an address (street, city, state, zipCode). It doesn't really have
anything in it other than a blank constructer and some default properties to
set and get the string values. How would you write tests ...

Can read locks on a data structure be removed safely when updates are
limited to replacing a reference? In other words, is setting a reference an
atomic operation?
I have been assuming that all writes of <=1 word of data are atomic. Is this

It is possible to manipulate Zip files in C#, using all managed code.
There are a number of ways to do it, some are commercial offerings,
some are royalty-free approaches, some are open source.
This one works pretty well.

While implementing a property manager (that supports key / value pairs), I
was wondering how to constrain T to a struct or string type. Basically, I
guess what I'm looking for is the common denominator for structs and strings
and while looking through the SDK I only noticed the ...

I'm pretty sure that if you haven't an open a database connection when you
want to get something from the database a connection is temporarily open for
you and when you have got the data the connection is closed(returned to the
pool).

Is there anything special you have to do to upgrade or transfer a vs2005
solution to a vs2008 solution? Or do you just open it in vs2008 and follow
some directions?

What do I need to install to get C# 3 working in VS?

This is the scenarion that we want to implement.
We have a computer called A which register itself on a superviser server
about it's existence so other
computer can get the identification about computer A.

I'm just wonder what it means when a DataSet controller is using XML to
represent data which is stored locally ?
Assume you execute a sql statement with a select statement which cause the
DataSet to be loaded with the selected data.