I have an app that shows the time it takes to execute a search, much like SQL Management Studio, but the app behaves as though the System.Windows.Forms.Timer gets blocked while binding the results to the grid. As you might expect, I execute the search in the background but I have ...

Has anyone tried SharpDevelop for a C# project of any significant size?
I've started looking at SharpDevelop and it seems OK with the minor tests
I've tried so far.
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

Would anyone mind going over how to strong name an assembly after it
has been compiled?  I was looking at AL.exe, but it won't take in .dll
files.  I'm not sure if I can strip out the module part of the dll.
Any help is appreciated.

I am noticing some really strange behavior with Regex replacements and
am wondering if anyone can help me make any sense of it.
Let's say we have a string "Price=#InsertPrice#" and we want to
replace "#InsertPrice# with one or more "$" symbols to denote the

I'm in need of help for solving the following problem:
I've a page with two div tag as follows:
<div id="divNormalView" runat="server">
    <asp:listbox id="listSelectedMembers" Runat="server"</

If a company is putting together an SDK where all of their soon-to-be
shipping assemblies have been signed and obfuscated, will those
assemblies be usless without specifying the items (Namespaces,
types, ...etc) to preserve during the obfuscation process?

I have searched and searched, with no luck.
I have a Form that has several event listeners in it (Keypresses, speech
recognition, afew others).  When I click a component in the form (such as a
button), the form itself loses focus.

I would like to un-log users and return them back to the main screen of my
application automatically if user activity (key presses/mouse) goes idle
after a certain length of time.
My main screen already closes any sub forms if a user login card is removed

Man, I realize I've been asking a lot of questions lately.
I appreciate you guys helping me in my thought process.
This time, I have a design question I want opinions on.
I'm building a business framework for tracking trending data.  I have

I have an app that uses a tab control with several tab pages.
Sometimes some of the processing initiated on one of the tab pages
gets busy doing stuff that is farmed out to worker threads. I have to
be able to prevent the tab page from changing (prevent users selecting

       I am using Visual Studio 2005 and am using Visual C#. I notice
that the program.cs creates an instance of a form and runs it. I have
a PictureBox in the form and a Class File x.cs and in the Class file
x.cs want to access some of the picturebox parameters e.g size but I

Hello Strange problem with regex parsing.
The regular expession search text
217.173.102.220 - foomart [08/Feb/2008:15:36:26 +0000]
regular expression.

During compilation, I am including a resource file and I want to check
the exe to see if the resource file I added available?
Is there any other way to see what are all the resources available in
an assembly, without really knowing the names?

How to create a customized DataGridViewColumn that …
1)    Host controls of my choice (i.e. depending on the value of other cells in
the row )
2)    Display the control even when the cell is not in edition.

I have dynamic controls all associated with a single ContextMenuStrip.  For
each menu item I have click event method. For each event I have cast sender
to ToolStripMenuItem to ContextMenuStip to use SourceControl to get the
control that initiated the event.