We have three developers working on a project in Visual Studio 2005 SP
1. Two of the developers are not experiencing the following problem.
The other one has the situation below:
The solution contains a number of projects, three of which seem to be

I have a simple web service, exposing a web method DoSomething() which
might take a lot to execute. I'm writing a client application (using
.NET FW *2.0*) and I'd like to invoke it asynchronously. I did the
following:

i need your advice to be implemented my code.
i am making some program to send lots of data to Server.
i wrote some code below.
i am using c++/cli and C#, c and c++.

I have an important doubt!
If in my class I implement a Dispose() method and then call it from
my application is it useful only for free unmanaged resources?
the object itself is then discarded from heap memory by the GC when it

I have a .NET C# client-server application that is being used in two
machines with Windows XP installed. Both the client and the server are
executed into users of a Work Group.
I am using .NET Remoting to connect the client and the server with a TCP

Consider the following singleton:
public sealed class Foo {
   private static readonly Foo instance = new Foo();
   private Foo() {

I need to remove non-printable characters from a text file.  I need to do
this in C#.  The Hex codes for the characters I need to remove are '0C' and
'0A' which equate to 12 and 10 in decimal.  Their codes are 'FF' and 'LF'
from the ASCII talbe.  I have searched and searched and ...

PerformanceCounterCategory.Create() takes 3 minutes to add a new category!!
How come? What can cause this?

hey all,
what's the best way to turn my csv string into sql parms? the sql parms can
vary in count.
thanks,

I was just trying to consume the simple HelloWorld webservice that
comes in Visual Studio 2005 with a simple ASP.NET WebSite.
We have created the web reference to the url that serves the
HelloWorld Service and have invoked the response ...

I was told on this forum that a good way to display dialog boxes is
with the following code:
using (MyDialog myDialog = new MyDialog())
{

I am trying to connect with a SQL server2005 database from a C# (Windows
application) using a connection string and then use SQLconnection for a data
reader which will use the result returned by a stored procedure.  I get "an
error has occurred while establishing a connection to ...

is this the same thing?
string regex = @"(?'tag'.*?)";
and
string regex = @"(?<tag>.*?)";

I have an argument with a senior programmer here. He says
I shouldn't have special configuration for the part of
the code that's in the library. But isn't that the whole
point of libraries: that you can separate concerns, that

consider the following class:
public class MyClass
{
 public const String TableName = "myTable";