I've just begun learning C#, and it is really fun. I'm using a book called
"beginning Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, From Novice to Professional". It
manages to explain all the concepts very clear. But, what the book is
missing is some good assignments with proposed solutions.

I want to give the users a button that they can click to start up a
google search with text from a text box.  How do I start IE from
code.  I assume I can easily get IE to go to Google with a search
string.

I need to decide on how to store online signed contracts for customers and
clients. I have considered a database in sql server 2005, but it seems to be
too complicated. Besides, if the contract contents or layout for new
contracts changes, I would have to change the whole ...

I am using the file upload control and want to limit the size of the file
that is uploaded. But it appears as if it actually uploads the file and then
does the check. Is that true?
Ideally I'd like to have it give me the results back before it uploads the

I'm service enabling a single-threaded COM component, which has the
requirement thet everything is executed in the same thread. How can I
make sure that if a WCF service method is called, it is executed in
always the same thread?

I am defining a new attribute for validation purposes ,in case the
validation of the object which has specific attribute not passing well
which kind of exception should I throw? (kind of Ilegal state,is there
an already defined format for it?)

Anybody have a function that will calculate the number of business hours
between two dates? I will assume eight hours a day and don't want to count
weekends.
TIA - Jeff.

Using Visual Studio 2005, I have created a stand alone command
line .exe program that "does what I want".
All of the functionality that I would like to make available to my
C#/.NET service is in a few .cpp/.h files (that my .exe main line .cpp

After leaving a working project to work on a website I have now returned to
experience the following exception
private void LoadProducers(string currentFileName)
{

I always thought that MVP (Model-View-Presenter) was a newer
design than MVC ((Model-View-Controller), so I assumed that as
time goes by, more and more frameworks would be implemented
using the MVP pattern. But instead, the opposite is happening.

I have a class named "clsTest"
Is it possible to capture the value of clsTest in a variable, and then use
it to instantiate the object A ?
if (ClassName = "clsTest1")

When does the socket (server) know when to stop reading.
e.g.
if i have a  buffer = 25K
and do networkStream.write twice.. what will the server read? 25k or

I have 3 or 4 source code files that were written in VC++ (an earlier
version, like VC++ 6.0). I need to be able to use the code in my
C# .NET 2.0 forms program.  I have tried to add existing items
(the .CPP files) to a new VC# project. How do I go about accessing the

I found the following in MSDN
The Flush method implements the Stream..::.Flush method; however,
because NetworkStream is not buffered, it has no affect on network
streams. Calling the Flush method does not throw an exception.

Time for XP Free? An Open Letter To Microsoft Corporation
Since the advent of the PC, the price of all components has dropped
substantially in real terms. The  one exception to this rule is the
operating system. To be fair to Microsoft, in terms of value for