the subjects says much I think.
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I want to have a BeginMyOwnLongTediousMethod
and EndMyOwnLongTediousMethod

Hi,
  I have written a generic method which does different things depending on
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Is there a better way to do this?

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Thank you!

hello, I'm trying to use a dictionary as a class member.  I want to
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Hey everyone,
Is there a more elegant or cleaner way of accomplishing the following
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List<string> myString = null;  //Purposely null list of strings to

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RIght here is my problem...
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In SQL Syntax I would write:
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This is what I have so far...(The new Image is hardcoded right now ...

I'm having trouble refreshing a datagrid control bound to a dataset that was
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I suggest you to start session of questions to Microsoft Visual Studion
team. We have here MVPs comunity, that have influence in Microsoft world and
may help us to make the soft empire to resolve (in the end) basic Visual
Studio bugs. Let's help them and will list such a bugs in ...

I have some codes that represent Sale Types i.e. A = On Account, C = Cash, D
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I want to create an enum or struct to work with the logical names like
"Cash" as opposed to "C"

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multiple formats which are not known at runtime...and to make matters worse
users are allowed to use images in any format...so long ...

I am using Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location in order to get the
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What I get is the path + dll file with

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I am using a link label in my application and am not setting any size for
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When i run my application i see the link label properly but only
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