I am using this code at the moment to format the column
this.itemsDataGrid.Columns["Amount"].DefaultCellStyle.Format = "c";
but i get the error "Object reference not set to an instance of an
object. " is this code incorrect ?

I have to validate xml file against xsd file using c#.
XmlReader only check for the well formated doucment but i want to
check for every thing like space,datatype and any extra text in xml
file.

I'm sending data to a website with a WebRequest,
string m_request = some_web_page;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(m_request );
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

Hello to all,
  I'm having something of a problem with the WinAPI call SetParent.
Here's the scenario.
I am trying to take an existing program, and run it within my own

I have a DLL that uses the XMLReaderSettings class say mySettings.
I want to add mySchema.xsd to mySettings.Schemas.
As far as I can make out I need an absolute path to the mySchema.xsd
file.

It may sound like a silly question, but I would like to print a form or
component from within Visual Studio when designing such form component. Is
that possible?

In the WinForms context.

I have seen the samples for Find that explain how to use the predicate, but
they are always searching for a pre-defined value.  What I don't understand
is how to search for a random value stored in a variable.
For example,

I need to create a win service that lookup a file ina folder, ands
when received, read it then fir an event.
Then I need a desktop app that, when runs, bind to the event from the
win service, and when the event fires, read the eventarg data and do

When the OpenFileDialog is opened on one of my forms, i can trigger
the close of the second form from my primary form. (Plz note, both the
forms are running on different threads). However, as long as the File
dialog is opened, it won't let the secondary form close. So I need to

I need help dynamically resetting an event handler.
I have a form with several buttons.  I have intialized the Click event
of a particular button thus on the form:
_button_3.Click += new

I have some C++ unmanaged code that takes std::string& arguments (as
reference), and fills them (possibly growing the string).
I want to call this code through PInvoke (DllImport), possibly using
wrapper layers in unmanaged C++ and C#.

I need your help, the following code is not working, ret = sr.ReadToEnd()
throws the message error : Length of the data to decrypt is invalid.
Any idea ?
thank you

hey all,
this is a little off-topic but wasn't sure where to post, but when i go to
the newsgroups i used to see just the newsgroup topics on the left but now
when i go to my same bookmark it's showing all the coutries on the left?

I've got a recursive data model, where the root object gets a certain
event handler:
DataObject root = new DataObject();
root.DataObjectCreated += new