I need to maintain certain data structure, shared by all instances of
a class, declared as [Serializable]. This data structure must change
whenever a new object is created or an existing object is destroyed.
So I declared a static field with [NonSerialized()] attribute.

string dateTime = "5/28/2008";
DateTime.Compare(DateTime.Now,DateTime.Now) // returns 0
DateTime.Compare(DateTime.Now,DateTime.Parse(dateTime)) // returns 1
I need to compare 2 dates, using the second format, and I

I'm wondering if I'm doing myself a disservice by learning Visual C#,
considering it does so much of the work behind the scenes.
Should I be learning console apps first?
I still haven't found the right book.

How do I pass a container from C# to C++?
My client is writing an app in C# that needs to pass a collection of 3-
space vectors to my native C++ library. It will also need to read back the
collection.

I have a C# application (Visual Studio 2005) that invloves reading a large amount of data from SQL server (in this case SQL 2005). Here is what I am trying to do.
//declare a data set obeject
DataSet accountRecord = new DataSet();
DataSet oDS = new DataSet();

I have bean studying the use of Interfaces, and from what I understand
if you create a class that inherits from an interface, that class must
poses a member that represents each member of the derived interface.
Well this all seams sensible because otherwise it would defy the

Is there a performance difference between forward iteration and reverse
iteration through a List<string> ?
for ( i = 0; i < myList.Count; i++ )
{

I need know the fields involved in a ConstraintException with code.
Any idea?
Thanks

Can i populate the class variables in following fashion?
public class abc
{
  string name;

I am calling a function that requires an Exception which you normally get
from a Catch ( Catch(Exception exc)).
But I have a message I am trying to pass to this funtion, but since it
requires an Exception object, I can't just send the message.

I have a fairly standard server application that I am using
asynchronous socket calls to make connections, send and receive data,
and all of that jazz.  No blocking methods was my goal in writing this
and it's gone very well so far.  But coming from the blocking world, I

I used soapUI (webservice testing tool)  to test thrird party secure  ondemand webservice and worked fine and communicating from our proxy. they authenticated our proxy port . but when i deploy .NET console C# client to test, I am not getting response and throwing Internal ...

I'm trying to work through some sample of WPF.  The Simple Binding example
says the following:
"Install the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) and open its build
environment command window. On the Start menu, point to All Programs,

I'm creating .NET 3.5 WinForms application.
I need to create textbox which remembers last 10 entries (stores in isolated
storage) and
offers users to select them on entry just like IE auto-complete address bar.

I'm new to Crystal reports. Recently I developed my first report, using
class as a datasource, and it works OK. But when I created a second report,
I started getting error: "Invalid report file path".
I'm using exactly the same class as a datasource, and the path to the report