I have method CompareTo written below. But I have a problem because I want
to sort on HeatNumber which is of type int and if this is the same on
MspName
which is a string. But according to the compiler I'm not allowed to use < on

Is there a C# equivalent to Vb6's Erase when dealing with arrays?
Also vb6 handles the long variable type better (speedwise) than int.
Is this also the case in C#?
TIA Mick.

I often want to look for functions that deal with a particular type
either as a parameter or a return type, but i dont know where
they are, or what they are called.
It would be ideal if the object browser could do this,

This code won't compile because "the modifier 'abstract' is not valid for
this item".
abstract class X
{

We have a code snippet that downloads data to Excel.  it is writing row by
row. This causes a performance issue. Any ideas on how to speed this up will
be appreciated.
Please find below an excerpt of the code:

I'm trying to use the following VB function to transform a pdf
document to a tiff one:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=1665127&siteid=1&sb=0&d=1&
at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=1
Private Sub savePDFtoTIF(ByVal fullPathPDF As String, ByVal

I am struggling a little with these 2 problems:
1. How can I convert an integer, representing x days from 01/01/0001 (the
minimum value for DateTime, in dd/MM/yyyy) to dd/MM/yyyy?
2. Is there any functionality for converting a date from one locale to

I have a C++ DLL, it exports some some plain C style functions. This
functions internally initializes COM and then MAPI. This works fine if I
use the DLL from a C++ application (I tested with a C++ Win32 console
application).

I've need clariifcation regarding the Obejct data type.
Is this object a value type or reference type?....
can you please some articles which give explaination as to why
it's treated as value type\reference type???

I would like to create a framework for implementing wizards. The
wizards will be driven from entries that are contained within a
database. For example a "questions" table would hold all the questions
for a wizard, adding more entries to the question table would add more

wollte kurz nachfragen ob ich das Adapter Pattern richtig verstanden
habe. Es scheint mir irgendwie so einfach zu sein.
Also, wenn man zwei inkompatibele Klassen hat. Da die Klient Klasse
eine bestimmte Methoden-Signatur (besser Interface) verlangt und diese

I'm trying to wrap my ming around C#/CLR garbage collection.  In an
ASP.NET project, I'm having a problem because an object destructor is
being called by another thread, long after my code is done.  I'm wanting
to know if I can force it to happen immediately (when the object goes ...

Language: C#.NET 2.0
Technology: ASP.NET 2.0
Database: Oracle 10g
Hi All,

Using Visual Studio 2008 I want to prevent myconsoleapp.exe from
executing multiple times on a given Windows host.
The desire is, if a user launches myconsoleapp.exe a second time the
second instance dies because there is already one myconsoleapp.exe

Is it possible to place parts of a C# application (code + GUI) in a
database like Oracle? The application should be a "thin client", i.e.
it does little else than getting code from the DB and executing it.
How do I do it? (Please no details, I am only evaluating the