Situation:
I have to connect with my Windows 2000 server using VS.NET 2003 and C# and
connect to a remote Linux server at another company's office and query their
XML file.  Their file may be updated every hour or so.  How can I do this

I need to limit the number of characters in the Textbox column in the
datagrid.
How can I do that ?
Thanks

I am trying to write a #C windows desktop application that loads an ascx file contents (user control) from file, initiates it and then registers to database everything it finds. I tried that way:
1  Page page=new Page();           
2  Control control=page.LoadControl(virtualPath);
3  string ...

from using FxCop and reading MSDN i understand that i should not use properties to access arrays, i should use methods instead,
however when i try the code below the MSIL for method and property access is identical, bar a slight differenc in code size and stack size.
What is the ...

Will these be add-ons to Whidby?

I'm having trouble setting a boolean parameter in a crystal report which I'm
calling from a VB.net windows Form application.
The parameter is called ShowScrappedOnly and is set to a boolean.
This is the code that I try to set the value with:

If I have two integers, a week and year how can I create a DateTime object
that is set to the first day of the week of that week/year?
If I have two integers, a quarter and a year, how can I create a DateTime
object that is any date that falls in that quarter?

I will be re-writing an old VB6.EXE using .Net. The existing tool just sits
processing data from a SQL connection. My aim is to re-write as a Windows
Service that raises event that can bwe seen by a UI
The UI will be a Windows App to show the data being processed, but it

I have a program need to delay for a given time, I use DO WHILE loop to achieve this goal, but this method consumes too much CPU resource. So I want to find a way to pause a process for a given time such as one minute.
Anyone can offer me some guides? Thanks in advance.
For better ...

I have a program need to check the value of a application available, and then decide whether to execute codes followed.
In order to achieve this purpose, I use DO WHILE loop to judge the value, if the value meet the condition clause, program will exit the loop. But this DO WHILE ...

  I would like to completely encapsulate approximately 1000 lines of
SQL code in my vb.net web application.  Setting the 1000 lines of SQL
code equal to a string seems inefficient.  Setting the SQL code equal
to a string would be difficult because I would have to use numerous

   I am brand new to .NET. For that matter, so is my whole corporation, hence this dumb question. How can I set-up MSDE or SQL Server Desktop to work with VS.NET and the various development languages. Only one person here has any access to the MS SQL packages and getting him to ...

It could help if you understood the project I work on a bit, but I can't
tell you anything about it, so do the best you can under that pretense.
Lets say you have a global assembly supporting multiple applications.  In
that assembly, you have mass amounts of classes classified as ...

Is there a method for reading the value form the comment field of resource
(.resx) files?
-Oleg.

I want to be able to create an Excel file with a VB.NET program on a server that does not have Microsoft Excel loaded on it. I am using the Jet OLE DB to read other data files. Can this be used to save an array in an Excel .XLS format?