Issues with null data, can anyone point to an article on how to use these
properly or others workarounds.  I am having to check values before taking
data from the typed dataset, which can be a pain, extracting data, settting
up OLEDB parameters, etc.

I have a program for which I want to see from a distance if it has been
started.
I made a timer which is enabled when the program is started.
Code in the timer:

May I know how to make a generic context menu (which may contains
save, new or other funtions) to be inherited by different winform?
Thanks in advance.
Jasen

All,
What is the best way to protect IL code?
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Typical scenario:

It would be really nice if there was an option that warned the developer that calls to functions did not handle the returned value, or alternatively threw a compilation error.
I have been caught so many times by witing something like
Split(myString,",")
instead of

I really like Microsoft's Application Blocks, but am finding the
documentation on the UI not particularly user friendly. In particular, I
would like to create an MDI parent form and use the navigationGraph to
navigate child forms within it, but it is not clear if this is even

Hello.  I am trying to follow some VB.net code and am having a heck of a
time trying to figure out a dataset source.  I am assuming that a
dataset is similar to an adodb.recordset in VB6.
Here is the line of code that I am looking at:

I don't know where to put this, but I hope MS reads this.
THANK YOU
I just retired and was trying to figure out how I could afford to get into Visual Studio .Net to see if I would like learning modern development and maybe try to become useful in the Windows community.  This looks ...

I'm developing a Web application where a user selects from a listbox which can have many items. The initial display only shows about 10 items.
After a postback, the listbox is automatically scrolled back to the top, so the selected item is mostly no longer visible. How can I keep ...

How do I generate an email in the serverside code (aspx.cs file) in which I can imbed data submitted from the client icluding attachment of client side files that the client has specified. up to now I get a problem with STMPMAIL(oMyMail) giving an error
Exception Details: System ...

Consider the following:
As I post this, it is June 11th, 2004.
My desk calendar tells me it is day 163 of the current year.
This code:

I've been trying to determine the difference in minutes between two DateTime objects (startTime and endTime) in C# using the TimeSpan object (ts). I am populating the two DateTime objects from the click of two buttons (start and stop) that I have placed on an ASP.NET webform. I ...

could any one tell me which real life senarios reflection can be used in ?
thnx