I see brackets in variable names in the help files code examples. What do
they mean
example [text}
Delegate Sub SetTextCallback(ByVal [text] As String)

I need to declare a project level Enum that any procedure in any class can
reference so there's continuity with the values.
How do I do this?
At present, if I declare a Module in a project and want to refer to it in an

Hi Group,
Here's the scenario:
I have a class A with a virtual method X()
I have a class B :deriving from A with an override method X()

I'm sure this has been asked before, but...
Is it possible to install Visual C# Express Edition AFTER installing
Visual Studio .NET 2005 Standard Edition?
I would like to develop some personal applications in C#, but don't want

When I try to connect to Access DataBase I get this on my browser:
The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot open the file
'D:\chessleague\db4.mdb'. It is already opened exclusively by another user,
or you need permission to view its data.

Is there any sample code for vs2005 and Excel?

I am developing an application that must look out over TCP on an
ethernet connection to
locate our proprietary devices.  The Web application and the devices
are communicating over ethernet with TCP using known IP addresses at

i have stored my connction string in web.config as we do usually. code
of web.confing is given below.
check the password field contain "&" character. now when i run my
application it gives error because value of ConnectionString is breaked

Greetings,
I have a gridview which is sitting on a multi view control (witin a view),
and it is bound to a dataset which I dynamically apply to the control within
asp.net page.  The problem is that I can't seem to resize my dataview's

I have an application, designed in Visual Studio 2005, which will run
mainly on Windows XP computers.
If I run the application on a Windows XP computer having the Windows XP
Theme selected the controls look nice rounded, etc. just like in Windows

I have created a control and added a few properties.  One of these is an
array of DateTime objects, looking like this:
[Browsable(true), EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Always),
Description("whatever"), Category("look")]

We are a small company but with programmers distributed across multiple
locations in two countries. We are planning on creating a Web project
(ASP.NET Application or ASP.NET Web Service). Is development with the Web
Server at one location only a problem in this situation? Has anyone

OK, I have a database table, it has prices of products in it, like so:
ProductPrice                  MONEY
ProductIsoCurrencyCode CHAR(3)
Now, both CultureInfo and RegionInfo have currency-handling functions inside

.NET 2.0
I was hoping the CopyTo method would be just what I needed to create a new
user in the same container and with the same properties as an existing one.
Rather than have to create the user and configure all the properties

My Situation:
// I have an .xml file that I am reading into a dataset in the
following code -
DataSet ds = new DataSet("MyDataset");