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question to either start the installation or to quit the ...

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with the ExecuteNonQuery and some Selects with ExecuteScalar everything works
fine with multiple connections in the same scope.
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("shared" in VB.NET) member variable named "Total" , and an instance
(object) of the class named oMyForm, the static member of the class,
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When i doubleclick on an .SLN file it attempts to open up the solution in
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I use SmtpClient to send email in my program, and I set the
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Apologies in advance for what is a very simple question, but I just cannot
get my head around it. I have a public class Something with a public
structure T mapped to the local variable m_Test(). Whenever I try to set the
value of the property Test, I get the error "Expression is ...

I've rented equipment for a job, I've created an expense report for that
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Hi -
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I have decided on a basic architechture to quickly refactor two
processing functions of my winforms application until we get the
chance to rewrite it. Basically it will consist of 2 applications:-
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vs2005 c#
hi:
need to convert a simple int to a format nnnn. if I have int 1 I want the
result to be padded with 0s as  0001 on a string