Could explain how the .net assemblies (Dlls) work when they are used
by an exe -- I'd much appreciate it. If your exe is making a call to a
function that's part of the .net framework library (ie
System.Math.Ceiling), the amount of time taken up on the first call to

I am creating a dll to convert a structure to html. Since
this is not an asp.net web service so I can not use
HtmlTextwriter.
Any one knows any other toll I ca n use to easily create a

I create a HttpWebRequest as follows:
   m_req = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(url);
   m_req.Timeout = 10000*1000;
   m_req.Method = "POST";

I am working on a system of distributed robots running XP Embedded all
communicating over an ethernet TCP/IP network. This distributed system
should allow:
- robots to be added and removed from the network at any time

I have written a simple COM object in ATL, one of whose methods is:
STDMETHOD(Write)(/*[in]*/BYTE *buffer, /*[in]*/long count,
/*[out,retval]*/long *bytesWrite);
I have implemented the method as:

In the Writing Components topic of Mr. Grimes' book on Managed C++, he
states that if a component is ultimately derived from either
MarshalByRefObject or MarshalByValueComponent, it should implement a second
constructor which takes an IContainer in order to add itself to a component

I'm new to the .net system.  I'ver worked with VB and C++ and I understand
there is a way of using both of their strengths together.  What I would like
to do is create a gui in Visual Basic and have most of the underlying code
be C++.  I haven't found an adequate tutorial or ...

we have an application with a remoting interface between a clien app and a service app.
The client has a listbox:
   internal class DynamicListBox : System.Windows.Forms.ListBox {
wich holds a list of entries:

Given a class:
[Serializable]
public class MyClass : ISerializable
{

I tried to use the FTP pluggable class provided by Microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812409
(topic title: "812409 - HOW TO Write Pluggable Protocol to Support FTP in
Managed Classes by Using Visual C#.NET")

I have my dll source program and when i tried to debub my source program using client prgram using the same dll. The debuging is not working and the break point are not reached. I am debugging  in the release mode.My dll is working perfectly
But the Debugging is not working ...

Does anybody know how to programmatically select items (rows) of a ListView in C#.NET
Thanks in advanc
Dave

which regular expression will return whatever is between a pair of single
quotes or double quotes?
       this is a 'sample sentense' to be used as the target string.

I'm having a very very frustrating experience with the .NET. I've a simple
crawler console application.
The main objective of the crawler is to read a list of URLs and make HTTP
calls to a web server and save

How to convert "1283912839E-5" string (in scientific format) to a decimal.
Convert.ToDecimal("1283912839E-5") is throwing "Input string is not in
correct format" exception. Is the exponential format not supported during
conversion?