Can any one tell me how can one acess ports in C# like we used to do in Visual C++ using inp and outp

I create a Windows custom control and i want to add a property "About" to display information about the control.
How can i do it?
Thenks
Christos

For some reason the method reverses the array, which is very annoying.  If
I put in 00001000 which is 8, i get back 00010000 which is 16. If I put in
00000100 (4), I get back 00100000 (32).  This means that CopyTo is
useless, since I have to reverse it to get it right.

      I would like to know if its possible to develop applications which would have access to hardware on certain levels may be to know the information.Also is it possible to know how & what the file system and may be change it.

How can I add XP visual styles to derived controls of UpDownBase, they do
not have FlatStyle property.

I have to develop a finance and accounting module in C#. Can somebody
provide me with any details on books or websites for this sunject ? Thanks

just wondering if visual studio is strictly geared towards Visual C#,
C++, Basic, etc. or whether u can easily code in just c#, c++, j#, etc.
Or, is there an alternative IDE that's not so monolithic.
Thanks,

I have a VB.NET Question:
How can I catch mouse and keyboard events that happen outside my app?
I want my app to do stuff after some time without user activity... Is that
possible in VB.NET? How?

I'm trying to import a comma seperated text file which represents a table
with several fields, eg:
bruce, 25, 468-2934
sally, 32, 456-9873

I need to know whether .Net provides methods/classes for displaying shared
folders of a device.
One way to solve this problem is to import Win32 dlls ,but is there a direct
way provided by .Net by which all the user level shared folders can be

If I add a shared/static read only property to the Global class of
global.asax, do I need to implement thread locking like the
Application object does?
There are two ways I want to do things, Initialize a private variable

How can I set the time in the COMPACT framework? (I enter the new time
in a textbox)
I have something that works in the normal framework, but this doesn't
work in the compact framework.

    I have worked in VB6 and now I have started working
in VB.Net.It is said that .NET code is platform
independent atleast within Windows operating systems.
which I understand is made possible through IL which is

Can i write .Net application running on Win95?
Maxixi

How can I get a list of all computers in the local network? The problem is
that it shouldn't use Active Directory. I tried this code (found at:
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework)
DirectorySearcher src = new DirectorySearcher("(objectClass=computer)");