I know that's an old dirty issue; GDI+ almost -the slowest part of the
framework - has bothered many developers using it in animations. Even in
managed C++ the performance is awful.
Now, any dude out there does know any thing about this issue in VS 2005 +

I can't ignore the speed of .NET managed applications in manipulating
string, I/O and arithmetic operations. However, we can never compare the
speed of a C/C++ program with its .NET counterpart when it comes to some
heavy operations, like long loops, graphics, load time and many ...

I have a .NET object exposed to a COM (VB6) application. When the
application calls the .NET methods, I'd like to use Trace.WriteLineIf() to
log trace info into an event log.
Usually with ASP.NET application, one can control the TraceLevel of a

How can I programmatically retrieve the "Startup Type" for a Windows Service?
Thanks,
Eric

I posted a question yesterday under the Subject "How can I copy a value type
dynamically without knowing the type". Unfortunately, I did not tie the
problem down to a real code example. After further investigation, though, I
have managed to create a real example of the problem.

is there any way to get to a unique build verion of an assembly at runtime?
e.g. a version that is unique to the time that the assembly was built?

Where can I declare my application and session variables? I havn't found the
way to do this in VB except by declaring them "Public shared" in a class with
no constructor. Where is this done in most VB.net projects?
thank you for helping

I have a ASP.NET application that I'm trying to step through. Each line
of code takes about 3 seconds to execute as I step over it while
debugging. It doesn't matter if it's a method call or a simple variable
declaration, it's incredibly slow.

I created a windows service and was able to install and deinstall it
with the 'installutil.exe' utility. Is there any possibility to
install it directly from my application?
The documentation only says that it *should* not be done but neither

Is it possible to let say share formsauthentication between two different
ASP.NET applications? I have two different ASP.NET applications having
their own mechanisms of forms authentication. I would like to connect these
two authentications so when user is logged to one application ...

     I've  a query in cloning. How cloning is different from creating a new
instance of an object.? I suppose cloning also creates a new object and
copies the exisitng object's data. Where and when should use cloning????//

I need to be able to dynamically create a new copy of a value type without
knowing the type at compile time. i.e. I need to be able to write a method
such as:
       ValueType MyMethod(ValueType data)

I am experiencing an issue with remoting trying to implement a single
instance app behaviour required for our application.
I am using the MS best practice recommended solution of using Remoting and
Mutexes to provide this behaviour. In simple terms this is the process:

I am so far familiar with the C# lock keyword, which I understand
prevents any other thread from entering the portion of code which is
locked, assuming you are locking the same object instance.
I have a cache of data which initially I locked when I write to it,

Is any way to avoid .net assemblies decompilation with programs like
Reflector? How much effective those programs are?.
I appreciate some link or book about those themes.
thanks!