I'm loading an assembly from disk (Assembly.LoadFrom) and would like to find
some way of determining if the assembly was signed.  Ideally I would then
like to be able to compare a key file with the assembly and find out if the
given key was the one it was signed with.

Is there a string pool in .NET like in Java? Is there any difference between
== and Equals() for string?
If I do the following:
  string s1 = "hello";

I have a library which I may use with either a console app or an asp.net web
app.  
Does anyone have a suggestion on how that library could determine the type
of running application at runtime?

In .Net I get this error a lot but not always - "Unable to Validate Data"
It is a viewstate error.
Any ideas?
Trevor

Hi NG
We want to load controls dynamically and create them on a WinForm. Doing so,
we seem to loose type information. The scenario is as follows: The class
MANCombobBox inherits from ComboBox and implements the interface

Is there any way to Assembly.Load() dynamically the DLLs of my project, with
their strong names, but without the need to specify a version? I just want
the public/private key to exist as a measure of safety for their
authenticity. I don't want to narrow down the valid DLLs to only ...

We are currently trying to install .Net Framework v.1.1 on a server which
already has v1.0.
We are receiving the following error.
Error 1704.An installation for Microsoft .NET Framework SDK (English) is

Hi, I'm after a simple way of sending a message to a previous instance of my small helper application that processes
some command line instructions.  The app can be configured to remain open (for debugging purposes) & this is where my
problem arises.
I can find the other (running) ...

In C++ I can write template classes and in C# they have generic classes that
are something like C++ template classes.  Is there currently a why to write
them in VB?  MS is adding C++ type functionality like operator overloading
to VB in version 2.0 of the .Net Framework.  Will ...

I have an hard time figuring out how to deal with localization and Exception
messages.
I have some options:
1) Standardize on english.

I have tried
newstring = oldstring.Replace(Convert.ToChar(92),  ' ');
newstring = oldstring.Replace("\\", " ");
Neither of which works. I am tring to take out all \ (slashes). Please help.

I've converted "[] byte" to "byte *" at times, using 'unsafe' and
fixed {   ....  }, but the reverse does not seem to work.
In this case, a C++ DLL returns a byte * and a length.  What is the best
way to convert these to straight C#-compatible straight "[] byte" arrays?

I'm having problems with HttpWebRequest, HttpWebResponse, and cookies.
I copy over the cookies from the server's HTTP response using the
following code:
if (response.Cookies.Count > 0)

I am searching for some good free ebooks on design patterns.
Looking for useful links.
Regards,
Siz.

Can anyone explain what is boxing and unboxing processing?
Thanks in advance.
Siz.