I am having an issue with returning a value from a function in C++ .Net.
I have been using C# .Net for some time and returning a DataSet object
through a function is a valid return type, however when I try to return a
DataSet through a function in C++ .Net I receive a compiler ...

Can anybody explain to me what happens in these scenarios:
- Dim m As myClass
- Dim m As New myClass
- m.Dispose()

So I am writing data from a datastream to a filestream.  The count of
rows in the datastream is 416.  I count as I write to the filestream
and again I get 416.  However, when I open the file, there are only 392
rows.  What happened?  Where are my missing rows?  Are there limits to

I am having a bit of a problem with Deserialization. I need to "override"
the special constructor used when
an object is deserialize. In thes constructor I have to execute some code
that is requierd by our framework and then call the

Is there any System.Array function to test to see if two arrays are equal,
meaning the arrays are the same length and contain elements which are equal
to each other ? The System.Array.Equals method appears to test only for
instance equality, just like object.Equals.

We have a table which save the value of week of year.
tblWeekOfYear
autoid int
Year int

This is the first time I am implementing strongly typed collections. And in
order to do this I overloaded the IList functions to implement them ( an
explicit interface implementation of IList). All is fine till the point where
i want to strongly type the Item property. This is ...

Using Add-In project, I can't find how to make my public functions available
in Excel ?
Thks for help.

Is it possible to use custom attributes on controls?  For example,
If I have the following attribute defined
<AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.All)> Public Class MyAttribute : Inherits Attribute
   Public Message As String

I'm writing a windows service that is accessible via sockets. I have tried
to find literature on the subject but I couldn't.
Basically my service, when asked to start, starts up a new thread that just
waits for connection. See bottom of this mail.

According to the article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316756
At the "RESOLUTION" section - "... To modify existing records, you must
provide primary key information through the UpdateCommand member ..."

How can I launch a webbrowser from my windows forms applications? The
reason I need that is because I have a DataGridView with links in one
of the columns. When clicking on it I process the click and then want
to start a webbrowser loading the site that the link was pointing to.

Is there a performance difference between this:
\\\
Dim i As Integer
For i = 0 to myObject.Controls.Count - 1

Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this code?
I want to get the ocntents of the JPEG image into a byte array.  After
the theStream.read call, the theBytes array is still filled with all
nulls. and iCount is zero.

Should the form submit button click event handler fire when posting to a
aspx page using httpwebrequest.
In my tests the load event fires when POSTing back but not the button click
event handler.