I want to use BeginRead on a socket stream. I want to abort the read if  no
data arrives within a certain time interval. I know i can't cancell the
BeginRead directly but closing the socket seems to work. Does this cause any
problems (Resource leaks etc) ?

I have seen this problem around the net and dont really think its that
popular but still happens. My problem is that I create a mailmessage with a
html body type.
A random "! " (exclamation mark and space) gets entered into the body of the

I have an old DVD that I got along time ago, that was when the .net 1 beta
came out. The resources CD.
I'm wondering if any resources or programs or sdks that are on the dvd or cd
can still apply to 2.0...

Does anyone know if there are to be any improvements in Obfuscation / code
protection in .NET 2.0??
Will there be a better 'bundled' obfuscator??
I don't want to buy an obfuscator now, only to find I didn't need it, when

I have an Access database which has one table called Employee. When I display
all the records of the table in a datagrid, everything is fine. However when
I put the WHERE clause for a a Join_Date field (which is Date/Time field) the
the records are not filtered as if there is no ...

How can I do this.
Do i just instantiate an EventLog object withing a thread and use it?

How do I create dialogue boxes using C# and hte .net compact framework? I
want it to appear after the user does file connect.
Thanks

How can I get my Release build .exe file to have an user defined icon
instead of the default exe box, so for example if a copy was on on my
desktop my exe would display my icon.  I have included the icon within the
project but this doesn't seem make any difference...

I have a VB.Net application which is deployed on Citrix. It uses
Crystal Report 8.5 for printing reports. One of my remote users has an
Indiana Cash Drawer connected to the printer port. When the crystal
report is printed the user wants her cash drawer to open. Can anyone

I need to move some code which at present is residing in some .aspx
codebehind files into a separate class library.
One of the functions makes use of an xml schema to create the structure
for a DataSet object which is returned to the caller. Currently the

I have downloaded the .Net Framework SP 1 and during the installation I get
the following message:
"An unhandled exception of type
'System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException' occurred in mscorlib.dll

A I use shell functions in my C# project, I need to add a reference to
shell32.dll. When I browse to shell32.dll and add it as a reference to my
project a file called Interop.Shell32.dll is created in the directory of the
executable. When I delete this file, the program crashes ...

I have a windows app that i'm using to transfer images from one SQL DB to
another doing some processing inbetween because the DB table structures to
hold the images are different.
What i'm finding is that the process fails after several hundred images with

If I have the following code
[MyAttr]
class XYZ
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All,
Thank you very much in advance for any help you can give. I have a
website dedicated to holding and maintaining employee data which
includes pictures used for ID badges. I am having a problem with