I'm looking for a good way to *push* updates out. Web Updates, BITS,
and ClickOnce all seem to be based on the client *pulling* updates.
With our applications we normally have to deploy updates to the
database, business tier, and applications in sync. IOW, once the

I use a custom IHashCodeProvider with a Hashtable. What would your take be
on the question what this should return to indicate "invalid" (as for null
references) -- zero?
Thanks,

does anyone know whether the custom IComparer and IHashCodeProvider are used
for (a) keys only, (b) values only, (c) both?
(I'd prefer c to be the answer :)
Thanks,

I create application which transform huge XML files (~ 150 Mb) to CVS files.
And I am facing strange problem. First 1000 rows parsed in 1 sec after 20000
rows speed down to 100 rows per sec, after 70000 rows speed down to 20 rows
per sec ( I should parse ~ 2 500 000 rows).

I have an application that is installed on a client Computer.  I have to
uninstall the original version in order to install a new version of the
application that is running on a different version of the framework.  When I
attempted to run the MSI it says that I must uninstall the ...

I've installed MS.Net Framework 1.1 on Windows 2003 server.
Can some one let me know,as,how to identify if any Dotnet SP is installed?
What are the steps involved in this?
Thanks,

Can anyone shed some light to the following problem?
I get "Data provider internal error (-3000)" when I try to use ODP.NET to
connect to an Oracle instance. This problem is not affecting exe's. I need
to use this provider because it allows me to do bulk inserts into Oracle.

Perhaps someone from Microsoft could comment on this behaviour I've just
stumbled across:
String and StringBuilder have a problem with the german ß (szlig).
They assume that 'ß' is equal to 'ss', which is not true!

I am rewriting a C++ application in C#.  This file has a combination of Text
and Binary data.
I used CFile before to read the text.  If I hit a certain string that
denotes the following data is binary, I used the current position in the

I have a problem using HttpWebRequest class.
I create an application, which communicates with a network device (not a PC), which has a built in HTTP 1.1 server listening on port 80. For some requests, which I send to the server it answers with a short byte sequence:
HTTP/1.1 200 ...

I am trying to generate Excel sheet using
Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;
I am always getting the error while inserting data into any cell other
than A.

I have a program that using BeginInvoke on a Delegate to cause the Save to
execute on the background thread.  When the call completes I have a callback
method which executes and updates the UI (after moving back to the main
thread).  The problem I have is that if there was an ...

I have XP Professional Edition and Windows Update tells me I need the .Net
Framework.  I am cautious of downloading / installing this if it is not
needed.  How can I tell if I need it?  What is the advantages of installing
and the disadvantages of not installing? (in layman's ...

I am recieving this error on few pages. They are running fine on dev server.
It's only happening production for few pages.
I searched internet and it seems lot of people have this problem. But none
provided the solution.

I've got a FileSystemWatcher set like this:
----CODE SAMPLE-------------
fsw = new FileSystemWatcher(@"D:\Test\");
fsw.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.LastWrite;