I have a problem with the threadpool I can't seem to figure out.
If I use ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem to queue say 25 work items,
I would expect the Threadpool to give me the 25 free threads of the thread
pool i.e. execute my WaitCallback method 25 times instantly. However, there

I'm working in a MacOSX environment.
In fact I'm the mole who will make them swicth (to Windows ;-) ...
Anyway something happened at some stage, some settings changed and, for some
reason, the MacOSX computers can't access my PC anymore...

If I have a decimal value, say foo:
decimal foo = 3;
when I serialize that decimal value to XML, I'll get an element like this:
<foo>3</foo>

I am currently working on a large code base that has several classes\methods
that are never used. Does anyone know of a tool that will generate a list of
classes & methods that are not used or referenced?
Cheers

just curiosity because I guess there isn't much I could do about it....
if I write
byte[] buf = ...;
int N = ...;

I downloaded a complete DataGrid example, "IssueTracker", for accessing an
Access DB with a DataGrid control.  Sounded like a cakewalk. The first line
of the .aspx file referenced the "Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls" namespace.
I got an error msg that the namespace could not be ...

System.IO.StreamWriter Close or Flush method to shut down the computer in
such a way that just part of the file is written? or an empty file is
written? Also if the Close or Flush is to a streamwriter writing to a
network share, is it possible for the network to go down in such a ...

Is there any way for System.IO.StreamWriter Write method to write out part
of the string to file. such as if the machine is shut down half way through?
or does the file not actually exist until the entire write is completed
successfully.

I build installs for our software CD.  One of the application is a
vendor app and we don't have access to the code.  They recently
implemented .Net platform.  When we received their latest updates, we
are having problems with LAN/Network installs.  One of the function is

I have some code doing a very simple select "select bonusid from game where
gameid=@gameid" that works about 98% of the time, but somewhere around two
percent of the time it throws an exception.  If I go through the sqlerror's
in the exception all it has is the following:

I am at a current position to take an existing ASP system and bring it into
VS200? ASP.NET
Our new CIO wanted a comparison between  SharePoint and DNN in a delivery
method for our new content.

The question I have is how to -=> Effectively <=- and -=> Efficently <=-
bind a DataGrid to a 1 deep organizational chart, where "R" would be a
row of data and 1..N would be the columns of the row.  I need to have the
data displayed and updated/added, so I will need 2 way binding.

I am storing userdefined objects in the clipboard and I want them to be
available for external applications (Notepad, Excel, Word, ...) How does my
userdefined object have to look like to be usable in other applications? Do
I have to implement a special named method or something ...

I have a .NET app that connects to a third-party server on a socket and sends
data. This works with a test server on the local network, but does not work
across the frame connection to the third-party server. They see a connection,
but never see any data coming across.

I am developing a .Net app and I have got some problems with the program
suddenly using 25% cpu... The strange thing is that my program is not doing
anything(as far as I can tell), and the UI is just as responsive as ever,
even though it's single threaded (shouldn't it get a ...