Greetings people,
Perhaps a silly question, but I hope you forgive me and help me out with it

We're to develop a desktop client app with C# that is to be distributed via

- i am not a beginner, books, or online tutorials don't help, please save
your advises-
i want to learn c# from someone who knows it well.
concepts and fundamentals i currently have (gdi+, activeX, directX,

Dear .NET Developers,
I encountered the following error message when tyring to start a custom
developed service: Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or
control request in a timely fashion. I managed to install the service with

I have been able to successfully make an Excel file from data I have in a
dataset, IE:
With Excel
.SheetsInNewWorkbook = 1

I have a reference to a 3rd party dll that was designed to be used in
framework v1.1 and I'm currently trying to upgrade one of our projects to
v2.0. The problem is that the 3rd party dll does not work when referenced on
v2.0. It throws a AccessViolationException. Is there any ...

Are there any collection classes that will take object references to that if
I add an object (could be primitive data types) to it and I change it through
the original object, the one in the collection classes will be changed
automatically too?

Using VB.net and Windows 2000.
Have a main application that occasionally needs to send data to a serial
printer.  Need bi-directional communication with the printer to show when it
goes offline, out of paper, etc.

I've declared a DataView in the form's declaration section as global variable:
Dim dtvGlobal As New System.Data.DataView
In some event I need to make an identical copy (structure + data) of the
global dataview and then manipulate the copy without changing the source

Does anyone know whether it's possible to make the ThreadPool only have one
thread in it ?
I have a highly parallel engine where many objects can be in many states ...
where work carried out at each state is done with a QueueUserWorkItem.

I have an XML file that i display and edit into a DataGridView
using a schema, the classes generated from it and
XmlDataDocument.
Here comes the problem: I delete a row in the DataGridView

Currently we're using VS.NET 2003 Enterprise Developer and in the new
year will be looking to move to .NET2.0, which I understand requires
VS2005. Now my question is; is it worth just buying VS2005 on it's own,
or would we be better subscribing to MSDN? We use VB.NET, C#, Mobile

I've been told that my SMTPClient issue will be fixed in a Future release.
How Often is the Framework updated? Is there a place to get Beta Versions so
I can test my app with the bug Fix?
Thank,

I want to retrieve all the class defined in all project from the active
solution.  I can get the projects, the files, references ... but I can't get
the content of the Class View.
During my tests, I get a NotImplementedException when I try to access the

Just a small thingy that I have found:
in the enumeration of Keys there are two values:
OemMinus
Oemplus

is there any good old flexgrid-like component for .NET ( 1.x or 2)?
Thanks in advance
Stefano