almost every book on object oriented programming does tell you, you should
not use any public attributes in a class. Instead you should provide get/set
Methods or properties (in c# for example).
I don't understand, why is it wrong to use public attributes for simple

I have data from multiple SQL tables, some of the tables will only have one
row, while others multiple rows. I load a bunch of data from the various
tables and add them to a third party grid. With some of the rows, I perform
calculations on some of the rows and all this is loaded ...

I am trying to find sample code showing how the currently logged on
user can read a particular directory. I have looked in the MSDN docs
for how to use the FileSecurity class, but no clear example of how to
use it. The currently-logged on user might be in a group that has

I create a test Web service like so:
[WebService(Namespace="http://blah.com")]
public class ServiceThingy: System.Web.Services.WebService
{

Why will the following code snippet run forever?
While(true)
{
   if(MessageBox.Show("Exit now?","Close?") == DialogResult.OK)

What does one mean by instrumentation when one talks in the context of
software development best practices?
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Hallo NG,
i've big online game with a lots of requests per second and it uses a lot of
memory. the game runs as an ASP.NET application and holts all the game data
in the memory. The game has 1600 players.

Hi everyone, I have one service that is dependent on rasman.exe (Remote
Access Connection Manager). Rasman, in turn, is dependent on the
Microsoft Telephony service. Rasman is currently configured as "manual"
and when the computer reboots is set to "starting" because the

We are trying to implement a solution for a project requirement for
which we need to have multiple services running to support offline
functionality such as the transmission of emails to subscribed users
and the publishing of content on specific schedules.  In doing this we

I noticed that on the .Net v2 framework that Windows 95 is not on the
supported operating systems.
Is it still posibile to install on Windows 95?
Are there any issues with running the framework on Windows 95?

I'm a newbie to regular expressions. I've a requirement where in I need to
search a string and replace a pattern within it....
I want to replace the src attribute of the below string....
" <img src=\"c:\\windows\\windows\\desktop\\imagfes.jpg\">gfhsdfjsd<img

These may be a very basic question.
1) Is IL compiled to native code every time a application is invoked ?
2) If a process has multiple appdomains (i think each instance of an
application maps to an appdomain), if one application is closed will the

I have a string with the following structure:
20060227111500 (Year Month day hour minute second)
And I would like to convert it to a datetime variable, but I don't find a
method to do it.

I want to consume web services..
Are there any webservices which offer updates on weather and stock news
without any licenses...I mean free of cost..........

I have two child forms in my MDI application.
They both have treeviews with different data but in teh same format (fund,
tran type)
I want to be able to drag a node from one to the other but it seems it only