How do I make a HTTP request from a class?
I am writing a component that will run outside of the webserver. This
component will send xml files to another http server. I am not using SOAP.

I'm currently writing an application that calls a RESTful webservice.
One of the parameters to an  API call is the URL of some site. This
must include the protocol thingy in the beginning. However, the Uri
class *insists* on removing double slashes, so my

I want to know how can I exit from a console application in C#.
In C++ there is a function called "exit()", but I don't know if there is an
equivalent in C#.
Thanks,

Any of you guys have any experience about searching HTML files within a
Asp.net webapplication using other than Microsoft Indexing Server?
Unfortunatelly the site is on a shared server enviroment and I can't
use Indexing server to search among the HTML files.

I need to scrape text off of a form.  I can find tons of info on web page
scraping, but barely anything about scraping off of winforms.  Is there a
tutorial out there about scraping forms via the windows API?

any tools /editor out there to validate WSDL document is valid one?
i heard alot WSDL on the web are out dated / invalid.
xmlspy a good one?
do i need to get xml schema / DTD for WSDL since tools like xmlspy would

Visual Studio 2005:
I have a strange IDE behaviour:
In my laptop I have installed VS2005 and selected C# as primary language
during the installation.

I have an 1.1 .net app ported to 64-bit 2.0 framework that uses a 3rd party
CAD drawing DLL(natively 32-bit but runs in WOW mode on 64-bit per their
documentation).
There does not seem to be any improvement wrt performance (that is, the .net

hai all,
         I am developing a vb.net windows application , is there any
possible to run the vb.net application in visual Studio 6 Pro, if possible
what are the ,minimum, requirments to run the application,

I'm getting a bit fustrated here......
I'm trying to migrate a (rather large) project from VS2003 to VS2005,
however I have some errors which comes and goes, depending on what I do.....
Typically the error says something lige:

A program that I want to install says it needs .NET framework version
1.1.4322.
According to:
Directory of C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework

Here is the scenario I want to achieve...
1. An assembly is created "on-the-fly" using the CodeDom compiler.
2. This assembly is then used by a running application.
3. At some point in time the "on-the-fly" assembly changes and is

Can I use the webclient class to make an HTTP POST?

Is there a version directive that I can use to determine what version I am
compiling under?
i.e.
#if FRAME_WORK_VERSION < 2

I observed some interesting behaviour during some testing of
Assembly.LoadFrom. I noticed that Assembly.LoadFrom (and
Activator.CreateInstanceFrom) seems to extend the probing directory list.  
i.e. the private probe paths seem to include both AppDomain.ApplicationBase