I am new to the .Net. I wanted to ask here first before I did my own
research.
My company wanted to move from Access Databases to SQL Server. However,
the company does not want to create a web page.

I'd like to convert a TimeSpan value to a String - but without seconds (e.g.
"12:01" for 12 hours and one minute). Is there a way to use String.Format()
or other functions to do this?
Thanks,

I have a big problem with a timer (System.Threading.Timer) in a windows
service.
Sometimes the callback-method of the timer seems to hang. It can work more
than one week without problem and suddenly the timer stands still. The timer

I'm stuck. If I try to re-install it shows that a previous install failed.
Then when it tries to uninstall, that fails as well.
I tried windows installer cleanup, but this didn't help.

When I compile a single file using command line, the assembly version is
0.0.0.0.
Is there anyway to set the assemble version in the class or in command line?
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hi. DateTimeFormatInfo.DateSeparator seems to supply the separator for the
short date pattern (for axample, "/" in en-GB) but the long date pattern is
"dd MMMM yyyy" which is obviously separated by spaces. is there a generic way
to determine the date separator for the current ...

I m using C# .net1.1 and want to develop componenet for received mail
from pop3 account.
Please send related information for this or sample code

Hi NG!
If you put a control on a tab page and you set its "Visible" property to
"True" and you select another tab page, the "Visible" property returns
"False", because the control is currently not visible to the user. But

I'm using a datagridview that's populate from a products table.
In the grid, I need to have combo box column, that's populated from a
different table, but needs to be selected from the rows in the products table.
Anyone with sample or links that accomplishes this?  I can't seem to ...

I've been using the SerialPort class new to the .NET Framework 2.0 to
control a thermal printer, and have encountered some strange behavior,
where the SerialPort class seems to miss or eat the first byte of data
it receives from the device. The port is configured as follows:

If I use standard Threading.Thread threads, I can issue a Join on the thread
variable and wait for it to complete.  How can I do this on the Background
Worker Threads in a threadpool without looping.  Basically, I will be
queuing an unknown number of worker threads in the pool and I ...

In the VS2005 documentation, the sample below exists. One thins that puzzle
me however, is that both threads can be indside the SyncLock-block....HOW
COME?? Isn't the whole purpose of synclock to prevent to different threads
to access resources at then same time???

I am trying to parse a fairly simple expression:
arg1|arg2|arg3
The problem is that in arg2, sometimes I see the pipe character.  The
difference is that the pipe character is prefixed by a backslash.  For

I want some information regarding /namespace switch. Is this the name of
Namespace of the source code where our COM dll is referenced for which we
will generate Interop.dll or is this some variable string or what?
Thanks in advance.

When creating a Type from a string type name [e.g., via Type.GetType(<type name string>)], when is it necessary to qualify the type
name with an assembly name? In other words, when is "Namespace.Path.To.Type.TypeName, HostingAssemblyName" required, rather than
just "Namespace.Path ...