I would like to use some third party software for copy protection, software
that prevents from copy paste program to another computer (not obfuscator).
I am looking for some good solution (hardware lock is not an option).
Can you reccomend me software based on your experiences?

I want to write some code that will work both with .NET 2.0 as well as on
.NET 1.1 frameworks.  Should my code be written in 2.0 or 1.1?
I tried writing an application with 1.1 however on a machine with 2.0
installed the application displayed a window stating that it requires the

When a user types a non numeric-value in a numeric column in a DataGridView,
and he tries to leave the cell, he gets this "Input string was not in a
correct format."-exception.
Is there a (nice) way to get rid of this exception? And just put a "0" in

I am missing the ASP.Net tab in the properties section of a virtual
directory in IIS 5.1. I have been doing some research and have not been
able to find a solution that works for me.
Most of the solutions that I have found deal with problems arising from

I know how to use Reflection to instantiate a class from an assembly and then
call it via InvokeMember.  But now I need to use that method as an argument
to pass into an internal routine I have that saves the method reference as a
delegate.  In non-Reflection code I'd do this:

In VS 2005 do multiple threads and multiple writers impair a hashtable to
the extent that an actual exception would be thrown? Or, on the contrary, do
you simply get a badly-written hashtable? We are trying to track down why a
C# windows service program we've written exits--we're ...

I have a TAPI application that passes through authenication and
impersonates the user.  Application fails with OUT OF MEMORY error when
app Initializes TAPI class object.  When I add the user group that
holds the users to the local admin group on the web server it works

I know I can do this:
string value = myenum.enum1.ToString();  //= "myenum1"
but how can I do the reverse?  Given a string "myenum1", how do I turn it
into myenum.enum1?  I was hoping there's some more clever way than this:

Is it possible to get access to method parameters values at runtime, without
referencing them directly?
I am working on a universal error logging for my application. I can easily
obtain class and method names using the StackFrame object but it also would

I have an ASP .NET 2.0 page that has an ASP table within a formview for
data entry. I want the user to be able to click a button and have the
table redrawn with a new row containing data entry controls i.e. ddl,
textbox (preferably w/o a postback). Only sticking point is that I need

We experience a major performance difference between sync and async
usage of the Socket class. Is there an explanation why the following
program runs about 250 times slower when async is set to true? (scroll
to end of post for usage hint)

is there any limit to how long of a string SqlDataReader.GetString() can
return?

I have an UserControl with a BindingSource linked to a datagrid.
if i create the control and show it in a form and then try to set the
DataSource property from a non-UI thread i get a CrossThreadException as
expected. But if I only Create the control whithout showing it and then

I'm looking for some "policy guidance" on when I should strong name assemblies.
All of my NET libraries are intended to be private assemblies, not installed in the GAC. I've read in various places that even in
that situation using strong names can be "useful" because doing so ...

we are running XP SP2 with .net 2.0 framework installed we also installed a
.net application that we wrote and run it occasionally without problem.
however at some point (even with our application not running) but quite a few
other windows open our workstations seem to run out of ...