I have XP Home Edition. MS Update tells me I need .net framework. I am a
casual user, just reading and surfing, no work done on here. Do I need to
install the .net framework? Thanks in advance.

I have a byte-array, in which one of the bytes has the value 149 (hex95)
 which represents a dot ( • ). The same character has the unicode value
of 8226 (hex 2022)
But when I try to decode the byte-array into a string, that character is

I wrote a C# Application for Microsoft .NET CF 2.0. It is used on Microsoft
Pocket PC, Version 4.20.0 (Build 14053).
Is there a way to prevent my Application to be startet twice?
Best Regards

I just started working with this class at the low level and am having
issues.
1)  I am instantiating a StreamReader and feeding my NetworkStream to
its constructor.  the bytes that the StreamReader reads from the server

Thanks for the useful link and comment.
Any way I can force the IIS to send the page in the charset I want when
there is no accept-charset in the request header (something like default
charset option in the server)?

thought my post is too long the short version is:
i have this tag in my HTML file served by IIS
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
IE show this page correctly but I need to detect the characterset of the

I have 2 services running, one doing a job and the other monitoring the job
is done and that the other service (the one doing the job) is still running.
The thing is, the 1st service fire some events notifying other programs that
an alert happened...  I want to register to that ...

I have a VS2005 migrated web application project.
My query is whether my project will get loaded in WIN2000 MACHINES WITH IIS
5.0.  without any errors. Please provide your points on this as I have very
less time.

Hi I am having a bit of difficulty with TypeConverters and Generic Lists and
I was hoping that I could get a bit of advice.
I have a type converter that is used to create the constructor code for my
component. (It is an XNA a Game Component, but I don't think that that has

I am using the code from this MSDN article
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bz33kx67.aspx
Everything worked great on my single core CPU laptop. I then tried to
run the .exe on my Dual core Pentium-D at work. The UI becomes

Does anyone know of a way (without looking through decompiled ASP.Net code)
to convert a String to a Type using the generic TypeConverter stuff?  I am
writing a deserializer, but I would prefer not to have a custom codepath
just for String->Type, but the following code throws a

I have problems when i convert my 1.1 ASPX web application to 2.0 using
VS2005.
My web application gets compiled fine in CLR1.1 and there is no problem with
that.

What is the CLR class correspondant to std::vector<> or CArray<>?
I looked for how to resize object[] (aka array<object> in C++/CLI), but I
cannot find it yet.
Please reply. Thanks in advance.

I have an OU named TempOU set at my domain controller.
All my users are getting created in this OU.
I have a group policy setup for this OU.
Can anyone tell me how to read the values for these settings in C# code.

I'm looking to implement a single sign on solution for .NET applications.
This single sign on solution will need to work against a variety of back-
end databases (i.e. SQL (mainly), Active Directory (some), Custom Data
Sources (XML, MDB, Custom Web Service, etc).