If I use System.IO.File.Open with FileMode.CreateNew, and the file
already exists I get an IOException.  Ok... but there is no specific
exception for "file already exists", so how do I determine
programatically that that was indeed the cause?

I work as an administration officer and one of my jobs is diary management
for about 6 counsellors & 4 case workers. I manage thier appointments and
gather statistics from the information in them. Is there some way that i can
create an appoinment template for them with something ...

Peace be with you all,
Now that the WPF, WCF & WWF are .NET 3.0 (which is really
just .NET 2.0 + a ton of new assemblies), what will be the version
name for the features that include LINQ and other features such

I need some help with p invoke. I have some win 32 dlls that I need to
call a functions in. This functions require objects. eg:
FUNCTION MailMerge(oDr AS Doctor, lAddToPatient := TRUE AS LOGIC) AS
LOGIC PASCAL

I have an interface
interface ICar
{
void accelerate(double amt);

can anyone tell me how can I execute an external command such as dos command
through my windows application which is built in C#.
VB has the "Shell(...)" function but I couldn't find something like this in
C#.

i'm a C# with programmer with a prety good background , but i'm
embarrased to admit i'm still not clear about dlls and ocx's
i've seen a good set of links and i did'nt get much out of them.. .so
could someone tell me :

I paint into a PictureBox with the help of its Graphics object.
How can I save the painting into a bitmap file (not a metafile) ?
Thanky in advance for any helpful hint.

I am going to develop a software in the domain of image recognition.
I have planned to use the .Net Framework 3.0 to to so.
Especially the Development Environment together with new technologies like
XAML and WPF

um, mr microsoft? could you, like, open a new forum in your usenet
namespace? we .NET developers who use Crystal Reports really need a
central location for swapping tips & making trouble-shooting inquiries.
i know there is an official Business Objects website w/ a .NET forum

I'm writing a .NET (2.0) application than needs to receive messages from a
message queue and do some processing on them; the application is
multithreaded, and each thread runs in a loop receving a message, processing
it and so on; the loop is controlled by a flag, if this flag ...

I'm trying to detect if the current culture support 12h or 24h?
I need to change string values based on the hour formatting.
I tried to
DateTime dt = new DateTime(1,1,1,14,0,0,0);

Is there a better way in .NET to get my applications File Version
information than calling GetFileVersionInfo().
I am using VS2005, C++.
Thanks

In the following sample I declared a custom configuration section within my
app.config. As you can see, the lastName attribute of the second employee
element is missing:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

Hi Friends,
I'm trying to host a webservice that will receive/process multiple
client requests simultaneously. For this purpose, I wrote the following
code, but it does not seem to be handling more than two at a time. I