Does anybody of you know a way to compile any .NET assembly to x86 code?
But I don't mean NGen or something like that!!!!
I'd like to get a DLL which has absolutely NO DEPENDENCY to the .NET runtime
anymore!

Which one of the following two ways of concatenating a string is more
efficient?
“String” + “s”;
“String” +‘s’;

I would like to know the size of a dataset I have loaded in memory to decide
how to process some data in it, but it seems that I cannot use sizeof for
that....
Any other function which I might have missed?

I am facing with the same issue as mentioned above but the above tips
are not help me.
Here is my exact situation
I have a laptop where my complete SQL 2005 is running - meaning I have

dotnetfx3.exe setup fails please help.  I included dd_dotnetfx3error.txt &
dd_WIC.txt logs below.
I am logged in as user in 'domain admins' group and Cryptographic service is
running on this computer.

Where can I locate a supportign ISV? I am looking for a developent
system and systems do not appear to be available in the marketplace.
- Hiro

when i try using HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(path) from a
desktop application built using c# i get a
System.NullReferenceException
can anyone tell me why and what to do??

I am new to vc.net.
I want to double click an item of ctreectrl in a dialog and then get a new
popup dialog, but the new one can't get the focus. The focus is still the
item of ctreectrl.

i was wondering if u can help with the following
how can i figure out that a given path, represents a file or folder

I'm writing a windows application, that monitors running
processes/applications on my machine. One of the requirements is to identify
the current active process/application.
I tried to use the System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess() method,

Can I use Windows presentation foundation or WPF with microframework,
also  I use platform builder to add alphablend in Ce 5.0, can  i use
in microframework?
truely,

how come when i try to download a video with music, from you tube or ect. it
takes for ever to download and buffers it very slowly?can someone please help
me?

Does Microsoft publish DTDs for web.config, security.config or machine.config
? If they do, pointers to them would be much appreicated.

I am really stuck here. I have to read an in input ( I am writing a
console app in C# ) and it doesnt wait for the user input. Instead
it's taking the value of the carriage return (13) from user's previous
input. What am i doing wrong?

I have an ActiveX component that I want to use in a library that I am
writing. As a first test I used the ActiveX component in a windows
form application. Adding the component created:
Ax[ActiveXName].dll