I am intermitently getting a System.Net.Sockets.SocketException ("No such
host is known") when calling Dns.GetHostEntry().  It doesn't seem to have
any pattern to it, but seems to be occurring on a variety of IP addresses
(e.g. internal addresses such as 192.168.x.x).  Anyone else ...

I have several classes in my project:
varietyData
gradeData
attributeData

what is the c# 2.0 iterators features..
where can i get more information on this feature with some good smaples....
please help me out

I would like to make a win service that test all the com ports and
find the deviced connected.
Some device have some commands that return data.
How can I make this test?

How do I write a system service in .Net?

I have written a simple console application that will only run on my
machine. I can run the application outside of the IDE, but on other
units I get a message that the system cannot execute the command.
I installed VS 2005 on another computer to see if there was some kind

How I can write somthing like this:
[DllImport("%ProgramFiles%\\aaa.dll")]
where %ProgramFiles% - some DOS variable?

I have a c# project as part of a larger VS 2005 solution that always
gets build optimized and I therefore can not evaluate any values while
debugging through the code ("Cannot evaluate expression because the
code of the current method is optimized."). This happens alltough the

Greeting.
We have a 6 year old application, which contains both managed (C#) and
unmanaged code (C++). For all the new components we try to create them
in C#. We  build all projects (both C++ and C# code) into a solution

I have a program which runs without any error. What it does it reading
records from a dBase table and write in sql tables. I have 112*8 tables to
reads. and fill in to 8 sql tables.  it has more than 1000000 records. it
takes more than 5 hours to run.

i'm a newbie.......
i would like to know the usage of text reader and streamreader...
which of these would give better performance.....
when shud one use textreader and streamreader.....

Is there any way so that I can create a copy of session object...
        Dim _mclass As New _MyClass
       _mclass.GetSetVar1 = "Value1"
       _mclass.GetSetVar2 = "Value2"

Can you guys point me out a component (either activex or .net) to
convert ppt to video. Google fond me several applications to do so...
Not a single component, though!
Cheers,

We've been using the TransactionScope class which is great and really
makes using Transactions a doddle.  However, if we kill the process in
the middle of a using(TransactionScope) block, it leaves it hanging,
seemingly indefinitely, until we restart the DTC on either client or

I've devloped an .NET DLL (written in C#) and referenced by a VB6
application. The dll uses the System.Net.Sockets.Socket class to connect a
remote PC.
For an unknowed reason, under Windows 2003 server x64 version, this DLL