I am completely new to threading and am sorry if this sounds stupid.
I am developing a class which extends from ApplicationException class.
Basically this class (MyException) captures local and instance
variables and method parameters at the time of exception. This

I would like to implement a Systemwide singleton in .net. Is it sensible to
use a mutex for this? The application only can be run by one user at the
time.  Does anyone have any articles/samples that can help me with this
problem?

I want to open a File with unknown Extension using C#. What i want
is
i do System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("FileName");
Now if File is associated with any program then the File with open

I have a windows service that only loads a CSV file and import it's data
using SqlBulkCopy in a newly created Sql Server 2005 table using 25000 rows
batches.
If I build the service in debug mode and run it, I get descent performances.

I guess this gets into backward compatibility, but assuming only 2.0
Framework installed on the runtime platform.  If the 1.1 code is compatible?
The 1.1 library assembly contains datasets and datareaders.

Some .Net controls have a 3D borders, but if windows XP Display "Appearance"
setting is "Windows XP style", The 3D border changed to XP style. I also
noticed VB 6 3D borders do not change. Is there a way to make 3D border
display all the time no matter what windows settings you ...

What is the memory footprint methods & properties of a windows app running on
a server when the server spins up multiple instances of the application?
In my envirionment, we have a Citrix server farm running .Net 2.0 windows
apps. Does the framework allow for instances of the ...

We have a project in .NET 1.1 , some of the .NET methods take COM
interface reference pointer as a parameter, somehow we have to call
Marshal.ReleaseComObject to release the COM Object, otherwise the COM
object will never get release, Even we call gc.Collect()

As we know the java is cross paltform languge which means that any
application done by Java can be used in any opreating system if the java run
time JRT is installed in that OS.
My Question is Can I installed the dotnet framework in any opreating system

What is the memory footprint of static methods of a windows app running on a
server when the server spins up multiple instances of the application?
In my envirionment, we have a Citrix server farm running .Net 2.0 windows
apps.  Does the framework allow for instances of the same ...

I want to add two times the same picture box in two differents cells of
a TableLayoutPanel.
How can I do ?
I don't want to duplicate my picture picture box.

I'm trying to create an Access DB programmatically
as I have before, but trying it managed now.
I first imported ADOX 2.8, then reverted back
to 2.7 when it didn't seem to work in 2.8.

I'm using VS 2005 version 8.0.50727.762 SP .050727-7600. I have a c# ASP
project. Lately, when I've been running the project in the IDE, I get a
dialog which says...
"This source file has changed. It no longer matches the version of the file

I am running my application in two minitors.In one
monitor.............if it is idle for some time the screensaver wil
come(I wrote the code for this using system dll functions) .
Now my problem is that if i keep the mouse on monitor1 and i clicked

Is it possible to add a new record to the settings file at run-time? Or is
the only possible time to add a new setting is design-time?
There are many many thing in my application that the user can customize for
him/her. I am thinking of stroring these in the settings file on the ...