How to listen to keyboard events and not allow them further?
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I am using 'Settings' (the auto-generated Properties.Settings) and
ConfigurationSection derived classes in my application.
If my configuration file (app.config) gets corrupted (or the user changes it
incorrectly) then I would like my application to pick up settings defaults

Any pointer I can download 3.0 SDK please?

How to get Isolated COM Activation (Registration-Free COM using a .manifest
file) to work on Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition?
The Isolated COM examples work on my Windows XP Pro but not on Windows
Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition.

in C# is it possible to change a dimension of an array?
Thanks a lot.

I've been having a problem where open windows when I'm about to do something
just disappear. The screen will almost refresh and the window I was working
in will have closed or disappeared. It's possible it's a virus but I've
scanned my computer with Panda and nothing comes up. ...

I'm grabbing web page using WebClient, and I would like to know if that page
has a redirection...
how could I know that?
is there any dinamyc property in WebClient?

Hi;
I have a method that receives one of its parameters receives control of a base class that I made and
it´s inherited from UserControl. This parameter named as ctrl.
In the other parameters receives the necessary information in order to instantiating ctrl, This

We're developing websites with VS 2005 (.NET 2.0) and we want to move on to
.NET 3.X (Not the whole team but the R&D team).
Do we absolutely need to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 to do that? Is that
the same thing going from 1.X to 2.0?

we have a small application on one server that does every 10 minutes
(cronjob) some filetasks and very basic SQL queries against an
installed SQL Server Express instance there.
Does it make sense to ngen that application?

I'm designing an async socket server and I've read that the IOCP thread pool
can overwhelm the System.ThreadPool. I'm thinking about throttling the IOCP
threads by only allowing up to MAX connections to be accepted at any given
time where MAX is less than the number of threads in ...

I have a situation where i have to post an XML document to a thirdparty
application. We have used to following code for a couple of months now and
everything worked just fine. The URL I used was just http and no SSL was
used, but the thirdparty application now implemented SSL and ...

how to reference COM dll from C# without the COM dll being registered in the
registry?

I am using log4net in an application. I would like to log with some
specific levels, but I am not sure if it is possibel.
For instance I would like to log ERROR, FATAL and INFO, but not WARN.
The reason is that I would like tol log performance with INFO, but I

I need a reliable and effcient way to connect two modules one writen in
native C++ code and the second written in C# as a WCF service.
The connection should be bidirectional connection.
What is the best way ?