I am curious. When looking at the XML comments provided by .NET 2.0.
What is the difference between a single and double back tick? MS
documentation http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fsbx0t7x(VS.80).aspx
states;

Anyone know what ports/port range the enterprise library configuration tool
uses? I've looked through as much documentation as I can get my hands on, but
have come up empty.

I'm dealing with scenario when call to any web method ends up with timeout
and I try to add the user a chance to retry (wait a little bit)
My service proxy code looks like this:
AsyncCallback cb = new AsyncCallback(ServiceCallback);

I've cut and pasted names from a website into Excel, but when I click in the
cell it connects to that hyperlink.  How can I prevent this and have it be
just normal text?
Thanks to anyone who can help me!

I need a fast way to enumerate files in a directory hierarchy.
I have tried the Directory.GetFiles routine with search option set to
AllDirectories, because it seemed to be useful for this task, but it has some
limitations:

The .NET Framework 3.5 installation fails for me. Right after the
"Downloading components" stage, it sits for a few seconds on "Setup
has finished downloading components, you can now disconnect from the
Internet" and then it starts to roll back. I'm using XP SP2. A glance

How do i get the line number of the calling method in debug-mode.
This is what i do:
           StackTrace st = new StackTrace();
           string s = string.Format("Method:{0}, line:{1}",

We just moved to .NET 2.0, and in trying out
System.Net.NetworkInformation and friends, I find that it always says
IsDnsEnabled=false, even when that connection clearly is using DNS to
resolve names, I can fetch back DNS server addresses, etc. Anyone else

Something got funky with my build.
I had been happily developing my web site when all of a sudden F6 (or
rebuild solution) decided it was not going to compile my .aspx.cs nor
ascx.cs code and thus I do not get error messages until I try to open

Can someone help?
We have visual studio 2008, and our coding team have been coding new
features on our older infrastructure.
Currently it runs dotnet framework 2.0 and we are having issues when

Hi, can I upgrade the dotnet framework from 2.0 to 3.5, and use it in my
VS2005 projects development?
Thanks

Just wondering if folks agree with MS's strategy of berating at every chance
to install the beta of Silverlight.  Is the purpose to test the installation
process?
Really, if there was CONTENT for silverlight, then folks would just choose

In .NET there is attribute named ObsoleteAttribute which is derived from
System.Attribute Class. This attribute when applied to a target (class or
method etc.) gives a compiler warning/error. I know we can write our own
attributes by inheriting the System.Attribute but I want to  ...

How many superdelegates does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
No...  I was wondering if an instance of delegate stateful or can it be
reused?
For example you see a lot of (new AsyncCallback (method), param) it i/o

how could I find file size of an bitmap object downloaded from an web site
without saving it to the disk (and using system.io.FileInfo)?
is there any way to create some kind of an byte array and read it's size?