I am having really tough time finding anywhere on the web
concrete explanation (if any) of how Garbage Colletor
decided for C++ managed objects when object is ready to be
released, and why?  Refer to simple example below with

Can anyone tell me how to retrieve the summary information for the
properties of a file.
In windows explorer you would right on the file, select properties and then
click the summary tab.

Don't know if this is known or not - I can't find anything describing my
issue.
I fill standard listbox in form Load event handler using loop with
lb.Items.Add(someString) inside BeginUpdate/EndUpdate - exactly as MS

I have two different programs- one uses IMAP and the other uses it's own
IMAP protocol (implemented using sockets). Both programs use the IP*Works
toolkit (for .NET). When the "socket" code is running from a desktop
(winform) test harness, there are few if any timeouts when these ...

When I try to execute this sample, I get an error indicating it could
not find SQL stored procedure "LoadPersonalizationSettings".  
Did I miss something in setting the tutorial up?  I found nothing on
the Microsoft site about this.

In my application, i want to flush all data to USB and eject it (like select
Safe Remove from tray icon).
Is it possible ? How to to that ?
Thanks a lot

We are using Framework 1.0 for all our ASP.NET and Windows application
projects.
We plan on going to Framework 1.1.
On MSDN, they say that for Windows application, we have to add a section in

So I've got a class that wants to write out an array of uints to a Stream.
It seems that in the most general case I am forced to copy my uint[] into a
byte[] just so I can call Stream.Write. If there was an overload of
Stream.Write that took a System.Array, an index, and a count, ...

I know it's possible to call COM server in C#.
but is it possible to create a new COM sever in C# ?
I mean I want to create a IShellBrowser (well something like that, I just
dicover it recently) I mean I want to write a shell extension to appear in

I created a TimeSpan with some Ticks value (roughly equal to one day
interval)
However when I print Hours and Milliseconds property of this TimeSpan I
obtain this very weird result:

I have written a C# application  uding MS Visual
Studio  .NET
When runnig the program in another maachine i get an error
message "Program failed to initialise properly"

get this string when I press CTRL-F5 to run:
ØB-
I get this string when I press F5 to run:
Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.50GHz

I'm writting a C# network application, which could expose its data as a file
system.
I was thinking to have one back-end which would install itself as a
hard-drive on the client's computer, I would host the .NET runtime in my