Background: I have two C# projects, "A" and "L." L is a library that the A project references. Everything is fine except when I distribute A I have to include the L.dll file, too. I was hoping I could go my A project ...

I need a session-oriented web class (hopefully free) that automatically manages sessions (cookie based) from URL to URL, from a console application (not a Windows forms app). WebClient and HttpWebRequest are the only standard library class ...

I inserted 22K simple strings into a Hashtable like this: ... h.Add("some simple string", 4450); h.Add("another simple string", 4451); ... which ended up killing IIS on two production web servers. I guess there is ...

There are many languages that compile down to the CLR. Can you use most of these languages to build standard applications, like a standard form-oriented application? Even .Net Fortran? Even .Net Lisp? That's the magic of .Net, right ...

Background: I have a form that is data-bound to a table with thousands of records. I don't want to bind all records in the table to the form because it takes a minute to pull up the first record. How do I SELECT a single record into a Dat ...

I have a simple order form bound to my Orders table. The only problem is that I now have 20K orders and it takes--no joke--45 seconds to load the form to look at _any_ order. Is there any entry point to change the underlying SQL statemen ...

When I'm running a website under IIS, where are these messages stored so that I can view them? They must be logged to a file somewhere or something. (Google search hasn't yielded much help.) Pete

I have a table with 1 million rows/records and my app dies when I try to use DataGridView. Can DataGridView be configured to select a small number of rows (<500) rather than trying to load the entire table into memory? Or, do I have to ...

I have a C# website running in IIS 6. I have a set of classes in a DLL, like myclasses.dll that is referenced in the project and everything is good, EXCEPT that when I load the myclasses project and add a new method and re-build it, there ...

What C# data type do I use to store a SmallMoney column data type? SmallMoney DOES NOT equal String: wrong: float f = (float)dataRow["MySmallMoneyColumn"] Thanks, Pete

I have a DataGridView on a form that's data-bound. How do I redraw the grid to show the latest information in the database? Pete

All of the pages on my website inherit from a page called MyBasePage to easily call 500 lines of C# code in the MyBasePage.aspx.cs file. (I don't use MyBasePage.aspx.) Occasionally the project won't compile with the above error message ...

I've poured through the Microsoft Help and Googled the web but can't seem to find how to dump the current stack inside a catch, e.g.: try { // some error occurs } catch ( Exception e ) { string s = AskRunTimeForStackTrace(); ...

What is the best way to place HTML in a C# code behind file? If you do a lot of Response.Writes of literal strings then all the HTML double-quotes (") have to be back quoted which is a pain and is less readable: Response.Write(" ...

I've tried five times to get a "hello, world" Crystal Report to work. In just a few clicks I can create a form, add a CrystalReportViewer to it, then add a trivial report I created one minute earlier. The previous shows some moc ...