As you may have already heard, the November CTP of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition was posted for MSDN subscribers earlier this month. CTPs are unsupported, pre-release software - and also a great way to get an early look at what's coming down the...

Here is a new DateTim FAQ entry. What is the relationship between DateTime parsing and formatting and the time zone? Before reading below, see this entry for a more practical description of how to using formatting and parsing for the purposes of storing...

Buffer.BlockCopy has following signature: public static void BlockCopy(Array src, int srcOffset, Array dst, int dstOffset, int count); It copies count bytes from src , beginning at srcOffset , to dst , beginning at dstOffset . srcOffset is the byte offset...

I was recently asked if there was a way to reallocate an object on top of another one, or to change the type of an object at runtime. This must have been a somewhat common practice in native C or C++ programs, perhaps something that C++'s placement new...

System.Diagnostics.Process class provides APIs to get lots of information about Process, but it doesn’t expose a few capabilities. For example, you can’t get information about the session id or the owner of a process. We will be exploring additional functionality...

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ArrayList is one of the most commonly used data structure. However there is little information about ArrayList performance characteristics on MSDN. The document on MSDN does mention asymptotic complexity of some methods on ArrayList class, but it doesn...

It is not an easy job to write a windows service in unmanaged. There are many guidelines you need to follow to make the service work. Programming Server-Side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000 is good reference to learn how to write a windows service...