Today i had to manually handle the mouse wheel functionality in a customer project and suppress the raising of the MouseWheel event as long as a specific condition returned false. After some resea...

From time to time you will have to implement some functionality as an Windows service. Along with some other issues regarding to Windows services you often get some troubles when unhandled excepti...

One feature that i am missing when using C# is the ability to declare a method parameter as optional. If you have to call a specific method without having enough input values to meet the exact sig...

Under some circumstances the Visual Studio 2005 process can generate locks on the output assemblies while building your projects. This typically occurs in projects with more than 10 projects in one...

A few days ago i ran into some strange behavior when trying to open a socket an a clients computer using a simple network enabled application: ...[3452] System.PlatformNotSupportedException: This o...

Often you want to ensure that only a single instance of your application is running on a maschine. Therefore you need a mechanism to determine if an instance is alread<y running to avoid startin...

The following code throws an error with a misleading error message: stringtext = “”;if(text != null ){ Clipboard.SetText(text, TextDataFormat.Text );} System.ArgumentNullException: The value must ...