To behosest, no there are no good books that cover all topics of programming C#, object orientation and .NET to give you a structured background. I am an experienced C++ programmaer and for some time I am learning C#. If it is not working, you may try posting your code and the error messages you receive. It is difficult to see what you do wrong without code. Learning programming is a tough job. You need to understand lots of rules and concepts and you will make many mistakes. Maybe one practical tip: try to use intellisense in de Visual Studio IDE. For instance, if you just type: Form2 myform=new Form2( and wait a second, it shows you the required parameters. This may be very helpful. Stuyd the samples on Codeproject helps a lot and start with very simple applications. For learning C# and .NET I use following books: Programming C#, jesse Liberty (O'Reilly). I think it is reasoable good. Windows Forms2.0 programming, Chris Sells and Michael Weinhardt (Addison Wesley). usefull, but not really for beginners. Covers a lot of topics. .NET book 0 by Charles Petzold. Its about C# programming a good introduction if you have programming experience. You can dowload it for free from Petzolds website. Applied Windows .NET framework programming by Charles Petzold. Its old, you should buy his new book with somethiong like CLR programming in it. This contains mainly advanced stuff, but is usefull. There are more books, but either they are poorly written or advanced stuff or they stop where it gets really interesting. I did not find any complete overview explaining whats in .NET Rudolf Heijink

okay thanks... So 54 is the header size in bitmap file...

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you go away and never turn back...Do you own this community or what ????

yeh even i know this one...But it doesnt support jpg or mp3. So its not of any use to me... I dont think there is any library as such available for stego for .mp3 n jpg in C# ...if anybody know about such lib or has achieved this in C# then pls do let me know.. Thanks

I think it is a repost, and it is rather old news :| "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer

Actually your app is probably not responding because you're calling Thread.Sleep(1000) for 1000 times from the main thread your application is running on. After a thousand seconds it'll be responsive again. You should run your code from a separate thread. Again, you should use a background worker for your loop and update your controls using the report progress mechanism of the background worker or something similar. I showed you the code for this some days ago I think here Standards are great! Everybody should have one!

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cross-threaded operation etc. is caused by controls being updated by any thread other than the one that created them. The background worker control should stop this. Otherwise you need to call begininvoke on the control that you are updating. There are loads of examples of this on CP and MSDN. Russ

Actually, I was talking about North America.

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It's unit testing with NUnit and not NUnit testing.:-D (A subtle, but important distinction because there are other unit testing frameworks). This is a large topic, and I will attempt to give you a succinct answer which explains why I use it on all projects. NUnit (and other frameworks) allow you to write repeatable tests. If you change your code, simply rerun the tests and check that you get the correct values. This all depends, of course, on your unit tests actually testing your code effectively. Now, this is all well and good, but where NUnit (and the other frameworks) comes into its own is with Test Driven Development (TDD). This approach means that you write unit tests before you actually write the code. You then build up your code and unit tests little bit by little bit until you can prove that the code works properly. Please visit http://www.readytogiveup.com/ and do something special today. Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

If you run into problems with NDoc then MS's Sandcastle[^] is the way to go. I haven't tried it myself yet though. Kevin

NEVER catch an exception that you cannot handle. In your case, don't catch the ABCException; let it propogate up the call stack. It should be the caller's responsibility to code defensively and handle exceptions. Cheers, Vıkram. After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.

Software_Specialist wrote: Note:= i dont want to use ASP.Net. By and large, how you connect in ASP.NET and in winforms is the same, they use the same classes. The database doesn't care about the UI layer. Software_Specialist wrote: My google friend is not helping me much in this I don't see how that is possible. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

yeh got the solution to it...well doublebuffer property was set to false... So i setted it to true and is working now... :) ta

It depends on what the application has to be able to do, really. Most applications that work against a database doesn't really benefit much from being windows applications, as they are working against a central database anyway. Web applications have some benefits over windows applications, though. All that you need to use it is a browser, you don't need any .NET framework or specific datbase drivers installed. You actually don't need the computer to run Windows at all. Unless you have some special requirements in the application that needs it to be a windows application, you can very well make it a web application. --- single minded; short sighted; long gone;

may be u are right...But i tried that way but it was not working ..yeh i didnt included _T at that time...So ill check out if it works without const TCHAR variable... Thanks for pointing me out...

Hi, Always uses TCHAR instead of char / wchat_t and the generic-text functions defined in Tchar.h. This will maps appropriately if used _UNICODE or not.