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Given a specific DateTime value, how do I display relative time, like 2 hours ago 3 days ago a month ago etc, etc...?

I am aware in .net there are three timer types (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164015.aspx ). I have chosen a the threaded timer as the other types can drift if the main thread is busy and I need this to be reliable. The way this timer works in the control of the timer is put on…

In .NET perspective: What is a Memory Leak ? How to understand whether your application leaks? What are the effects? How to prevent a memory leak? If your application has memory leak, does it go away when the process exits or killed? Or do memory leaks in your application affects other …

I have and pretty standard table setup in a current application using the .net XSD DataSet and TableAdapter features. My contracts table consists of some standard contract information, with a column for the primary department. This column is a foreign key to my Departments table, where I store the…

Stack Overflow has a subversion version number at the bottom: "svn revision: 679" I want to use such automatic versioning with my .NET web, win forms, wpf projects/solutions. How do I implement this?

Please recommend a good library for programmatically creating PDF documents in .NET applications.

One of the fun parts of multi-cultural programming are numbers formats. Americans use 10,000.50, Germans use 10.000,50, French use 10 000,50 etc. My first approach would be to take the string, parse it backwards, until I encounter a separator and use this as my decimal separator. There is an ob…

Does anybody know if there is a way to create a SQLite database based on an XSD DataSet? In the past I've just used a basic SQLite manager, but want to fuse things a bit more with my .NET development if possible.

I have a little game written in C#. It uses a database as back-end. It's a trading card game , and I wanted to implement the function of the cards as a script. What I mean is that I essentially have an interface, ICard , which a card class implements ( public class Card056 : ICard ) and which …

I was once under the belief that Microsoft was working on an official, ruby-like, Migration framework. However, I haven't been able to find any additional information (or even the original source of my belief). Does anyone know any information about an official migration framework? or possibly …

My company makes a monolithic piece of software that our customers use to run their car dealerships. The original application was written in Visual Basic 6.0, and it has grown substantially over the last few years. Until now, there hasn't really been a business case for switching to the .NET frame…

I've been writing a few web services for a .net app and now I'm ready to consume them. I've seen numerous examples where there is homegrown code for consing the service as opposed to using the auto generated methods Visisl Studio creates when adding the web reference. Is there some advantage to th…

I would like the version property of my application to be incremented for each build but I'm not sure on how to enable this functionality in Visual Studio (2005/2008). I have tried to specify the AssemblyVersion as 1.0.* but it doesn't get me exactly what I want. I'm also using a settings fil…

I was (and still am) looking for an embedded database to be used in a .net (c#) application. The caveat: The Application (or at least the database) is stored on a Network drive, but only used by 1 user at a time. Now, my first idea was SQL Server Compact edition . That is really nicely integr…

I'm looking to introduce a unit testing framework into the mix at my job. We're using Visual Studio 2005 (though we may be moving to 2008 within the next 6 months) and work primarily in C#. If the framework has some kind of IDE integration that would be best, but I'm open to frameworks that don't …