Recent content by JesseM1

How long can a System.String be? I know that the Length() method returns a signed Int32, so it probably can't exceed 2^31 (2 billion something) characters. Does anyone know if its length is further restricted to a smaller maximum?

Thanks for all your responses. We did some testing, and I finally managed to make my developer machine throw some NullReferenceException exceptions. It still throws a lot more frequently on my boss's machine, though. The most common place for the exception to be thrown is when I call...

My boss has the 2.0 framework and 1.1 framework installed on his machine, and my developer machine has only the 1.1 framework installed. I have a project written in C# in Visual Studio 2003 (not using unsafe code), and it always runs fine on my machine, but it keeps getting...

Thanks a lot for responding and for your advice. I should clarify better what I want, though. I was hoping for some sort of solution that could be distributed via CD along with the program. Ideally, this would be some sort of middleware or libraries that I could use in the program (written in...

I'm currently writing an application that compiles a lot of information to PDF, including Excel files. I was hoping to find some way of rendering an Excel spreadsheet without using Excel. Let me explain: All the products out there that print Excel to PDF, export Excel sheets to JPEG or BMP...