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I would like to check if port is listening on the remote host. Does anybody know how to do it?

I have a question about onStart() method with windows service. Do I put main execution code in onStart() method? It looks like it will not start until it executes all code within onStart() method. I have a thread started in the onStart() method and it is infinite so Service never starts. Where...

I am trying to implement .Net Remoting to have Windows Server acting as a server for hosting the object and have some client application to connect to the server when needed to activate and use the object. I am new to both windows services and .Net Remoting so it is a challenge to implement...

Can the windows service be categorized as managed service. I am just trying to figure out if I can use .net remoting to host the object on the windows service.

I found some articles that describe how to create windows services with VB.Net. Is there any that shows how to do it with C#?? Thank you

I am trying to design a system that connects and communicates remotely to the windows service written in C#.Net. In details what I am trying to accomplish is to have some user interface being located on one machine to communicate (perhaps using SOAP) with windows service written in C#. Net. I...

Thank you very much for detailed response. It looks like a good idea when you want to manulaly create chema for every file. I am looking for something that can parse generic unknown format csv files. I think I will give up looking for the library and create my own. Thanks anyway

Does anybody know any good free third-party CSV parser modules? I am surprised that MSDN does not have any classes to parse CSV, it is so common procedure. Thank a lot

I have a case where I tried everything and I am stuck on finding right solution. I will appreciate any suggestions. Here is a scenario. I am sending XML request to the server and receive response as a stream what is a zip file. I am trying to get the CSV file that is zipped. How do I get to...

Does anybody know of any libraries that will let me uncompress the file from zip archive? Thank you

Sorry, but for your information read the following: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;812409

Does anybody know if there are any libraries that will let you open file directly from remote FTP server rather than go in steps of transferring it to local machine and then opening it from local machine. Thank you for any information

Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!

I have a stream and instead of writing it to the file I would like to create a string that contains data from the stream. Can I do it. TextWriter to String conversion will work for me too. Thank you

Thanks for a advice. But how do you refere to a specefic task to delete it, by ID?