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I am developing an application which references and uses some third party assemblies from a certain Vendor; in development box I have these 3 assemblies in a reference folder in my source tree and I can reference them and build the application, application builds but does not run because the whole server application is not installed, but this is fine. On the server where I want to copy this custom application and run all assemblies I am referencing are in folder something like: D:\ProgramFiles\VendorName\ProductName\Support\API\Bin64 and if I copy my small executable in that folder and run it,

I would like to know during execution of a program whether it is being executed using the Mono runtime or the Microsoft runtime. I'm currently using the following code to determine whether I'm on a MS CLR: static bool IsMicrosoftCLR() { return RuntimeEnvironment.GetRuntimeDirectory().Contains("Microsoft"); } However, this is somewhat dependent on the installation folder of the runtime and I'm not sure whether this will work on all installations. Is there a better way to check for the current runtime? From the Mono Project's Guide to Porting Winforms Applications : public static bool

In Generics FAQ: Best Practices says : The compiler will let you explicitly cast generic type parameters to any interface, but not to a class: interface ISomeInterface {...} class SomeClass {...} class MyClass<T> { void SomeMethod(T t) { ISomeInterface obj1 = (ISomeInterface)t;//Compiles SomeClass obj2 = (SomeClass)t; //Does not compile } } I see limitation reasonable for both, classes and interfaces, unless the class/interface is not specified as constraint type. So why such behavior, why it is allowed for interfaces ? I believe this is because the cast to SomeClass can mean any number of