Hi, In an application with, say, 5000 open sockets, what (if anything) is the advantage of using the Socket.Select function to determine which sockets are ready for reading, as opposed to checking s.Available for each socket s? Andrew...more >>

It seems that most of the .Net information I read is tied to IIS. I am looking for info on 3-tier applications built using .Net Remoting, where the distributed application runs as a Rich and/or Smart Client and is designed for an inadvertant network disconnect or failure. Steve ...more >>

I am tyring to develop my first n-tier solution in VB. I have Client, Business, Data and Type projects in my solution. I am getting various message when building related to the face that the Client, Business and Data projects are all referencing a typed dataset in the Type project. My d...more >>

I am trying my own walkthrough on the UIP by creating the logon.cs as as first step. First I created a blank solution and then add the projects as in the store example. My problem is how to add the logon.cs under the WinUI project. I used add a new windows form and the logon.cs is created. Sin...more >>

Friends, how can i get the name of the default printer??. I'm working with winforms. VB,C#, nevermind. Thanks a lot Pablo...more >>

MS Customer this is the latest version of security update, the "September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which eliminates all known security vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express as well as three newly discovered vulnerabilities. Install now to hel...more >>

I am using the Application Updater Block 2.0 for a self updating application. I am using the BITS downloader. At this point I am just trying to get the self-updating example to work. I haven't changed anything. I have tried this on two different win2k3 systems with the same results. ...more >>

Friends, I need to change the default printer from code, with no user iterativity. Any sample code? suggestion? C#,VB, nevermind!. Thanks Pablo...more >>

Hello, I have tried to use the Exception Manager Block in a windows form application and I can not seem to get it to work. I have copies text from the Quick Start Samples files and modified them for this application, only writing to a log file and not sending an E-Mail. It writes exce...more >>

Hi. I want to use the User Interface Application Block from Microsoft. My question is: Does someone use it in production environment. And what are your experiences with it? Is it useful? Or is it better to code such a thing by myself (is it i overkill)? When should I use it? Are there any b...more >>

hello, I will be thankful to you if you could please tell me the registry key (path) that changes when a pocket pc is connected to the desktop pc Thank you. Manesh....more >>

Hi all, I am implementing a .NET web application and extensively used the session variables to store data. But today my manager told me that we will be running that application in a web farm !!!! I guess I am screwed. Could you please help me out here guys? I have following question: if you k...more >>

Has anyone been able to locate a sql script that creates the database that the SqlServerCacheStorage uses as its backing store? There are various other scripts included with the quick start sample. But none of them create the db to actually store cached data in. Thanks, MB...more >>