My notebook was originally equipped with MS Windows XP Professional with SP2 and .NET Framework 1.0 without SP3. Every time when I try to update my system thru Microsoft Update website, it shows that I have .NET 1.0 and recommended me to install .NET Framework 1.0 SP3. Should I install SP3 for...more >>

What are you using for logging in .Net 2.0? I can't find a lot of documentation on this. Log4net, maybe, or Enterprise Library - (but it seems overkill to use the EL when all I want from it is the logging). Or is there enough funtionality in the .Net 2.0 framework to do without log4net or...more >>

Any idea why? In Visual Studio 2005 when I rebuild my solution and run it, the user-scoped settings are saved and reloaded every time. However when I increment the build part of the Assembly version in the application properties, rebuild and then start up, all the user-scroped settings have...more >>

Does anybody have a good standard for naming delegates? That would be, other than your run of the mill EventHandler. My problem is that the name of the delegate, it's return type and instances of it usually end up looking very similar. It gets very difficult to tell which is the symbol of the de...more >>

Hi! I always supposed when i compile .NET assemblies using VS.NET 2003 they will definitely use .NET Framework 1.1 and .NET assemblies compiled with VS.NET 2005 will use .NET Framework 2.0. (I except tricking around using .config-files). Now we ran into situations where .net framework ver...more >>

I've been following what I >>thought<< was good practice and strong-naming my assemblies, even the ones that aren't targeted for installation into the global assembly cache. I'm beginning to think, though, that this is a mistake. The problem comes about when the assemblies used by an application...more >>

Hi, I currently have an application which is written in (VB).Net 2003 (and hence uses Framework 1.1). I wish to install it on a user workstation which has Framework 2.0 but not 1.1 installed. When I run the .msi, it says I must install Framework 1.1. However this PC is locked down and I ca...more >>

=20 I have noticed this weird behavior and wondered if anyone else has seen = this or knows a solution. I have this class that inherits from = NameObjectCollectionBase that has one public property (name): Private _name As String Public Property Name() As String Get Return ...more >>

Hello- I have a number that always starts with the three characters "450" and then has 7 random numeric digits after it. Example: 4507432176 What Regular expression will validate that scenario? I've tried various combinations of: 450\d{7} But basically any 10-digit number comes ba...more >>

I currently have a Windows Service that runs Transactions that are very Processor/Memory Intensive. I have a requirement to deploy multiple instances of the Web service on the Same server. Each Instance needs to run in its own process. My current approach to this is to put all the logic i...more >>

Using C# in VS2005 I have been unable to create links that: go to outside sites, link to a specific location regardless of start page, use "mailto:". Outside links: When I try to link to "www.google.com" I use "<a href = "http://www.google.com"> and the link ends up taking me to "http://loca...more >>

I realized a simple web server that supplies the VS demo HelloWorld webmethod. On the same PC I realized its consumer. IIS version is 5.1. The web server project use .NET 1.0. When the consumer invoke the webmethod, the Invoke() function failes with the message "HTTP 404: Object Not Found". ...more >>

Hi, I have the scenario where I have one database and need to allow to see the information accessible from Intranet and (future)Extranet. I wonder what is the most feasible and secure way of doing it without buying second license for MS SQL and duplicating data. So far I am leaning towards ...more >>

Hi experts, I am developing a file-reading intensive application which read files and compare bytes / byte array. We have migrated VB6 application to VB.net but found the time doubled. My idea to improve the performance is to write mainly with VB.net while calling functions/class library writ...more >>

Hi all, i have requirment of installing .net framework on 100 client machines, i have stored the setup on a share and i am using a bat file with the silent option.. How do i check if the framework is already present from a bat file, if present skip or else install the framework. Thanks ...more >>

Please find file for illustrating infrastructure --> http://test.thipparath.com/GPRS/GPRS.jpg Gateway receives packets from Trucks for processing Route/GPS position. When Truck and Gateway communicate in leased line, Gateway identifies different IP sent by different truck. Where communicate over...more >>