I have a few questions concerning the version compatiblity of assemblies.
Let me first depict the scenario:
I am a component designer, my customers are mainly people who design and
sell end-user applications.

I'm working on a project that integrates with Office and the Windows shell.
Right now we have add-ins for Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook, and a
couple of shell extensions for Windows Explorer, all written in C++.
We're at a point where we want to overhaul some of this stuff, ...

What are we supposed to use for a DateTime if we want to stay CLS
compliant????

I want to show a float number with two digits after the dot. However, I try
all kinds of format string and it doesn't work : G10.2, G.2, G0.2, F10.2,
F.2, F0.2.......
Could anyone help me, the document in MSDN is not helpful...

Hi,
(sorry if this is a copy posting, got a timeout the first time, any
crash-dumps is the previous post should be hang-dumps)
I am experiencing a problem with my .net (C#) application. When

Does it help to specify a unique base address for managed DLLs?  I
understand that it does help native DLLs, but I am curious about
managed DLLs.  I can find very little discussion about this.  I
noticed that if I use Sysinternals Process Explorer to hilight the

What is the best way to get the full path name of an assembly's PDB file?
Hex editing an assembly that was compiled in debug mode shows that it knows
where the PDB was originally created.
I can find out if the assembly should have an associated PDB by looking for

When building a COM DLL project with /clr the following errors
occures:
error LNK2005: _DllMain@12 already defined in msvcrt.lib(dllmain.obj)
warning LNK4243: DLL containing objects compiled with /clr is not

Over a year ago, Bill Menees asked the questoin, "Is there any way to
completely disable the download cache?" - answer was "no, but you can just
delete everything in it".
Is there any new info on disabling the download cache at all? Like Bill, I'm

I've installed a global exception handler and it uses the Exception
Management Block.  I get lovely stack traces, and I've written a custom
publisher that takes a full MiniDump to analyze with sos.dll, but my code
is called after the stack is unwound, so I can't get the values of ...

Being a VB.NET programmer I wandered what is MTA and STA is all about for my
daily life, cause in my 30+ books about .NET its only mentioned it in three
lines.
However now I have a problem using events to synch multiple threads.

I'm trying to write a very simpleminded web-based system to keep an application current. The basic
concept is that my application calls a webservice each time it starts to see if there are any
updated assemblies to download. If there are it downloads them and restarts itself (this ...

For example :
class A
{
   int a;

I'm having trouble running untrusted code inside a sandboxed AppDomain, and
I was hoping that someone could help me!
The code is user-supplied, and so I want my Winform application to run the
code in a seperate AppDomain without any more permissions than given in the

  I have a few questions regarding CLR Hosting...I have read a few
sites that explain them...but I still have some unanswered
questions...like...
    1. Every process (.net app) loads its own CLR. Is this right?