How do I set the focus to a control (TextBox) on the form when it is
displayed. The text box is empty and I want the caret blinking in it.
It is not the first item in the tab order and I can't make it such.
So how do I do it? I thought this was relatively easy but I must be

I want  msdn to be displayed as a part of visual studio 2003 in editor
tag itself.
Is it possible? if yes how to do it.
Any help will be appreciated.

I would like to add a Send Feedback feature to my application.
Does anybody know or easy way to do this, any applications that
do this, articles, samples or anything else that could give me
some hints. I tried to look how Reflector implements this but

I was just wondering if anyone could help me. I am writing a small win32
app using C#/.net. When something is executed, I want to put in a
counter which counts up how long the process is taking. It can either be
in the status bar or in the window itself. Can anyone help?

This is supposed to be very easy, only I did not find this in MSDN so I'll
ask here:
How do I enter a char constant using the char's ASCII number? Specifically I
want to be able to compare a char to one of CR, LF, TAB (i.e: char number

I am getting an error message on one of my assemblies.  First what is the
LoaderLocker?  And how can I get past the error?
Here is the error message and some information I found on the Net.
LoaderLock was detected

When a C# apps is deployed, the PC running it needs to have the .NET
Framework installed, true?  Now my real question, if i use VS .NET 2003
or 2005 to create a C++ application, does the PC running the resulting
app need .NET framework installed?

i have one problem in windows service.
i have code as following:-
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(szfolder);
if(di.Exists==true)

I've search for hours on this problem and cannot find a solution :(
Heres the bit of code:
IntPtr pointer = getFrameDll(FrameNumber);
The pointer points to a byte[] array that represents a bitmap.

I'm writing a news client (mainly to test out CAB & ClickOnce!), and trying
to decide on what to use for the storage of messages etc.. SQL Express seems
like overkill (and is a hefty download for a < 1MB app!). Also, since there
could be thousands of messages (potentially binary) ...

I have been trying to solve the following issue and it seems like there
is no solution available any where and maybe people at Microsoft should
may be of some help.
I am writing a .Net desktop application using C# and framework version

hello... i'm using this declarations:
StringWriter w = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter xml = new XmlTextWriter(w);
how can i make the output xml (in string) to be writen in UTF-8 encoding?

The project that I'm working on is a securty piece of n-tier
applications which try to authenticate a user. The login page, either a
web form or windows form, calls a web service (thin layer) that
actually evoke a business object to authenticate user.

I have an unmanaged dll that I need to include as part of a managed assembly
(it provides functionality that I use via p/invoke).
I came across a blog entry called "Versioning/Deploying unmanaged files" at
http://blogs.msdn.com/suzcook/archive/2004/10/28/249280.aspx , which allows ...

I am looking at getting a large number of records (1.8m) into a
datatable.The data resides in SQL Server, but can be moved to csv,xml
if required (for performance).
Is this type of load, in 1 go, feasibile? What sort of speed can I get