I need to create a couple of reports, invoices, credit reports, etc...
My question is:  How/what is the best way to go about this using
VB2005 / SQL Server 2000
Crystal Reports?  MS Reporting?   Home brew using print document?

How do you create those informational popup ballon tips, using c# or is
there better way, any examples?
Thanks

I'm writing an application who captures everything that passes on port 80.
The result op the capture is an byte array with the retrieved values.
My problem is the following when i'm trying to convert the byte array to
UTF8 everything looks like:

I have a static DLL written in builder C++ ( version 4).
I need to load this DLL, that include some classes and function in a
new project in C#.
How can I do this?

Hi,
I have a little application that watches a FTP folder.  When a file is
uploaded, it takes that file and moves it to another folder on the same
server.  

In the past I've had problems with using threads and getting all kinds of
weird bugs.
I've been reading over Jon Skeet's GREAT website about threading and have
tried to apply some of what I learned.  There is almost too much information

I have a datagrid (language C#) populated using a stored procedure. I
want one of the column to display complete name instead of
abbreviation. Can I change the display dynamically in the datagrid or
should I change it in stored procedure?

In this statement generated by VS 2005 for an asp.net c# page:
public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
is System.Web.UI.Page an Interface, class or what?  Thank you.

I created a Class Library project in VS2005. Then, using VS, I was able to
add a connection string to the project settings, which automaticaly created
an app.config file for me.
If I try to access the configuration using

If you have a typed dataset, there is a DataTable defined for each table.
We can Fill these tables and Update them etc.
If we use the GetData() function, we get a new DataTable with the results of the
action.

I want to make a MenuItem that I can 'click' programmatically. I
started by coding this:
class ClickableMenuItem : MenuItem {
    public void  DoClick( EventArgs e ) {

I want to dynamically check if I can assign from type A to type B in
runtime. Type.IsAssignableFrom does not work for me as,
typeof(int).IsAssignableFrom(typeof(short))
returns false, which is incorrect in the (english) meaning of "Is

Framework 1.1
I've have com interop reference that has a method that returns IUnknown.
How do I cast the IUnknown reference to the specific interface.
I've tried the code below  but the call to myInteropRef.Foo() raises a

Just learning about interfaces and had a probably simple question.
If a class inherits from an Interface, does this guarantee that the
class will have the methods defined in the Interface?  I know this is
supposed to be true from what I read, but what I'm really asking is

I need to prevent a combo box's contents from being scrolled using the
mouse wheel.
I've tried using an overridden combo box and ignoring the base call
within