I have a dll that I call to start a thread that will monitor a serial port
and then process and store the data received from that port.
On most every computer I have run this on, the program works perfectly.  
However, I have a Panasonic CF-51 laptop that fails when I try to launch ...

how can I discover at runtime the version of the CLR that is running an
assembly???
Is there maybe some class + method to get this info in the reflection
namespace?

Hi all....i need to write a Scaled down component  or app
for Serial Communications , and x and z modem
does anybody know of a net library
Specifically that has xmodem and zmodem

can anyone tell me difference between ado and ado.net other than
disconnected access?
thanks in advance.

I have a question about drawing windowed control.
For example, i have a windowed control, let's called it C1 (as container
for example).
its width = 300 px and height = 200 px.

Is there a way to make a class private to the namespace so that other
classes in the namespace can see and use it but noone outside a namespace
can see or use it?
Feel free to send me to links to read, I just cannot seem to find anything

i must convert a foxpro database tro a sql-server datase, and while
i'm thinking on it, are there any known programs??? maybe open source?
that do this job ??? because re-inventing the wheel is not that smart.
or if there isn't any, what driver should i use ???

is it possible to expose a webservice from a winform application ?
i saw that on a MSDN Briefing and i can't find anything related on the
web.
the demo was for .net 3.0 but i think it is possible to do it from 2.0

I have made some software that uses one of the COM ports to
communicate with an external device. The software is written in C# and
uses the new SerialPort class in .Net 2.0.
It works perfectly when I use the COM ports that are integrated in my

Hey folks, could someone assist with this?  In IE 7, you can click the
Favorites menu, and the items that drop down can then be right-clicked
on, providing a context menu, where you can copy, delete, etc.  I
would like similar functionality via C# in my own app, but I can not

How can i do to change the border style (value and colors) used to draw
the control border ?
thanks a lot,
Al.

I was wondering what legal issues there are when making a C# based music
player using the WMP11 API.
Are there any? For some reason I wouldn't think MS would just let anyone go
out and use their tech to profit from it.

I have a "funny" after upgrading to .NET2.0.
The following code is placed inside an unsafe method in assembly "A"
System.Object myIUnknownObject =
Marshal.GetObjectForIUnknown((System.IntPtr)m_someClass.MyProperty);

I have converted my C#.Net project code from .Net 1.1 to .Net 2.0.
After resolving the build errors iam unable to open the application due
to Utilitylibrary Rebar class --> WndProc() method is recursively
called. In .Net 1.1 this problem does not exists, due to this problem

I was going to write a program to sync up our webserver directory to a
network share directory. Before I do so, I would like to know is there
already a program available to do the same thing. Only requirement is,
I should able to provide where is the url to get files from and where