Dear Microsoft,
Do you think it might have been useful to mention in the Updater
Application Blocks documentation that NT is not a supported platform
for BITS (on which Updater Blocks depends)?

I want to deploy a Visual studio.net windows application. This
application uses MSCOMM32.OCX control. This application works fine on
a development machine. However, if I deploy it on a non-developer
machine, the application fails to load.

I discovered quite tricky method to marshal my objects by reference or by
value depending on my needs.
Objects have to be MarshalByRefObject subclasses and be serializable. I made
a subclass of ObjRef that was able to serialize whole objects. It worked

I am being supplied a count of number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970, i.e. a
Unix system time. How can I convert this into a valid .Net DateTime object ?
thanks,
Mark

 I want to create a distribution CD for a very simple application (50K executable) that I can give to another person so they can load on their computer.  Nothing fancy - I just need the procedure to create a basic distribution CD.  Can anyone help by letting me know what the ...

I am new to .net and win32 programming in general. I am looking for
some simple documentation on how to package a .net application as an
MSI. Within that MSI I need to perform several gacutil & regasm tasks.
I need this urgently. Could anybody guide me through a simple set of

How can I stop sentences in datagrids from wrapping? I
have set the wrap property to false, but it makes no
difference.
   Thanks for any help,

How is concurrency managed in a typical .NET application ? What about
optimistic and pessimistic locking ?