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Hello all.
I am currently creating a Windows Service using VB.NET and would like to

Late night T.V.
No...make that late night streaming media.
As I watch the free movies, a pop up banner ad appears...and a voice speaks:
"Hey kids.  Remember the 90's.

DOes anyone know how to check the length of words in a string?
I want all the word in a string to be less than 100 char to prevent buffer
overflow.
Thanks.

Hello developers,
I am examining trends in developer satisfaction with Microsoft.
Without starting a flame war, I would really appreciate it if you
respond with the top 3 things that, as a developer, you would change

I am trying to install VS.NET 2002 Academic on a new laptop that has the .NET 1.1 framework installed. I insert disk 1 into my drive and it spins for a few seconds then nothing happens. No setup dialog or nothing. I open the drive window and click on the setup.exe file, and the ...

Where can I find info on .net stuff?  Will VB .net be able to interact with Access 2000?  Can it be compiled into a .exe?

is there a way to compile all the .net install cds onto one dvd?  basically i ordered the cd set and i want to convert it to a single dvd
thanks
Rob Tomson

I found out that only using winform I can use the winword interop and
generate word document in the client machine and connect to a remote
database, so that I have made a winform application which accesses
winword on the client and a remote db.

Hi, can someone tell me why wont this work:
Dim t1 As New System.Threading.Thread( _
AddressOf reflectionBegin(aString As String))
Referring to 'As'  - Compiler says that Comma, ')' or a valid expression

I am so sick of this poor IDE.  (VS2003).  Latest screwup - add new C#
project.  Should not be a big deal right?  Ok delete the generated class.
No problem so far.
Add new class.  Shows in editor but IDE is now stuck.  Can't close because

I wanted to get a feel. The documentation gives naming conventions for
public/protected members. Is this truly widely adopted?
And what about using the same conventions for private members and
variables?

I'm currently in the process of writing my own mscorlib.dll, this in order to write my own Virtual Machine. Now all may seem a bit useless, but I'd like to use C# as scripting for our game engine, since basically all needed feature are already available in C#, and hell... why ...

Is there a tool to see what is in an MSI?  I would like to get a listing of the contents of the dlls etc that are in an existing msi

Hi!,
I just want to display (in a DataGrid) the length and Type (e.g.
Type=Char Length=10) of all the fields in my database table. I have
already made a DataTable using the DataAdapter Fill command. So how

GDay all,
Something seems odd to me....
I wrote a simple C# function
public void bind(ref object a, ref object b, bool atob)