Can someone please explain to me what the
StreamReader.DiscardBufferedData method does?
The documentation says
"Use DiscardBufferedData to seek to a known location in the underlying

Hiya,
at this very moment I'm trying to write an XML Web Service for reading and
writing configuration/registry settings.
But for some reason I can read from the registry

what do i need to connect an VB.NET application that uses ADO.NET to an IBM
AS400
thks
JSB

I've never been coding on the hardware side and so, I am willing to find some help around to help me getting the following functionalities working
My current project involves, if possible, that a person can uses a specific USB key to store encryped data so he can take it with him ...

1.   Is it a good practice to pass a dataset or any ref variable as Out or Ref Parameter
2.   Can  we have both ref and out together in the method declaration
thanks in advance.

I've designed some programs to help me out at work but the pc's are locked out by admins. can't even download the .net framework and i was wondering if there was a way to compile it into the .exe file

I have a aspx page; the server page onLoad will create a basic table with a header row and a couple more rows of data.  It's very simple to populate the table at load and display it on the client, however what if i have a thread that is running on the server that is listening for ...

When should I use vb.net and when I should use c#.net? What is pros and
cons?

I  am using MS VB .NET 2002 and am very new. When I start the vb. net, it
goes to module 1? How can I go to form design? Then I would
like to put the crystal report control over the form. Thanks.

I've been doing some reading about Finalize and garbage collection.
I've learned that finalizing should be avoided because objects that
have a finalize method require 2 (possibly more) itterations of the
garbage collector to run before the memory is returned to the heap.

   Each instance of my client application will generate a 15 character
random string the first time it is run. This unique string will be used to
identify the client from that point forward. It's essential that no two
clients have the same identification string.

I'm new to asp.net I don't know if this is the way it is designed but when i
have a textbox and a button, typing in some text and hitting the enter key
will not submit the data, i would have to click the button in order to
submit. In normal html page i can just hit the enter key it ...

I need to build a data based application that will be served up to many
users from the one server using Citrix. So in other words each server will
be concurrently running between 20 and 40 instances of the application under
different user accounts.

I have a DataTable which I am building column by column and adding rows
after each new column.  The DataTable columns match the columns in my
database table.  I'm building the DataTable first and I then want to roll
through the DataTable while in memory checking for errors and then ...

I am very interested in building some OBD II compliant automotive software
and I was wondering if there were any OBD II .NET components available out
there at this time and if so where?