I'm not sure it's the good group, if not please could you inform me thanks.
I have just installed dotnet 2003 on anew station.
I get my project from Visual Source Safe then open with VS 2003.
Everything seems ok except when I want to open an Aspx file, devenv is hang.

The application is coded using ASP.net and C#.
A part of the application allows the user to download files. The size of
these files can be up to 80 MB.
It works when the connection bandwidth is high. But in  other cases, after a

I have 2 XML files and 1 XSLT file.
The second XML file has the following declarative 1st line:
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
...the 1st one (the one to be transformed) doesn't.

I want to return the name of the drawing file (DWG) from the end of a string.
The string will be of varying lengths... as well as the drawing file name
itself.
I could do it the long way by getting the length of the string, and

Am I right to assume that you use Mutex(s) for protecting shared data within threads of an application; i.e. its not used to protect shared data between separate applications
I have tried to use named Mutex's to protect shared data between two separate applications, but not clear ...

Does anyone know how I can store an ArrayList in a cookie?
Thank you
Maz.

I would like to know, how many people when designing asp.net apps, break
down pages into components (user controls) and use them repeatedly in
different panels etc.
We tend to make parts of a page visible/invisible using a property or method

The DirectoryMonitor sample codes demonstrate the .NET Framework System.IO FileSystemWatcher object works nicely but display only short file name (for example test.bdrg become test~1.bdr) when a monitored file is deleted from a COMMAND CONSOLE window yet display correctly when ...

From time to time, I receive following error message when trying to access
my website.
When the error occurs, I have to recompile my dll until the error disappears
(this without changing anything in my code).

I'm hoping that some of you clever chaps could offer me some advice on code
reuse.
You see, whenever I make applications, I typically only find very limited
scope for code reuse. I also only find limited use for inheritance. For

I am having a problem with selecting the DataList control from my
toolbox. I added it to the toolbox, but when I go to the Windows
Forms Tab, it shows up "greyed out". I can't left-click it or drag it
onto my form. It is the only control like this (except when I tried

I'm curious if there are others who have a better method of
accepting/parsing phone numbers. I've used a couple of different techniques
that are functional but I can't really say that I'm totally happy with
either.

I would like to introduce you officially to my book "Reporting Services in
Action" and let you know about its availability. I wrote this book for
information workers, system administrators and developers who are planning
to leverage Reporting Services to author, manage and ...

I have a dataset with a datatable that has a datacolumn of type Date. I have the following code in my application
If IsDBNull(drEmployee.DateStart) = True Then drEmployee.DateStart = Date.Parse("01-Jan-2000"
When this line runs, I get an error message "Cannot get value because it ...

I have posted this on a couple of Access and SQL Server newsgroups, but with
no answer yet. There seems to be very little activity on the ones I have
looked at, so I thought I would post here as well, since I have no doubt
that many people here also use Access/SQL Server. Anyway, ...