A week or so ago, I needed to find the HTTP_REFERER environment
variable to check and see if a user is coming from a certain website:
If Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")_
= "http://localhost/mydir/page1.aspx" then

Has anyone ever seen a IComparer for floats the returns magnitude.
i.e. instead of returning -1, it would return -5. To let you know HOW
different the two numbers are. obviously for int it is a - b. But for
float the results would have to be normalize some how to a 32bit

hi.everyone..
   Suppose, i have a Java class:
public class Test{
       public String testMethod(String args){

I'm wanting to edit an aspx page for the first time in my VS solution project that is connected to vss on our server.   When I double click on the aspx page to edit, the check-out dialog box appears for the .vbproj file (as well as the check-out for the aspx page itself).  All ...

hi
i am looking at learning oo concepts well.
I have an idea about inheritance , encapsulation etc.
but i want to see it being implemented .

I am fairly new to VB.NET programming but have built many database applications in Access SQL Server etc.
I need to find a good book or other reference material that will help me take my OO programing skills to the next level.
I can build forms and bind data to them from SQL server ...

  How can I convert an url encoded string containing some french
characters back to the original string?
I have the following html form:
<form>

Has anyone heard of this? From Windows explorer, it looks like a drive but
does not have a drive letter. It contains folders and files like any other
drives or folders. I think it's called Shell Namespace Extension but don't
have much info on it. Is there a way I can use a custom ...

I have build a VB.net application that I need to deploy now.
The first phase of my deployement by using the setup project works
really fine.
Problem I met during my testing was that I need to set some particular

I am having this problem with my deployment project.
'Another version of this product is already installed. Installtion of
this version cannot continue. Configure or remove existing version of
this product use Add/Remove programs on the control panel.'

How do I go about including this dll in a c# deployment
project.  I can use the reference fine on the development
machine.  When I try to run on another machine it won't
work.  

I'm looking for a commerical (supported) .NET serial control with source
(just in case) and have found the following and was wondering if anyone has
had experience with any of them:
  http://www.sax.net/dotnet/communications/

For all Microsoft's blah about C# and VB being completely mixable and
interchangeable, I recommend for anyone who can still take this
advice:
DO NOT MIX VB AND C# PROJECTS IN THE SAME SOLUTION!

I have a Windows 2000 SP3 system. I tried to install .NET 2003 (May
2003 MSDN) Professional Edition. The installation completes copying
from the first Disc and in the middle of the second disc the system
restarts.

I know this topic has been discussed before but I couldn't find any
thread more recent than about 18 months and was interested in what
conclusions people had come to recently.
Invariably 3 advantages of XML config files are promoted;