I want to know what is the prefered operating system to use for developing
.net applications.
windows 2000?
windows 20003?

PowerPoint.Application cannot open PPT file
I am trying to use the following code using to open a PPT file using VS.NET 2003 and PowerPoint 2003
Option Strict Off
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Has anyone experienced preformace problems with .Net and Crystal Reports?
Using the ReportDocument.Load method to load a non-embedded report takes me
from 20-30 seconds per report to load using Crystal 10 Dev Edition.

I am storing a 0.000 a System.Decimal in a DataRow.
On retrieval the value is only 0 without the three decimal places.
It looks like the Get property returns System.Decimal.Zero, but
why????

If i install the .NET framework version 1.1 on a Web Server and then
install .NET v2 can i have some web sites which use v1.1 (our .NET 1.1
tech Demo Sites) and some which use v2 (our v2 tech Demo sites).
Will this just work by default or do i have to do some special config?

I don't know how this happened, but my development workstation suddenly
stopped showing error messages in IE and instead shows a web portal of some
kind that has "Problems finding what you're looking for?" accross the top
and a bunch of links to search.windowenhancer.com.  I must ...

My DataGrid is bound to DataView as follow
DataGrid1.DataSource = myDS.Tables("Client_Consultant").DefaultView
User can either delete all the rows in the DataGrid on by pressing "Delete All" button or provide Client_Consulatnt_ID and press "Delete" button to delete rows with that ...

We have an existing ASP application that is supported by SQL 2000. We plan
on utilizing a third party COM object for which we'll be writing a wrapper.
Initial thoughts are to write a VB6 COM wrapper around the 3rd party dll but
we'd like to start a slow migration to .NET; I say slow ...

How can I get the 2 dates where Daylight saving time starts and ends programatically? Mine is a c# asp.net web application....
Thanks
Joe

Is it  possible to dynamically convert string variables
given in english to any other language(Eg:japanese).
Say for example user enters a string in english in textbox
from UI. It should be wriiten into a file with the

For example www.mls#.domainname.com

I'm try to convert  a String to Datetime, but  convert only works for some format:
my value is:
"20040719 16:00"
This is the String that I want to convert to Datetime.

When breading into a program (VB.NET) i get the message shown above at times.  The occurance of this message usually coincides with break-points being ignored.  The program simply does not stop at breakpoints or execute the next line of code when stepping through the program.  ...

I am new to .NET framework. I am trying to get data from the third
party web application using WebHTTPRequest and Response class. I am
getting TimeOut exception at GetResponse Method..
Dim objResponse As HttpWebResponse = objRequest.GetResponse()

The following code came be very slow in getting
creation time,filename,file length and directoryname
for files in a subdirectory because it keeps checking
each file sequentially in a slow DSL connection