May I ask if you can explain what is ".NET" ?
How it effect programmers in general and C++ programmers in particular ?
How (or if) it effect Windows and Linux popularity ?

is there a good plugin or macro that creates new files from templates? I
wish to have a predefined template for .h and .cpp files.

how can I get the c_str() from a CString? The only way I've found is this:
const char* str = (LPCSTR)cstring;

I'm building a solution using devenv at the command line (nightly script) but
I can't figure out how to automatically update a web reference.  Is this
possible?  
Thanks,

I was curious if the new .NET 2.0 has optimized things to make the EXEs run
faster?  Thanks

I've been reading a lot of great OOD/OOP books lately (e.g.. Martin Fowlers
UML Distilled, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Refactoring,
Kent Becks's Test Driven Development, and also a book called Design Patterns
Explained.)... al of them with the focus on Java, ...

It's bad enough that M$ pays trolls to post in linux newsgroups.
But today, I received a troll email on the mono-develop email list.
Mono-develop !?!?!
Do they have that many drones and robots working for them?

Hey all, quick question for you...my main application uses the
EnableVisualStyles functionality in .NETv1.1 and I load some dll's which
contain some windows forms which I would also like to EnableVisualStyles in,
but there is no "Application" to enable it within the dll code... ...

i have a combobox1
and in it there are 3 words
APPLE
ORANGE

I have a client who is trying to connect to a sql server database using
asp.net and this is the error message that they get, any ideas on what is
causing the error message and what the correction for this.
Code they are using

Inorder to handle large files over 100 MB, is there a way in dotnet to open
only certain bytes of the file by buffer ?
It is shaky if the entire file is opened and splitted. Instead is there a
way or any alternatives on opening small chunk of the file.

This is a recommendation to Microsoft.
VB.net and c# are almost exactly equivalent.
I know why Microsoft invented VB.net -- to wean old style VB6 scripters into
a true OO world: .Net.

Hey all,
I have an array of data rows that when I bind it to a datagrid it shows all
those extra rows in addition to my fields. How do I hide those fields?
I tried using the TableStyles property but seems like it's getting overridden.

anyone knows how it's possible to use "old" com ports in .NET?
I think is not advisable register and use "old VB6" MSCOMM32.OCX, and I'd
not found any class performing open, close, set, raise event, input and so
on...

This is a technically challenging question but it would help me significantly
if anyone can answer it.
In essence I have the following:
A factory class, which can create producer classes which inherit an