I would like to know if there is any known problems when developing .Net
applications on Win2K.
Problems that are gone when using XP.
Or is everything exactly the same no matter if you choose Win2K or XP.

I've got a owner-drawn listview control that displays images and now I'm
trying to implement drag and drop so I can drag images from the control and
drop them onto other applications. So far if I drop on windows explorer it
works (i.e. an image file is created where I dropped the ...

If I don't know that my (or any) windows 2k regional setting for the
decimal symbol is the dot (".") and I want to do this:
1-        Dim dblOutput As Double
2-        Dim strInput As String

Using VB.NET How do I obtain the NIC number of a particular PC or Server.
(By NIC I am refering to the unique network card ID)
Thanks
Tim

can anyone point me in the right direction of detecting if an application is
running so that if a 2nd instance is started it can check and self
terminate?
Thanks

What is the real use of boxing and unboxing
in what situations will it be used.
Since all types are utlmately dereived from object..what
is the need for boxing and unboxing.....help

how can I remove the ReadOnly Attribute from a directory in my C# Web
Service ?
Thanks for your help

Do you know some good RS232C class? There is one in
VB.NET 101 Examples, but I think it is poor.
1.
I can't for e.g. read into my application all data

I am having trouble with DBNull's from my SQL server. I am
building/converting a asset web app from Access and my db has nulls on
various fields . I have tried searching newsgroups and tried to get  some
code and  some understanding . I  am a newbie to vb but my code is below, so ...

I have specified a aspnet user account to run all .net sites. This account
needs access to start a .BAT File (in my global.asax on session start the app
needs to execute this bat file). I have given the aspnet user Read and
execute but the .bat will still not start.

I'm trying to develop an application who's GUI will be changing frequently,
used by hundreds of people in a corporation.  
In order to support this, I've created a small .NET web page that loads the
assembly, grabs the version number, and reports it in an XML document to

Does anyone know where I can find an isapi filter or asp or asp.net
script that would scramble my output html/javascript? I know they are
scripts that scrambles the js file for you
http://www.shopable.co.uk/scrambler.html but it doesn't do it in real

Anyone know if it's possible for a .NET program to detect if the system
has just come out of hibernation? If so, how? :) I'm using C#.
TIA

I am looking for a way to capture the HTML file generated by an
ASP.Net application (just as is sent back to the client) and save it
to a designated spot on the web server. Here's a bit of background:
our application has a Report function that dynamically creates a new

Ok, I'm new to dotnet. Not only do I need help I need to know which of
the dotnet groups would be best for this question.  I have over 30
applications in Access with nearly 300 forms that have to be converted
to dotnet. Naturally redesign will be included but it would save a lot