We are running into a problem where the SQL server and the webservers goes
to a state where all the queries that normally return results in less than 3
seconds takes more than a minute or two. So far the only way we could get
around this is to reset SQL server. Recently we found ...

I installed the software and activated the 60 day free trail period for
Visual Studio .NET yesterday. After completing the registration process for
the product, yesterday, I received a popup message that said that I have 18
days remaining on the 60 day free trial period. Time ...

I have run into a bit of an issue with checking for files.
Some files reside on Server X and some on Server Y.
The page with all the links is on Server X.  If the file exists we display a
link, if it does not then we display "sorry not yet available".  

I need to generate an xml document from several datatables in a
dataset which was loaded from SQL Server.  There are several
parent-child relationships between these tables.  Thanks to some
previous help here, I'm able to convert the data set into xml with the

Hi. I am learning how to write services in C#. I wrote at and made the
deployment package but when I try to install by running the .msi file that I
created it begins the setup just fine but then it asks me for a user name and
password (which I am assuming a Service needs to use ...

Hi everyone,  
I'm an xpath newbie and needed help from all of you.
I need to get all elements that do not have any children. Is there
such an expression?

What I want to do sounds simple, but it's defeating me. I want to
substitute all occurences of a colon : character in a string with an @
character -- unless the : occurs within a single or double-quoted
substring. Surely this can be done with regular expressions? Any regex

How do I select the left most column in a datagrid.  Not the first column
where data appears but the greyed column?  In vb6 it was datagrid1.col = 0,
what is it in vb dot net?
Thanks

Hellow,
I have a  program that draws lines,text,images on a  graphics object,
from a Thread, using GDI+.
are GDI+ considered to be thread safe, or i must invoke my draw   method to

I'm having a problem:
I connect to an MS access db using jet oledb (it has a password). If the db
doesn't have a password, everything works fine. If i do, access gets locked
down (.ldb) with the access db 'Admin' user. Closing the Windows Form that

I want to use Custom constants to set several directives to use in the
application.
To do so I can use the Custom constants in the Build of the Configuration
Properties.

Does anyone know if there is a free System Information component available
in .NET?  I would like to retrieve all the SysInfo that the Microsoft System
Information utility does and store it into a text file for later reading by
myself.

I need to implement a time-out form under .net(vb.net). So far I have been
able to creat a child thread which checks to see when the application
exceeds a set idle time. .. My problem is the fact the once I call a
callback function which invokes the time-out form , there is no way ...

I want to close excel application from C#, this is the piece of code I am
trying
"System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(excelApp);"
GC.Collect();

we have an application and set the time out value to 60 minutes in the
web.config file but somehow it always time out sooner than that (such as
idle for 40 minutes instead, it will redirect to the login page defined
in the web.config and session is gone), not sure anyone else had ...