With .Net, we were supposed to get rid of DLL hell (which was a myth to
begin with).  However, with the release of 3 .Net frameworks (and many more
to come) and the associated service packs, aren't we back to something just
as bad?

I have a c# component that can be used in various executables. I need a way
in the code of this component to determine if the executable that loaded it
is a Windows Service -or- a Console/Windows application? i.e. within the code
of this component how can I determine if the ...

I have a multi-threaded C# program that hangs for 5-10 seconds
intermittently. Are there any built in tools in Visual Studio .NET to
somehow instrument my code to see where my performance problems are. It is
rough debugging it using breakpoints due to the multi-threading.

When Editing .SQL files using .Net, when I execute the SQL or Check the SQL,
it reformats the SQL differently than we normally do it.  I would like to
know how I can disable this automatic formatting.  Alternatively, I would
like a format option that creates a carriage return ...

I have many different projects and solutions I am working on.  All but one of
them work fine.  One of them, for a reason I can't figure out, has stopped
'auto formatting' as I work in the development environment... Things don't
auto-indent, auto-fill does not work, etc.  Once I ...

I have a problem, a window display an hourglass during long
calculation.
For this I start a thread and close it when finished, but handles of
the dead thread stay in memory and increase...

I have created a few software in .NET for some companies and very often I
have to update the .exe and some .dll.
The problem is that I always have to ask every body to exit the software (it
s on a terminal server, Win2003) before to copy the new files, or I have to

I spent the last week trying to fix this problem - I am always getting an
error when trying to run an application (WinForms or PPC) out of Visual
Studio IDE:
'Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging.'

Got past Step 1 Prerequisites but can't get Step 2 to run. Every time a
window pops up that says I'm trying to install Windows98 and I should reboot
to DOS to do that. Why would something think the VB.Net CD is Windows98?
I got a copy of Spy++ and the Process that calls up the W98 ...

I have a mesagebox.show("the text" & avariable) to show info in a program
that watch for files. when it find someting it just come up on the
taskbar/startbar so i must click on it to se what is says. Not as it nomaly
should do is to pop up on screen. Some of the code is in a ...

I have written the following function which returns OleDbConnection object.
If global variable g_strDbPath contains an invalid file name or path name the
catch block throws an error with appropriate error message, but if
g_strDbPath is blank then the catch block throws an error ...

Is there any component/block that has already been created for logging
exceptions to a file?
Thanks in advance.
Roy

I am using some code off the web that requires a string builder in a script
within a web page.
In order to get the script to work I need to include the relevant library in
the references section in the project.

(If this is not posted in the right place, please let me know what the right
place is...)
I understand that French Windows Explorer uses "Ko" as the file size units
where English would use "KB".  My C# application is going to display file

  I added a few buttons to the Mdi form, to call the child forms in the
button click event. But when the child window opens, all the buttons are
displayed in front of the child window. Any idea on how to fix this.
Thanx,