This is a wildly broad question, so apologies in advance.
I developed a very traditional app architecture in Visual Studio 5-6.
The basic structure looked like this:
GUI >> MTS >> Database

I have two classes (thus, two services) in one Windows Service
executable.  Each properly inherits from  System.Process.ServiceBase,
and I have a ServiceInstaller for each service, and one
ServiceProcessInstaller for the entire executable, per the

I'm an experienced VB guy, and have been using VB.Net for a while. I've just
done a few of the walkthroughs and created a Component. Seems to me a
component is very similar to a class.
Can someone tell me what the differences are, and when would I choose one

My application is using VS2003 , VB.Net with Sql server 2000. The
application has an MDI environment with several MDI child forms in the main
MDI form.  At times , just at times due to dont know why, when i close one of
the child forms it close down but leaves a shadow of itself ...

Is it possible for .NET to communicate with devices on FireWire (IEEE1394)?
If so, how? Thanks.
Tom

Anyone can share with me how to conduct an Active Directory
Authetication in Dot Net Application?
Thanks.
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Hi all, how can i use my prefered .NET Framework version with the VS.NET?
I want to use the .NET Framework 2.0 Beta with VS.NET 2003. Is it possible??
Thank you in andvance. Hovo.

I would like to read the currently used bandwidth using VB.NET or VJ#. I
tried using the PerformanceCounter but this one only displays the
available bandwidth and not the used bandwidth. Can anybody point me to
the solution for this problem?

I am trying to figure out whats going on with the DDK ...
Are all the DDKs for diffrent platforms consolidated in one DDK ?
Serch for "DDK .net" on the site didnt retun anything., pointing to the URL
when I can download the DDK for .Net.

There are plenty of examples on the internet of using the
PagedDataSource in conjunction with a dataset to implement paging
within the Repeater control.
Does anyone know if this is possible with a Typed Dataset ?

Scenario
A Webage has two dropdown lists, one for Suppliers and one for
Products.
When a user selects a supplier, it then populates the Products

Does someone know if it is possible do call a jScript-function from the
code-behind (aspx.cs)?
For exemple
// in the aspx.cs

Hi, all
 I wonder is that any way to estimate the build time from VS.net(C++ project).
We have a lot of projects(40) under one single solution. We use the
command line (devenv.exe Solution\mysol.sln /build /Release) to build

I am building an application which is collecting data from a database and
display them in a windows form.
My idea is to collect those data in a form that, they can be read by my
windows application as well as a web browser.

How do you specfiy the version of the .net runtime libraries loaded for a
.net controls hosted in Internet Explorer 6?  I have a control that's
designed to work with .NET 1.1, but after installing the VS.NET 2005 beta
the web browser embedded control is now running in the .NET 2.0 ...