dotnet hack challenge......................................????
Would be interesting to see a dotnet hack challenge. We have seen one
security hole and it would be interesting to see what other potential
holes exist in .net...??

Not to start a flame war here, but I really would like to know if someone
did a comparison of Java to dotnet, and what the benefits (pros and cons)
each development environment has.  Since I have gotten back into Java, it
surprises me how far Java has advanced from the dark days ...

I subscribe to MSDN,  Is it possible to print the entire Developer's guide
that comes with MSDN, without having to print Page By Page.  Or else does the
MS sells them individually in a printed format that we can buy?  Thanks.

I have installed .Net 2.0 on one PC, and 1.1. and 2.0 on another, as well
has VS C# 2005 Express on both.
Reference books refer to ildasm.exe, which exists solely in the 1.1 SDK.
What is the .Net 2.0 SDK equivalent? AFAICT the 1.1 ildasm will not work on

Attempting to access outlook from C# .NET ASP app.  Have added reference to
COM Microsoft Outlook 11 Object Library.  Have included
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Web.Mail;

I tried to use the in-built configuration classes of the .net framework -
but I was hampered by some problems:
Reading the configuration data works just fine, but when I try to set/write
any configuration an exception occurrs saying that this property would be

hey all
i have the following code:
private string Test()
{

I'm relaively new to programming languages in general, and brand
new to VB.NET. I use/used VBA in MS Access previously to do what
I needed. I want to learn VB.NET to stretch my boundaries a bit.
Anyway, I'm developing an application to track the progress of

How Do I compile as .dll instead of .exe in vb.net?

I want a datagrid object that will not intercept PageUp or PageDown
keystrokes so that instead the tabcontrol it's on can pick it them up and
change TabPages. Any idea how to create a new version of the datagrid that
will do this?

Can anyone please suggest me a C# Opensource tool for PDF conversion?
Your help would be of great help.
Thanks.
-Imaya

How can I have one source that also uses methods from Full framework to
compile also for Compact Framework or in other words how to write in C# the
following:
#ifndef _WINCE_

Hey there
Simple question, has the SortedDictionary<K, V> gone away now?
In the latest build of Visual Studio 2005 publically available, this class
seems to have disappeared.

I have created my own comparer class using IComparer for use with
ArrayList.BinarySearch. My class seems to work with BinarySearch, but the
problem is that my ArrayList has three items in it and it seems that
BinarySearch only searches the first two items. So if I happen to be ...

My OS is Windows 2000 SP4.  And I have a .NET 1.1 dll.  I run the regasm
command on the dll and I get the successful registration prompt.  However,
the dll is NOT registered.  I checked the registry and there is no entry in
there.