I try to create a new application from VB.NET.
Bottoms, text and output will show both english and Chinese.
Should I use Chinese version or I still use English verion?
If I use English version how can I add Chinese text into my applications.

How do i know if my Windows 2000 workstations and servers and Windows 2003
servers have SP1.1 installed? Thanks.

I'm currently using the System.Uri class for my application. Now, I need the
URL the user enters (and that is parsed to the System.Uri constructor) to be
normalized, so that every unnecessary (or even malicious) stuff is deleted.
Is this possible, and if so, how?

Whew, I've struggled my way through figuring out how to use XML to transport
data..now I can imagine what having a baby is like :)
But, I'm stuck now. I generate the XML (single table, no indexes) and
populate a dataset using READXML. I then merge the contents of that DS (call

I have a report created in Crystal Reports 8 that I'm attempting to use in a
.NET application. I have the following formula that works in the Crystal 8
designer and when the report is run using the Crystal 8 OCX in a VB 6
application:

is there a tool that compare 2 vs.net projects and show the differences in
code ?
(in text..)
such tool will help me alot to see changes i made between backups for

Can someone spot my error in this code?  I get the error message
"Object reference not set to an instance of an object." when I attempt
to read from the OleDbDataReader.
Thanks

Hi all..
In Visual Studio 6 I could connect to an already present web application in
IIS. I tried to do the same in Visual Studio.NET but I didn't find any
option to do that,

I am not sure if this is the right place to post this but I could not
find a specific Crystal Reports forum in the Microsoft forums nor the
Business Objects website.
Anyways, I am trying to find the best way to get data from several

I'm in one of those have to have it yesterday projects.
The project is a single page of information that displayes two lists one on
each side of the page. Each list is about 12-15 items and each item may be
2-3 lines of descriptive content. The lists have to be updated by staff ...

Does anybody know any libraries that I can use to extract the META tags from
an HTML file?  Or parse the HTML file?
Ideally I'm hoping for something that will parse them like the XmlDocument
class but of course that won't parse an HTML file because HTML is rarely

I am rewriting a C++ application in C#.  This file has a combination of Text
and Binary data.
I used CFile before to read the text.  If I hit a certain string that
denotes the following data is binary, I used the current position in the

how to add the headers to httpwebrequest/httpwebresponse from .net code ?

I have a dropdown list which as 7 items.when i click on it 4 items are
displayed and i have a scroll-bar to view the rest.I was wondering if i could
set the property of dropdown list to display all 7 items and not have
scroll-bar at all.

In my application, I need to get download jpeg images
from an URL and convert them to gif images and send the
gif files to a ftp site.
Does .net have any utilities I can use to convert the