Question: how can I use the executable.config-files during installation? The
answer might seem obvious, but there is apparently more to it!
My itention was, as part of the iinstallation, to write write two settings
to the .config file for the executable. I don't usually do that, ...

I'm new to writing multithreaded apps and I have a design question.  I
have a winforms app and a class which has a method that does processing
which is time intensive.  I want the user to be able to kick off the
process and continue to work in the appliaction while getting progress

Any other event is there other than Click event for Button control

Is there a way to convert a string to a CipherMessage? I am calling a
function that decrypts a CipherMessage and returns the value. The only
problem is when I want to use an encrypted value stored in a querystring, I
can't figure out how to convert it back to a CipherMessage.

This is a very general question.
I have a form.  On this form I have many controls and several tab pages.  To
complete this form I will need to make a couple of calls to a database, and I
have several subs that set values based on input of controls on the form.

Sorry to post here but where is the microsoft news group related to c++?

Hi
My requirement is.
I am running a batch file (test.bat) from my application using VB.NET I need
to know when test.bat gets completed using VB.NET or with any tools

is there an easy way to retrieve the icon for an associated file type, is it
a shell32 call or is there some native .net method for retrieiving this
information? thanks.

That's all, that and one or two other simple helper functions that I
have to re-write over and over and over :(
Why is there no String.Contains()?  I look for it every day!
Tis just return str.IndexOf(find)!=-1;

what we have to do is send 1 byte by UDP to a destination, after that we
should receive data from there. We implement it already and it works, but we
saw after we created the socket, and try to send out 1 byte, there are 3-5
time a s packet is send over port 137 which we didn't ...

SMTP + relay + auth in an IPSEC tunnel to connect to our primary SMTP mail
server (GroupWise) from the Web server looks like it would work fine, but is
it the best way?
I am aware of CDOSYS and some commercial DLLs that allow devs to send mail

I am new to web services and am trying to set up a basic service using C#
I am trying to run wsdl.exe on my machine to generate a proxuy class for my
service. However, when running wsdl from the command line I get an error
report along the lines of;

Greetings, all!  I've been pondering the pitfalls of aborting a
secondary thread in a service app I'm writing (VB, fx v1.1).
Everything I've read so far pretty much dissuades one from aborting one
thread from another, and I'm almost at the point of acquiescing but

   My app does not stop whan I click on the form. I mean, the form is
closing, but the process keeps running in the task manager. So I figured
there are memory leaks or some object's process stuck at some point. Is
there an easy way to know where it comes from other than putting ...

I have a windows form with a few splitcontainerpanels that each load with a
usercontrol.  I would like the user to be able to move the usercontrols
around so that they can customize their view.  Is dodragdrop the best way to
accomplish this?  If so, does someone have a code ...