I know everything about reference counting and making sure you don't have
large objects lying around. I have also profiled my app with multiple tools.
I know about the fact GC collects memory but not necessary give it back to
the OS.

I have problem in using "Deserialization" method to work with SQL Session
State. The session state data was recorded properly to MS/SQL Server
ASPState by a web application. I then attempted to read the session data
back from the SQL server using DataSet. Then call "Deserialize" ...

I am looking to develop an application that requires
different graphics (skinned) and text (localisation) for
each installation
am currently using C# VS 2003

Hi,
Need help to permutate all the posible combination of string for example
Dim arr(2) As String
       arr(0) = "A"

We are an ASP and are converting our application from VB to VB.NET.  Our web
farm is a mix of older dual processor 1.2GHz servers and newer dual processor
3.0GHz Xeon servers.  When we originally got the new 3.0GHz boxes our VB code
thrived on them, dramatically outperforming our ...

I'm calling a SQL Server statement and I know that it might sometimes return
a "violation of unique key constraint" error (SQL Server error 2627).  I'd
like to catch this and handle it - something like this:
           Try

MS Visual Studio Ad contained in VS Magazine.
Two developers in "hip" clothing diagramming out a huge flow chart on a
beach.
I could NOT stop laughing at the stupidity of the ad -- "Let your ideas run

Is there a way to run an application in the background other than through a
service.
As I understand it when creating a service it is best practice not have any
kind of user interface.  My application doesn't need an interface all the

I'm looking for a way to identify a running process from which service it is
started. All seems working well so far. I am using a simpel wmi call to
enumerate all running processes and all installed services. I then compare
the 'Pathname' property from the service against the ...

I have the following code attached to the click event of a button.  It fails
on the line "da.Fill (ds, "Results")  The error is below the code.  Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
Dim cmd As SqlCommand = SqlConnection1.CreateCommand

I'm new to vb studio .net and sql2k, and wondered if any one know any
good articles on the subject? such as the best practices and
configuration for the database connection and security model. articles
with good coding samples are preferred. thank you!

This is long. Bear with me, as I will really go through all the convoluted
stuff that shows there is a problem with streams (at least when used to
redirect stdout).
The basic idea is that my application (VB.NET) will start a process,

I am using Visual Web Express 2005 and C#.
How do I send someone a project I am working on?
If I send then the entire directory for that project, they still cannot open
the project.

 I am using VS .Net and created a deployment project with dotnet framework
all together, however if the client do not have .netframework, i won't
continue to install my project file after installed the dotnetframework.
I would like to know if there are any way to make my deployment ...

I want to take the output of a DOS console application that just streams data
to the screen and redirect that output in real time into a C# application
that will decode and reformat it for display.  I know I could redirect from
the DOS application into a file and then read the ...