when writing out a file from .net, when is the file created? after the bytes
are all written to the hard drive or before the bytes are written to the
hard drive?

I'm headed back to school to retool. I have enrolled into a .NET programming
certificate program. We have a choice of Java or Visual Basic on the .NET
platform. Of course its not described this way. The Java is described as for
web development and the Visual Basic is described as ...

If my System.IO.StreamWriter Write method throws "The specified network name
is no longer available." and I try to Dispose or Close it in the finaly
clause the close or dispose method just throws "The specified network name
is no longer available." again. how to clean this up? after ...

I am really stumped. I am trying to create a new document or trying to
open an existing document locally on a Windows 2000 server thru VB.net
with Word XP (nothing fancy). Everything seems to work fine and I can
see a Word document open on my computer when I try it on my pc. When I

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I have a question about best practices of how to deal with lookup data from
my C# apps. On a couple of occasions I have come across a problem where I
have to automate inserting a record into a table that has a foreign key
constraint that is linked to a lookup table. E.g. Take the ...

Based on factors beyond my control, I am required to use the July CTP version
of Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005). That being said, I am re-compiling some
existing C++ projects within our company and am running into some problems
with changes in VS 2005 CTP that were not in the Beta ...

Ok, I'm stumped on something that really shouldn't be this hard.  I've
created some cool code to transform a dataset via XSLT into SpreadsheetML
(XML for Excel) and I'm storing the physical file on a file server.  Now... I
currently provide a hyperlink to view/save the file, but ...

Will VS.NET'03 install Data Access Objects 3.5 if it's not detected during
installation?
If not, is the dao35.exe included on the installation for a manual install?
Thanks in advance.

I always get the exit code 0x0 running the following VB software from the
Visual Studion NET 2003:
Sub Main()
       MsgBox("test v2")

C#
I have a datetime field, when I leave this field I am trying to call some
validation on the date enered, namely that the date cant be ahead of today.
My validation checks the date entered against todays date.  If the user

How efficient is it to use GDI to create images. Instead of having to create
loads of titles for a web site, i would like to use the GDI. My concern is
how intensive it is on the processor.
Anyone have any opinions??

Am new to web services, so apologies for the basic nature of the question -
and apologies in advance if this is the wrong newsgroup.  We're building a
new web service and I'm looking around for documentation on a number of
issues, including versioning of web service interfaces...

I'm working with an ASP.NET Web Application running under Windows 2003, and
want to open a part of HTML code of an ASP page directly in Acrobat Reader
(in PDF format). Is there any library or dll, provided by Microsoft or Adobe
to do this, which can be integrated in my web ...

Is there any way for System.IO.StreamWriter Write method to write out part
of the string to file. such as if the machine is shut down half way through?
or does the file not actually exist until the entire write is completed
successfully.