Currently, our application requires to use the COM Port but it seems that the
COM Port is being utilised by other process. Therefore if I need to use the
COM Port, I have to manually disable and then enable the COM Port. As such I
will need to know how to programmatically disable ...

I have developed a web site using VB .Net 2003 ... and it appears to be
functioning properly when I view it.  I have had a couple of people tell me
that when they view some of the pages (using the exact same version number
of Internet Explorer that I use) some of the label ...

Totally new to this group, so please excuse if off topic or stupid question.  
I went to my control panel to change a user password, and noticed I have a
new user account for "ASP.NET Machine...". IT is a limited account with
assword.  How did it get in my system? From when I ...

I am getting the following error when building my application.
Error 1706.No valid source could be found for product Visual Studio .NET
Professional 2003 - English.  The Windows installer cannot continue.
If anyone can help me rectify this little problem, I would greatly

I have a large console C code that is compiled every night by the master
machine that hosts the source.  I have a number of slave machines that then
make copies of the executable on their own disk, and run a series of tests.
The code is built with VS2005 rc on the master and each ...

Good Day,
We are developing a Windows application using c# and would like to provide
Addin support for our application. I was hoping someone with experience in
this field could direct me in the right path on how to approch this task. Any

I downloaded / installed the .net sdk beta 2 however there is no
csc.exe. Also the only documentation that comes with it is the readme
but no reference guide, maybe I overlooked it?
Thanks!

I'm trying to get a grip on how .NET handles finding dependent assemblies.
The "Reference Path" property that can be found in the IDE's project
properties dialog seems to correspond to the ReferencePath attribute of the
settings element of the myproj.vbproj.user file. There also ...

I created a COM+ component and I need to pass an event to the client app.
Here is my scenario.
I have this component that checks if a product number is valid
....................

I just had a very odd behavior and was hoping someone could shed some light
on this.
I wrote a wrapper class around a 3rd party DLL (pinvoke)
I use this library in VB (or CS) and was able to re-produce 2 problems. By

I have a field set to Image data type, and store a long string(possible other
objects)into it with size 5663, and returned with 5663+28 bytes.
These strings wil be deserialized after retrieving. However failde because
the bytes seems to include some extra bytes with \0 and 0x01 ...

I inadvertently closed the Start window and did some other stuff.  How can I
reopen the Start window other than shutting down/reopening VS.NET?
TIA,
Richard

I use tabs to indent my codes.
VS.NET 2005 converts tabs to spaces automatically.
I remember there was an option to disable that and reserve tabs, but I
can't find it after reinstalling Windows. Please tell me if you know

I'm having a problem with serializing between different versions of classes.
I've read the many posts on handling versioning by implementing
ISerializable but unforunately we shipped the first few versions of our app
thinking we had done that, but unforunately we hadn't.  Thus ...

I am developing a program that generates a report in MS Word, it seems to me
that the same code works faster in a small utility rather than part of a
bigger executeable (about 5m) is that possible and if yes I may have to
separate it from the program