I'm stuck, essentially I have a c# object that is visible to COM and
to other .net applications. The object in question provides
communications between machines for reporting an the like. Essentially
the problem is that because of a Socket.Bind() call I can only have one

I have a utility program that has a form that allows a user to select a file.
I'm then using the LEFT Function to get some information.
  sNewFilePathName = Left(sFilePathName, iCnt)
I'm getting this following error message when I compile:

I'm new to developing on the .NET platform with VC++. I would like to know if
there are good reference sites beside gotdotnet.com and functionX. I would
like to go deeper. Should I buy a reference book? If so, any suggestions?
thanks in advance...

We have an hybrid plain C++/COM/VB.NET commercial application in which we've
included a mandatory activation mechanism. This activation system is
programed in the VB.NET part and basically uses the System.net.WebRequest
object to do it's job.

I have to connect SQL Server. In local SQL server my connection string is;
strConn = "Data Source=NTMS-2005;Initial Catalog=DBANK;Integrated
Security=SSPI;"
and I can connect very easily.

I'm building an N-Tier intranet. The business components will be in Com+
(Enterprise Services) as well as the data access components.
I need to store application settings, such as connection strings, etc. I
plan on using an XML doc for this.

I have an MDI application which opens a number of child windows, each of
which could have data in a state that needs to be saved.  Each child window
catches its Closing event and cancels it if the user wants to save the data,
but when the Application closes this event isn't thrown ...

I created a crystal report in a vb.net project but iI have one issue with
one of the field I placed on the report. The field should be displaying an ID
eg 99999 but instead it's shown as 99,999 when I print or display the report.
The data is returned as string form the database ...

I just went to an Indigo Roadshow meeting at the University of Washington.
It was a very clear, clean informative presentation.
Indigo is really good stuff -- it's a new layer that lets people build
real Internet applications -- like p2p chat systems, and out of process

I am new to this forumand I apologize as i am not a .net programmer but we
have a program being developed by a .net programmer. Nowwe have run into an
ftp snag and I think it is part ftp and part .net coding.
Heres the issue..

 I have my webdav code, I am using cookie to verify user, so user login to
our website first, like http://site, then they can open link
http://site/webfiles and check "open as web folder", in my code, I will
check cookie under http://site and control the user's permission. It ...

does anybody know how to change the global IFormatProvider of my project so
everycall to Convert.ToDouble on it uses this format provider instead of  the
one the one on the computer's regional configuration

I am working on a project to move my mailing tool to support Multi Languages
including Chinese and Hebrew.
To do this I have added the following code to the Message object
.HTMLBodyPart.ContentTransferEncoding = CDO.CdoEncodingType.cdo8bit

I have a solution that includes quite a few projects
when I open the solution I get the folowing error on a web project that
is part of the solution.
message dialog caption says:

Has anyone else had a problem where you create a ASP page (i'm using
asp 2.0 beta2) and in design view controls are being forced to left
focus?  I remember in visual studio 2003 I was able to basically put
controls on the webform anyware I wanted.  Here i'm basically kind of