Just looking through my CD's noticed that my license key it's gone. The
software is at the moment installed completly in my machine. Is there any way
to retrieve that key? I tryed using the 90 day help but it's up and now I
feel stuck.

I've created a COM dll for a number-crunching program.  However when I tell
the program what function to use from the DLL, it claims that it cant find
the function.
I have the original .dll code in C++, however I'm not a C++ guy :-(.  It

I am having difficulties understanding the use of the cache in my profile
(C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application
Data\assembly\dl2)
My application seems to be using assemblies from this cache, even though

I've made a toolbar for Internet Explorer. I've installed the assembly
in the GAC. I wonder if there is a way to install them at some folder
and get the system to look for them there.
Thanks.

I have search on search engines for previous dicsussions dealing with this..
but didnt find em any useful... so here I am..
I am having a .NET (BV.NET) application. I am calling a managed dll(C#),
which inturn is calling a native dll (c++). OK. Now in the VB.NET

I am looking for a regular expression to find a word at the beginning
of a line and then read the entire line. From the example below, I want
to find the word "FN" and then read entire line "FN:Robert Henry".
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(My apologies for the slightly off-topic nature of this)
I'm almost ready to release a new windows form app to my company.  It's an
absence reporting system: allowing people to book holiday; review what
holidays other people in their dept have booked; record sicknesses and other

limiting access to files with asp.net
is there any way i can make a file only accessible to certain users of my
website? my files are to large to copy to a temp directory and they are of
many types, .exe .xsl .xml etc. i want an href to each file but only allow

i've asp.net aplication and it is working fine in all systems but when i
uploaded it into clients server and trying to run the aplication then i'm
getting the following error
Server Error in '/' Application.

Does anybody know how to play MIDI files?
I do not want to use P/Invoke or DirectX.
Maybe there is a free 3rd party Library but I do not know any supporting
MIDI music.

With a VS Deployment Project, is there any way to set it up so that after
the User installs the project, it will either run or ask the User if they
want to run it and then run (if response is yes)?
Thanks

I am writing an application using vb.net
And now I want to retrieve the windows login user name
How I can do so ?

I migrated a VS 2003 add-in to VS 2005. The VS 2003 add-in is a COM
interface which must continue to be deployed as a COM server. I have
added the project output to the deployment package and I set the
Register property to vsdrpCOM.

Good day all,
As a dotnet newbie there are a couple of things I am hoping some one can
help me with.
(1) In vb6 and vba I can F8 and step through a program. Whilst stepping

We are looking at upgrading our current production application to a XP64
because of the memory addressability (we are blowing our memory model).
we currently are on VS .Net 2003.
Is there a patch to 2003, or must we upgrade to 2005 beta. if so what