I hope this isn't a symptom of something more serious, but when I start
Visual studio 2003, the icons that used to be shown underneath
"installed products from the visual studio family" are now missing and
there's just an empty space.

I recently redid my work box and am comming up with a strange issue.
If I do a code change, and click Run (F5) to build it and debug it, it will
build, but it won't re-compile the changes I  have made to the project.
Instead, I have to right click on that project, click rebuild, ...

I have deployed an asp.net application on Windows XP(SP2, Internet Explorer V
6).  SQL Server is running on the same machine. To login the user browses to
http://machinename/default.aspx. Here they enter log in details and can use
the application.

Hi. I just got a new computer. On the old computer everything was set
up and working.  I installed VS.Net 2003 and ported my application.
The web service compiles ok.  This project is built on the local
computer.  But when I try to test the web service by executing it,

I load an assembly into another AppDomain, not a default one. As there is no
way to unload the assembly, I need to unload the domain. This is where the
app hangs.
The problem is this assembly has references to one dll, currently not

Hi I have been trying to add images with IMG tag to my mail.But CDO Exchange
server is not supporting the IMG tags properly when their path contain
spaces. I can not use 'http://' because I am adding the body file from my
harddisk. Is there any other method to embed and send my ...

I have a date value in a table SQL Server database that looks like this:
2005-10-11 12:54:36.860
When I load the record into a dataset in VB.NET and retrieve the date value
into code, what I get is:

I have a requirement, where a user will click on a button, and the Email new
message window will open up.  The app will fill in the To: column from a
database.
I have gotten it to work, by using

I have created multiple .dll's mostly representing libraries used by
multiple projects. The dll's are often dependant on each other , for example:-
.dll1 dependant on .dll2 dependant on .dll3
Managing releases of these libraries has become difficult as a change to

I just upgraded my app from 1.1 to 2.0 (asp.net)
Something strange is happening.
I make a link (dynamically) to an external .css - file:
The output is something like this:

I want to use ILMerge in my project, but it requires a framework version that
I cannot find the download for (2.0.7.... something). The latest I can see is
2.0.5. Does anybody know where I can find this framework or a version of
ILMerge that works with an earlier framework.

I have an ms access database that runs perectly fine locally - when i
upload it to the server i get "exception has been thrown by the target
of the invocation" on any database connections.
I have had this error message locally so i added full permissions to

I'm sure this has probably been asked before, but, am I being foolish or does
the Class Builder utility not exist in VB.Net?
If so, why did MS Decide to remove this feature? I personally found it saved
a lot of time.

I have a table with fields that contain values with inverted commas - i.e.
"AAA" "BBB" etc... for field 1,2.
How do I create a stored procedure that goes through the whole table and
take out the inverted commas?

I have custom collection that is bind to the System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid.
My custom collection business object has property Quantity.
public event System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventHandler
QuantityChanged;