I have a service that collects messages form MSMQ to enter to a database.
What I notice is that if at the same time, during the process of sending the
queued message data to the database, I disconnect the cable, the data
obvoiusly don't go to the database but I happen to loose ...

Anyone have a "File Locking" experience?
I want to ask if the application can prevent 2 user access (concurrently) to
file for content editing...
any lock and unlock mechanism dotnet buildin?

Does that mean that the user doesn't need to to install the .NET framework?

I have a textbox in form2 that i need to use in form1.  How do I get acces to
it?   I am having trouble finding an example on this...probably due to
inexperience
thanks

Quick question I hope: Can Microsoft Passport be used only by users
with Internet access, or can you use it as long as the intranet web
server has internet access.
Thanks,

I have asp.net code using C# that will convert tif file into jpg and then it
display them. The program works on my machine and Dev machine with Window XP
professional. When I deploy the program on test machine (window 2003 server)
I get error:

 We developped a program with VS2003 and Enterprise Library. then we
switched to VS2005B2 to check the conversion between these two. Everything
works fine now except one thing!
The sql queries I execute on the database take much longer to execute. We

This is a bit of an academic question for you smarties out there....
I inherited this application that had 40 forms, 120 datasets,  and no dll's.
I am starting to separate this app (ie: myapp.exe) into functional areas
(like product.dll, invoice.dll, customer.dll, etc.).  ...

I came across this URL that describes microsoft's point of view of naming
conventions. I was wondering if these guidelines are available as PDF as
well.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/c
pconnamingguidelines.asp

Hello. I created a very simple program which just pops up a MessageBox
saying "Hello,world!". I compiled it and put it on my homepage and
created a hyperlink to it. When I click the hyperlink to the .exe file,
unlike the normal .exe files, it is just executed without popping up a

Is there a way to write into the .config file? In other words treat it like
a .ini file. (I may be confused on what the exact nature of the .config file
may be.)
I can read from it fine but would also like to be able to write to it.

How can in check in vb.net that a file is being used by another process
thanks

I was wondering if there are any recommended persistence frameworks for use
in .NET that could be recommended. I am looking for the following
requirements:
Free/Open Source or very inexpensive.

Believe you have sound experience in development, however, if we look
at the whole Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of the project,
say,
   1. Project Initiation,

could anybody explain me the advantages and disadvantages of delegation and
the advantages and disadvantages using event-listeners? - both related to the
treatment of events.
thanks in advance