Are there any issues when upgrading the express editions (web developer, c#,
sql 2005) to VS 2005 Professional.  Also I have a project I started in
Web-Express edition, when I install VS 2005 I need to migrate it over, again
any issues?

I am learning to program C++ .net and am having difficulty with one of the
exercises and wondered if someone could help?
I am including the code for a console app I wrote according to the exercise
that is supposed to create a connection to the

I wrote a simple test program, console, that does one thing: log
DateTime.Now to a trace file.
I thought it would be lickety-split, but it's taking more than 10
minutes to write 1 million lines.

I was screwing around a bit with the exe-files produced by .Net
Compilers and trying to understand how they work... so i ended up at the
6 Byte stub, which calls the _CorExeMain in mscoree.dll ... so i thought
"Hey, thats how it tells the Framework, that it shall load it as .Net

Is there any framework or API function i can use to get the date and time of
any city in the world?
Basically our server is based in Sydney and we need to know time in Perth
when any scanning information comes from there. The server time is always

Today, I launched a new community driven website for the .NET
community.
Is it OK to post a link here? I am unsure of the etiquette for posting
links on this group. I searched for an announcement group, but could

Since I'm not sure if Windows XP Media Center2005 is XP Home or XP Pro, do
you guys know if this OS supports local Web application development?
I've been searching to see if Windows XP Media Center2005 is XP Home or Pro.
Do you know which one it is?

Using VB .NET 2003,  I need to delete some read-only files.
I tried using System.IO.File.Delete(filename) - but when the files are
read-only, I get error messages stating that I don't have proper access...
So, what's the best way to delete a read-only file programmatically?

Is this possible without violating strong name restrictions? If not, what
can be done if a bug is found in an assembly which resides in the GAC and is
used by multiple applications?
Any Ideas?

I have a projet for smartphones which I can't build. In fact, I have
this error :
The type or namespace name 'ISupportInitialize' does not exist in the
class or namespace 'System.ComponentModel' (are you missing an assembly

Well, my problem is so simple as it says in the subjet but very frustrating
also. I have a project and it is losing the session variables with each
postback, so I downloaded from the web a project which used a session
management dll to discover what was wrong in my project. This ...

I'm moving all projects that coded in Visual Studio 2003 framework 1.1 to
Visual Studio 2005. I'm getting following error while build the asp.net and
webservices project. All other projects build fine with no issues.
Could not load file or assembly 'amqmdnet, Version=1.0.0.2, ...

I updated a 2003 c# winapp to 2005 and the debugger hangs but the app runs
fine from the exe. it also hangs in different locations. has anyone else had
this problem and found a solution?

I have a .NET 1.1 application (C#) that I converted to .NET 2.0... Conversion
was pretty painless, code runs from the development environment no problem...
but when I try and publish... It says everything was successful.
So what's the problem??? It never creates any files in the ...

I have an application that have to be installed in silent/passive mode. The
first installation goes well. When I try to execute a silent/passive
installation of the new version (new msi version), the application files are
updated but in the Add/Remove Program interface, there ...