A group of friends and I are doing a RPG (role-playing game) maker for a
school project.  It occured to us, however, that if you want the user to be
able to have almost complete control over the contents of his/her game, that
you would end up with a tiny executable and a huge ...

  I found  vshadow sdk in MSDN.I am unable to use the shadow copy for
backup and restore because it is creating only non persistent shadow copy in
winxp.How can i create persistent shadow copy in winxp which is necessary
for backup and restore.

How do i type cast a type to an array of type,
e.g. IntPtr to IntPtr[]  ??
/Peter

I have a task where I have 5 different class files , which have almost
similar methods. But not sure... I want to check all 5 of them and want to
list all the functions which are common in all 5.
Is there any kind of tool or freeware available to performa similar task

In an application i am writing i could do with having separate MDI
containers, this would allow me split application forms into distinct screen
areas. My initial idea is to create a new Panel control to act as  an MDI
container.

We are developing an application (Windows forms) that allows users to take
a snapshot of the some database tables and save them another set set of
tables (called Model tables)and work with them . Since the data that goes
into model tables are huge (in the order of 30000 records ...

Hi all...
I'm working on a project that uses MSMQ as its core for inter-process
communication. At the moment there is a single process that listens for
inbound TCP-based messages on a socket, and when something is received it

Initializes a new instance of the String class to the value indicated by a
specified Unicode character repeated a specified number of times.
String Constructor (Char, Int32)
Why am I getting these errors:

I need to send some files weekly (generated by another program) to some of
our customers. I was thinking of writing a program to do just that, however,
wouldn't be better to create an addin for outlook so the user can basically
see a list of the customers being emailed and click ...

This may seen trivial, but I am wondering if anyone has a good name for
their .NET development group. "Client Server" is too old fashioned, "Open
Systems" too UNIX biased, and "Web Development" too narrow if the
development group also develops desktop applications, WinForms, And ...

Hello, I have a question in regards to hashtables that I was hoping someone
can share some light on. I'm currently working with VB.net and I'm trying to
learn as much as possible about the developer software. Can someone clarify
what a hashtable is? What is it's purpose?  ...

I have VB.NET 2003 installed that I used in a recent college course.  It
worked fine.  This week I started another class and when I went to open a
project, I got a fatal error.
I tried to reinstall VB.NET and got the same error.

I need to be able to start and stop a service on another computer on
the network.  But I cannot connect to the other computer using  my
standard user credentials.  I have a separate login for that for which
I use Remote Desktop to connect to the other machine.

I am working on a VB .net application which accesses a Java Servlet.
This servlet returns a binary stream that is written onto a PDF and then
this file is printed. Even though this file is downloaded and printed on most
environments, it fails to do so on one of the environments ...

 We need to convert any document to PDF in .NET.  Is there any component
available which can readily convert .doc file to PDF.
 We are looking for free components only.
Please reply ASAP.