I have a small exe app ( basic a dialog box) that when lauched needs to
"copy" some files in a directory chosen by the user (within the dialog). I
cannot use an installation package because there are some particular tasks
to be done from the exe.

I tried to find a satisfactory answer for this question before I asked it,
but maybe someone can enlighten me:
How come the MSDN documentation for a particular function that throws an
exception doesn't have that exception listed among its properties, methods,

In OOP literature we read frequently about "interface" - a term which is
apparently used to mean different things depending on context and possibly
language.
.NET however provides for the Interface type - as a specific and unique type

Encapsulating 3rd party controls to avoid backword incompatiblities
Hi all,
Environment : VB6\ VS2003\ VS2005, VB.NEt in Winforms, 3rd party component
is a GRID from Sheridan & Devexpress and is used extensively for data display

If I open a DOS console window (CMD) and enter "Netdiag /v", I get periodic
output showing the progress of the diagnostic tests being run.
If I create a Windows Forms app to run Netdiag using
System.Diagnostics.Process I can only get the output in a single block. That

I have a very simple application that used a MessageBox in a console
application. On one machine it work fine, on another machine the
message box is shown and work fine but all the text on the controls is
missing. What is the solution?

How can I programmatically focus to next control in a form by tabIndex order?
Tedmond

Changing a Date Time Value
I have a form with a date time picker or it and a button.  When the button
is pressed it passes the date/time into a stored procedure that queries an
SQL database.  Because the date time format is different I am receiving an

Hi gurus,
I have an automation add-in created using C# for Excel, in which I am
exposing a number of functions.  Is there any way I can add help-text
the way excel does for other categories like Financial, Statistical,

How would you go about creating a windows application who's GUI needs to be
a zoomable map of a city? The application also needs to be dynamic so the
user could add customers on the map as needed and track employees using GPS.
How could this program be made and are there any good ...

Hi all , and lets Get to the point :
To create the Problem i have ,please do this :
info : ASP.net  1.1,
1 - Create a Sub that Contains a code to creat  a control Like a dropdown

I hope to find some information on this way,
I used to develop databases in Access and want to try visual basic VB.net
2005
Could someone help me how to link 2 datagrid like in the first grid I want

Is there a way I can find what CPU my application is running on?
I am trying to find if the CPU is a 64bit or 32bit.
Is there an API exposed in the framework?
Any help will be helpful.

I recently posted about the lack of support for SOCKS proxy in WebServices.
It is possible to write a low level class that will tunnel through a SOCKS
proxy and return an open TcpSocket (www.componentspace.com has one) but a
WebRequest (that WebServices are based on) does not ...

I was wondering what the best practices are as far as how many
connections one should use for a data-driven app.  Here's my situation:
I have a business object that I load data into, this object also has 3
collections which I also load data into (via their own method).  Right