First off. Hats off to MS to really doing a good job of major fixes on
VS 2K5. It is really a lot better.  I have begun using Master Pages
with Themes but am a bit confused as to how to make the CSS styles in
those themes appear during development (not at run time, i know that

   I would like to know how to make my deployment file to use the local
exported dotnetframework instead of downloading from web, when my client
didn't have it?
Thanks a lot.

I have a serious problem that i have not been able to resolve and cannot find any information on the internet.
The problem is as follows, i have written a BHO for the company i work for which will deep link into agent sites and fill in a form for them from a form they fill in on ...

I've written an ASP.Net webservice which takes somes specific .net
objects.
Now I want to caal this service by PHP, which normally would be
possible, after all that's the main reason of existence for web

I create a long form, (user have to Scroll down to Click the submit
button) on the form i have couple fields using the control
"RequiredFieldValidator". Now the user click on the "submit" button,
error will display if the user does not enter the required field (it

I'm seeking for an obfuscator at a reasonable price.
Generally, obfuscators are very expensive. It is difficult for me, a single
programmer, to bear the cost of an obfuscator.
Therefore, I ask you to suggest a good obfuscator at a low price.

Does version 2 of the framework have any facilities/features that makes
obfuscuation better than working with version 1/1.1 of the framework?
Or more specifically are dotnet V2 files easier or harder to unobfuscate?
From what I've seen I can't see anything specific, but I was ...

I am using the Microsoft enterprise Library (June 2005) with .NET Framework
1.1 on a Windows 2003 IIS6 web server.
with an ASP.NET 1.1 application, I have a dataConfiguration.config as listed
at the end of this post(configured with the Enterprise Library Configuration

When you host a winforms control in IE using the object tag, do you need to
be serving the control from ISS? If so, why? I would think that activation
happens entirely on the client side so you wouldn't need any extra processing
on the server side?

How can I create a property in a class which can store value like
array. something like following
string []strName = new string[5];
public StrName[6]

I am writing an app and need it to be served from the server using Click
Once Deployment.  No problem.  Got the publishing to work.
Here is the problem.  There is an SQL Express Database involved and when the
DB is updated on the client, it doesn't update it on the server.  If I ...

I am trying to ascertain if Object Serialization (binary or xml) has
been improved (new classes, or new ways) from version 1.1 of the .net
framework.
I pretty much know how to do that in 1.1, and am working on a program

I have a DLL that must update into a server. I want to make automatic
proccess that copy that dll from a directory(Ex: c:\update)  to
application directory (ex: c:\application). Copy file is easy, but the
problem is that copying it does not get the same right access that app.

I have created a windows service, and can happily install it and run
it, but this involves manually running the InstallUtil command line
tool for each installation.
Can this not be automated to run from within my MSI?

I am attempting to delete Profile folders from C:\Documents and
Settings\.  I am receiving a Permission denied error when using the
Directory.Delete method.  Here is my code.  Is there any way around
this?  I am a Local Administrator on the PC where I am running the