My new laptop has two 100 gig hard drives. I'm thinking of housing my
programs (that I'm writing) on the D drive and VS on the C Drive. Has anyone
had expereince with this? Does VS perform any better? Just curious.
  Robert

I have an IE web control on a form that rotates the stats of the call center
in it. When a new page is loaded it takes the focus away from the other
textboxes on the form, even if a user is typing in them.
Is there anyway to keep the control from getting focus?

The task is brain dead simple - Uninstall prior Windows Service and Install
newer version of Windows Service
Background:
1.  My Windows Service written in .NET 1.1 and deployed via MSI (Windows

 I am uploading the excel file to the server and reading the data and
dumping in to sqlserver.
Now i want to delete the excel file from the server, but i am getting a error
like "file in use..."

We are thinking about using C# for a client-server application.
The scenario is like this:
We've got an old Automation enabled single threaded application.
We hope to do a COM component that can be loaded by the application,

I've yet to find a decently worded and exampled article outlining how one can
perform more complex operations during MSI installation.
Specifically, I'm looking to copy the source MSI to the installed directory
(in essence saving a backup of it) after the installation has ...

I am using VS2005 and have been learning a ton about databinding.  I know
that when you drag a view from the datasource window (creating  a
dataGridView) that an update method is not added to the table adaptor.  I
would like to update the b ase tables thorugh the view.  How do i ...

I have looked through all the VB.Net help and this forum but I cannot find
any mention of how to read and write to a USB port.  
Is it possible in VB?  Can some one point me to some documentation?
Thanks

Is it possible to create a custom configuration file (other than app.config)
that can be processed by classes in the System.Configuration namespace?
I have seen a ton of articles that talk about custom sections (inside the
app.config file) but I would like to make an entirely new ...

I have ported various trialware products to .NET 2, but I lack
confidence in distributing these products online as almost no users
have .NET 2 framework installed. What is the recommended strategy for
solving this framework deployment problem for trialware products?

Is there an efficient line of code to count the number of instances of one
string within another.
If I have the sentence:
"I want to go to the park, and then go home."

I am student in 4th year, Computer Science,and already have been
working for 1.5  year.
I really like programming, I this is what I do a lot.
Before getting a job, I wrote lots of programs by myself,enjoying it

Figure this scenario:
- My Company develops an assembly (a controls DLL)
- Since an obfuscation software is too expensive, my Company engages a
consultant and delegates him the assembly obfuscation process

[This may not be on topic as it's not .net-specific, but I tried to find the
most general MSDN forum I could.]
I'm trying to find a general definition/specification for railroad diagrams.
All I find online are explanations by authors who explain what _their_

How do i convert a mapped drive to an UNC path i .Net 2.0 ??
Is it really necessary to use "WNetGetUniversalName" ??
BR
Peter