If I write a method using dotnet's cryptography libraries and use it
for encryption in my application. How can other applications decrypt
these messages. The other applications will be developed in some othe
languages also.

Does anyone know if it's possible to add a new icon of my app to the Windows
My Computer?
I know Virtual Drive, but I don't really need a storage mapping, but an
option to launch my application from My Computer.

Hi don't know where to post this, please help me.
I have a third party application that I need to launch inside my C#
application. how can I do this?
thanks.

I'm trying to write a generic method to generate Hashcodes but am having some
problems with (generic) collections. Here is the code of my method:
       public static int GetHashCode(object input)
       {

I have a VS 2005 Windows Service with a Installer project as part of my
solution.  The Service installs fine but I can't seem to make either of
these work:
1.  Have the service start after install

I have to honestly say I was flabbergasted by this report. Obviously, I
have no problems asserting that Java is #1 in the enterprise (JEE), or
in the mobile space (JME), and I do know it's made good strides on the
desktop, with popular apps like Azureus, Limewire, and others leading

We are having issues with our windows services using memory and never
releasing it.  We have one service that has a file watcher which takes an xml
file, inserts some records into a database, and creates a bunch of PDFs with
Crystal Reports.  Another service is a remote object ...

I've lost the source code to a vb windows forms app.  Is there any tool
that will recover the source code?
TIA,
Marc Miller

I'm using .NET 2.0, Windows Forms and VS2005 to develop a full-screen
touch-screen application.  It all looks great on two different
development machines (both WinXP Pro, latest service packs), but when we
run it on the prototype machine (WinXP Pro, not genuine so missing some

I'm working with a .NET windows service that can potentially take up to
10 minutes to shutdown. I would like to make it so that SCM doesn't
timeout before the service actually stops, but unfortunately have not
found a method that works.

I'm trying to use system.diagnostics.process to print a pdf from ASP.NET 2.0
webservice  (using a network printer). It works fine in an executable, but
fails in asp.net. What happens is that the executable runs & Acrobat gets
launched with no exceptions thrown, but the process is ...

I have an interface which is going to set up the definition of 3 dimensional
array which will contain something like :
Name of variable e.g "txtName", Type of variable e.g "String or Int",
Content e.g "C:\\myfile.txt" or "1".

2 small questions:
1)In steps, how can we deploy a website locally (without publishing it on
the internet) using Copy Website dialog box ?
2) How can we select an area (say a rectangle) from an image on a webpage

(using asp.net 2.0)
Hi,
I have 5-6 large customers each using the same pages, but with their own
themes.

The original parameter of get_accValue is a VAIANT
       virtual /* [id][propget][hidden] */ HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE
get_accValue(
           /* [optional][in] */ VARIANT varChild,