I'm working on conventions for a large e-commerce application. Sure, I
can tell the R&D to "log everything" but it's unlikely to be done.
Waiting to hear from your experience - what info proves worth of
logging on a regular basis?

I posted this on one of the VB groups but they told me that dotnet was
different, anyway.
Is there a way to chose your own icon when displaying a message box. I
know how to use it with one of the built in icons, however cannot work

Hi newsgroup
We like to use the team suite in our company. The team suite costs CHF
18'000.-- per License.
In our company we need 3 Licences, this will mean that we have to pay CHF

For testing purposes, I need some code that will loop through all attributes
and elements in an XML file, and replace the data with the element or
attribute name?  Does anybody have code that will do this, looping
generically through every node? VB.Net code would be appreciated ...

I am getting this error trying to run a win forms .net app using the .net 2.0
serial port control. This occurs when the app tries to open the port. I knwo
this is some type of security access problem but I have no clue where to fix
it. Help....

I need to run a web server function every 5 minutes and am running SQL
server too.
What is the best approch to do this ?
call the code from a SQL job

I'm trying to migrate data from an Access 2000 database to SQL 2005
Express.  Both databases have the same schema.
Most primary keys are Auto Increment fields. I'm having the issue that
even if I set primary key manually in my code, the Auto Increment rules

My problem child:
<asp:dropdownlist id="ddlLimit" tabIndex="6" runat="server"
EnableViewState="False" CssClass="query">
   <asp:ListItem Value="100" Selected="True">100</asp:ListItem>

How does the WinForms ProprtyGrid work?
Do they use reflection/Reflection.emit, to get the props and their values?
Can someone tell me?

I have a situation where I would like to perform custom serialization
and deserialization of an existing .NET framework object (specifically,
System.DateTime).  Is there a common paradigm here, for how I can
override the default behavior of DateTime serialization and provide my

I am saving a record to SQL and want to return the ID of the record
added as an output parameter, can you do this in dynamic SQL, without
the use of a stored procedure??
i.e.

My web download program stopped working when IE7 beta 1-3 was installed.
Error when calling OpenRequest in CHttpConnection. The Error is Created by
ASSERT(hFile != NULL) in mehtod CInternetFile::CInternetFile.
My call

Is there a way to change a Service's startup type somewhere in the .net
framework?
I've been messing around with the System.ServiceProcess namespace which
allows me to start, stop and pause services however if the service's

Dear C# Sages,
For my own persistence purposes I need to be able to load an object from
some source and re-fit it with its value that's represented as a string.
Many objects support "Parse" which takes a string input and sets the value

Hi. I have a gridview control on a web form (asp.net 2.0) that's bound to a
objectDataSource. The objectdatasource which is bound to a class I've
written in the DAL to read and update the database. The grid contains three
columns - an  ID (GUID), a name (string) and a rowversion ...