I have been working as a Senir .NET Developer for the past 4 years and worked
with VB6 and Classic ASP for 4 years previous to this.
I have did an interview recently for an Architect Role. They asked how I
approached Design and also what methodologies I used.

I am using the FSW (FileSystemWatcher) in VS2005 but it seems to raise
at least two events on the FSW.Changed event when I replace an existing
file in a folder with a replacement.
Any idea what is causing 2 events to be raised istead of just one?  I am

Can anyone explain how references to style sheets work, I've exhausted
looking in help, its all so confusing. I have three style sheets in my
project under 'Style Sheets'. Only the first style sheet seems to work. If I
refer to a class in one of the other two, I do not get the ...

I would like to develop an API which provides lot of methods. Out of all the
methods as per the user can override the methods.But I don’t want to override
all the methods.
Can any one suggest in this scenario how I can design my class? Whether I

Is there any documentation on what user interface elements dot.net supports.
I'm not interested in any implementation details, only what controls there
are and what they can do regarding a user interface. For instance the Data
Grid, what does it allow me to do regarding selecting ...

I'm trying to read out the header of a Multipage-Tiff.
By I don't know how to do it.
I can read out the IFD of the Tiff but not the header.
Does anybody know how to do it?

I have developed a Client application in C#. I am sending some message in
the form of string to a server application. At the end of the message a 4
byte Checksum is appended.
Now the problem is that when I send message to server after calculating and

I have two forms in an assembly that I am localising. Both source files lie
in a project subfolder Forms\Addresses (mirrored in the disk directory
structure). When I localise form A and compile, the resource (output in the
obj directory, and in the compiled assembly as confirmed ...

For the life of me, I can't seem to merge main menu items from child to
parent with MDI forms.  I can merge sub-menus, but not main menu items.
So I have a parent form with:
File   Windows  Help

I am not able to set the PAssword field of a tables logInfo structure ???
I do it as follow :
For Each crTable In rptDoc.Database.Tables
           crReportTabeLoginfo = crTable.LogOnInfo

Sincerely wanting to know how to subscribe to
microsoft.public.dotnet.language.csharp. I have contacted my ISP
regarding the problem that I cannot access
microsoft.public.dotnet.language.csharp through their news server. Their

I have a weired problem recently. I uses Windows 2003 Server and ClearCase
as source control. When I checked out a file from ClearCase, VS 2003 still
see it as ReadOnly. When trying to save the modified file, I got "Access is
denied" error. I don't have this problem with VS 6.0 ...

If we have to  run multiple instance of a exe and each instance need to have
its own CPU assignment , how can we do it.
Ex:
Let us say there is a Master EXE  master.exe which creates Processes say 3

I created a C++ console application (.Net) and wanted to use string class
instead of wchar_t. I included <string.h> and declared a variable as string
data type. But compiler didn't recognize string class. What else should I do?
Thanks in advance!!!

Hello all....
I'm developing a web app VB 2005. Is it possible to declare/pass a user
control as a parameter in a function?
For example, I create a user control called ucMyControl, and on the page