My first question here involves understanding what files are used
where in regards to a dotnet application.
For instance, I see a bunch of .config files. One I opened up looks
like it represents a set of menu items. In fact, it's an XML file with

in web.config in my dot net 1.1 web projects I have my connection
strings in the appSettings section. I usually overruled values by
referencing an external config file holding my devsettings like this:
<appSettings file="devsettings.config"/>

Thanks in advance for reading this.
Let's say I have a file (file01) with this data in ASCII (ignore line col):
line01  123abc
line02  Header01 Starts blah var

Hi All :-)
I'm not sure where to post this, but my organization is looking for a good software application that is not terribly expensive that allows you to create documentationand help files and is able to be integrated into a .Net application.  Any suggestions?   Any help, ...

I have an application that needs to conform to some finicky clients.
The goal is to make the application an asp.net app and host it on the
web for our clients which has many benefits as everyone knows. However,
some clients will not be too happy about us hosting their data and

I have a datagridview and some Buttons on a form. When I drag the form down
to increase its size at run time, i want the datagridview also to increase
in size so that i can view all the data in the grid at a time, instead of
scrolling.

I'm having a very strange problem I can't seem to figure out and am hoping
maybe somebody has seen it before.
I get an exception "Cast string to date is invalid" with this chunk of code:
' class member

I am getting this error when trying to compile code generated using
xsd.exe:
The type 'TrailerList' already contains a definition for
'rCMSTrailerListRow'    c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary

I need to create a multipart request to UPS manifest upload electronic
service. UPS wants the request to consist of a series of headers and
bodies, and its not clear how can I use the HttpWebRequest object to do
this. there is the Headers collection, but I don't think it will give

I have one basic simple question. When I have multiple records in the
datagrid as follows:
Code  Product 1    Product 2       Product 3
11111     A                B                   C

Can anyone recommend a good reference for MSIL?  Something that details the
instructions in the language.  Are there any books written on this subject or
just web based documents?

Newbie question related to assemblies in GAC
If I have a business component in the GAC, and the component uses some
context (say it is a windows application ... and so i manually set up a
context ) ...to cache some variables. Will this cache be long-lived and

Back in 2002 there was a huge thread going where .NET's longevity was
questioned and predictions made as to its demise.
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csha...
Seeing that it has been 5 years (well almost, 3 months left to go but

How can i view the source code for .NET's internal dlls. (System.XML
dll for my case)
I have seen an app which does this but i cant remember its name or find
it on the net.

I launch two programs in a machine.
These programs communicate each other by TCP socket.
(OS : Windows Server 2003 x64)
Here is my question.