Can anyone recommend a source for sample apps that demonstrate UIs that meet
the VISTA UI standards such as "top rules for the windows vista user
experience" http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511327.aspx#aero?
The problem I've found is that ALL samples on the net show off ...

I have an image control which I populate using an api url.  
For example  http://getimage.com?id=1234
where 1234 is a variable I am passing in.
My problem is that the id of the image could be 001234 or 01234.  However, I

Is there a way in which Sqlserver  can notify the dotnet application
when a new column is added . i believe we can not use Query
notifiaction here(correct me if i am wrong) .i am using sqlserver
2005

Is it possible to find out if another process is using a paticular file
(xml)? There does not seem to be anything useful in the File och Filestream
class for this purpose.
regards

Apologies for posting in this forum, I don't see a more appropriate group...
I'm trying to understand the timeline for Window 2003 ending mainstream
support.  I have consulted the MS lifecycle support center for 2K3 and 2K3
R2(http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3198 and

Its been happening ever since the last windows update, the pc just switches
off by itself, on restarting it says that the pc has recoeverd from a serious
error.  I manged to get the following error, hope some one can help me!
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

hi ,when i turn on my laptop i have a message that keeps appearing ,The
system DDL user 32 dll was relocated in memory ,can anyone tell me what this
means ? thanks

I've just done some quick performance tests using various medium-sized
benchmarks and it appears that .NET is vastly faster than Mono. Can anyone
confirm this?
For example, my ray tracer benchmark from the shootout (in C#):

I was looking at my auto updates and was wondering if I need this. It sounds
like a big program for businesses. Is it necessary? It is called SQL Server
Feature Pack
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I was wondering how to manage Virtual Memory usage within a VB app.  I
have a form with a trend on it that takes ~40MB of virtual memory when
it is loaded (depending on the amount of data being plotted).  When
the form is closed, the memory is still being used (even though I call

In my "My Pictures" folder I always had the name of the folder under each
folder when using "thumbnails".  Suddenly the name is not showing and as I
move down through sub folders they  also do not show the folder name.  It is
not until I get to an acual file (photo) that I get a ...

I read that 2 antivirus software cannot be installed together because they
will have conflicts with each other, but will having 2 different antispyware
software cause conflicts with each other?

Hi, can anyone explain what this fault is and how to get rid of it?
Application fault WLanCfgG.exe  A message bow pops up on screen every 3-4
seconds, which I have to clear before I can continue what I'm doing.

Any ideas what I should be looking at?
C#. .Net 2.0

I have a chat-type program that automatically highlights URLs. When
somebody clicks on one of those URLs, I use:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(url);
to start the default browser at that URL. This works, but has a security