I have an application that uses Crystal Reports using stored
procedures.  The application worked fine using VisualStudio 2003.
However, when I upgraded to VS 2005 I started getting a popup screen
when I ran the application requesting a database login.  The popup was

The Zune software does not detect my Zune device for the 2nd time in 3 weeks.
what am I doing wrong? This time i following zune net instructions I cannot
get the device to connect the software?

I have a vb.net program that leaks handles as reported by task manager.  
After running for a couple of hours, task manager reports over 1000 handles,
and it continues to grow.  I think I am failing to close or dispose
something.  I've looked at the code and can't spot the problem ...

to all,
I was wondering if anyone has sample code that I can use to get information
about a computer in active directory.  For example, I want to know the date
to when a computer was joined to a domain.  Here is what I'm using so far but

i am facing problems while executing the query using ADO.NET,the
problem goes below:
i am  using ExecuteDataset(sqlTran, CommandType.Text, query) and my
query is this

Im workin with an app that checks for incoming files to a given folder
using a FileSystemWatcher object. My problem is that if the file is
too big, the Created event fires before the file is completely copied
to the folder, and it result in IOException, the file is been used by

I have written a windows service (VB2005) that works fine when tested on my
box.
I now need to install it on a server that does not have VS2005 on it.
How can I do this without using InstallUtil? ( I am not allowed to install

Is there a simple tool available (preferably shareware or open source)
that I can use that will scan my VB.NET 1.1 solution and tell me how
many lines of code there are in it?
If there's an open source project, that would be spectacular, as I'd

 I am in search of a tool that checks the performace of my project so
that I am able to improve the code accordingly.I found a nice tool
FXcope that is Microsoft free tool it helps a lot.But it takes input
as DLL of the project that I have to check.

is there any way to change view mode of an url in address bar
like this
http://www.xxx.com/NEWS.ASPX ---> http://www.xxx.com/NEWS.Html
or

I am currently working on a project which will allow our users to
print invoices, delivery notes, etc. using Crystal Reports. The basic
premise is that the print job details are saved into the database and
then picked up by a windows service which polls the database

i dont know if this is the correct group to address my problem, but i just
try here
I have an installation package (msi file) for my software  which works fine.
Now i want to start the installed software as last step of the installation

is there a inbuilt function as ArrayList in c#?

what parameters need to be sent to the Parse method to successfully
parse a string in the format of "1.1F"

VB.NET VS 2005.
I have a Form1 Base Class with one default and one overload constructor:
Sub New
 InitializeComponent