We have a web site (intranet) that was created in VS 2003. The site is made
up of mulitple projects. In VS 2003 we setup each part of the website as its
own project/solution. In short we have a main root directory where the main
website stuff is, then we have sub webs that ...

Hi, Folks!!
This may sound stupid to some people but is there a FREEware
integrated developer environment for .NET Framework v1.1 (VB.NET, C#,
J#)?

I've recently experience some trouble with the Crystal designer when
using a typed Dataset.
I create a report (or edit an existing one) and for a datasource I
choose Project Data --> ADO.Net Datasets.. and under there it lists

I am using VB.Net version 2 in a web application.  I have a Navigation
TreeView that is powered by a SiteMapDataSource linked to Web.sitemap file.  
This all works well.
My questions is, how can I programatically hide a node based upon user roles?

To all,
I have a listbox within a gridview that exists in an update panel.  When I
try to get the values of each selected item in my listbox I get nothing.  
When I'm in debug mode I get false for each item that I selected from my

NET1.1 / Winforms
I have a listbox that I am binding to a table via the DataSource property.
However I want to be able to programmatically select values in this listbox
so I am using the code below...

in a .NET 2.0 application, I'm noticing that sometimes the application
simply crashes and exists without showing any message. I have the
impression this has to do with some exceptions that are generated in a
secondary thread (if I'm not mistaken .NET 2.0 shuts down a process if

I need the ability to send an S/MIME encrypted email from a .NET project.  I
gather that this is not supported out of the box by System.Net.Mail.  Can
anyone direct me to a third party component for this?
Thanks.

I'm a developer who, in the mid-nineties, switched from programming on
minicomputers to PCs.
Although an experienced C developer at the time, VB seemed the most
logical choice for many reasons, although I don't particularly care for

Have a web site project with only a few pages. The site is in a solution that
has about 20 projects that are business objects that the site is dependent
on. When I do a build the compiler says "Build succeeded" in about 5 seconds
but then the screen is frozen for about 40 or more ...

We use SQL Server 2000
We user VS 2005
How can we use SQL Server reporting Services?
Thanks,

Using VB.Net .net 2.0
I am looking for an effecient way to delete a directoy and it contents.  The
issue I am facing is there is one or more files and or subdirectory with
files that are marked Readonly.  Therefore the system.io directory.delete

I have the following piece of code:
Directory.CreateDirectory(myDir);
DirectoryInfo lDir = new DirectoryInfo(myDir);
lDir.Attributes = FileAttributes.Normal;

I used the wizard to generate a typed dataset for my table and let it create
my SPROCs.  It created everything, and the GetData() method and the custom
GetByUserName query works great, but when I try to call the Update() method
of my TableAdapter, I get the following:

 I have several processes accessing files from one folder, but only
one process should ever access each file. Once one process has the
file, no other process should be allowed to access it, even after the
first process is finished with it, except in the case where the first