Microsoft announced that it will be releasing its source code for the .Net
libraries.  But, don't get too excited at Microsoft's new SHARED source
initiative.
According to CNET (at http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9790863-7.html), "The

A few days ago, I opened my laptop to find that my monitor was going crazy.
Vertical red lines, font size has increased, just general craziness. A
windows error pop up tells me that I have a graphic driver display problem.
How do I fix this?

I have windows xp media edition; the view on the monitor has turned sideways,
can someone help put it back? Please!

I have created a Web project in Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. I
cannot compile my project because of the following error (translated from
Polish):
Error 1 File or assembly cannot be loaded 'System.Web.Extensions,

Can someone please tell me the difference between HttpUtility.UrlEncode
server.urlencode and urlencode.
Thanks

I know I can make an ActiveX dll in .NET and it uses interop.
So I end up with 2 files, the .dll and the interop file.
I also know I need to use Regasm or something like that to register the .dll
as a COM object.

I have been designing an application in Visual Studio 2005, and just about
everything is working, except all of my events run twice.  They run through
correctly, but then they randomly run through a second time.  For example, if
I click cancel on the main form, it properly ...

I must be blind, I am developing in MS Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 and can't
seem to find a simple drop down menu in the tool box. I see a ComboBox, a
MenuStrip and a ContextMenuStrip but no simple drop down menu. Am I blind or
just missing something?

I've having trouble searching within the
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.microframework
newsgroup.  In the Search For: box, I enter "porting" (no quotes), select
the newsgroup as listed above, and click Go.

We developped a workstation Windows C++ application (COM, Win32) - so
unmanaged code.
We want to develop a server application that communicates with these
client applications.

I am the Director of a group home for boys and need a way of adding secure
pages to my site so parents and others with passwords only can access
confidential information on their sons/clients referred to the home.  Is
there a way to add these types of pages to my website using ...

I have a few 3rd party DLLs whcih my application requires. These are
all registered in GAC. When I run my application it throws an weired
exception. Exception comes from those dlls.  When i spoke to vendor,
He said that a dll is missing because of which i am getting thsi

Is there a best practices document for C# coding or CLR usage to allow
all of the "green PC functions" to be used? For example, the old way I
used to do multithreaded stuff (wrapped spinlocks) I discovered does
not let the CPU(s) sleep.

Is there any way to programmatically update (add custom words) to the
custom.dic file (office's custom dictionary file) using .NET (vb or c#)?  Any
com interface?  I tried looking in the
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Dictionary class without any luck, thanks in

 I need to obtain all the values in the table BannedItem in the SQL
server and fill them accordingly into a dataset in the VB.NET
application. Then I need to DO A SELECT statement and execute the
command in a loop to read the contents in the DATASET to get the