Could it not be possible to have currently discussed and newly posted to
topics returned to the top of the list. It's not long before a topic gets
lost as new ones come up. I have noticed for a long time now that if someone
hasn't the opportunity to post to the topic on a regular ...

    Is multi-targeting possible using Visual Studio Express? If not, do
I have any other options to target a 1.1 framework using Visual Studio
Express? Thanks for your help, Sundar

With newly installed vs 2005, I made a VB project, and it builds cleanly.  I
run the export template wizard for a project template, and the 'import to vs'
check box is checked.  The wizard completes.  When I try to make a new VB
project, the template does not appear under My ...

I need to be able to lock a table against INSERT and UPDATE, but not
SELECT, for the duration of a transaction.
The transaction will be defined at the application level in c#, and
then use stored procedures to make multiple selects and then an

How do I change the settings to allow for my current calendar appointments
and events to be saved for ever or untill I deside to rremove?

I have a windows service running under the local system account. I want to
be able to impersonate the current user logged onto windows. How can I
determine the current user. APIs all seem to return the name of the user
running the current process. ".\LocalSystem" which is not ...

My app scans a subfolder .\DataImporterPlugins\*.dll for assemblies, loads
them in, finds classes that implement IDataImporter, then creates an
instance of that class and shoves it into a list.
In the menu I can then select an instance and the main form will run the

Have you ever used a .net deployment project to install a windows
service? If so, then i ran into an issue recently that maybe you could
shed some light on. I am sure I probably did something wrong, but I am
experiencing something weird and am not sure if it has something to do

Forgive me for stupid questions for I am new to serial IO programming.
I am developing an app that will need to communicate with a device via
RS232 protocol using a standard 9 pin serial cable.  From what I
understand this can be accomplished relativly easy using .net 2.0

I need a regular expression that will force users to enter 10 or 11
digits, but also allow any amount of spaces anywhere. At the moment
I've got
^[0-9]{10,11}$

Hi, I've come across a small issue related to the DateTime class. It
seems to not take daylight savings here (Israel, GMT+2\+3 with DST)
into consideration, No matter the form used.
I've tried the default formats used by ToString, ToShortTimeString and

I have a need to provide options for quickly setting up a developer machine.
When a new person is hired we loose a day or so of work just getting there
box ready for development.
I've seen ghost used for this before but does this cause any issue with

I am developing in VS '03. I have all of the current framework
versions installed on my PC, 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0.
How can I make sure the code I am developing in is using the 3.0
framework version? Or do I need to be using the latest version of

Look at Microsoft and Windows apps in Vista....  They aren't .Net.
If .Net is so great, why doesn't MS use it more?  In fact, what desktop
applications does Microsoft code in .Net?
I think Microsoft avoids major desktop apps in .Net because the performance

There's a problem with what is displayed on a tab in my UI. At first,
it's a message, "loading...". Then it should be replaced with the
actual file name on the tab.
Now the issue is that it takes a long time before the message