This is a sort of pattern question, but relating to how components are
coupled in a three-tier system.
I have a presentation layer, business layer and data access layer, the first
is the EXE, whilst the other two are implemented as DLLs. The EXE also

I can't find where to locate My computer.

Hello everyone. I have a PowerPoint Presentation that is 218 slides that
includes animated gifs and sounds and everything. Currently they are online
where the user will have to download the files to thier computer to view the
presentation. I need a way to maybe embed the ...

I'm having trouble executing the FileSystem.CopyFile method because of some
strange behaviour of FileInfo.
The problem occurs when using the constructor of the FileInfo class. I pass
a filename of a file that doesn't exist, but when I check if the file exists

I have understood Data Sets but what is meant by  typed/untyped/
strongly typed datasets. Can any one explain me or suggest any site/
article,   to get  these concepts (and  their  comparisions) cleared?
Thanks,

If the following question is not the appropriate newsgroup, please direct me
to the appropriate newsgroup.
I'm working on an application that must listen for files being added,
modified, or removed from a specified folder; or one of it's subdirectories.  

After several days of playing with Linux I just told the update manager to
update all components of the OS and all installed programs.
After completing it's tasks my machine now refuses to boot.  But will allow
me to boot to the old version of the OS.

just installed visual studio.net 2003, upgrade for version 2002, install was
ok, but when i launch it for first time, its asking for a valid product key,
but never gives a prompt to enter, it gives a preparing to install window,
then it just it just quits???

I try to connect to Exchange server using MAPI. I need to access a special
user inbox and read all his new mails.
The code I wrote work good, but I get my inbox instead of the user I need.
Here the code :

Hi guys, I have a notify Icon, but when I call showBallonTip, the
balloon does not show. any reason why?
here is my call:
Me.NotMemberServ.ShowBalloonTip(5000, "New Member IDs", iCountNew & "

We are developing a Windows client using .NET 2.0 and C#. We have
decided to use MVC based architechture due to its obvious advantages.
This application shows data from database in a Grid. We want to add a
functionality of Printing grid and export grid to XL sheet. I would

i've been using my windows xp for 3 years and might have to reformat and
can't find my product key, my windows is legal and activated, is there a
place on computer to find it

I was curious as to peoples thoughts on using tools such as
MyGeneration/CodeSmith to generate business objects as opposed to using
datasets? We currently use datasets, for various reasons I *suspect* we want
to move away from using them....

I am currently serializing an object called Value to and StringBuilder
as follows:
XmlSerializer Serializer = new XmlSerializer(Value.GetType());
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

I am currently C++/Win32/MFC & C# programmer using VS.NET 2002 and jumped
into VS.NET 2003 but that was a waste so I skipped VS.NET 2005 cause buying
VS.NET 2003. Now after checking out VS.NET 2008 Beta2 I think VS.NET 2008 is
worth the upgrade. But I want to hold off(five+ years ...