What is the difference between what
RegistrationHelper.InsallAssembly
vs
Regasm.exe /tlb

I have a RCW class that was generated by the VS.NET2003 IDE when I added a
COM dll reference to my project. This all works fine when I call methods on
it. My initial problem is that in ASP.NET I would like to add this to the
Session object whilst using SQLServer as the session ...

I need to call functions in the .NET assembly (dll) from an unmanaged application via winAPI calls (LoadLibrary...). I've found examples on how to modify the .IL code of an assembly so I can export the methods needed, but I have a following problem :
Everything works fine when I ...

I can use DirectoryEntry.DeleteTree() to delete a Computer Account but when
there's a problem, the error message always seems to be "Unspecified Error".  
I need to know whether I've got user credentials problems or non-existant
objects.  Reading around the problem, it seems that ...

I've got a problem that can be more or less reliably reproduced.
I've got a com object described in a c++ written com library. There's
also an interop for this library. the object has two interfaces. as
long as use the default interface, everything works fine, but when I

Can anyone give me specific instructions on how to assign a strong name to
microsoft.applicationblocks.data.dll.
I keep getting errors when I try

When using a web service I currently have sometimes I get a dialog box
"Server Busy", not that I mind being told that but I would like to delay it
from coming up so quickly.
Is there a setting somewhere for a timeout time for this dialog box?

Can anyone think of a reason why a 3rd party vendor writing .NET components
would NOT strong name their assemblies?  What harm does adding a strong-name
to assembly present - I would think none whatsoever.
Strong-naming the assembly should benefit the end user just in case he/she

I'm attempting to implement NetLocalGroupAddMembers via pinvoke.  I want to
be able to use either type as the member argument, whcih means using an
intptr rather than a ref to a specific LOCALGROUP_MEMBERS_INFO structure.
My pinvoke signatures:

And I thought COM to Excel was a pain.  Having eventually discovered the tech
note that lays out the idiom for referencing Excel COM objects from .NET, I'm
still getting the familiar memory errors on program termination under certain
circumstances. The problem seems to revolve ...

I have a C++ (mixed .dll managed & unmanaged) to expose a C# class to the
unmanage world.  I'm creating an unmanaged method that calls a C++ managed
method that forwards the request to my C# class.
Traditional unmanaged code -> Unmanaged Wrapper -> Managed Wrapper -> C#

Hello, I got this weird problem. I have an intranet application that needs to
communicate with Active directory. Authentication to Web application is done
by means of active directory accounts.
Now I have this code:

I have a third party assembly that I need to strong name because the C#
project I'm referencing it in will be strong named.
Every time I compile my project I'm getting "Assembly generation failed --
Referenced assembly 'xxxxx' does not have a strong name".

I've started to learn TAPI and I'm trying to dial to a phone
(eventually I wan't to send a voice message to a phone, but right now I
can't even dial properly).
I'm using C# & visual studio 2003,and I imported the TAPI3 com object

I am calling an unmanaged funtion [1] like this [2] and it works but I am
worried that I should be freeing memory allocated to the IntPtr - should I,
and if so, how?
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