.Net's Mutex object seems to ignore (or internally consume) a WAIT_ABANDONED
condition if the owning thread is aborted.  The next thread waiting on the
Mutex gets the mutex with no error.  If this is by design, it would seem to
be a dangerous design choice.  Normally another thread ...

By design File.Exists method returns false if the caller does not have permission, even if the file actually exists at the specified path. No exception is thrown
How can I differentiate between a case where file is truly not found and a case where there are no  permissions
Thanks

I recieve the following error when I run my ASP.Net application
Server Error in '/' Application.
Parser Error
Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to

I'm playing with an application that needs to send binary serialized objects across the network... I'm wondering what the best method to do this would be? Specifically, I'm wondering how best to tell the application that it has received the entire binary package?
With a ...

I am writing a custom formatter to serialize controls to a text file. It largely works (at least I keep thinking that)
My current problem is that when a form is deserialized in the designer, the screen is updated properly and the properties show correctly in the editor window, but ...

How Can I get the IPAddress of the client connecting to my server
I understand that it is available after using AcceptSocket, but I already wrote everything with AcceptTCPClient
I just want the IPAddress for Logging purposes
Thanks

I have a c# project who load some other c# assemblies.
I took one of the dll assemblies and ran the Dotfuscator and produce the
output assembly.
I added this assembly to the project (add reference) and the project doesn't

Hey Gang
  I am getting the following message when I try to run VS .Net on my Windows 2000 server machine
   "Visual Studio .net has detected that the secified web server is not running asp.net version 1.1...
 Before installing VS.Net, I uninstalled the trial version, and ...

gacutil seems to be something that users really need on occasion to clear
the download cache.
Is gacutil included in the Redistributable package or the SDK package?  It
really should be in the Redistributable if it is not.

How do I include the Visual Styles for XP in the resource?  Don't want to
use "Application.EnableVisualStyles" because the program needs to run with
.NET 1.0 also and also would perfer not to use a manifest file.

Does managed code implement anything like the GetAsyncKeystate call found in
win32.
I want to check the status of the control and/or shift keys sometimes.
Thank you

We have a hosting app that creates AppDomains and calls
ExecuteAssembly on the appdomain instance.  Under normal execution
this works fine, however under certain work-flows, a third party
component creates a foreground thread which may not terminate

I'm making a client/server program which use a tcp/ip connection. Client and Server
have no problem to communicate by strings.
But I want to know if it is possible (and how) to send a file (acrobat reader file) with
a tcp/ip connection.

Does anyone know if an object or how to create one, that will allow me to
fetch up to 10 URLs (containing XML-feed data) in an extremelly fast server
side fashion?
If the request is taking longer than it should, the object would need to be

I need to configure, establish, monitor and terminate a DialIn-RAS connection. Are there any objects in .NET Framework for that?