How do I write to the event log in a Windows Service that does not
have administrator privileges? The target platforms are Windows Server
2003 and Windows XP Professional.

if anyone can help me with this i would apreciate it.
I have 2 drop down lists, and between them, they have some values that
are similar. How can i fill the second drop down and remove the item
thats selected in the first drop down, so that the same item doesnt

why can't I find TreeView control in Toolbox?where is this useful control?

I am trying to display a currency value formated according to the current
culture in ASP.NET:
decimal x = 125345.54M;
string currencyString = String.Format("{0:c}",x);

I'm having some really wierd problems getting my web server running properly.  I was having these problems and couldn't figure out what was wrong so i've reformatted and reinstalled XP on my machine but the problems still persist.  Not sure when it started in the first place
What ...

Whats the danger in doing:
C:\...\caspol -enterprise -addfulltrust L:\foo.exe
foo is a local network (non-web based) application that
references internal databases and general web based

I have some dates stored in a database.  They are based on a fixed time zone (not GMT don't ask why). I want to know the offset between the local time and the time stored in the database. Is there an easy way to figure out the time span difference between the local time and an ...

Does anyone know why I get this when I try to build a solution and what I
need to get rid of it? I am exposing COM to .net (i.e. creating .NET
assemblies to Excel(which is COM).
Thanks

I'm using C# and having a little thread communication problem :
-one thread (and its associated object) receives UDP packets using the
UdpClient class
-another object (say Object2) needs to raise an event from another thread

Is there a relatively simple way in .NET to spawn a new process (also
written in .NET) and pass parameters to that process other than using the
command line arguments, temporary files or something more advanced like
sockets etc ?  I'd like to pass a string parameter containing XML ...

I have same situation when I tried to install dotnet framework 1.1. The
installation failed.
My machine is a windows 2000 server , service pack 4 has been applied.
The error message is: Error 1935.An error occured during the installation of

I have the following function which does a simple HTTP POST and reads the
results. I had this working a couple of weeks ago, but I obviously made some
change that now causes any URL to return a timeout (the
HttpWebRequest.Timeout period expires). I've tested this on 3 different

I have a query return in a XML string. My XML result looks like:
<activities>
   <activity>
       <subject>Win the Nobel</subject>

I have been a visual studio 6.0 user and have a great deal of code
I wish to port to .net  Are the project files for visual c++ and visual
basic portable to .net?
TIA

This is a design / inheritance qus.
I have class Task.
This is a base class for some specific tasks
Say