Is it ok to use an object whos equality is determined by reference as the
key to a hashtable?
   Thanks,
           Brandon

I am trying to download a image that is generated by PHP using
HttpWebRequest, I believe the server uses cookies to generate the image, but
I keep getting the error image from the server.
Can anyone help?

I want to pass arguments and shell an exe from my install project.
This exe in turn installs some third party runtime files that are
being used in my appliation. How can I do it?

Hola a todos, ando fascinado con esto de .net alguien me puede orientar
donde ubico tutorial o manual en espa?ol sobre ado.net para poder manejar
bases de datos, ya que odio los asistentes pues no se que hacen realmente y
se pierde parte del control de la aplicaci?n, me gusta ...

I had an update function in software I wrote. IT worked great for the
people in my time zone. It would check a file on a server and a file on
their computer and if it appeared earlier than the update it would
download to them.

While installing Windows XP SP 2, I noticed that several files copied were
actually .NET Framework files (not sure which version).
What's the idea behind this? Have changes been made to the FCL for Windows
XP SP 2? If so, what's the impact? How are users on older OSes going to get

How can we obfuscate without disabling renaming and using a setup
project a project which includes a custom dll?
If I attempt to do so after I change the reference path to the
obfuscated dll the project bombs. If I disable renaming it appears to

I'm new to the windows service area. I have built a few of the examples of a
windows service (in C#) that are available on the net. Everything goes to
plan and they each install successfully with the Installutil.exe prog. My
trouble starts when I attempt to start the service, i get ...

i would like to know what are the dotnet languages are avilable and what are
the dotnet languages are going to be released by microsoft or other 3-party
members.
apart from windows is there any OS version avilable for .net framework.

My project has a series of icons; 20x20 pictureboxes populated with
bitmaps. The bitmaps/images come from a DLL. The VB.NET DLL that is
called has a form in it, which has pictureboxes containing each
available picture. A picture is requested from the DLL as follows:

I needed to write a ping tool with VB.NET. Since there are many examples on
how to create the neccessary ICMP paket, this was not so hard at the first
glance.
Then a strange error occured:

I write dll library which one of it component will be Net socket
communication. Communication is working very good, but i've got problem when
client is connecting. When server is started, client is connecting without
problems; but when servre is down and i start client, client ...

Since .Net framework installation ngens the system library would it be a
good thing to reinstall the .Net framework after a CPU upgrade (PIII -> P4,
it wouldn't be just an upgrade to a faster version of the same CPU)? Or do
ngened assemblies re-ngen themselves when the actual CPU ...

How can I determine in code if a class library dll is being run in
ASP.NET/IIS as opposed to a WinForms application?
Thanks
-Bill

Please could somebody tell how to define a compiler constant.
By this I mean define an Item in the configuration properties, called
"TestCode"
To do this choose configuration properties and then from "Active Solution