I'm going bald anyhow and this thing is getting me pulling the last of my
hair out.
I have installed the latest .Net framework on XP Pro running SP2.  It
creates the following folders...

Every time I try to generate a string name key pair on my machine. I keep
getting this error "Failed to generate a strong name key pair -- Access is
denied.". I have tried giving persmission to the folders, where I needed the
key, but it still keeps throwing the error.

I want to use .net components for my vb6 client, the vb6 client would
not be installed alongwith the .netframework. If I export my .net
library which inturn uses many underlying features of the clr, will
that library run fine on COM client with no runtime installed ?

I was told .net uses ThreadPool to manage the threads generated by the
asynchronous methods automaticly, I had written a program with C# such as  
 In MainMethod
 ……

We've got a email regular expression validator that currently looks
like the following:
\w+([-+.]\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*
This is mostly fine, but doesn't allow email addresses with single

plz help me in displaying image on button in windows form from a url
or website.I am using C#.The image should not be stored on local
computer...the function shud get the image directly from the website
and display it on the button

I'm confused. Of the number of ppl selling VS Net 2003 Pro Academic, one
persons says there are 2 CDs, another 4, another 7 and yet another 9!!??
They all claim to be selling the Academic Pro version and have sealed boxes.
BTW, how is this different from the FULL version.

Hi,
I have an idea but I need some help. Basically I want to create an object
that is used to communicate between the front end of my application and the
database. This object will be used by my data layer to execute stored

Hi, I'm creating active directory users programatically and everything works
fine, but I could notice that the UserLogonName on the microsoft Active
directory Console is not set.
Does anybody have some idea how to set it correctly ?

How do I test for existence of a file in the file system:
If FileExists(myVariable & ".pdf") = True
   pnlMyPanel.Visible = True
End If

I am programming a multi-threaded asyncronous server with .NET
But when systems thread count reaches to 1350 system can't respond.
Simply my design is creating a Reading Thread after every Accept.
And creating a Writing Thread when server sends data.

A couple of questions...
Does the BeginInvoke call spawn a new managed thread, or does it use the
thread pool?
If I pass a delegate for a callback (which _is_ executed on the ThreadPool),

These Attributes seems very similar to C++ template.
What do you think about it?
Thanks,
C.G.

I am new to C++, using VS NET 2003
I used the wizard to create a simple MFC Application project and did not
add or change anything.
When I try to compile there are many errors, the first is really strange:

Does source code of base classes of .NET is available for developers?
Borland always has published a main part source code of the VCL (Delphi).
Does Microsoft too?
Regards,