Is there a way to get the path to the temp directory where installation
files are unpacked to?
Also is there a way to specify in a deployment package that a file should
not be installed anywhere but simply included into the package? E.g. I want

Dear friends,
I am a fresh candidate who like to learn dot net. Is there any free  
downloads so that i can do some sample programs and run it.or is there
anyother way to learn it thru net.

Lets say I have the following XML:
<Person>
 <Name/>
 <Age/>

Okay, I understand that the Tech Preview for the Microsoft .Net Framework
v1.1 SP1 has ended over a week ago, but when will the final version be
available?
I also hear that the Windows XP Service Pack 2 CR-ROM is supposed to include

I was debugging an error in a C# application (.NET framework 1.1) and I found
out a behaviour that I'm not able to understand.
In the following code snippets I report  3 cast situations.
Could anybody  explain me what's going on in case 3 ?

I've implemented an elegant way to provide a plug-in, hierarchical,
architecture to our application with sub-application isolation -
AppDomains. These AppDomains are loaded and unloaded as neccessary
within the application. Both synchronous and asynchronous events that

I'm trying to change/update my local IIS 5.1 to .NET Framework 1.1 so I can
work w/Visual Studio .NET. The instructions (which have worked fine in
another computer) ask me to issue the following command from the DOS prompt:
"%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_regiis ...

the validation controls dont work on Netscape or Mozilla and only on
Internet Explorer
why? How do i correct this problem?
Thanks

i need to know how to test the presence of dotnet framework in XP pro OS
if testing an application without the .Net frame work what errors it displays
can i validate the presence of .Net framework in the OS]

I have installed the Visual Studio .Net 2003 Professional in Windows 2000
Professional SP4 with IIS 5.1. When I try to open the ASP.NET Web Application
project in Visual Studio 2003, the following error displayed.
"Visual Studio .NET has detected that the specified Web Server is ...

When calling the Save(filename, imageFormat) method of a System.Drawing.Image
object, I get a NullReferenceException shown below.  I get the exception if I
create a new stream writer pointed to the file I want to save, and give the
Image.Save method the BaseStream of the new ...

I have noticed that when I try to run a process using ProcessStartInfo
to set a really long argument, over 33,000 characters. The whole
string doesn't get passed into the process being started.
Specifically I am using the System.Diagnosis.Process class to run

Is CLR a process or a thread?
If it's a process, what's the name? If it's a thread, what's the name of its
parent process?

Does anyone have the link to the latest service pack?  I was able to fin
.Net 1.0 SP3 but not .Net 1.1 SP1.

Does anybody know where I can find the matrix computation components in .NET
framework?
Do I need to use a third-party one or there's one that comes with the
framework libraries?