Any help you can offer on this would be most welcome.  Its making me pull
out what little hair I have left!
A strange exception is raised occasionally by the following code:
byte[] buffer = new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(toSend);

I wrote a simple test windows forms app with one cs file,
uploaded the exe on the net and was able to execute it.  
The app included buttons and textboxes.
Now I am trying to do the same thing with another

I have an XML file that I wish to load and use with VB.NET.  It is in the
structure:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<sql xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet">

In Borland's VCL there was an InputBox dialog, and also a slight variant
called an InputQuery dialog, which asked the user to input information. I do
not see an equivalent for this in the .NET framework. Does one exist in the
.NET framework ?

I would like to know if there is a way in the .NET to
handle the kill signal if sent to my process.
I want my application to close properly even if the user
is using the task manager to kill the process.

Excuse me if this is not the ploace for this question.
Whemn I start my VB.net program, the IDE start page lists my most recent
projects.  There is a modified column that I would expect to change when I
updated or changed the project.  Mine does not change.  Any help as to why

I have installed Visual Studio.NET 2003 Academic.  It came with a book called
“Visual Studio.NET Walkthroughs.”  I tried to use these walkthroughs to learn
how to use this stuff, but I cannot make a connection to the Pubs database.  
After several days of reading newsgroup posts, ...

in win32, we could call
WaitForMultipleObjects();
is there a parallel method in .NET?
assaf

I have a webservice in c#.net.
I want to send all the responses of the webservice encoded in "iso-8859-1", so that german special characters will be displayed correctly.
I put this line in both files, machine.config and web.config:
<globalization requestEncoding="iso-8859-1" ...

I'm trying to write an XML file. The first thing I want to do is create the
parent node for the document:
eleMenuItems = xmldoc.CreateElement("menuItems")
xmldoc.DocumentElement.PrependChild(eleMenuItems)

I have a context menu which is being built dynamically.
The menu has regular items and group items which contain sub menu
items.
I didn't want to create the menu all at once, so I decided I will

i need to get the computer name from an aspx page.
i use System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.ComputerName()
and it's working fine,
but in second thought, it might not be recomended to use the

I'm creating a recursive function that goes into a database and pulls
everything out as an XML file. I then want to save thisXML file on the
server.
I have this:

When JIT compiles MSIL code to NATIVE code, this NATIVE code is not kept on
the hard disk? To use it at the restart of application?
If it so, why Microsoft will not make it, for increase of productivity?
P.S. Sorry of my english

We have a gSOAP based server running on linux that I am trying to utilize from a .net based client application (C#).  Everything seems to work fine when we are invoking methods with simple parameter types.  Problems seem to arise when I try to invoke a method that contains a ...