I'm sorry - but I need some help understanding what's going on in the
framework when it comes to IL and executable.
Consider this simple code:
Imports System

I've got an ASP.NET web app that generates dynamic excel spreadsheets
via COM.  It
does this work in a seperate subdirectory called "reports" and uses
impersonation of the ReportWriter account in its own Web.config file in

Background:
We are currently working on an ETL project, moving tons of data into
multiple tables in a database. Due to the amount of work, the process bogs
down the database server when the work is done from feed tables on the

I really like channel9.msdn.com. It would be awesome if instead of 1000
blogs on blogs.msdn.com, a few key individuals could actually do videocasts
instead. Each videocast should be accompanied with an rss feed that I could
launch thru any news reader. That way I could scan the ...

I have a C++ application from which i can start a .NEt library as a dialog  
from the toolbar menu. If the .NET framework is not installed i want to gray
out the toolbar button that starts the .NET dialog component. So my question
is:

I have created a rectangle that is filled with a solid color (5 of them) and
drew them along with the text into the Menu items using the MeasureItem and
DrawItem Events and it worked great.
The problem that I am experiencing is that when you move your mouse through

Until recently, I was able to send e-mails running my ASP.NET app
locally in debug mode. Recently I got XP Service Pack 2, and notice
now I can't send emails from localhost. Is this svc pack 2 security
related? Can I set something in Windows firewall to re-enable my

how do i convert array of 4 byte to integer. I have a byte(4) byte(0)=0,
byte(1)=0 byte(2)=0 and byte(4)=37. This is equal to 37 int32 number. How do
i convert it to the integer.

I am writing a client to request game server information. All of the servers
use UDP to accept commands and send responses. Most of the servers are fine,
but every once in a while a server sends back more than 2k (2048 bytes) of
data and it gets truncated. No matter how large I ...

I have a treeview that is 3 level deep with parent, children, and grand
children. How do I assign focus to a child when user does an specific task?
(In the following example Child2 needs to get focus. Treeview is expanded and
GChild6 has focus)? Thanks in advance

My application open 5 ZIP files and read Entry from all 5 files.
and first 5 times all is fine,
but then I have following Exception :
Exception: System.ObjectDisposedException

I want to use reflection to check if a given class inherits from
UserControl. The solution would need to consider the possibility that the
class does not inherit directly from UserControl but goes through several
layers. Besides creating an instance of the control and doing ...

I have a Windows project (VB.net) that has two forms. The first form performs
some I/O operations and displays some SQL data on a third party grid (Janus).
It also contains a button that opens the second form.
The second form reads some SQL data and also displays in another grid ...

With C#, is there a way to programatically control the mute on a PC?
I would like to be able to turn it on and off via my application.
Thanks,
John

I’m learning C# and already know VB .Net.  I noticed that C# you have a
Static Void Main () (entry point of the app).
Well that got me thinking, I was told that VB.net removed “The Black Box”
of software (hidden code). Where is my Shared sub Main ()? When I create a