Is there a book or a site where they give you the equivalent functions in
.NET of the Windows API functions. There are several Windows API functions I
used in VB6 that I would like to use in DOTNET. I think microsoft posted at
one time on there msdn site but I can no longer find ...

All, if I had a string that looked like:
"This user has a username of - brian hammer"
or
"This user has a username of - Any Number Of Characters"

(I'm assuming this forum is for c# ?) how do I have a richTextBox highlight
everything inside the "<" and ">" tags, including the tags themselves, in
blue? I've searched and posted on another site, but I haven't found anything
that really answeres my question. thanks for your ...

How do I install or make sure I have the correct Provider for
OleDbDataReader.  On  my development machine (XP Pro, SP2, VS.net 2k3)
everything works and I have the 'VFPOLEDB.1' provider available.  How do I
a) make sure this provider is provided and installed in my setup package ...

My first program is close to finshing, but when I download Application
Verifier from MS, it come up with 5 errors and 3 warnings  and some of them I
can't seem to fix, can anyone help me out or give me the meaning of the
errors?

I am trying to write an app that uses serialization however I'm getting an
error 'System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException occurred in
mscorlib.dll
Additional information: BinaryFormatter Version incompatibility.  Expected

I'm implementing a windows service using C# and dotnet. This service must be
able to be registered multiple times, and based on it's servicename I would
like to lookup parameters for the current instance in registry.
I think

I made an application to request webpages from the internet and it works
fine on the most of the uris but with that specific uri I need to query it
does not work. That url would be:
http://v3.espacenet ...

When the process aft.exe is started normally (double click on .exe file),
everything works OK!
When I start aft.exe from a service using Process.Start(), aft.exe crashes
when the sound card or a USB device is accessed.

Hi to all!
Well, I just noticed the new Framework 2.0 Beta and its SDK. I downloaded
ans installed the framework redistributable and then downloaded its SDK for
WinXP. Well, although I've downloaded about 3 times, it fails decompression

Hey Group,
Hoping someone can help me out.  I have some code which starts up some
asynchronous code using a delegate.  The code is below.  Basically my
main code (not shown) calls ServerThreadStart.StartServer to start the

  I assume that merely loading a .net dll in memory via
Assembly.LoadForm does not compile the dll into machine code...does it
make sense to loop through the classes defined in the dll and create
them...will this ensure that the classes are JITed...please help...

  I have developed a client .net application...that takes 3 seconds
to load after the machine has been booted...now after the user closes
this exe and lauches it again, it takes less than a second to lauch...
Is MS storing something in memory? Does this mean that after I

I suspect that this problem is a browser issue but just want to get some
opinions. I have an iframe with a submit button. If I click the submit
button, I get an event for the button and at the end of the event, I
Response.Redirect(parent). The parent then get !Page.IsPostBack and ...

How do you write unmanaged code in vb.net?  Currently, If I need to write an
installer or a small program that should not be managed by the .net
framework then I have have to use vb6.0.  Is there a way to make small
programs that will run without the .net framework in VS.NET?