I am developing a outlook COM addin which adds two command bars
and some buttons to that command bars. I wrote  the code to  add command
bars and command buttons in the ONConnection Event. But command bars and
command buttons are adding to outlook after outlook splash ...

   is there a way to know the height of a string printed in a rectangle? I
mean. I would like to create a rectangle high enough to contain all the
string but I don't want to increase the width so I have to determine the
height the string will have when printed in order to create a ...

I have written the following Win app in VB.NET 2003 . The class is simply
picture boxes that behave in a random order after they have been
instantiated and added to a form. When I create 15 or more instances of my
class, the whole program runs slowly in a way that I have to close ...

The company I work for has several vb.net windows apps. Our config
files all start with
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
We have trouble if we edit the config file in notepad and save. We

I have the following problem:
I have a TCP/IP server/client program(s) programmed with the
TcpListener/TcpClient class. The communication uses port 13000.
- It work fine from Windows2000(Client) to WindowsXP(Server)

Hi Expert,
Is there a way to obtain assembly name in an unmanaged call? During Interop
call between managed to unmanaged, I would like to know in unmanaged code
about the caller of assembly file name?

From a console app, I have created a seperate AppDomain with
"CreateInstanceAndUnwrap" and placed object instances inside it.
Now in a seperate class, instanced by the console app, I want to get
at the instance inside the AppDomain and execute a method.

I think I'm missing something obvioius here - but I can't figure out where
to get the version details of an assembly.
I'm looking at the [Assembly] object, and I can't see anything (other than
ImageRuntimeVersion, which is the Runtime, not the actual assembly version).

I am interested in know how work the  data serialization in .Net Framework
with C#.
Thanks,
Constanza.

I'm no doubt missing the blindingly obvious here - but where's the event on
a Form that indicates that is has either been minimized or restored? (is
there one?)
Thanks everyone.

I have this C++ code I'm trying to port to VB .Net:
 HANDLE g_hImageReady = NULL; // Event for when image is ready to transfer
 //
 // Initialize the globals

In vb.net, visual basic, I have created a toolbar with several buttons on a
windows form.  The text for the buttons is too long, so I would like to make
it appear on 2 lines.  How do I do this?

I was wondering if there was any advice out there or best practices regarding
ASP.NET communicating with a VB.NET service. I need to send some simple
commands to a VB.NET service I built, what is the recommended way of doing
this? Is there a way to use web services to do this or ...

When the following code is execute and the file already exists, the file is
not actually deleted (in file properties - created date does not change) -
but only the modified and accessed date changes.
No exception is raised.

Is this possible using only C# Express?
I recently downloaded express, having been a VS 2003 user for a few
years.
I converted a project to express to test out some of the new language