Is it possible to change the search path for an assembly at runtime from the
Application's folder or GAC to a different folder of choice? Specifically, I
have written a UserControl which in turn consumes other 3rd party assemblies.
I don't want to keep the 3rd party assemblies in ...

I am developing a C# windows application that will allow a user to send an
e-mail to an SMS server when events happen in the system. I was going to use
System.Web.Mail namespace and use the smtpmail class to compose and send the
mail.

There is many things in the design of the .NET type system
I do not understand why it should be like that:
1. Why are we not allowed to provide parameterless constructors
   for value types? (I find it a large limitation, since I sometimes

I am using C# 2.0 (Visual Studio 2005 Beta)
I create a xsd by drag-drop a SQL table into a Dataset designer, which is in
turn compled by the MSDataSetGenerator to create a strong typed dataset
object.  (The "usual" way, nothing special).  It has created a few classes,

I have a very simple issue that I often come up against. I'm just wondering
what the common consensus is on dealing with it.
I have a Project class, that has amongst other properties, an int representing
a ProjectManager. The question is what should I do when I want more details

More than once in the .NET documentation, they say, "By convention, event
delegates in the .NET Framework have two parameters: The source that raised
the event, and the data for the event [which is an instance of the EventArgs
class, or of a class that's derived from EventArgs]."

I don't know if this is the correct newsgroup to post this question, but
here goes.
I have installed Visual Studio .Net Professional 2003.  I checked the
version and it is 7.1.3088.  It says in the books that I have read, that this

Im writing a windows service in C# and I get the following error when trying
to enumerate all shellwindows
"COM object with CLSID {9BA05972-F6A8-11CF-A442-00A0C90A8F39} is either not
valid or not registered."

What is the relation between .Net (2002, 2003) & .Net Framework (v1.0, 1.1..)
Is one a subset of the other?

I have an app that has a process bar on it and it sends and retrieves data
back and forth to a web page using WebRequest and WebResponse.  The stream
is received from the web page and written into a memorystream then written
to a file on the hard drive.  When the app's start ...

I've come to a problem that I am not able to solve, although something is
telling me there must be a solution.
Let's say I have a class MyType:
public class MyType

I have a framework console application being used to send a file as an
attachment.  The application works fine running as any user until the
attachment size gets above about 100K.  An administrative user can send an
attachment of any size but normal users seem to be limited to ...

I have copied the associated interfaces from MSDN below. The problem is that
I do not completely understand why it is designed in that way? What is ISite
for and is it really useful? And finally does anybody know new enhancements
in this design on Whidbey?

i heard a rumor that microsoft is throwing dot net out the window. is this
true?

How do I know which programs can be unchecked in
msconfig?  I keep getting the message that i am running
dangerously low on resources .  There are lots of programs
checked in msconfig.  I am sure some of them can be