Can you recommend some good books on Exception Handling (at all levels
- UI, Biz and Data)?
Thanks,

How do i change the back color of MessageBox

I have an application that runs as a service. It needs to parse a websites
dom using mshtml. The problem is, to get the document I'm trying to use the
WebBrowser control. That barfs though and says that the control can't run
unless the application is setup as STA. I've marked the ...

This is not a specific question, rather just asking for advice and
drawing upon your prior experiences.
I am in the process of developing a website using .NET and ASP.NET.
The website is to be an online lottery.  I have a database, data layer

I have a question, I'll be impressed if somebody remembers. ;-)
Remember when .NET first was released and Microsoft had several videos
released on how it can be used, and there was a school in California (I
think) where the class developed a grading system that the parents could

We have created an install with Wise Installation. During this process it
installs the .Net Framework v1.1 if it is not already on the machine.
We see that the user has to select 'I agree' in the licensing agreement and
then 'ok' after the framework is installed.

 Does anyone know on how to check the number of instances of a dll is
loaded within a process/IIS.
I tried to use the performance application in the control panel but
everytime i run and close my application the thread count gives different

I'm pretty sure there's some kind of unique ID for everybody's system.  Some
kind of Security System ID SSID or something along those lines.  I've seen
these before and wondered if anybody knew how to retrieve one of these for
the system.  Or if there was some other unique ...

Forgive me if this has already been covered; I've searched and found
nothing related.
File.Exists() seems to clean up the path passed into its path
parameter. Specifically, it seems to 'fix' any directory names within

I've developed a Windows Service that runs on a timer and performs a set of
recurring actions.  I've also written a client application that controls this
service (e.g. Turn On, Off, Suspend, Restart) and allows for adjusting its
actions / parameters (ServiceController).  I'd like ...

I'm trying to use the Overpower ImageLib dll to create charts in .Net
- I'm using this because we are migrating from asp and it's way
quicker to keep the code as is. I've imported the dll to the project
and I've created an instance of the class in my page :

Is there a way to control which monitor a form is displayed in with VB .NET?
We are running on Windows XP with a Matrox Dual Monitor card.

Hi all, any advice on the following would be much appreciated:
My company wishes to distribute a CD which provides our customers with a
limited functionality version of our Website, which can be used off-line to
compose orders, find out product info etc.

Is there a way to obtain a filesystem lock on an entire directory
(exclusive access so that no files are added, changed or deleted while
the lock is en force).
Thanks.

I'm getting the following error and I'm not sure how to remedy: "syntax error
converting datetime from character string".
I have a .NET application that is accessing a SQL Server database.  I've
created a stored procedure that takes two dates as inputs and does a SELECT