We have a vendor that is requiring an elevated .NET security level for their
application.  I am looking into ways to do this.  Is there a Group Policy to
do this or a registry change?  How would one go about changing this setting?
Thanks

I would like to seek some information regarding instant messaging in .NET...
I am currently in the process of creating a web application that would
involve real-time messaging, and I have no idea on where I could start.
I would really appreciate the help!

I try to load a .NET assembly at run time from
machine.config file for my Windows Service application.
Here is my VB.NET code:
Dim MyAssembly As [Assembly]

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?

How can an windows form be started in hidden mode?
My problem is I've setup a load event handler where I'm setting
this.Visible = false and calling base.OnLoad(). I noticed calling
base.OnLoad() is setting visibility to true for the frame. I tried to

Obviously the system does this for deserialization.  So how can I do it
for arbitrary classes (not just enums)?  Does this require generating a
temporary assembly and compiling it?
-- kov

I'm not sure if my news reader is working right.
Can someone please reply to this so I can test.

Why this?

"01/01/0001 0.00.00"
I think the right output is "01/01/2005 0.00.00"...

I have a idea to build my own data type. I want my variable as a value type
not a object type for some reason. Here is my idea :
ID myKey;
myKey = ID.key;

Hello. I am using Win XP Pro with .NET Framework 1.1 and VS 2003 installed.
I want to experiment ASP.NET on my local computer. So I installed IIS from
the Windows CD. However, I still can't execute asp or aspx pages on my
computer. Is there anything left to be done?

my development environment is windows 2003 server.
when i open a project on the visual studio IDE that is located on another server i get the message
"
The project location is not fully trusted by the .NET runtime. This is usually because it is either a network share or mapped to a ...

Is anybody aware of any code that will allow me to read .rtf or .doc or .pdf
or .htm as plain text (so I can do a streamreader off them).  Thanks,
-Dave

I have a custom exception handler that "wraps" an entire application. Basically, all it does is make
things easier on my beta testers by letting them click a button to copy all the information I want
on an exception to the clipboard, from where they can paste it into an email to me ...

When I call the GetRequestStream() method for the site I'm trying to access,
I get a long pause followed by an HTTP 500 error (contained in a WebException
object)
I've tried to mimick the behavior of Explorer exactly to no avail.  I

how does GetResponse() act (request-method is GET!), when the
Content-Length of the HTTP-Response is -1, i.e. unlimited? Using a
Packet-Sniffer i found out, that it returns after having received the
HTTP-header and a few packets from the data-stream. However, i'd like