There is a very useful method of user informing in XP, using the balloon
tips in the notification area. I know XP is written in C++/C and many of C++
programs already do it ( Ballooning) . I just want to know how I can do it
in my VB.NET application.

Can anyone tell me how can I send email through stored procedure in sql
server ? I want to send attachment with this email too.
TIA

How can I access the client side scripts (javascript) for ASP.Net page.
Through the IDE of Visual studio .Net
AS We were did with Visual Interdive 6.
There was ability to see server and client side script, and overall object,...

Getting a strange error intermittently on one of our production sites and
wondering whether you could shed some light on it.
System.Exception: Exception thrown initializing DBSystemValues collection
---> System.Web.HttpException: Failed to map the path '/log/'.

I'm trying to record the video and audio streams from my webcam/microphone
to a file on the disk.  Can someone point me in the right direction on how
to accomplish this?
Thanks,

(I know this has been asked before, but I could not find a reply.)
I want to restrict the callers of my business logic DLL. The assembly should
be called only by my service interfaces.
However, when I try this (in assemblyinfo.vb):

I would like to know which language is most suitable for .NET programming.
I think it's C#. Isn't it?

I'm writing a launcher program which checks for updates and copies them down
to the client.
However, I would like the user to be able to modify the settings for the
launcher. As this runs automatically, I would like it to be configurable by

I recently installed NET framework on my XP home system.
Now, instead of booting normally, I'm presented with an account screen that
asks me to select an account to log into. The account screen only has one
choice (my normal account), so it seems silly and pointless to have to ...

I'd like to totally disable windows messenger.  Is there any way of
doing this.  I tried to just delete the folder but that was a very bad
move.

Is there an elegant way to reference the "shared documents" folder without
hard-coding "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents"?
Environment.GetFolderPath() doesn't have any document folders! Thanks.

Guys, please help. I am trying to make this work from at least 4 months.
I am new to programming and some things are difficult to me, but I really
need to make my project work.
I can't find anything helpfull in internet for 4 months ;-( .

   I have Apache using port 80. So I changed IIS to use port 8000 as
default web service. After that all my .net projects were not able to load
into Visual Studio .net. Do you know how to configure Visual Studio .net to
load web projects from port 8000? Thanks for the help!!!

I am developing a piece of software that calculates whether to call,
raise, etc. whilst playing online poker.
I have got it working pretty well, and I am slowly increasing it's
winning ability by learning from it's mistakes, and running

I want to download Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh, but on the site of
Microsoft they say it is only for MSDN subscribers? what is a MSDN
subscriber and how do I get it?
When I try to "Add Passport" on there site, they ask me my "Subscription or