Hi, I have got such problem:
in my directory "C:\folder" I have 3 files in MS WORD (having tables, images
etc), these are:
"1.doc",  "2.doc", "3.doc".

Good Afternoon,
Today I tried installing .net Framework 1.1 off of the web and received an
error: 1601.  Can not install this program.
Let me start with some history first.  I have a Dell Optiplex running

Does anyone know how to force a windows package to use a specific locale
id??
ie. I just want to have 1 locale set of strings in SETUP.INI and to have my
setup.exe use these regardless of which locale the user is from.

I've two products which share lot of common DLLs. I want to create a common
directory (under say c:\program files\common files\company name) and store
these common DLLS.
Now how can i make my executables (or other assemblies) search for the

I am currently working in ASP.Net/VB.Net but I am about to embark into
a new project (part time) with a chap who's only programming experience
is classic ASP (and SQL Server).
We are thinking of him writing the front-end in classic ASP, using .Net

I am encountering a serious problem with using String.Format(string format, params object[] args).  If I try to format a
string that happens to include curly brackets that are not intended to be format specifiers, then I get this exception
thrown:
System.FormatException: Input ...

Is there a way of setting a master error handler for an assembly?
What I mean is being able to somehow assign a procedure to catch any
unhandled exceptions for an entire app (in my case a WinForms app) so that
they can either be logged, or handled gracefully.

I'm sure this problem has come up, but I haven't been able to find a
good discussion of it.
I have a type Animal which is an abstract base class. From that type I
derive Horse and Dog which are concrete classes. I include an Animal in

I am trying for conversion of xml to binary xml.
i have used httpwebrequest where i can give the URL. in getresponse()
i got the stream.
this stream is XML file enclosed in double quotes.

In app.config, I create a sectionGroup which includes NameValueSectionHandler
and SingleTagSectionHandler. How can I get the child list of that
sectionGroup? Is there any build-in functions like
ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("")? Or I need to write a function to find

I've built an Assembly to wrap around a COM component. However, I need to
add it to the GAC.
Upon trying to do that, I'm trying to give the assembly a strong name, which
fails because the com interop generated assembly it uses doesn't have a

This seems like a really stupid question, but here it goes........
is there a command to draw a single pixel?
The closest I can get is to draw a line that is 2 pixels wide, or do create
another image that's 1x1 with the color of the pixel, then do a DrawImage to

I have noticed that the listview and GC can get into a state where thousands
of gdi objects get created (from scrolling through the listview items, either
by keyboard or using the scroll bar).  
Under XP they eventually get cleaned up.  

Hello group,
Is there anyone here that knows of a good article/whitepaper that explains
how the GAC and libraries work in the .NET framework?
I just don't understand the mechanisms behind it. The problem I am facing is

Im trying to start a process e.g. calc.exe using
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start() from an aspx page to call an
executable on the server. The following is the code I use:
Process p = new Process();