I have a Windows Forms Application that communicates with an embedded client
using custom messages over a UdpClient connection.
Everything was fine until the Windows machine was upgraded with service
packs.

Here is a very common scenario. You have a simple windows service which
instantiates a class in order to do some job, let's say... check your e-mail
inbox once every 10 minutes. And suppose that you have a windows application
from which you would like to access that instance and ...

Using the above, I accidently turned the Permission Set for the My
Computer zone to Nothing. I got the warning that the configuration tool
itself wouldn't run and set it back again. Obviously I got distracted
or something and didn't press Apply as now I can't run the tool or any

I'm fairly new to the .NET environment and to C#. I have a question which is
probably very simple but at the moment I cannot see to find the answer...
I have a Windows Form application and would like to trap the 'F' key presses
which will then do things in the app. My question is ...

In my application, i need to incorporate the functionality of sending e-mails.
The system should send e-mails on a daily basis..how can i accomplish this
task in .net.

   I was thinking about the design of a plantform-like stuff that
allow people inherit from my work and implement their own functions
without source. But i don't know how to design my class to archieve
this. I think plug-in tech can't satisfy it well. Because user only

Basically, 2 questions:
1.  Can I buy a .NET hosting package?  (is there such a thing?)
2.  Can my hosted .NET project run against MS Access?
Obviously I've never developed a .NET app before, but I have created quite a

I have small problem with my project for Windows Ce, i'm using some threads and
i'd like them to paint something on my form. The problem is, that only way i can
do that is using invoke, unfortunetly in compact framework there is no way how
to pass parameters through invoke. I was ...

      I just want to know the difference between
1. When i use objEmployee = null
and
2. I inherit the class from IDisposable interface and implement Dispose

Greetings. I have an application that I'd like to obfuscate. It has
many .net assemblies. Upon obfuscating all of the assemblies and
running the app, I get odd data output in some lists and fatal
exceptions thrown when pressing buttons, opening certain forms, etc.

I am a student and am studying vb.Net. I have a test comming up, so this will
be rather basic for everyone here. Once I create an asp.net project ( very
basic, blank .aspx ) and test it it works and deplays the blank aspx in ie.
I close ie and return to the ide. If I do not ...

As I understand it, one of the purposes of making assemblies strong
named is to stop the assemblies from being tampered with. How does this
work?
As a test, I did the following:

I need to read settings for another application for a very small application.
The settings are stored in a text file, and this file is stored in the
Windows directory.
How can I retrieve the path for the Windows Directory on the local machine?

I'm developping VB.NET-applications for 2 years now, and I'm now moving on
to bigger porjects, so I'm examining the use of Visio for enterprise
architects, and 'the design' we should use.
I'm my whole carreer already using the concept of the 3 tiers

I would like to read a file from the File System and save it into a SQL
Server field, which is a image type. Somebody told to me that it is possible
to read the file with StreamReader and save all the byte into an array
(byte[]), but I don't know how to code it in C#.