What is the word from MS regarding use of the older compatibility function in
Microsoft.VisualBasic like Instr, Int, and the nice math functions.  Are they
going to go away at some time (possibly to be replaced in the framework) or
is this a permanant part of VB.NET?

    I'm writing the component in c#, which allows to manage the IIS.  I
want to make it working remote - i mean to manage the IIS on the machine
in some domain, from the machine which is outside this domain. My
question is:

I have a button click event, and would like to know the handlers listening to
this click event, so that no handler will be bound twice.
Any way?

I found a .ocx file which is a video encoder, I want to use it in my VS.NET
C# project. I've already done a P/Invoke to import DLL files, but I have never
done it with .ocx files.
I tried to follow indications in the newsgroup, but they all failed :

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Help.
I'm trying to get an instance of an object in another .NET DLL.
For example, application A is running and has an object "myObj" that has
been instanciated.

I have a class that generates an event and I have a derived class thereof
that needs to generate the same event. I tried making the event virtual but
that didn't accomplish what I want, although logically I think it should.
The best I've been able to do is have two events and then ...

I have a seemingly simple but strange problem:  In an exe assembly, I get
the error above (CS0234) when I build my solution the first time.  The
assembly that defines the namespace (abc.def.blah) is correctly referenced,
and the build order is correct.  The compile error occurs ...

Could somebody please enlighten me with the following issue:
I have an apllication that uses OWC11 to generate a chart.
Everything works fine until i try to use ExportPicture.
I get an Access denied exception which I tried to resolve by making sure

In my enterprise application I'd like my DataAccess layer to be responsible
for handling all database error situations and to basically throw custom
exceptions according to whether db connection is ok or not, that is,
cDBDownException if ok or cDBException if not ok. These two ...

I just instaled Quickbooks 2005 - which requires .Net -- I hate it - but
can't use the software w/o it. Is there any way to bypass the selection
screen - since there is only one selection - me - on the computer - or must
I sit here and wait to click my name before the computer ...

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'm using the following architecture:
I have a singleton class (lets call it Manager class) that creates and holds
a reference to a BlockingQueue and a listener to that queue.
The class sends the listener to listen to the queue in another thread to

Anyone know what this means
Parser Error Message: Error loading XML file E:\Inetpub\wwwroot\web.config
Ticks must be between DateTime.MinValue.Ticks and DateTime.MaxValue.Ticks.
Parameter name: ticks.

I just created my first .net web service and now I want to create an
installation program for it. That's why I added a WebSetup project to my
current solution and added the primary output of my web service project to it.
But when I run this setup on a different computer (with IIS ...