While installing Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 for C#, the .NET framework 2.0
Beta 2 install doesnt complete and hangs. The problem started when my laptop
went into Hibernate mode during the install (the battery ran low). On
resumption, the install just hangs. After several restarts ...

We have a local .NET application running against a local MSDE database.  
When the application is checking out data from the local MSDE SQL Server
the procesor spikes, and the memory continues to grow.  Once the application
data is loaded from SQL into memory the application stays ...

Access to my aspx pages stopped working on my development machine.  I tried
everything I know to get it to work such as re-registering iis with
aspnet_regiis -i -enable with no luck.  So I bit the bullet and uninstalled
VS2003 and IIS from my XP SP2 machine.  I reinstalled IIS ...

I am trying to use a 3rd party assembly that may or may not be available on
a given machine.  Is there a way I can use the classes within that assembly
without it throwing an assembly load exception when the assembly file is not
available?  I want to safely bypass the feature if ...

I need post some simple form data and get some simple data back. I used
XMLHTTP in VB6 and works great. How can I do the same thing in .NET.
The most important thing for me is that I want to be able to
communicate AS LONG AS the browser (IE) can communicate. I do NOT want

We wish to follow the naming standard from Microsoft, we found the Naming
guideliness at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/c
pconnamingguidelines.asp
but we can't find the standard for the UI controls (which one it is:

The telecom dept in our institution decide to block port
25 on our user's pc. I understand very well their reasons
(spam) but we have many applications that send SMTP mail
to report problems or send custom email to external

I have an error occurring in my web.config file.
It occurs when the application restarts and it only occurs once. A
simple browser refresh clears the problem. It only happens in our
development staging and testing environments (Win2K) but not in my

Did MS refresh the MSDN documentation for beta 2? I don't see MSDN
documentation included with the SDK download nor the VS 2005 download
from MSDN Downloads site. Where do I go to find the beta 2 MSDN
documentation?

TextBox has an event named paint, however, it seems not work, right?
Microsoft off it?
or I am wrong, it does work?
---Frank

We are building Chat like application using Forms and as a result our
programming is becoming complicated to display messages received on
different threads in the chat window (due to STA requirements of Forms). Is
there a way to build Chat like application WITHOUT using FORM, so ...

VB.Net has the "static" keyword who allow me to declare a local variable
static like in C.
Is there any equivalence with C# ?
Thanks for your help.

I want to do the following:
"Pete jan jan john jan mark"  -->  "Pete B jan john jan mark"
So I would like to wite a RegEx that would replace the first occurence of
the matched string (in this case replacing "jan" by "B")

I frequently use the following code on my various sites:
<%
Set bc = Server.CreateObject("MSWC.BrowserType")
Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message")

I have a standalone app created in C# that is used to browse a database
of archived documents called DocDB.
We have some older legacy code written in Delphi that we wish to
enhance with the DocDB's functionality.