I just loaded a trial version of VS.NET Professional on Windows XP.  At
first I was getting errors that debugging could not start on server, and
offered me an option to stop debugging, do not stop debugging, or ignore.  
For the first 30 times, I selected no, "Do not stop ...

I would like to define a date format that displays a datetime according to
the current culture like this :
if locale is 'fr' then date format would be "dd/MM HH:mm"
if locale is 'en' then date format would be "MM/dd HH:mm"

Is there a canonical way to determine the path to the folder where the
runtime environment is installed? The reason I am asking is that I have
created a small Office Add-In in C# which needs to be registered as a
COM component using regasm.exe during installation. So I need a way ...

I am new to using VB.net and am learning through a book, and it does not
cover this well enough!!!!
I have created a basic web page and can view this when my project is located
on my local machine using my local IIS.

A common issue that I see in the
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.adonet group is that if you want to
delete a DataRow from a collection of DataRows (e.g. myTable.Rows), you
can't do this using a foreach loop like this:

Originally, I thought this was due to DoubleBuffer, but ran some further
experiments and discovered that page faults occur when calling DrawImage().
For example, create 2 images about 800x800, then call DrawImage to copy from
to the other (on say a mouse click). Notice about 600+ ...

I have created a mixed mode (managed + native) application that links to a
mixed mode dll. It runs fine on all XP machines with Visual Studio .Net
installed, but on other machines with the .Net framework installed but not
Visual Studio, it displays a pop-up window entitled ...

We have 1 lakh records with row size 3kb
These records are palced by a service and another service will pickup these
records and process.
Because of this a huge burgen is there on the server and it has to do very

The (beta 2) dox say "The time-out ... moves the thread to the ready
queue, bypassing other threads ahead of it in the wait queue, so that
it can reacquire the lock sooner."
To me, this directly states that when I Pulse a locked object that has

I am getting teh following error while converting an asp application to
asp.net,
Exception Details: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Type
mismatch.

Installation of Visual Studio .NET 2003 went without any errors onto my XP
laptop.
However when  I run a Windows application, although I get no errors and the
applications run normally, text does not appear in any text boxes or message

In C++, it is not uncommon to design a class to hold a pointer to another
object.  For example:
class foo
{

Since my situation is a little complex I have simplified it for this post.
I start a database transaction. Do some work with it in a try-finally block,
and in the finally block I dispose resources. I would like to in my finally
block detect if we are leaving because of the code ...

I am trying read from a xml file, pull the values in a object and then add
the object to an ArrayList.
I am using a 'while' loop to move through each node in the xml file and
pulling the required values as needed and setting them to the relevant

I had Visual Studio 2003 installed, and installed also visual Studio 2005
Beta 2.
The problem is, when I am starting now (double click) a solution
(*.sln-file), it always start it with Visual Studio 2005, and not 2003. I'm