The MSN Messenger drawing tool is great, but kind of limited.
Would there be a way to make a customized messenger using the API
with a more full featured drawing tool?
As is the drawing tool only has the most basic functions and only lets

I download and install VB.bet 2005 Express and also dotnet frame 2.0 Beta on
my pc. I want to try XML functions, but there is no XML namespace under
system!! Where is could I find it.
P.S When I try to install dotnet frame 2.0, it indicates that I should

I have a servlet that generates a report and exports it as XLS. When I
open it in Internet Explorer I get the XLS report but the problem is
that instead of the name I have set to the report I get the name of the
servlet.

I have three web site on one Windows 2003 server. I tried to configure one to
use the 2.0 framework. That doesn't work. The error message I got is that
multiple web site can't use the same process to run different version of the
framework. Next I create a new application pool. I ...

I try to re-install .NET Framework 1.1 on my desktop computer. But I keep
getting an error message:
Microsoft .NET Framework Setup failed. If this problem continues, contact
Product Support Service.

Dear sir,
I am trying to find a row in a dataset. I know I can define a primaryKey and
use rows.find(key) to locate this row.
However, very often this row does not exists, what can I use to determine

I'm trying to get an Remoting proof of concept working.  Using TCP and/or
HTTP Channels, the proof of concept works fine.  However, when trying it with
the IPC Channel, I get the following RemotingException when exectuing the
client piece:

still have vs 2003 but like to use framework 2.0 with vs 2003 instead of 1.1.
so is it possible and if it is how to register 2.0 to vs 2003? would there be
any other problems using these two together?

Try this in Release mode of .Net 1.1 SP1:
class Bug2
{
class C : IDisposable

I want to send mail during my application crashes.
I wrote my method in application_end event in global.asax.
Its working fine when i'm running through visualstudio.net.
When i tried by stopping my IIS server, it doesnt work.

I am desperately trying to build a generic union type with explicit field
layout. First, I will show you my attempt without generics. This is something
like a tagged union in functional languages like F#. Thus let us first write
an example using F#, which is rather short ...

I want to mimic the functionality of Visual studio where if an opened
file is modified outside of the IDE, the user is prompted if they wish
to reload the file(s). What is the best approach to do this. I have
read different postings about the FileSystemWatcher class where there

normally, when starting a service the current directory
(System.Environment.CurrentDirectory) is the system directory of the
platform. The service itself can be started from another location e.g.
c:\foo\bar\myservice.exe . Is there a way to get the directory the service

I have implemented an international text editor based on uniscribe, GDI &
GDI+.
While it display internationalized text fine I realize user input are no
good.

I'm about to write a network aware application.
Of course I intend to do UDP broadcasting to detect other app on my network.
But I would like my application to be usable over the internet as well.
Between to end user computer.