I had VS 2003 running fine, then downloaded and instaled SQL server 2005
Express (which did not run well) , and wanted to play with Visual Web Devel.
2005 - ran the MS uninstall script from their site to remove SS2005 - it
failed - VS 2003 does now not function -

I've being looking for a root-cause for the following problem (currently
have a work-around):-
We have a .NET FileSystemWatcher watching an FTP directory. The FTP
folder/account is on a Windows 2003 Server system (SP1), and the FTP account

Sometime back I went to a MS seminar where they were demonstrating
features of Visual Studio 2005 and I'm sure the presenter was using a
class called SIPClient or something similar to send instant messages to
MSN messenger. Basically, he'd write a bit of C#, run it and it would

One our student becomes error  "SDC0500" anytime when trying to
download any software from msdnaa software center. He becomes this
error when download fase is completed and unpack starts. Whot can be
the problem?

my web page consists of a timer along with a number of buttons ( application
for tambola game). the timer raises an event on it's expiry time. that is
fine. but i doun't what some of the buttons to throw the post-back(refreshing
of page every time). i need only the page to ...

I am new to PDA development and my background is purely C/C++. Now I can get
the rought ideas on Compact C# .net for PDA development.
But I am having troubles on adding TreeView with nodes and items from
separate thread.

I have added few of the events in some control, example code is:
btnControl.GotFocus +=new EventHandler(EventHandlingMethod);
btnControl.Click +=new EventHandler(EventHandlingMethod);
lblControl.Click +=new EventHandler(EventHandlingMethod);

I am using DllImport attribute to do some work againt an unmanaged dll.
The unmanaged DLL is written that way that when calling one method a global
variable is updated so when calling an another function inside the DLL the
same global variable is used to apply some work. My ...

I'm trying to understand where the information in the META.INF directory
including MANIFEST.MF etc is to be found for .NET assemblies.
Also some projects such as Eclipse's OSGi kernel stores additional info in
the MANIFEST.MF file. What would be the .NET equivalent where such info ...

We get this message when running a C++ Managed application developed with
Visual Studio 2003, on some client machines.
“Failed to load resources from resource file. Please check your Setup”
We haven’t been able to determine why this happens only on some client

How do you disable the prompt a user gets when an update is available.  I
want to automatically update the application every time they start it.

I am trying to use TransactionScope in vs 2005 for transaction control. But
after I put the code in, I noticed System.Transactions namespace does not
exist at all! Can anybody tell me why I don't have it from my vs 2005? I am
using .NET framework 2.0 for sure because it's within ...

I have VS 2005, but some of the components I'm using (Infragistics
NetAdvantage 2005), have issues with .NET 2.0
For this reason, I'm being forced to compile against .NET 1.1
How do I do this?? Is it possible?? Is it supported to use VS 2005 with .NET

i setup an outlook express account to use an IMAP server
now when i send a message, it is saved to the sent folder on the mail server
that way when i log in using the browser i can have my sent folder
synchronized

I am trying to write a piece of code, which will tell me which application
currently has focus / which the user is currently working on. ie. if the
user is currently in IE, or Word etc....
How can I find this in .NET?