in an application that evaluates XPath against XML I had a sum and a
comparison to a node...
boolean(sum(/Path2Nodes/toAddUp)=/Path2Node/toCompare2)
evaluates to "false" sometimes even though the sum seems correct.

Is there any forward compatability between 1.1 and 2.0?  A handful of
assemblies I use in my 1.1 web app were just upgraded to 2.0, and I'm
required to use the new assemblies.
Is this possible without converting my code to 2.0 (or allowing IIS to

All:
 I have a question about the difference between
SqlConnection.IDisposable.Dispose() and  SqlConnection.Dispose(). Both of them realize the function of releasing the connection to the ConnectionPool? Do they have the same effection source code?  If they are different, who can ...

Hey List,
I am trying display a combobox in place of one of my columns in my
DataGridView.
I create the combo box column and assign the

As I understand, the 1.1 and 2.0 framework can co-exist on the same machine
at the same time.  Can anyone verify that this is correct and there are no
problems related to having both framework versions installed simultaneously?  
This is a development machine used for web and ...

I am a systems admin, not a developer, so this may be a stupid question
that I just can't seem to find the answer to. I have a production server
that hosts numerous websites developed by numerous developers. Currently
versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the Framework are installed and I ...

From my VB.NET 2005 application I need to be able to open Files an
Directory's with their default application:
- A word-doc must open in word
- A excell-document in Excel etc

I'm trying to use XmlValidatingReader to programatically validate an XML
document according to a given schema. However, no matter what schema/doc pair
I feed into the program I keep getting the same error:
The element my_namespace:my_top_element have not been declared. An error

Any idea?

I will be designing a service oriented architecture. The service pulls
data from many different types of sources ranging from AS400 to Oracle
to Flat files.
I was hoping that someone could recommend a book for me.

It is easy to understand who to download a file with FtpWebRequest.
How can I upload a file?
The data to be uploaded is currently in a string.
          request = WebRequest.Create(FTPlocation.Text)

I have a machine that is running the 2.0 version of the .NET Framework. I
have installed a VB .NET application (dll A) on this machine although
instead of installing the files to my local drive I am installing them to a
shared network location. I have another application that calls ...

I have a component for scanning images which is a windows application.I
want to
include this component in my ASP.NET project.So that this windows
application can run on clint machine.

I've tried to read a .csv file and bind the data to a datagrid.
I am doing sth like this:
     conn = new OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;"+
      "Data Source=" + csvPath + ";" +

With VS 2003, I used to drop tables from a Sql server on a component or a
form in order to create a XSD file that have the same structure than the
table. This schema is used somewhere in the code to create dataset according
the schema (used in CF, so I can't use strongly typed ...