I have framework 2.0 loaded but I dont have an option for the
management console under administrative tools
do I have to load the Framework 2.0 SDK to get that?
Its on Win2K3 Server EE with the latest service pack.

I am reading binary data returned from a serial device using
SerialPort.Read(). I am finding that only the first byte of the 5 bytes I
requested is being returned due to the way SerialPort.ReadTimeout is
implemented. Using .NET Reflector and sysinternal PortMon I can see that

is there a "ideal" way to put two DateTime instances together where the one
DateTime contains the date portion and the other the time portion of the
resulting DateTime?
Regards,

I'd like to start dumpbin.exe from a windows form application.
However to start dumpbin.exe I need to start before cmd.exe with
vsvars32.bat to have the same configuration as visual studio prompt else
dumpbin does not work.

we have a major problem with our .NET app at one of our customers. The
server runs on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition x64. We cannot install
the Service Pack 1 for .NET 1.1. The setup program quits with an unhandled
exception after a few seconds. We downloaded the service ...

We have our production code running on 1.0,
We want to move to 1.1.
are there any specific steps to do so,
or should we just open the old project in VS 2003 and when it propmts

We have an addon for Excel compiled with .NET 1.1.
When .NET 2.0 is also installed on computers it doesn't work anymore.
We have followed the paragraph "Configuring Unmanaged Applications" at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/deployment/default ...

I'm trying to perform a very simple operation of saving/reading an image
to/from SQL Server, but I must be missing something. There are a thousand
articles on the topic, but for some bizarre reason I can't find one relevant
to what I'm doing.

Whats the best method for copying files to and from an internet server that
doesn't have ASP? I want to deploy a windows.forms application that copies
files to and from a certain web directory (on a domain i own). Currently
considering FTP, any suggestions anyone?

When I use my custom configuration file, I can't serialize complex object
using "ConfigurationProperty" or "ConfigurationCollection" attribute. There
will be one property in my custom configuration section. Whenever I set that
property, configuration will serialize it using ...

I'm trying to dynamically create an instance of of a class, and it's always
failing.  I'm using the Activator.CreateInstance( Type, Object[] ) overload.  
The class I'm trying to instaniate and call a method from is a public class
from another project in the solution.  

I have installed prerequisite of visual studio.net 2003 and visual
studio.net but when i debug any application it is displaying this dialog
"To run this application, you first must install one of the following
versions of the .NET Framework: v1.0.3705

I'm wondering if Visual Studio 2005 has native support for the Explorer
Panel that windows explorer uses on the left hand side.
Does anyone know?  Would seem kind of obvious that it should be
included, after all buttons and such are themed by default in 2005 now

I know this is off topic, but I didn't find another newsgroup that would
suit with my question. My apologizes.
I once had a list with famous failed IT projects, but I can't find it
anymore on the Internet. Does anybody has such a list/ link/... I prefer

when a select a file (with it's path) through an open file dialog, I would
like to return the full network (DFS path) from this file.
E.g. when selecting a file V:\test.doc, assuming the drive V is mapped to
\\mydomain.com\map (a dfs name), I would like to receive