Can anyone point me in the right direction to start .NET
The situation is this, I am a experienced J2EE developer who wants to
familiarize himself at a development level (& of course improve my CV
content). I have used Visual Basic 6 & Visual C++ for many years but not for

which is the best reasonable price tool for code encryption / dotfuscation?
I found that the dotfuscator community edition only rename method names but
does not encrypt actual implementation.
If someone can share from their experience it will very help.

I'm trying to run .NET 2.0 Winforms applications on a citrix metaframe server.
I installed the .NET 2.0 Framework without any error messages, but when I
start any .NET 2.0 Application (including some EXEs in the .NET installation
directory), I only get one error message with lots ...

I have the following code that in the 1.1 framework worked (signatures are
generated with a 1.1 application)
Since we converted our application to 2.0 the checksignature method always
returns a false.

The following code crashes on the last statement with a "The process
cannot access the file because it is being used by another process"
exception (fiFax is a FileInfo object):
           Dim picbox As New PictureBox

You can browse for a Type to use as the basis of an application setting (at least under VS2005/NET2)...but how do you define your
own custom Type so that it can be used as the basis of an application setting?
I would like to be able to hold a collection of MyClass objects (via a ...

There used to be some scaled down versions of vb.net 2005 and a couple of
others. I found the sqlsvr 2005 but cant locate the vb.net and the asp.net
packages. Can someone post the url to these downloads. And thanks

Ok I have a .net 2.0 application that works fine on a x32 machine. Once I
take it to an x64 machine it blows up and throws the following error:
Faulting application scrubberhmo.exe, version 6.2.2278.17960, stamp
44297443, faulting module mscorwks.dll, version 2.0.50727.42, stamp ...

I have a .NET windows service written in C# that runs fine on my XP Pro dev
box with a P4 and hyperthreading. But when I run it on a Windows Server 2003
box, I get an "unexpected termination" with the following sc query:
C:\>sc query slabserver

why trying to execute my projet, i have these messages errors:
"The file 'filename' cannot be copied to the run directory."
"Could not copy temporary files to the output directory"
Please can you help me?

when I use HttpWebRequest with CookieContainer object that handles cookies,
i make more than one request and needs to handle cookies being added and
removed between requests, just like a regular web browser like internet
explorer.

Is this going to be patched?  I ran this code and it fails to report the
correct state of Daylight Savings Time in Pacific Time zone.  March 12, 2007
should be DST.
Thanks,

Does anyone know if the .net regex engine can be extended in any way.
For example I'd like to be able to create my own metacharacters which
mean something for certain subjects.

I have a logic Term in a string e.g.
(a v b) ^ (c v -d)
v = OR
^= AND

Can someone explain why you can implement ICloneable with a private
function and it works?
e.g.
Imports System