I am trying to understand what's in the .NET Framework that makes it
attractive for software companies to *require* .NET to be installed on
an end user PC for their application to work.
For exmaple PowerQuest DriveImage 7 is such a program.

Hi! All
Managed codes run under CLR?? Where does Unmanaged Code run??
Thanks in advance,
Baren

<object> usage in ASPX page after IE update
I have one window form created in C#;
before the security update update KB912812(Cumulative security update
for Internet Explorer)

I am installing 2 windows services from the command line. When I go to
install the first one it installs fine and starts up. The second one installs
but won't start. The error message indicates that there was a failure to load
an assembly. This is happenning because the GAC seems ...

Is there a way to retrieve the culture info from a database server/SQLServer
database?
Looked on Google ... but nothing really useful found ...
Thank in advance for any help ...

I am posting this message to two newsgroups because I don't know which one covers the issue, and I need to get a quick resolution.
I have a custom license provider (actually, a license framework) that I have used successfully in a number of Framework v1.1
projects. Part of what it ...

   I have a friend who called me Saturday with a framework problem.  It
seems that after a Windows Update session that installed FW2.0 he was
looking at his system and thought that he didn't need FW1.1 anymore and did
an uninstall on it.

We're trying to write an install program that can run from the command
prompt that will install .Net only if it needs to (mainly because it's a
large download to get all of the files.....)
Is there a way from the command prompt to know whether .Net has been

If the following snippet of C# code is executed in a loop for a few 100,000
times – the CLR finally gives up and kills the thread:
try
{

Hi all. Let's say that I am making a new application with VS2005 (.NET 2.0)
and I am using some components (compiled assemblies) already built with
VS2003 (.NET 1.1). On a "clean" PC (I mean without any framework
installations) do I have to install both .NET frameworks 1.1 and 2 ...

I have this code:
XmlDocument x = new XmlDocument();
x.Schemas.Add(
    null  //use the targetnamespace stored in the schema file

I just want to know if it's possible to trace an application into a
dedicated EventLog by just adding a new tag in web.config. I don't to
have to create it by coding something like : ev as new
EventLog("MyEventLog").

Hi, I am using Team Foundation Server's unit testing features and I have
discovered something that is causing me a bit of a problem: please take a
look at the following test code:
       public void UnloadAnyControlTest()

I've created an app that reads data from a db and populates an BindingList
decendant with my own objects. I can then bind controls to the objects
properties and updates get saved to the database and everything is perfect.
Then I added some read-only properties to the object. ...

Does  FileSystemWatcher.Created event fires when the file is created,
or when writing the File is completed? In my App users upload files via
FTP and I want to start handling the files when they are completely
Uploaded.