I wonder where I can find a reference/manual about .NET GUI Standards
(online or a book). All general rules, do and don't do, controls,
color scheme, mouse etc.
I once so a book about these kind of topics for windows 95.

I have a client appliction (BizTalk Adapter) accessing an external
application using TcpClient. Client Application can have multiple instances
running at the same time. With few instances working simultanously (6/7)
following error is coming (not constantly, however most of the ...

The project (from Sybex) is a class library (dll) and I can't change the
settings to make a stand alone (exe)
Any suggestions why?
Thank you,

Hi all. I have the following xml content:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<_ARRAY LangCode="2">
   <LABELS Count="4">

I have a private assembly from a third party vendor which is not signed
with a strong name and for which i dont have the source code. So can I:
a. access that assembly from a shared assembly(may be by using
reflection)?

I am trying to get the message IDs returned by the LIST command into a
string list.
For example, given the following input string:
+OK 5 Messages( 4099 octets )

I'm trying to use the System.Globalization.JulianCalendar.GetDayOfYear method
and I'm not getting what I expect. If I pass it "06/07/2006" it returns 145
instead of the expected 158. If I pass it "01/01/2006", it returns 353
instead of 1. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance ...

I have built a DataGridView that its data source is binded to a DataTable
after adding it 200 rows I try to remove the first row and the program
stuck, What could it be????
Thanks.

All,
Microsoft has Sql Server Management Object (SMO) for use with Sql Server
databasess; is there something simliar for using ADO.NET with an Oracle
database?

I've got a situation where I need to create a Windows Forms application
as an admin tool which is driven by the same data as an ASP.NET
application.
Luckily my 3-tier-ish design means my data and business objects will

I'm having a problem with DLL that I'm using through COM interop from VB6.  
The DLL has some custom structs that are defined as follows.
   <StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet:=CharSet.Unicode)> _
   Public Structure ToolEventStruct

I have a connection string that looks like:
"SERVER=MyServer;DATABASE=MyDatabase;UID=Myuser;Connect Timeout=900;"
However, when I try to run the following, it times out after MUCH less
than 15 minutes:

Issue at hand is that i want to have common build scripts, but people may be
multiple version (source trees) on single machine. How can i traverse parent
tree.
so what i thought is that i would put ..\env.Build file

 I am trying to implement ActiveDirectory Authentication for Windows
Form Application in .NET 2.0. I am not getting much help regarding
WinForms with ActiveDirectory, but most of the information telling
about ASP.NET with Active Directory.

I am using a combobox bound to a list of items. The AutoCompleteMode is set
to SuggestAppend and the AutoCompleteSource is set to ListItems. The list has
items like \\lastname and \\LastName. The control's display and value member
properties are set to the same field in the ...