I'm building a project in VisStudio 2005.  I have .Net component that put
several assemblies in the GAC.  However, I want to test local versions of
those assemblies.  In my VisStudio2005 project I explicitly reference the
assemblies in a particular directory, and set ...

Please, I REALLY need help with this one.  I've been banging my head
about it for three days now.
Here's the situation.
I have a form that runs some queries and functions and such.  When all

I'm wondering when does Debug.Assert is pertinent to use.
For the moment, I think it is used to ensure something is true, as it is
supposed to be always true.
For example, I query a DB to get the only one customer's detail rows.

I have done some reading on the groups and understand that maybe there
are intermitent issues reading from and writing to files from the .NET
framework? In particular, receiving spurious IOExceptions. In our case,
we receive them utilizing "BinaryWriter(new FileStream())". Can ...

Is there any method to draw text (using Graphics) that looks like in MS  
Word? It has another parameters like spacing or char width.
There's an idea that it's caused by differences of GDI and GDI+. But what  
to do with it?

  I have made a derived Listview which can accept the controls as
items in it. Controls that we are using are  Buttons in each row and
implemented Grouping with the help of controls(label on panel) . Coz
Inbuilt listview Grouping  not supported in OS like window 98.

this is in .net 2.0, c#
//code
string d = "dddd????";
int i = d.IndexOf('?', 0, 3); // return -1, why???

I'm building an application that analyse a flow of url in order to detect
some pages.
I've a very huge list of regular expressions (up to several thousands) that
I have to check on all urls.

We have a multithreaded service written in .NET 2.0 that is running 24h/24.
This service checks nearly 250 another servers to log statisticals data
acquired via WMI, SNMP, PerformanceCounter...
We use XOsoft for the fail over of our SQL Server databases (active, passive

I have the following scenario. A user requests some math calculations
from a server. The data and a library of basic formulas reside on the
server. Now the user should be able to create more complex formulas
based on the basic built in formulas as well as other complex formulas

  I am using Sql Server 2000. I need to create a very simple app which when
clicked would fire the execution of a dts package on the sql server. The app
itself would sit on the client machine. Is this possible? If so, how?
Thanks in advance.

What can be used now to control threads, if these are considered obsolete?
To pre-empt the obvious and standard questions due to this change:
1. No we don't have control over the particular code being executed so we
can not put a flag into it to detect when we want to suspend and ...

I'm attempting to write a very basic 'Assebmly standards & policies
checker' for in-house use. This tool would open an assembly, and scan
it for a handful of specific conformance issues we need to adhere too.
Essentially, I'd be scanning the assembly for specific groups of IL

I am using Visual Studio .NET 2002, but I want to be able to use some of the
features in the .NET 2.0 framework like System.Collections.Generic.  I
updated my computer to the 2.0 framework, but in Visual Studio .NET, I am
unable to use or see the 2.0 framework changes.

Is there a way that I can retrieve the timezone my server is runnning in?
My server may not move to another timezone very often, but if we have a
disaster our server my move to another zone during a disaster recovery.