I have Visual Studio 2005 on two separate machines.  I noticed today that I
cannot run ASP.NET applications on either machine.  I get the message "Unable
to start debugging on the web server.  The operation has timed out".  
Also whenever I try to create a new project I now get ...

I am working on a File Manager app and would like to know the permissions
on a folder before I attempt to open it in the app. I have been going
through the help and Google this afternoon but am feeling a bit confused.
Is there a way that I can check whether I/the user has access ...

First let me say that I understand that Asp.Net wraps my exception in an
HttpUnhandledException. I have found a lot of discussion about that on the
web, which was informative, but not helpful. Let me explain how my question
is different.

Is it possible to load an assembly from a byte[] and make the framework
use this assembly instead of trying to locate them on disk..
Example :
My projet has a reference to the ESI.Framework assembly.

I have stumble on problems with ToFileTime and ToFileTimeUtc.... No
matter what I try, I always get the same value out of both of them! You
can see that below:
Anyone has an idea why the following code:

would like to sort some objects (have some properties like ObjectName,
ValidFrom, ValidTo, Code,..) I would like sort this items via specific order,
for example:
I have a collection of object with Code N, V, C, S, Ts, Tv, B and need o

This method does not fail if the site is not running! Is there a way to
check the proxy for failure?
Thanks
Tom

my applications are running on the old framework 1.0.2914.
Now I need the new framework:
Must I update the framework or can I install and run both of them?
Does the old application run in the new framework?

Does anyone know if it is possible to connect to an SMTP server without
actually sending a mail (specifically to retrieve the mail server "welcome"
response)?
I am looking to basically pick up the same as you would see if you did a

Ok, so we have the following code and it produces the result seen immediately
following the function.
public string BugOrFeature()
{

Wondering if someone can help me with this:
when i'm in Visual Studio 2005 I get a wierd addition error when adding
0.1+0.2 (both as doubles)
the result that comes back is  0.30000000000000004 not 0.3 as expected. Any

I am thinking about writing an app in C# 2.0 and starting to look into
distribution strategies.
Is it possible to distribute a setup program (VS, Installshield, Wise,
etc.) which dynamically determines if the 2.0 runtime is installed, and

I have the following little class of iterators that allow me to iterate over
elements in the file system. I have nested some of them, and then added Func<FileInfo,
bool> delegates to filter out unwanted files. I get an InvalidProgramException
and haven't (yet) been able to find ...

I have an unbound button in a dataview grid control, and it's not displaying
the text on the button correctly.  I set both the Text and the
UseColumnTextForButtonValue properties, but the button is blank.  I also used
the code directly from the 'How to: Add an Unbound Column to a ...

Having created my dll, I have installed it into the GAC. All fine, no problems.
The trouble starts when I try to access this dll.
How do I tell my program to look in the GAC for the dll?  Does it do this
automatically?  Do I have to specify it in the app.config file?