In the framework of most OOP is the underlying ability to string commands
like Thread.CurrentThread.GetHashCode().  I have tried to find how this is
done, unsuccessfully I might add.  I feel that it possibly one of those
building-block concepts that I’ve missed as I studied VB ...

I have an application that is using Datagrids to display a collection of
objects (.Net 1.x, VB.Net environment using Collection Object).  The
Collection Object, lets say holds a collection of Customer Objects.
I want the datagrid to be editable, so that users can enter data ...

.net 1.1 installed by default
2.0 was installed on top
I need to un-install 2.0 and after running the MSI for our project I am
getting this in the MSI log:

A dll I've written in umanaged C++ on VS 2005 pro has an automatically
generated, embedded manifest that refers to version 8.0.50608.0 of the CRT
(msvcr80.dll).
Looking through WinSxS on the same machine, there's only a version

I'm running into an error while trying to get the output value of an
identity column.  In my database, the identity column is of type 'bigint',
which is what seems to be causing the problem.
The DAAB syntax I'm using for adding in an output parameter is:

Can someone tell me what Reflection is? Specifically, what's the
System.Reflection class for?  I know that seems like a silly question
to some people here...
The reason is that I use a function that prints a printdoc object

I have visual studio professional edition (2.0).
Boss asked to install the minimum required to run asp.net 2.0 on the server.
I have a xcopy type installtion (where I copy my source files to the server)
Question is...

Can some one provide information on programmatically disabling a sound
card.  Thanks.

I need to build many data enter forms for SQL Server's tables.  Is there any
best methods to generate data forms from database table structure?

Just installed Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. Off to a
very fast start. When attempting to link to a data source which
is a ms access database I get the following error (if I wrote it
down properly).

At http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325075/en-us it is explained how error
reporting can be disabled for Office.
Can this also be done for the .Net framework?
Or even better, can the errors for which a report is generated be filtered

If I create a DateTime instance like this :
DateTime d=DateTime.Now();
And then
d.AddDays(3);

I've written a C# Windows service that starts a System.Threading.Timer that
should fire every minute. It has been working perfectly until Windows Update
applied some updates. Once this happened (on all machines running this
service) the timer stops firing. This has cuased some ...

We are currently running continous integration using a server running
cruise control.net. This server does not have VS2005 installed on it,
only the .Net framework.
Previously, we have been using Nunit to write our tests but I thought I

SerialPort returns incorrect port names for virtual COM ports.
In my case it reports "COM5i" instead of "COM5" for Siemens MC35i terminal
Hyperterminal shows "COM5". SerialPort.Open() doesn't work with these names
- Incorrect port name error.