I am trying to find a way to save common data in my program that will not
change from different users.  I tried both HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and writting to
an ini file and storing it in my Program directory.  However, in order for
this to work, all the users need administrative ...

when my C# service impersonates a secondary account does the secondary
account need any special permissions? what are they?

Is there any way to have versionnumber autoincrement of a setup and
deploy-project?

Is there a way to make a custom validator that will act as a client
side (run time) validator for the entire page (.aspx)?  I would like to
show a short validation message without having to postback to check if
the page.Isvalid = true.

I pciked up a project and am encountering several deficiencies on the
architecture.  
My current concerns are the persisted data files that are written and read
through dynamic reflection and Serialization/De-Serialization.  The

I work in IT, but on the infrastructure/engineering side. At work I'm now
being asked to design infrastructure solutions to support new .NET
applications. Typically, this infrastructure must be highly available and
support things like load balancing etc.... the only problem is I ...

My Vb.net solution file contain 3 projects. There are Client ,Business
Logic, Data Access.
I want to compail my total solution  from command line.
Can any one help me for this.

I have a very strange error; an ASP page invokes a method through .NET
remoting which returns an exception as an output parameter.
Unfortunately, no matter what exception the method returns, it appears
as a different one ("Cannot find the assembly") to the ASP page.

I'd like to create a compile time error in my class...  maybe there's a way
already built in in the framework so I can achieve what I want...  I have 2
constructors in my class. One of them has mandatory parameters, I mean, they
should not be null nor empty (for strings). So I'd ...

Dear readers,
How to design a system with SMS where the system has to send a SMS and
receive SMS...wht type os systemshould i develop?...a web based or a
stand alone type?....pls

I knew how to do it in VB6 but I can't figure it out in VB.NET
In vb6 I did this
Private sub TGDB_FetchRowStyle(...)
    dim RStemp as recordset

In my setup project I need a custom dialog box containing a drop down
list box.  Since this is not avaialble from standard user interface
dialog boxes that visual studio supplies, I am using Installer class.
This installer class inturn displays the custom dialog box i need.  but

Is there a way to build a .net file in C# which will JIT compile and execute
when double-clicked (a la the old .vbs scripting approach)? This would just
be a nice, convenient way for me to do some scripting where I don't want to
have to build a whole project and application.

I have an Assembly version 1.1.8.1 in the GAC.My problem is that I want
to use an assembly with the same version outside GAC.
I have tried using <codebase> element by specifying the path to the
required Assembly,but the CLR is still loading the Assembly from the

I try to understand and improve my application cold start.
I already load as little as possible in the Main().
Now I have a test which gives strange results, and I try to understand what
it means.