I'm using the GetPortNames to list the available Ports in a ComboBox. This
is working fine. But I want to show the end user not only boring 'COM1' to
'COMx'. Instead this I want to show the friendly Names like the Device
Manager shows, e.g. 'Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port ...

Sorry for cross posting the message.
I'm having a problem with IIS 6.0 on performance.
I'm having few web services on the same server with different URIs.
When I send a message from one Web Service to another it takes ~40 secs

Dumb Question Warning:
How does one know what the eventhandler arguments are for a particular event?  They aren't always
Handler(object sender, EventArgs e).  Some events have event specific EventArg classes, if the .NET
sdk doesn't have a specific definition of a delegate for a ...

We've had several instances where changes made in a system seem to take
noticable time to propagate through the system.  Is this normal?  Is there a
way to force things to happen?
In one case the developer modified the configuration file on the server.  

Did anybody try to make a performance comparison between .net 1.1 and
2.0 in real applications ? I mean not just small tests like Generics
vs. Collections or DataSets, but the performance of the whole
application using those things ?

I am trying to open windows explorer at a specific path on a server.
Path is not found
whe run. It works ok using a local path. How do i address a server?
Code as follows;

I programed in vb 6.0
i need to swith .NET
what .net i start to learn?
Thanksany one.

I made a test program that draws shapes in a in-memory bitmap and displays
it in a form.. i tested it in windows and it worked very very fast with no
problems.. but when i ported it in Linux Mono, it doesnt have any problem but
seems to be very slow (I can see it being drawn).. ...

Hello ...
Is there an easy/quick - or at least reasonable - way to programmatically
identify a .NET assembly (EXE or DLL). My app needs to look in a set of
folders and find which files are .NET assemblies. Some of the folders

Can anyone direct me or provide advice on how I can assign a null value to a
date variable in vb.net.
Basically what I'm doing is that I'm looping through a recordset where I
have three date fields that may or maynot have date values, if no date values

I heard from someone that we must not implement IDisposable for all
classes. Can someone please tell me:
1. the reason why we must not implement IDisposable for all the classes
we write.

Pardon Noob questions...
Why would somebody create a component using vs.net 2.0 and C# ? To use
it from non .net solutions or unmanged code?
dumb question, I'm finding these instructions for compiling c# into a

I have a AppDomain ID, how do I get the instance of the AppDomain
Object?
Please advice.
Thanks in advance.

Am using VB in VS.NET 2003 (Framework 1.1)  I am getting a CLR debugging
services "application has generated an exception that could not be handled"
error after deploying the apps and trying to run it on the client PC (XP Pro
SP2 with .NET framework 1.1 sp1).  My application does ...

I've got a Web app wherein I store a number of generic collections
(Generic.List) in the application-scope as a HashTable (a make-shift
cache), indexed by an Enum value - i.e.,
CType(Application.Item("SysTables"),