I'm writing an Application for a serial device, which is using a
USB-to-Serial Converter. I'm polling that device for new data every 500 ms.
So this is working fine.
But if the customer unpluggs the USB-to-Serial Converter, I get an

Will .NET 3.0 work with VS 2005?  For example, will I be able to design
GUIs with XAML in with .NET 3.0 and VS 2005?

I'm writing Windows Service, that will check few registry keys.
Is there any possibility to read registry keys from HKEY_Curren_User, when
.NET Application is running in Local System context?

Hello all. I'm a systems admin and not a developer. I work in a large
IT department with teams of developers. Currently we are asking them to
develop a utility for us that will migrate code, among other things.
It's going to be written in .NET code, and is meant to replace our

I am running IE explore 6 on Windows XPSP2. Sometimes after I get the pop up
telling me I have been saved from another pop up, IE freezes and I can no
longer navigate.
Solutions?

Starting with  
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.management.managementscope.aspx
' Make a connection to a remote computer.
       ' Replace the "FullComputerName" section of the

Could someone please try the following and tell me whether they can
reproduce this bug?  I'm running 2.0 (the latest version, I presume, since
Windows Update doesn't suggest any 2.0 updates).  I've Googled for reports
on this, but I've found nothing.

Does anyone out there know how to go about changing comms port
assigments programatically.
I have an application I am to develop using USB  to serial bridges.  My
customer want me to make sure my application ALWAYS uses Com1.

I want to create a an application where I will add a list of some of
the most used programs on my desktop and use it to launch those
applicaiton directly from there. Can I do this using C# ?
i.e. can I write an application in C# whose sole purpose is to launch

Hi all.  I have been digging around trying to find an answer to a few
questions that are bugging me.  I am hoping someone here can help.
1 - If you start an Async IO (BeginAccept) and the client hangs up what
happens?  The docs really don't tell you one way or the other.  In my ...

I would like to write a little C# program that store some text inside a
resource, without a external file storage.
For example :
  - an auto extracting zip file

I'm in a situation where I have to deal with a huge number of dependencies
in the GAC. We have tons scehmas that all exists in their seperate dll. They
are then referenced by other assets that all exists in the GAC. This is
starting to get out of hand and we need an easy way of ...

I am getting the following exception which I can not seem to trap:
System.StackOverflowException was unhandled
Message: An unhandled exception of type 'System.StackOverflowException'
occurred in System.Drawing.dll

A very small utility app I have written throws an exception "Request for the
permission of type 'System.Net.Mail.S
mtpPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c56

1) How can I monitor events in Windows?
I need to catch login and logoff on Windows XP.
2) I will use it to build NT Service monitoring login type -  by smartcard
or by password.