I have a shoddily written application that is written in 1.1 that I've
ported to 2.0 and now occasionaly I get crashes which I suspect are
been caused by exceptions in threads, most likely due to trying to
access controls which is now stricter, I know I could just set

Hi to all :-)
I need to know if there is (inside the main .NET framework or available as a
library) any TCP/IP implementation which can be run over a serial line.
I know the request can sound quite strange, so here are some more elements

I have a DataColumn, want to derive the DbType.  I can do column.GetType()
but that's a system type, not a db type.  How do I convert it to the
corresponding type?
Thanks much!

I have a service application in C#.  If the user double-clicks the
service EXE, I want to display a form with options to install or
uninstall.  In other words, I want:
static void Main()

Is it possible to convert my app which is in Framework 2 to 3 using VS
2005 and release it to customer?
What approach must I take?

Hi, all
Did not find a .Net Communication forum to post.
I am soing a client/server message system and using C#.net socket and
Async mode.

I am so surprised to find that there is no close notification in socket
class. Like OnClose in MFC CAsyncSocket. Any suggestions please ......

Environment: VB 2005 Professional
Both ends, its the application which is doing the functionalities.
At the despatch end, We have a text file which is to be compressed and
encrypted and sent over to the recepient.

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package
 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10cc340b-f857-4a14-83f5
-25634c3bf043
Readme
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/support/relnotes/netfx3/default.aspx

Before printing I create an instance of PrintDocument as Follow (beware,
pseudo code)
//==============================
PaperSize ps = new PaperSize();

I would like to use Compression namespace for Array, i.e. use .NET
native Compression for compress a String, or an Array of Integer whose
elements are returned values of AscW for each char of the String.
I tried with the code available @

Hello all.  I have an assembly that needs to be registered on a server for
use with SQL Server 2k.  Locally I can run Regasm from the VS.NET command
window and that's that.  But how can I get the assembly registered on the (or
any) server?  I have the dll, snk...all that, but I ...

Okay, I am writing a service that monitors the file system on one of
our servers and I can take of that in a cinch.  However, I found no
properties or methods available to see who the user is that controls
the process performing the deletion.  I also need to know what

Using asp.net1.1, I have a property on a control that is an enum.  I use an
accessor and set it in HTML view.  So:
public enum Permission
{

For some procedures that throws exceptions, I would like to show different
messages to the user depending on what type of exception he's getting. For
instance this one: when the file is locked, I want a messagebox to tell that
the user has to close the file first.