I installed Mediaplayer 11 and tryed to burn a cd, I have a combo cd/dvd-rw
drive.  I select the burn option and the program states insert cd into drive
'D'.  I have inserted about 10 'New' cds in the drive and it still don't see
it.  Mediaplayer 10 worked fine and burned the cd ...

Is there a way using .Net to determine which applications are currently
running?  For example, in Windows, if you press Alt-Tab, you will see a list
of applications currently running.  I have looked at process.getprocesses,
but that returns all running processes instead of just ...

Here is my setup:
I want a plugin interface for my application.
I have my main app named App.exe
I have a plugin interface assembly named PluginInterface.dll (defines

    I have built a VB.NET, VS 2005 class library that is exposed to VB6/COM
clients.  Everything works as expected except for the fact that Constants
(Const) are NOT being exported to the VB6/COM type library; they are not
visible.  I have tried every trick in the book to force  ...

Hi, i'm doing a console application, is a CGI program, every thing is
OK, but, when I add a Web Reference to a XML Web Service and try to
use a function from the Web Services the answer is always
at System.Xml.Serialization.Compiler.Compile(Assembly parent, String

I have written a service which listens on a particular port (using
remoting). The service runs under a user account with local admin rights.
This service will run on XP/Server 2003/Vista.
I need to either open the required port, or register my app with the Windows

Why does the generic constraint new() use Activator<T>.CreateInstance
instead of new T()?
An example
public class Foo<T>  : where T : class, new()

Can sombody explain to me why the dotnet framework does not automatically
serialize objects implementing IDictionary as array of DictionaryEntry?
I know how to work around this limitation, but having to write wrappers for
every class/property that implement IDictionary gets old ...

I have been working on a solution where we pull content using the
WebRequest/WebResponse request HTTP content and store it in a string.  For
some pages, I reliably get an IOException however the pages work perfectly
fine in web browsers and 3rd party utilities.

There's Collection<T>, but it doesn't have event hooks for items added or
removed.  I was going to create a descendent that does just that, but before
I do, I want to make sure there isn't already something that exists in the
Framework.

I have some queries that are grouped as "functions" in Database Explorer in
VS 2005.   I would like to set up a tableadapter with one of these, but each
time I try, I get errors. It doesn't seem to recognize the function.  Can you
advise?

My app reads serialized DataTable containing DateTime columns. The file  
can be moved between machines with different Time Zones. When I read  
serialized DataTable on machine with different Time Zone (machine B) than  
machine the DataTable was serialized on (machine A) I have to ...

Background:
My GUI has multiple screens but only one is visible at a time so when I
change screens I hide the first one and show the second one.  There are many
elements on each screen that need to be updated and this is done in a

I am trying to dynamically load a DLL that makes a call to a web service
method.
If I link the DLL statically and make the call, it succeeds. But when I
create the object using Activator.CreateInstance and then use the

Due to the poor performance Enum.IsDefined producesi’m looking for an
alternative to this utility method:
Note:  the enums passed to the method will not change during runtime.
public static object EnumTranslate(Type enumType, object enumValue) {