Can you help me getting the recent version of .NET framework?
  I have .NET 2.0 installed. Which is the recent release by
Microsoft?
  Is Orcas(.Net 3.5) Released?If yes, Where it is available for

can anyone suggest a good network/channel on IRC to discuss dot-net
development?

I have an panel containing an image which creates scrollbars if the
image is too large for the panel.  MouseWheel events automatically
scroll the scroll-bars.  How do I intercept the mouse-wheel and make it
perform another function?  I added a delegate mousewheel handler, but

When I mimimise an application the file used to be shown on the taskbar, now
it does not appear. I know it is still there because if I enter Task Manager
the file is shown as "running". What do I need to do to get the minimised
file displayed on the taskbar again ?

My computer just hangs after attempting to shut down.  I went to microsoft
support and it only suggests changing the power source for "APM" or something
like that. I don't have that tab as an option.  I only have UPS.  What is
causing it to hang and not turn the computer off?

Before I go and make massive changes to a TCP/IP library I made, I was
wondering if the detection of connection loss is possible through the
TCPClient class.
The problem I have is that I make a connection to another application using

Why can't I do this in C#:
using mynamespace.subspace.*;
?

I have a class (called pluginmanager) that gets loaded indirectly by
an assembly loaded with a call to LoadFrom.
On the other hand I use operator new on other plugins, that are
directly known in my test project.

I am facing a strange problem.
I am using c# 1.1, Visual Studio 2003 on Windows XP SP2
I have a middle-tier project that calls some win32 api's like OpenMutex,
CreateMutex etc (the Mutex class in c# 1.x is not helpful enough). The

I've got a problem with HttpWebRequet class.
I've to make a POST http sendind a data stream.
This data stream contains some "<" characters and so I get an internal
server error 500 described as this:

I m trying to learn C# and the dot net framework and I am a bit
daunted by the size.
I ve been developing software for the last 3 or 4 years with delphi
never had the chance to get into .net

We have visual studio 2005 and framework 2 running on window XP, we are
planning to switch to window vista in 3 months. We are going to develop new
web application that will take about 6-8 month to develop. We want to make
sure that when move to window vista the transition will ...

I have developed a ADDIN for excel 2000, now i want to add the addin
in the Tools menu of Excel. How can i do that.
regards
shantanu

Whenever I tried to install .Net Framework 3.0, the installation
always failed, and by looking at the install log I saw the problem was
in the WIC install, so I downloaded the WIC installer from MS site.
But when trying to install the WIC, I recieve the following error:

i have a laptop, with 2 users on it. im an administrator. my account works
great , but now my daughter user account is not working properly. she can not
sign in to msn live messenger she has a error 800401f3. and when she goes on
the internet. the pages dont load up properly, ...