Hi folks,  I have installed .net 3.0 framework sucessfully in a machine with
XP, service pack 2.    In the window explorer,  I clicked a  simplest XAML
file, I got error message, "...msctf.dll not found...." . Then, I copied it
into the local web server, and I tried to access it, ...

Is Isolated storage mainly to protect files and information from managed
applications only? If my applications wants to protect files, I have my own
enc/dec for files.. Is that the best way?
Just confirming ...

I'm using XmlSerializer objects to - surprise - serialize objects to xml.
My problem is that it includes the xml namespace references
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

I have a data access library project within which I have created a
number of datasets.
In one of the datasets I've added a number of strongly typed
datatable/tableadapters and configured them to use a connection string

I am having issues installing a game on my Vista computer and when I look for
driver updates and direct X versions none of them are specific for Vista but
XP and OS before it. The game I am trying to install requires the most up to
date version of Direct X and I am wondering if ...

The current release of the .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime lists the
following as systems it supports...
Supported Operating Systems: Longhorn (Windows Code Name) ; Windows
Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2

I have some problems with one machine  (Windows XP Service pack 2).
It is a workstation connected to our domain server.
Even if I login as local admin or domain admin I not able to get admin
rights in that machine. I can't even change date. All users are getting

Windows update says I need .NET Framework 1.1 service pack 1, but it fails
to install and will not say why. Looking in Add/Remove Programs, I have:
Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP3 Developer
Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0

Ok everyone, don't go yelling at me if this is the wrong place for this
question, another MS MVP sent me here. =)
Here is the question I posted in another forum. I hope all y'all can help me
out with it.

For a rather long time I've been looking for the following
functionality:
* On NTFS a file can have several names (hard links). How to enlist
them ?

I have a dotnet 1.1 app that I am redeveloping in 2.0. Part of the work
involves replacing code that executed generated SQL commands against a
database with a dataset approach.
In the original system, if text field data was longer than the field size in

I know this question must have been asked so many time before but I
could not find it on the net.
I have developed a web system in dot net 1.1 using VS2003. it has been
running for a 9 month with no problem, last month i decided to use

I am compiling and using one of the many samples that come with Vista SDK;
it is called "DataTrigger".
It works fine, but in the XAML pane I get a warning that makes me uneasy
since I don't know why it occurs and if it is important (if it isn't, I guess

have an console app running on several clients written in VB .Net that
calls a web service also written in VB .net 1.1.  Its uses the Now function
to send the current date time to the web service.  Since DST went into effect
this past Sunday, it subtracts one hour from the time ...

I am trying to use the System.Diagnostics.Process namespace to open up
some windows in a browser dynamically.  The urls I want to open are
sent to a function in a generic string list.  When I loop through
these urls and open them, sometimes they all open, sometimes only 2