I have some Word documents I deploy to my users via ClickOnce along with the
application files.  Unfortunately, I can find no way to put a shortcut in the
Start Menu's Program group for the user to click (I can only show the
application file and the website support shortcut).  ...

I am fairly new to .net 2.0 development. I have created a simple web
service application that points at a user's database using datasets
and connections strings from the web.config file.
At this point, I have to manually edit the connection strings

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Let's say I've got a member variable (in a heavily threaded app):
private int _firstTime = 0;
To make changes to this is easy enough:

I need to perform two functions that I can't figure out how to do as
follows:
Type GetUnderlyingTypeForNullableType( Type nullableType)
{

We are using FxCOP in our coding process and implementing the Dispose pattern
in some of our classes.  Our resources are not unmanaged, so Finalizers are
not necessary.  
Is there any harm in calling SuppressFinalize and passing an object that

What is the most commonly used object persistence framework for .NET?
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Pete

I get my IP Address(es) by looping through
NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces() and
adapter.GetIPProperties().UnicastAddresses
This works fine! (see code snippet at the end)

I am writing a small utility to perform system maintainence tasks on
Windows. In this, I am launching a MMC snapin as a process using
BackGroundWorker and using the "RunWorkerCompleted" event handler to
know when the snapin was closed. This works fine on Xp and Vista 32

For an xml file, I can use XmlDocument to load it and use
XmlDocument.CreateElement and XmlNode.AppendChild functions to create and add
a new XmlNode to it.
For an xml data type in sql database, I can load it from database and assign

I can move mouse by System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position = new
System.Drawing.Point(x,y), but I could not find a way to invoke mouse click.
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Jim

Thanks all in advance!  I use Visual Web Studio (Visual Basic.net) for
my web site. How can I use the following HTML list of countries within
my Visual Basic.net code to fill a DropDownBox I'm placing on my .aspx
page?

Error while sending e-mails with attachments using
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I have several integer fields which have small fixed ramges of values. I
have tried to display them as DataGridViewComboBoxes, but it fails, because
the fields are numeric.
Is there an easy way round this? At the moment I am displaying them as text

How to take an IE rendered screenshot of a website with visual studio .net
2002 or visual stuido .net 2003? I can't install visual studio .net 2005 on
this computer.

I have the below code for sending each character in a string as a Keys.x
enumeration. I've found that when I convert the char, it does not match the
enumeration item index and thereby generates a very random output. Any ideas
on how I can convert chars to their right equivalent ...