have lost use of templates for works am self taught so need help in VERY
plain english any help would be appreciated this has only happened out of the
blue

I have a windows service written in VB.Net and framework 2.0. It is a
multithread service and it is using threadpool to manage threads.
Recently I have started getting NullReferenceException and after that
windows service crashes.

I'm working with a Managed C++ Mixed assembly that works fine on Vista, both
in debug and release mode.
Howerver this assembly fails on XPSP2 in release mode. Works fine in debug
mode. This assemby is a DLL that is loaded from a win32 service. It is

I want to be able to continue working with some assemblies after
they've been installed/started as a service. Does anyone know anything
about setting up shadow copying functionality for a windows service?
Thanks,

Is there any API or tool available? Thanks.
Jim

Recently, i am busying myself on a project that support both .NET
Framework 2.0 and .NET Compact Framework 2.0, with the same set of c#
code, but have different project properties and references.
The question is how could I achieve this, should i create separate

Hello LIST,
PLEASE, PLEASE HELP!! I am trying to fix my visual studio installation, I
dont know what has happened, but I have lost SO MUCH TIME TRYING TO FIX THIS
PROBLEM WITHOUT ANY SUCCESS. And especially when you are self employed every

I've inherited some legacy code that I'm supposed to base my own work on.  I
thought I was a fairly experienced VB.Net programmer but I've never seen
anything like this before.  
The programmer has created a NotInheritable class full of shared properties

Hi, I'm having trouble opening programs that i have installed through my user
account (administrator), when i go to my user account (limited) it says
access denied, or "runtime to terminate in unusual way". Any help would be
appreciated.

I am trying to do a property on a class with datatype decimal including
scale and precision.
Thus:
Private _Code2 As Decimal(3,2)

My mouse pad since yesterday until now still cannot move and work...
Does anyone can solve this problem for me???

I need to understand what kind of error is catched in a try/catch block
because in the catch section I need to do different things depending of the
error type (sockets & co)
I have these 2 situations (generated by a DataStream.EndRead operation),

When I OpenPrinter() with defaults set to the result GetHdevmode() result,
it fails with 1804 (The specified datatype is invalid) error:
DEVMODE *pDevMode = (DEVMODE*) pd.PrinterSettings.GetHdevmode();
 try {

a client of mine requires their web site to work with sami language,
which is spoken throughout northern parts of scandinavia. I'm trying
to set up the culture with ISO 639-1 compliant abbreviation se-FI
which works just fine in my development environment. Nevertheless, in

I am trying to create an Installer from the Setup Project in VS2005.
Right now I am having it do some pretty tame stuff;
- Create some directories
- Create some reg keys