One of our coworker created a dll for us, which is written in Visual
Studio .NET 2005 (VB). I tried to add the dll to our .NET 2003
project, and get the follow error:
"A reference to "MyDLL.dll" could not be added. This is not a valid

How should I share source code between different projects? In this case
it is one solution with multiple projects where some source files I want
to share (including the dataset classes).
I thought this would be easy, put the files in one directory and make a

I have a question wich I should already now its answer, but here I go...
I 'm developing a windows application (.NET 2.0) wich has a reference to a
component (a tlb file) that resides on a certain place in our local network;
let's say it's ...

I need to save the content of a panel to a bitmap. The panel can have
many child controls which also need to be saved. The problem would be
solved if I could have the panel saved to a Graphics object, which is
the same as if I'd need to print it. It'd be easy using

I want to set focus on a textform when my form is displayed to the user.
I've set tablndex of textbox to 0 and tried the
textBox1.Focus()..but still the text in the textbox is not being
hightlighted...

I want to monitor one directory (and its subdirectories) in local machine.
How can I detect who and when reading files? I used
System.IO.FileSystemWather, but I couldn't get an event who is reading. My
environment is Windows 2003. Thanks for any advice.

I would like to learn .Net framework in order to develop an hybryd
system.
I do have solid knowledge of general programming with some languages.
I may need information about:

I've build a custom web service that is used to digitally signed cab files
that are used to install smart devices application.
Using a standard Process.start and processstartinfo pattern, I run this
command line :

Hi. Is there any kind of engine that comes with .NET to allow me to create a
file which JIT compiles and runs as a "script" in Windows? Meaning, is there
a way to do this where I don't have to build a whole Project and everything
but I can still create something in C#?

Whenever I build even the very simplest application in C# (for example, a
console application which doesn't add any controls or anything), in the Debug
output directory I get three files:
- App.exe

IE & will no longer download files, if i try to save a file the destination
is not available in the download box and then an error message appears saying
unable to download. In outlook express i can not open a word doc attachment
(for example) if I save as and move the file I can ...

Can anyone please tell me how it is possible to get the following crash when
accessing ListBox.SelectedIndex property:
Message: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
Stack Trace:

How do I display debug messages from a Win32 application project
(visual studio c++).  I'd like to print the messages in the output
window of visual studio

I develop C#.NET (WinForm) over 2003server.
I am looking for a way to adjust a component size (width pixels)
according to a given text of a certain font (i.e font family, size and
style)

We need to add the ability for users to execute scripts for our application,
which runs a scientific tool. The users will be scientist, not professional
programmers. A few years ago I would have used the Active Scripting objects
and supported JScript scripts accessing our app's ...