I was wondering if anyone had to deal with a load balancer that didn't
provide session stickiness when using IIS. I seem to be running into a
bit of an issue with ASP.NET session state. I know it is possible to
share session state across IIS servers using SQL Server, but the

I am wondering when/why should you build a "Console Application" for use
instead of a "Windows Application"?

I've been doing some socket programming for a while and can get a server
with multiple clients working fine on my development machine, but what does
one need to do in order to have the server application hosted somewhere on
the internet?

I'm currently working with sockets. I accept connections using
m_mySocket.Listen(BackLogCount); But when I want to stop listening, I
shutdown all my clients and call m_mySocket.Close(), but it always raise a
OnConnect event (actually, it calls the callback function as if there ...

I'm just discovered Version-Tolerant Serialization and am synthesizing
it into an existing serialization scheme.  What I read from the docs
indicates that in the example below the .Deserialize() statement
should throw a SerializationException indicating that field2 is

In the non-pooled System.Threading.Thread class, there is a Join method that
will wait until the thread is complete.  How can I easily simulate this
using the thread pool.  Basically, I have an application that, given it's
druthers, would generate over 300 threads, but because of ...

Please look at the code and the following question...
public BindingList<MyStruct>          myList ;
foreach ( Object item in myList )
   {

I want to embed a dll file and be able to reference it.
I have a dll and use another dll to wich i no longer have the source.
Now i would like to use the second dll within the first dll but when tje
whole thing is compiled, i want to have only one file

Have data on a cd when i try to open the files the all have squares and no
text how can i get the text back
please help thank you

Does .NET support a way to convert a double/single to a string using a
minimum number of characters, similar to what Java does? If not, does anyone
have any links to algorithms to do this?
Thanks

I have a C# app that is doing a series of coordinated disk writes. I want to
prevent or postpone the death of my process by the user while I am in the
middle of this sequence. Can I do this?

Framework 1.1, I have an existing complex XML document. I need to add
some namespace information to certain elements. Can anyone illustrate
how to use and XmlTextReader and XmlTextWriter to add custom namespace
info where I want it?

Does HttpWebRequest supports SSL session cache?
That is, if i make a ssl request to a server (using HttpWebRequest ) and
close the conection will the second https request using HttpWebRequest  to
the same server will require to do handshake all over again?

What's the current recommended best practice for the exception to throw when
an argument is invalid?  I could have sworn there was a general
InvalidArgumentException exposed by the framework, but if it's there I must
be blind.  It seems like this is a common enough occurence that ...

I am developing a complex VB.Net Windows application for an
engineering firm (don't ask me why they prefer VB.Net...). All the
engineering calculations are done in FORTRAN which is compiled to a
non COM type DLL (meaning you can't create an Interop for it). This is