Hello all... I have a class which inherits from the Generic Dictionary
class.
I want to "override" the Item property. I know it is not technically
Overridable, so I marked my property as "Shadows".

I'm working on a vb.net application that handles billing reports.
Every client has a different way they want to see the reports. The
data exists in a sql 2005 db and the billing report will be in a excel
file. One option I was thinking about was to create a custom class for

the help i need is i have an old computer with microsoft picture it print
studio 2001 and the machine has passed its sell by date. So i have a new lap
top (packard bell with windows vista) i have the discs that i used to use but
i cant get it to work on my new machine. obviously ...

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str += "<img height=56 src="/MySite/images/logo/CodeBackground.gif"
width=538 border=0>";
str += "<IMG height=9 src="/MySite/images/Menu/Expand_minus_small.gif"

Is it possible to clear event queues?
I have a bug that is occuring and I've narrowed it down to events being
queued up.
Thanks,

Everyone:
  It's been about 3 1/2 years since I've done any WebForm or web
development.  It's all been Winform and desktop.  I finally have some
web applications coming and I'd like to know what people think I should

I have a Windows form application that currently uses a database local to
the machine it is running on.  We are planning on setting this application
up for a multi-user environment, so I would like to change to a 3-tier
architecture application for scalability:

I have some packed decimal data (comp-3) which I have downloaded from an IBM
mainframe. I am looking for some .net code (vb preferred)  that will convert
from COMP-3 to a .net value type (integer/long).
I have some code, but my code is broken. I already have EBCDIC to ANSII

Hi Guy,
I am having issues casting my _Propery back to the _User. Can someone kindly
advise me.
Following is the code.

Alright, googled this and found a ton of articles but none seem to help me.
Trying to set the selected item in a ListView. I'll just throw out some
pseudo-code here and it's basically not working. What am I missing?
foreach item in listview.items

I don't develop for .NET generally, I prefer C++, and not that I have need
for .NET at present. I do have version 1.x, 2.x and version 3.x all on my
system I was wondering if I can dump the older ones 1.x and 2.x series and
just keep the latest one?

I have created a ManagementEventWatcher and a corresponding
EventArrivedEventHandler. The basics work fine - when a USB device is
inserted or removed, the EventArrivedEventHandler fires successfully.
However, any references to UI objects on the form fail without any error

ConfigurationManager.RefreshSection("appSettings"); //don't work :(
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Hi I have business object data source. and its is bound to a 3rd party
combo box which displays grids. I have a property SomeDate which i
want to display in the header as "Some Date" or whatever. Is this
possible? Can i add some attributes to my business object property to

We are experiencing a problem where any .NET (2.0) application run on a
particular machine causes a crash. We see the following two messages in the
Application event log:
'.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.832 - Fatal Execution Engine Error