XCOPY is deprecated in favor of RoboCopy.  However, RoboCopy does not seem to
supply a feature like the /V flag on XCOPY.  Do I have to do a Windiff every
time I use RoboCopy to copy or move a crucial folder?

Can anyone tell me how to import an existing Excel spreadsheet (created in
XP, more recently migrated/opened in VISTA) into a WORKS Database
(preinstalled on my new Sony VIAO?)
Any help would be great (since I can't get any from Microsoft -- what a

An app which was working fine has started to bomb at start-up.. It prompts
to send report to Microsoft. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app and
the .net 3.5 but no luck. The error seems to mention win32.componentmodel or
some such. What could be the problem and how can I ...

This is on a client's XP-sp3 machine... can't install, uninstall or repair
framework 2.0 without immediate error.  It seems to not be finding
something.  Does anyone have advice?  TIA.
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Hello, I have installed .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 but I would like to
find the setup files (seem to be 54MB) to install it at home.
Does anybody know where are these files downloaded?
Thanks.

Not sure where to post this, but I have a vbscript that is dying and I
do not know why.  It runs for a while then disappears (dies.)  I know
that vbscript has no decent error handling, but that I can do if
err.number >0 ...., It isn't a problem with the script, however, and I

I have .NET 3.5 installed and I'm running VS 2008. I have a C# project
that's configured to use .NET 3.5 (in the project properties the "Target
Framework" is 3.5).
The following line of code:

I need a fast way to enumerate files in a directory hierarchy.
I have tried the Directory.GetFiles routine with search option set to
AllDirectories, because it seemed to be useful for this task, but it has some
limitations:

I have a URL like "https://aaaa.aaa/bbb/bbbb/ccc?dd=44&ee=55%c2066
And I wan to put it in an XML configuration file. Trying to use
HttpUtility to HTML encode it is not enough, I need to "XML Encode"
it, how can I do that?

I have two threads which are asking for a tool to check the health of .NET
Framework.  No one has come up with one.  There are many, many tools to
check out all parts of Windows.  Is there NOTHING to look into .NET
Framework?

[This is kind of long.]
I don't use threading much, and so I wrote a small test app to make sure
that what I was going to do in my larger app would work. In the process, I
ran into a problem that I would like to understand so that I can deal with

It's rare that you see someone simply posting a solution rather than
posing a question, but this one caused enough stress that I thought
everyone should would at least appreciate this as a reference
(considering that Crystal Reports has zero documentation).

I have a windows application that starts Internet Explorer and I need to get
access to this page. Ideally I would like to have the document loaded into a
WebBrowser control. Also I would like to close IE after I'm finished.
What are the ingredients needed?

I migrated succesfully a project from 1.1 to 2.0.
In this project, the System.Drawing namespace is not found by VS2005
designer  (system.drawing has been added in the Reference section).
The project compiles correctly though ...

        I had written a piece of code for working with the
BackgroundWorker.Following is the code for the same:
BackgroundWorker ^ defReportWorker = gcnew BackgroundWorker();
defReportWorker->WorkerReportsProgress = true;