Why would my laptop (XP Home/SP2) keep displaying the IE7 download page when
I already have it installed!?

I am having a problem where I bring my computer out of Standby and the hard
drive spins up but niether the Monitor or any USB devices start up. I am
running XP Home. This problem has only started in the last week.

I am using Convert::ToInt32 to convert a string to an integer. On some small
number of machines this is causing a System.FormatException. After chucking
the problem at Google I found some promising info on a very strange registry
problem --

I am using a TcpListener to communicate between a windows app and a mobile
device app.  I have used the same code for years and have had no trouble with
it until I started using it on a Vista machine.  It seems to work fine for a
time, but at some point I get an "Invalid ...

If i put GridView1.AutoGenerateSelectButton = true in a gridview i obtain a
link button for selct a row.
But if a want not a link but a Button how i can?
thank's

I am trying to install .Net 3.5 on win XP sp2,32 bit x86 processor.
But the process always fails and the error log says installation of
WCF fails. I already have 2.0 and I have tried uninstalling/
reinstalling all .Net frameworks, IIS etc. I have tried installing WCF

VB 2005 .NET
I am wanting to find out if anyone has sample code, or a link to sample code
to send mail through Exchange.  I know how to send mail via SMTP but my
application needs to generate an email to be sent to an internal member of

Dear newsgroup,
I have to make a gridview (in a web page) that show some data from a SQL DB,
but i want to populate this gridview from code (VB) and not from wizard
because the sql DB is not always the same but change in function of the name

I have writed this code to file a dataset table with data from a sql table
Dim connstring As String = "Data Source=serverhacpack;Initial
Catalog=master;User ID=HACPACK;Password=francesca"
Dim conn As New SqlConnection((connstring))

somebody told me to post my questions here ...
i'm in a trouble handling timeouts of the SerialPort class.
If I set timeouts (<>0) what i have to expect? An error? A call to
DataReceived routine? A call to Error routine?

I am having trouble finding the following prerequisites to install this beta
for testing. They are as follows:
.Net Framework QFE Q925499
.Net 2.0 Hotfix 925272

Is there a simple way (or any other way) to find out is POS printer on LPT
port ready ??
VB 2005
Thenks.

I am trying to download DIFxAPP so that I can integrate a driver
installation with my application installer. I keep finding myself going in
circles trying to find it and would appreciate a URL,
Thanks,

We have an app with UI, Business, and Data Tiers.
How can we ensure that the DAL tier is accessed only from the BLL tier? The
idea is to prevent direct access to the DAL from the UI (asp.net pages in
our case).

I am trying to compile a Windows Forms project through command line. I
have added some images on the buttons. These images are added as a
resource and stored in the "Resource" directory inside the project
directory. My project is quite small, (only a single form).