I wrote a little utility which views how code pages map characters to their
Unicode code points, and in the process of viewing non-Latin character sets
I see that several fonts do not support scripts like Cyrillic, for example.
However, Windows (or .NET, or something) substitutes ...

I am getting the error below during page load for my LINQTOSQL app.
The database cannot be opened because it is version 655. This server
supports version 612 and earlier. A downgrade path is not supported. The
sales .mdf file is in my App_Data folder. Will appreciate any ...

I am looking for a .Net code which finds location information (country ,
city, streetname, postcode) for a specific IP-address.
Maybe there is webservice to do this. It is also can be usefull.
Best Regards.

I have been writing a Telnet client control with various terminal type
emulations available such as ANSI, VT100, Linux/XTERM, etc.  While my
control works, the actual console portion of it derives from the old
workhorse richeditbox.

I am a C, C++, Python, Ruby, RoR programmer. I would like to teach
MS .net programming to someone with basic programming skills. I would
like to hear some recommendations on the books, I believe a book with
less emphasis on depth and one which is oriented for hands-on learning

I'm developing an applincation that should encrypt passwords for web usage.
The encryptor is form based, and the web authentication is web based...
I've found md5.computehash for the form usage, and
HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile

Recently,  a manager from our company moved a lot of files and folders from
within our server's main data disk, and as a result, that data are not
inheriting the acls from the place they are now (it is a normal behaviour, of
course).

My two year old 22" Acer monitor just went from the welcome screen to
black..It comes on for a minute and then black....Fortunately , we still had
our old monitor and hooked it up , and it works fine..could I get any help
with this problem...a friend hooked up the LCD monitor to ...

I've created a small guide to software methodology called PMS
programming.  I hope it can redefine project
management and get rid of SCRUM meetings.  Puts the focus on Project
Management Software (TFS) and stubborn developers (who like .NET MVC)

I am looking to set up forms authentication (SQL provider) and need to
use the aspnet_regsql.exe file. This is normally (windows server 2003)
at microsoft.net/framework/v2.0.50727 however it seems with Windows
2008 Server that this folder and file do not exist.

My mixed-mode .net 2.0 service is hanging during a GC and I need some help
trying to find out why.  My service has 6 managed threads.  Thread 1 is the
service control thread, thread 6 is in the middle of doing a GC and is
blocking, and all other managed threads are trying to do a ...

Hi. I have an issue with file uploads using the FtpWebRequest class. When the
code is deployed at a client site transfer speed is very slow. I write the
local file stream to the request stream but with large files (i.e. long
upload times) my app hangs on the call to requestStream ...

Is there any .net support for inspecting the .docx / .docm files?
What I'm wanting to do is open a .docm file (as one could in WinZip),
extract all the .png files from the word\media folder and copy them to a
'normal' folder in the file system.

I've noticed that SerialPort.Write() returns when all data has been sent.
But is also has a BytesToWrite property, so this wouldn't be logical.
So far, I've never seen any value other than 0 for that property.
Even with very large blocks, the Write call returns after all chars have

Hey All,
I have an usual requirement so I thought I'd solicit your opinions
before I start heading down the wrong path.
For the project I am working on I have a need to stop users opening