I?m not sure if i?m right int this group...
My problem:
I made a vb .net application that reads from AD via
System.Directoryservices.Directoryentry.

   I need to get default gateway address of local machine or get local
routing table.
Does .Net contain standard API functions? I couldn't find it in
Documentation.

I was just wondering what does 'ms' in mscorlib.dll stands for ?. It
shouldn't be 'microsoft' else it defies the purpose of platform
interoperability. Mono guys call their main assembly - 'corlib.dll'.
I do not know if Mono is giving their assembly the wrong name or 'ms' is

I need to find out how any system folder (like "Program
Files") will be called on localized version of Windows
XP. I need to determine this programmatically.
Any ideas, please?

   Picture this....
I have a DLL that only has an interface in it (Alan.IMyInterface), I also
have a number of DLLs that contain tlbimp generated DLLs and they are
imported as Embedded Resources.  These DLLs contain embedded dlls from

   I need to know if there is a way for me to compile a C# code file
programmatically.  I know that csc.exe can be called via an application but
my target audience may not have .NET SDK installed.  Oh, I'm using .NET v1.0
Cheers (in advance)

1) I tried to assemble a very large IL file (~290 MB), and ILASM was not able to read any tokens after a certain point! Instead giving a syntax error on an incomplete token.
Is there any solution available for this problem?
2) why was the "owner" option removed from the ILASM beta? ...

I tried to unregister an assembly from GAC and i got this message: ... Assembly could not be uninstalled because it is required by Windows Installer. Unable to unstall: assembly is required by one or more applicatins Pending references:
SCHEME: <WINDOWS_INSTALLER> ID: <MSI> ...

Given a path, is it possible to programatically determine if that path is a
share, or an actuall directory?
Then, if it is a share, how do I rename it? and how do I determine what
directory it points to?

My software has to get some information about motherboard (baseboard). It is possible to do that through WMI API which is encapsulated by System.Management namespace (as I understand). I use WMI class win32_baseboard to accomplish it and get exceptions. That's probably because of ...

Trying to upgrade a VB6 winsock function to vb.net sockets. The sdk mentions
a TransmitFile function, but I find no usage sample for C# or VB. Must be an
easier way than Seek and Put (not in .net), and getting chunks. Have you any
pointers, besides trail and error, something like ...

does anyone have any sample VB.NET code to find the
version number of an Assembly?  I would like to display
the version number of the Windows form in its "About..."
dialog box.  I see that there is a

Is it possible for user to download and register activeX dll from explorer if he is logged in as User and not Administrator?

thz

I came across this link on the MS site as a refrence for the hardware
requirements for .NET Enterprise Architect. Are MS Smoking Something, I have
been developing in .Net for a while and I honestly cant see how such
under-specked hardware can be used. Anyone know where I can get a ...