I have a template that I would like to include a namespace in but I won't be using that referenced namespace til a few months from now. In the mean time, will that referenced, but not used/called namespace consume any resources?
The template is going to be used by many people who ...

I am looking for a .NET equivalent to ShellExecute.  I want to print html
files using the default web browser.  In the Win32 API ShellExecute will do
this for me.  Does .NET have an equivalent?
Thanks,

I have licensed copies of VS.Net '03 Enterprise Developer, which is working
fine for development of ASP.NET apps on my XPPro/Server boxes.
I need to dev on a XPHome laptop as well -- how/where do I download IIS for
this platform?

I installed .Net 2.0 but I can't get System.IO.Port in VS C#.

I am very confused with the Array.IList implementation.  All of the methods
are private which hardly seems to be fulfilling the IList contract...  If I
cast an array then IList methods (e.g. Contains()) work correctly for arrays
of rank 1.  Where is the code that check the rank of ...

I have simple native c++ console app that uses the IMetaDataDispenserEx
interface. I first developed it using VC++ Express 2005 Beta1, Windows
XP, Framework 2.0 beta where it works just fine.
I'm now trying to get it to work using VS 6, Windows NT 4, Framework 1.1

 I'vs installed .Net Framework 2.0 Beta (as well as the SDK) with no errors
on a Win2k box and
.Net 2003.  The Help, About Microsoft Visual Basic .Net, menu item says it
is using The Framework 1.1.4322 (the previous version).  Have I missed

Can somebody clarify an issue, please:
My NTD (no-touch deployment) application worked just fine reading config
files from server.
After latest security updates, reading of config.files stopped working.

I am using serialization in my webservice. I want to do some tasks before and after serialization.
How to do that. Can anyone explain me

I want to download .NEt sdk. Do I have to download windows libraries seperately or do they come with sdk.
Thanks a lot,
Chamal.

Is there a way to locate where .Net binaries are installed during run-time?
More specifically, I want to find location of IEExec.exe at run time inside
application.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

I have C# .dll that I created and applied to the same directory as the app .exe.  In my code I use the streamreader functionality.  I have the app and .dll installed local to my system and all runs correctly.  I take the application and place on a drive located on the network.  ...

Got a bit of strangeness going on when assigning an XML stream to an XmlTextReader.  It's actually a MemoryStream representing a well-formed ASCII XML document (I've confirmed this).  The following code snippet works...
XmlTextReader tr = new XmlTextReader(stream);
stream.Position ...

I am creating a StrongNameKey in Command Prompt.
e.g sn -k key1.snk
Everytime when I want to create the key, I have to go to command prompt. Is it possible to do the same in VS.NET. I tried, but I dont find the option in VS.NET.
Tell me where to get it..

I have installed the VS.NET 2005 Beta 1 and now VS.NET 2003 projects in
VS.NET 2003 do not compile. Is the Beta supposed to run side by side with
the older version? Or is it supposed to make older versions stop working any
more?