I have .NET framework 1.1 at this point on my XP (Home ed.).
I am planning to install NET framework 2.0.
My questions are:
1.. Do I need to uninstall .Net 1.1 before installing .Net 2.0

I am having a problem using XML Serialization.
I have a class that serializes an object and saves it to disk, (sort of a
page file system for a web app).
You pass in the object, and the serialization method to use and it will

When I fire event, is it synchronous or async action?

How can I use TripleDES Class if I work with the Visual Studio 6 and
unmanaged C++? Is it possible?
I have Windows 2000 with intalled .Net Framework 1.1 and mscorlib.dll.
Thank you in advance.

Using only .NET classes (base or otherwise free), how can I envelope
and de-envelope data with a certificate?
Thanks.

I want to serialize an object into the memory buffer instead of into a file.
How do I do that?
All the examples I have seen are serializing into a file. In my case, I
don't have access to the hard disk. Can I serialize into the memory directly

I'm interested in building a class library for accessing home control
devices in C#. To do this I need to access RS232 serial and USB ports.
Try as I might, I haven't been able to find any useful information on how to
connect to the ports and transfer data to and from these ports.

I have just installed Visual Studio.net 2003 Enterprise Architect.
I have been using Visual Interdev so far, and I am used to be able to select
from a desktop bunch of .asp files, drag and drop them into a Project
Explorer window and have it show there as a tree of files. Is there ...

Does anyone know how to set the file version on a physical file on disk?  Or
better yet, using csc, how to set the file version if you're creating a file
with pre-built assemblies as resources.

I am developing an application in C# under 2003 version.  I have to interface
with a DLL written in C for Windows.
I have the recompiled the DLL in Debug as well as my application.  I have
also moved the DLL and PDB files to the Debug folder of my EXE file.   When I

I see that X509Certificate only has a method for reading from a file.
I have some proxy code that is called multiple times and I don't want
to read from a file every time.  Is there a way to read that CER into
a MemoryStream and use that instead of file-read?

I have created a custom attribute that takes a string property.  I
want to put the current Assembly version in the property and I get
this error:
  "An attribute argument must be a constant expression, typeof

Hi all. I'm trying to craft a regular expression to help me tokenize a string
containing mixed content. The string would be something like:
foo "bar baz" fuz
or another variant thereof. What I'm trying to accomplish is to use a RegEx

Greetings, I'm just wondering if there are any classes and examples in
VB.NET that show how to assign ownership and quota to users. I'd found a
class namely "IsolatedStoragePermission" in system.security.permissions
namespace

I am using the WebRequest class to access a web site. The web site is not
configured in the DNS. So I want to set the host header value in the request
object. Any ideas how I can do this?
I do not have the option of updating the hosts file and then accessing the