I have created an MS Help Workshop Helpfile for a windows project.  
At the moment, I have placed a copy of that help file "_Help.chm" in the Bin
Dir of my project and reference it via the following code.
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Help, please, I can't get any addins working on a new machine. I registered
the correct plugin names into the right registry location. I gave
VSControlHostLib with a strong name, created the interop assembly, put them
both in the GAC. On my main development machine plugins work OK. ...

What are the advantages of storing ones class project dlls in gac? How can
one access these dlls?
Thanks
Regards

I know I'm very off topic, but I thought I would ask the question here as
I'm sure that there is plenty of relevant advice..
I'm about to purchase a new laptop, and am very unsure of the specification
to buy.

I posted this awhile back in the CF forum and got no answer, so I'm posting
it here today in hopes that a broader group of developers might nudge me in
the right direction.
I'm getting a weird message with a reference to an assembly I created, have

Need this:
typedef struct _SHFILEINFO {
   HICON hIcon;
   int iIcon;

This question is regarding the "Handles" part of a routine, for
example:
Handles Button1.Click
On Form2 (a User Control) I have a button.  Here's it's code:

I have a program I am writing on my desktop computer with a screen
resolution
of 1024 by 768 when I run the program on my laptop with  a screen
resolution of 1280 by 768. the size and position of the controls are

Hey All,
I want to find whether my first item within my CheckListBox is in a checked
or unchecked state. I tried the following but it did not work, Can anyone
help.

I have my own component that modifies untyped dataset in design-time. After I calling that method of my component the dataset is modified correctly, but form still indicated unchanged. I save form and close it. When I open this form - Dataset lost all modifications. What I must ...

What do we do for pointer in VB.NET?
Thanks

This hasn't to do with coding in particular, but since it is done in
vb.net this is where I'll try to find inspiration.
If I'm in the wrong group please re-direct me.
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I had a strange crash this morning with an app I've been working on.
I just clicked the main menu bar and got an OutOfMemory exception,
with a message of something like "unable to get info to create bitmap".
(not the correct wording but I was in a hurry and didn't think to

i have a DataGrid with a DataView as source. the data is read correctly from
the db and shown on screen.
the problem appears, when i want to add some rows to the grid.
first it adds them and the ListChangedEvent from the DataView raises and the

Any bright ideas on how I can calculate how wide a piece of text will be
when printing.
When writing text to the screen in graphics mode I put it in a invisible
text box to get its height and width (as suggested on this group).