Ask The Wonk

Ask The Wonk was a success, but unfortunately for because my new employer doesn't like me to have alternate income streams, I'm no longer able to run it. Nobody has been charged for 2Q03 and those of you with logins may continue to see the current ATW answers:

Answers

• Spring Break 2003
  03/20/03

• Can VS.NET projects be grouped together in the Solution Explorer?
  03/18/03

• How do I choose between product XXX and product YYY?
  03/18/03

• I need in-depth help for creating custom controls
  03/12/03

• Why can't System.Security.SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurityAttribute be applied to structures?
  03/05/03

• What about the performance overhead of Control.Invoke?
  03/03/03

• Plans for the Future of ATW
  02/27/03

• What is the difference between using "String" and "string"?
  02/21/03

• Do you recommend that I target 800x600 or 1024x768?
  02/21/03

• What is the integration path likely to be for Internet Explorer and the .Net framework?
  02/18/03

• What does the STAThread attribute really do?
  02/17/03

• What do you think the release of .NET Server 2003 will mean for .NET development?
  02/17/03

• How can I use serialization in conjuction with Isolated Storage?
  02/07/03

• How can I get the security principle for all running apps in C#?
  02/06/03

• Can we see the list of pending Ask The Wonk questions?
  02/02/03

• What's the best way to maintain an .ini file in a C# Winforms app?
  01/30/03

• How do I stop the flicker in my MDI application?
  01/27/03

• How simple would it be to make a VB6 application available to browser users via VB.NET?
  01/27/03

• How can I implement an FTP upload using VB.NET?
  01/27/03

• Why doesn't my .NET application work when run from a network share?
  01/27/03

• How do I build Explorer shell extensions in .NET?
  01/27/03

• How can an application .config file be distributed with a ZTD application?
  01/21/03

• How does the ThreadAbortException really work?
  01/20/03

• Are there any C# to VB conversion tools?
  01/16/03

• How do I properly maintain images in VS.NET?
  01/14/03

• How do I change the properties of controls on another form?
  01/13/03

• Should I use ADO or ADO.NET for my ported VB6 code and into the future?
  01/13/03

• How do I add images in listview by using VB.NET?
  01/13/03

• When should I edit the designer-generated InitializeComponent function?
  01/10/03

• What are your thoughts on application updating and deployment?
  01/10/03

• What can you tell me about object-relational mapping in .NET today and ObjectSpaces in the future?
  01/08/03

• How do I print a form in VB.NET?
  01/06/03

• Is it true that in ADO.NET it is impossible to create a program that uses a multi-user style database?
  01/06/03

• How do you use control collection on VB.NET?
  01/06/03

• How do I calculate paths correctly from my web site?
  01/02/03

• Should I choose interfaces or base classes for polymorphism?
  12/22/02

• How do I determine the type of a control on a Windows Form in VB.NET?
  12/08/02

• How would I fill a combo box using an array?
  12/08/02

• How do I get my VS.NET start page back?
  12/08/02

• What do you predict for VS.NET programmers in 2003?
  12/06/02

• What are the minimum configurations of a machine to run an application developed using VB.NET?
  12/02/02

• In C#, how do I move focus automatically?
  12/02/02

• How do you create a control array in VB.NET?
  12/02/02

• How can I set the focus on a text field based upon input criteria?
  11/18/02

• Is there some VS.NET feature that will allow me to fix other things other than tab indentions?
  11/18/02

• How do I make a VS.NET project item be copied to the output folder when the project is compiled?
  11/18/02

• Can I target NT4 and Windows 2000 with my .NET code?
  11/05/02

• After a build, the property window seems to choke up. How do I get it back?
  11/05/02

• Where's the menu option to get a command prompt set to the context of your current project?
  11/05/02

• How do I modify all of the VS.NET templates on my workstation?
  11/05/02

• Why is VB.NET considered truly object-oriented?
  11/05/02

• How do you obtain the Microsoft VB6 to VB.NET conversion tool?
  11/05/02

• What's the difference between typed dataset and untyped dataset?
  11/05/02

• Where can I get more information about how to make the best use of VS.NET?
  10/17/02

• #region blocks are being put into my code by the VS.NET wizards, but I have no idea what they're for.
  10/17/02

• I'm new to .NET and I can't seem to get the weird property syntax right.
  10/17/02

• How do I reclaim space for my code in VS.NET?
  10/17/02