Using GDI+ to BitBlt the contents of a form to a JPG / JPEG.
Using BitBlt however only captures active portion of the form. If you want to do this in the "backgroun" or for a hidden form, look into using PrintWindow API through P/Invoke.

Screen Capturing a Form in .NET - Using GDI and GDI

This is via the Syncfusion grid control that we use, but will apply to any .NET PrintPreviewDialog in a WinForms app.

Get access to the PrintPreviewControl in the form, and set properties on it.

Syncfusion: Support

Discusses team ASP.NET dev, file structure, dependencies, build process, visual sourcesafe (VSS).

Team Development with Visual Studio .NET and Visual SourceSafe

Struggling through my first MSI setup / deployment project for a .NET app. I've got files that need to go in folders other than the application folder.

Anyway - it's not working, and found this gem on google groups, showing how to generate a log file of the installation. Of course, the contents of the log file are pretty detailed, sometimes cryptic info.

msiexec /I "TheInstall.msi" /L*V c:\TheInstall.log

(update)
Info on other command line options for MSIEXEC


(update)
Notes on how the file version/date comparison works. KB article here

Per Brent at Microsoft, Symbols server along with WinDbg is the best way to debug release builds.

(symbols for your software, along with symbols for the OS can be found automagically by WinDBG)

Install Debugging Tools for Windows 32-bit Version

Struggled with classic ASP port to ASP.NET, related to cookies. Found this nugget along the way.

The way to cause the client to save the cookie to the hard disk is to set an expiration for the cookie. Cookies with no expiration are in-memory. Cookies with a future expiration are saved to the hard drive.

Google Groups: View Thread "how to redirect on session expire"

Can't get fuslogvw to show me type load failures for ASP.NET apps. Get error "unable to open cache file".

Here are a collection of links that have shed some light on the issue, but I've tried the registry edits, and still have no luck.

MSDN reference info about fuslogvw

Another MSDN page

Google Groups: View Thread "FusLogVw Resource Viewer"

When looking for things for a co-worker, came across this compilation of various links for tutorials, samples, and other things .NET related.

Programming Tutorials

Unfortunately the Environment.OSVersion property doesn't have info about service pack.

So to get service pack info, we have to use Interop to GetVersionEx

How To Determine the Operating System Service Pack Level in Visual C# .NET

Combination of showing System.Net namespace hitting POP3 server, along with writing an app for the system tray.

I think this also is used somehow to show the # of unread messages at the main XP login screen as well.

Article Here

Just like it says, new services, controls, featurse in ASP.NET 2.0

The Big Story: An Overview of the New Services, Controls, and Features in ASP.NET 2.0 -- MSDN Magazine, June 2004

(another one that's not exactly .NET related, but comes in handy once in a while)

Wow - buried registry key that tells the OS to launch a different process than what was requested.

Thanks Matt!

Debugging application startup when you don't directly launch the app

For reference, if his page is gone, it's here at Microsoft.

And if THAT's gone too, the reg key is here (used by sysinternals.com process explorer to "replace" the built-in taskmgr.exe):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\taskmgr.exe
Debugger=c:\utils\procexp.exe


(more info)
in my registry, I have other apps listed that have settings other than "debugger", like "ApplicationGoo", etc. Searched on that setting and found this description of other possible settings.

Maybe I'll add this guy to my news aggregator for a while... :)

(even better)
Tim Marman comes up with a slant on how to screw with your co-workers. Replace notepad.exe with calc.exe, or LOCK WORKSTATION (%systemroot%\system32\rundll32.exe user32.dll LockWorkStation)!. User wants to browse the web, get some work done, fire up word.exe

Didn't realize you can make machine.config settings per web site, and also prevent web.config's from various web sites/dirs from overriding those settings.

815174 - How To Make Application and Directory-Specific Configuration Settings in an ASP.NET Application

Tim Huckaby is on MSDN TV pushing the Smart Client. Standard demo of updating a WinForms app using the updater app block.

He's right about one critical issue: it's critical to get the .NET framework deployed to all the desktops. (Apparently it's on the XP SP2 install CD but as an optional component)

Anyway - another thing he shows is VisTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office). Can get .NET assemblies running inside the Office 2003 docs, much like old school VBA, but with the rich programming model of .NET

Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System