.net-2.0

How to determine which version of Windows? WinXP, Vista or 7 etc. 32 or 64 bit? UPD: for .Net 2.0 - 3.5 You're looking for the Environment.OSVersion , Environment.Is64BitProcess , and Environment.Is64BitOperatingSystem properties. Before .Net 4.0, you can check whether the process is 64-bit by checking whether IntPtr.Size is 8 , and you can check whether the OS is 64-bit using this code : public static bool Is64BitProcess { get { return IntPtr.Size == 8; } } public static bool Is64BitOperatingSystem { get { // Clearly if this is a 64-bit process we must be on a 64-bit OS. if (Is64BitProcess)

Is it possible to create and initialise a System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary object with String key/value pairs in one statement? I'm thinking along the lines of the constructor for an array of Strings.. e.g. Private mStringArray As String() = {"String1", "String2", "etc"} In case this is turns out to be a syntactic sugar kind of thing, I'd prefer an answer that I can use in .Net 2.0 (Visual Studio 2005), and Visual Basic - though I'm curious if it's possible at all so don't let that put you off ;o) I don't think there is a way to do this out of the box in VB.NET 2, however you can extend

I'm working on a project that uses an MDI application with a navigation panel on the side. Currently it is a ListView. However, I would like to redesign it to be similar to the toolbox in visual studio 2008. If this is something that would require overriding the default paint method, it would also help if you could provide some good references on how to work with the paint method as I do not currently have any experience using it. Thanks in advance. You want to be using a ToolBox control. A few freely available ones are available the most friendly that i've used being by Gordon Robinson at:

Update: Solved, with code I got it working, see my answer below for the code... Original Post As Tundey pointed out in his answer to my last question , you can bind nearly everything about a windows forms control to ApplicationSettings pretty effortlessly. So is there really no way to do this with form Size? This tutorial says you need to handle Size explicitly so you can save RestoreBounds instead of size if the window is maximized or minimized. However, I hoped I could just use a property like: public Size RestoreSize { get { if (this.WindowState == FormWindowState.Normal) { return this.Size