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If you've built Web sites using ASP.NET, you'll welcome the Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit (MMIT). MMIT extends the Visual Studio .NET IDE you already know by providing new controls for handheld devices letting you easily develop applications for wireless devices. This means you can write less code while adapting it to more devices. Not only does MMIT integrate with Visual Studio .NET, it extends ASP.NET as well. This article gives you the background you need to write, test, and deploy a site with MMIT and make all your code able to target specific devices for a custom fit.Paul Yao and David DurantMSDN Magazine November 2002

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Out-of-the-box, the only way of coding RS232 serial communications applications in the .NET environment is to import the outdated and somewhat limited MSComm ActiveX control. This article describes the development of a lean, multithreaded, and modern RS232 base class library in C# managed code. The library uses Platform Invocation Services to interact with the Win32 API directly. Application programmers can use the library from any .NET language through inheritance; the article explores examples written in C# and Visual Basic .NET.John HindMSDN Magazine October 2002

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Hi!
Next part of code works perfectly on vista\7:

using (ManagementObjectCollection moDiskCollection = diskSearch.Get())
{
foreach (ManagementObject mo in moDiskCollection)
{
VolumeInfo newVolInfo = new VolumeInfo
{
DriveDescription = mo["Description"] == null ? "" : mo["Description"].ToString(),
DriveLetter =mo["Name"] == null ? "" : mo["Name"].ToString() ?? "",
DriveName =mo["VolumeName"] == null ? "" :mo["VolumeName"].ToString() ?? "",
DriveSerial =mo["Volumeserialnumber"] == null ? "" :mo["Volumeserialnumber"].ToString() ?? "",
DriveSize = mo["Size"] == null ? "" : mo["Size"].ToString() ?? ""
};
m_volumeInfoList.Add(newVolInfo);
mo.Dispose();
}
}

When i trying to launch my app on winXP i'm getting error:


System.Management.ManagementException was caught
  Message="Not found "
  Source="System.Management"
  StackTrace:
       at System.Management.ManagementException.ThrowWithExtendedInfo(ManagementStatus errorCode)
       at System.Management.PropertyData.RefreshPropertyInfo()
       at System.Management.PropertyDataCollection.get_Item(String propertyName)
       at System.Mana