Still can't find everything on the Internet...
As my friend Paul Wilson points out, sometimes technical answers are really hard to find. As I browse the ASP.NET and C# newsgroups, weblogs, and Forums, answers abound on how to bind a dataset to a control. I can find numerous explanations of how .NET garbage collection works, best practices utilizing the dispose pattern, and many other helpful hints.
However, what happens when you are working at the bleeding edge of technology, in an environment you can't replicate on your own PC? Things get a little more complicated here. Mainframe programmers are used to these limitations, but this really frustrates windows programmers. As I type this on my Windows 2003 Server (a laptop), which also easily replicates a clustered Windows 2000 environment using VMWare, I remember that one of the things that made windows a powerhouse in the server room is ease of programming. I've also got more power at my fingertips than the entire world had in processing power a few decades ago.
Still,, what do you do when you are banging against a problem when you are probably the only person who has ever seen it? This is often the case when you are working in a Citrix environment, or in my case, Windows Clustering Services, or any other highly expensive environment.
In these cases, internet resources aren't really much help, and a developer doesn't often have direct access to the vendor. As an open question, what is one to do?