Is there any reason why one should not use the Membership provider in
ASP.NET 2.0 C#?

I have a site that stores some info in an XML file. The file is pretty
simple, of the form...
<Site>
<SiteName>Fred's Ferrets</SiteName>

After a couple of days of playing around with it, I'm definitely sold on
ASP.NET and VS 2005 as a web development platform. I've put together a bug
reporting app much more quickly than I could have in my old ASP days. And
for once, Microsoft isn't blowing smoke with their "70% ...

I'm trying to bind XML data to a control. Normally, one could just read in
the XML file:
myDataSet.ReadXML("myXMLfile.xml")
however, I want to cache this XML file so want to read in the XMl from the

I am currently having an issue with an ASP.Net 1.1 Web page that does the
following remotely but not locally.
Click on a control
Check for postback, if postback, handle the event, otherwise populate page

I am making a page for employees registration.
First, the employee need to submit a password. This is checked in a database
and returns the companyID where this user shold be saved.
Then, I need to show a usercontrol than displays the registration form. This

How do I handle the situation where the website and Sql server are at the
remote site, and I sit here in my underpants at home.
I can get to the website, but how do i browe or connect the data from here.
thanks

How do I do this. I need to only get the HTML radio's and there
selected values

I am having trouble figuring out URL's from my master page.
Here is my setup. I have a default.aspx and default.master file in the root
folder. I have an "images" folder with logos and css files in there. I also
have a "html" folder with more pages in there.

I am writing an web base application that needs to read data
from a serial port(Postal Scale), I assume i will be using this namespace
System.IO.Ports.SerialPort
I know in vb it would be something like:

I have a public variable that is declared in a public module.  This Variable
is stored into a Session variable and used to pass data from page to page.
I am seeing on my local development box that once the variable is created
and loaded with data and stored into the session variable ...

Dear Experts,
Currently I am creating a webform using sp.net 2.0. I would like to create a
date picker in my webform. I managed to create a a button to call-up the
calendar and using the Calendar control from the toolbox. I would like to

I have a ASP.net applcation, written in C#, that is producing some very
strange behaviour.
Information is stored in a SQL Server 2000 database. The page that records
and stores information to the database functions correctly if only one user

Can you guys recommend an SDK or some Package to Programatically Convert any
Doc Type to PDF
Mainly Gif, jpeg, png, tiff, fax, MS Excel, MS Word etc... to PDF
Need it to work from ASP.NET etc...

When I try publishing a 2.0 web site with VS2005, it always installs
the website as ASP v1.1 instead of 2.0.  Is there a way to change this
so that 2.0 is the default so I don't have to go into IIS and change it
by hand?