You know, a SqlConnection object, a SqlCommand object, a SqlDataReader
object and many other data access objects, have a Close() method and a
Dispose() method.
What are their differences?

I feel like I've gotten everything.
XP Pro SP2.
VS2005 2.0 and 3.0 installed.
VS2008 Pro installed (eval version, but installfest license on the way).

I have the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0 installed (v1.0.61025). As to the
web.config file, I'm using the one created using the ASP.NET AJAX-Enabled
website ...
This error is due to that I'm trying to use the AJAX control toolkit, but

I have have a template column in my GridView with a textbox that accepts a
dollar amount and I want to check to see if the value is numeric as the
person exits the field?
Can I use a Validator control in the GridView to check the value?

I was suddenly told to whip up a web project in ASP.Net 2.0.  The last few
weeks have been a crash course in new technology.  I've done some 1.1 web
work but it's been a while. The basics are really quite simple and I want to
keep it that way.  I'm using virtually nothing but ...

Could anyone tell me if is good idee to use asp.net in project such as
"http://www.linkedin.com/"?
I heard that the asp.net "has no good performance" especially using
with mssql.

In Visual studio 2003, there was an option to restart the application
when I make code changes during debug. visual studio would abort, and
relaunch the website in debug mode again. where is that option in
Visual Studio 2005?

I have joined this group recently and I seek all your help for a small
technical issue that I am facing...Please help me at the earliest..
I am using .Net 2005 and publishing my website onto a remote server. I
get publish suceeded message but when I try to browse the site it

I am building a GridView that is displaying some money values in 3 columns.
I want to put the totals of each column in a label field (one for each
column) in the footer.
I was trying to figure out which was the faster way or more efficient way.

Can anyone tell me why FindUsersByName() returns a collection? Isn't it
necessary that user names are unique (how else would passwords be
validated?)
And what is the best way to determine if a user name is already in use?

I'm working on creating a web page having two sections. The top one does not
change (it loads the data from a database once) and the second section has
two possible schemas (it's actually two different pages). The solution I have
found is to create two horizontal frames and set ...

I have an ASP.NET 2.0 app that takes about 17 seconds to load on first
startup but then is very fast after that. As I understand it from some posts
in June, this is caused by the loading of the App Domain.
We have both Cold Fusion and ASP.NET apps on this server and the Cold ...

How many steps can a wizard control have? And how complex can a wizard
really get before it reaches its limit?

I got an error during runtime. I really need your help guys.. I don't know
how to fix this, i don't have the knowledge about ASP or ASP.NET. I just
want to install this, Because i'm planning to build my own online community.
Below are the error i got during runtime. i just browse ...

I have seen this done on many sites but cannot imagine how this is done in
.Net 1.1.
We want to render another page displaying an animated gif while a credit
card order is processed.  So the scenario would be a Check Out page where a