Recently I started a project  attempting to connect to an Oracle 9i database
using the System.Data.OracleClient namespace with .Net 1.1.  The database's
service name is longer than 16 characters & I have since found that their is
indeed a bug limiting service names to 16 ...

I'm trying to figure out the best way to perform a simple but
repetitive task in vb.net.
Access DB with 2 tables: first table - a list of phone numbers not to
call and a table holding contact information.

Okay, so this is real simple. Add a new project (I tried Windows app or
class library), call it "Something.Common".
Well and good - the namespace added is actually Something_Common (Instead of
Something.Common).

I am trying to get result from Oracle Function that returns a number. When I
rum from SQL Plus I could see the result. When I call from my C# application
I get no data. I am using System.data.OracleClient to access oracle function
on Database 8.1.7.

I use to program using VB + ADO with MS Access.
however, i've read that oledb is faster and better then ADO to access to DB.
could you tell me in which wqy is it faster ?
what i've seen till now, it's that i need 3  times more code lines to do the

I want to use DSN in Connection string.
But for opening connection i am using 'SqlConnection' object.
i.e using System.Data.SqlClient;
So is it possible to use DSN in connection string with 'SqlConnection'

I have about 50 users who use an asp.net application i made. For a
while there were no problems but now i see a lot of timeout expired
messages i diiferent forms of my application. See the stack trace
below:

DataTable is dt, filled already and with keys defined, uid, seq etc, suitable
variables ...
        object[] newRow = new object[5];
        newRow[0] = uid;

What is wrong with the following code? What I want to do is to store
the results of MStablespace for every table in a DataTable. The result
contains the number of rows and the data space and the index space.
This seems to be okay, because dataTable has three columns after

I have two Date/Time fields in my Access 2003 database. The VB.NET app I'm
developing (and making some real progress with) uses TextBoxes to input these
as part of a record in a DataSet. Problem: Access always stores years as 4
digits, and it automatically tags a time onto the ...

This is what should be an easy question, but I can't get it through my head.  
Can someone help me undestand the following?
The way I see it, .DataSource is whatever you decide to refer back to thel
the Datalist in my case it is an array: