I'd like to learn how to use VB.NET and ASP.NET and would appreciate
recommendations on some good books to buy and what operating system
and application software I need. My PC's current operating system is Windows XP
Home which I assume is no good because it hasn't got IIS.

I am using system.web.mail to send an email in asp.net (c#).  I would like to
format the body of the email message so that it includes carriage returns
(and indentation if I can go for broke).  Can someone give me an example of
how to do this?  Thanks!

I have a sub that gets all records in a [Time] table. Then displays the
times in a drop-down list (ddlStartTime). My problem is that the ddl contain
the date AND time. i.e. 9:00 AM in the table is 1/1/1899 9:00:00 AM in the
ddl.

Anyone have the URL or information about Microsoft Certified
Application Developer(MCAD) test question? Kindly share with me,
thanks.
Regards,

Hi, I have an intranet application that should validate the Email Address
from the local SMTP Server. I have tried using CDO.Message but that does not
seem to have functionality to verify the Email.
Please do let me know the approach for this.

Is there a way to figure out from a given date the 'week of the year' or
'quarter of the year' that it exists in?  
I need to manage report generation that are required to be done
automitically on a Weekly, Monthly or Quarterly basis using the last run date

I'm looking for the best way to solve the following problem:
public class Foo
{
   public void Bar() {}

Hi..friends
I am .NET developer and using ASP.NET
I have one problem with datagrid.
I put one datagrid on the webform. When the user clicks on the Edit link

When i am trying to connect to my SQL server using the
SQLdataadapter or the OLEDBdataadapter, VB tells me that
i can not connect to it. I can not even make a new
connection. The Error is: Provider cannot be found. May

Can anyone tell me how to read text from a text file (.txt) and output it on
my web page. I am currently using asp.net VB. I know all about
entering/retriving data from a database but no help documents actually detail
how to handle files.

I have some xml that I am loading into a DataSet. Later in my program I have
to clone that DataSet but I keep getting an error saying that I can't have a
table named the same as my DataSet?!?
If I look at the original DataSet it's is named "MEDIA" and there is a table

I have a dynamic datagrid in which the number of columns of not fixed, the
number of columns is selected from a dropdown.
I have one column header called "Brand/Model" and on the onItemDataBound i
want to modify the values relates to this column.. the problem is because the

When I try to upgrade vb6 project in vb.net, datagrid, sstab and common
dialog control refuses to upgrade and whole process fails.
Why?

I made a smart client that I purposed to offer on a web server. But when I
try to run it by dint of Internet Explorer, I get the
System.TypeInitializationException in the IEExec.exe thread.
My exe is signed and has full trust on my computer.

I'm developing an application and want to have the "remember me" feature, so
that users don't have to log back in again in the next visit.
The problem here is, what happens if the user's cookie is stolen?  Or, what
prevents someone from figuring out the algorithm to the cookie ...