I have experience in VB6 .   Recently , I started learning (independently)
VB.NET  , under the Beta 1 version of  VS2005 .
However , there are not many books about VB2005 :  VB2005 isn't completed
yet .

I am developing an ASP.NET application.  I have several classes that I
developed that store user information and certain things that they do while
working with the application.  
All those classes need to be available from the time user signs in to the

I'm not sure if this is bad design or not. It seems flawed, but I'm not
sure.  Is it wrong to create an instance of a class within the class
itself? Any feedback appreciated.
public class Article

It is my understanding that in .Net the registry is not the
prefered place to save application settings.  What has Microsoft
put in place to replace it?  I thought it was the .config file,
but I am unable to figure out how to write to the file.

Hi to all.
I would like to run .NET application without install the framework on my
computer. This is a requirement for my application because it will
downloaded from the internet.

I was just curious to see if there was some analog to XSLT in WinForms.
I'd like to be able to have my data be defined in XML, then process it
with some kind of style sheet/transformation to dyamically "render"
forms and their constituent controls on-the-fly.

I tried to use this BeforeNavigation2 event and apparently it fires neither
in my VB application nor in my C #code!
I tried the resolution claimed by Microsoft at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q311298&ID=KB;EN-US

Is there anyway to create some code that will go through every form and
control in my solution and update the lanuage property?
I was trying to create an addin to do this but I can't figure out how to
loop through the forms.

I have a solution with 11 projects in it.  When I build it, I get a
message that says:
10 Successful,  1 failed, 0 skipped
but I cannot see which project failed!  There are no messages in the

I'm trying to extend the Microsoft Enterprise Library Data Access
Application Block
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/daab.asp?frame=true)
to work with a Borland Interbase database.

I build a web service in a server(A) and can connect to it successfully in my
local computer(B) by using SoapHttpClientProtocol as client. However, when I
move the same code(local computer (B)) to another computer (C). It (C) can
view the web service through browser but not ...

I need to create a utility to shutdown another running application.  I know you can get a Process object and execute the
 Exit method but that only works for apps that have a main window, mine does not.  So is there a way to shutdown a
running app (with no main window) from ...

I am in search of a commercial quality professional icon package.  I have
searched on Yahoo and seen 2 of the sites recommended on this forum, but I am
not looking for the new colorful, soft, graphic icons that we see today.  
Just the bussiness-looking, simple ones, like those ...

   Can anybody point me to some documentation about assembly manifest
files.  I've seen them used is WinForms applications to enable visual
styles.  I'm more interested in what happens behind the scenes when you
declare a manifest file.

Why am I not able to retrieve the value of ID (which does exist) using
ExecuteScalar()?  Do i simply have to use ExecuteReader() instead?
My problem snippet:
string mySQL = "SELECT ID FROM Table WHERE TableID = 1";