Does anyone know how to sort a data view numerically?  By default, when
you sort a field from a table in a database, it sorts it in
alpha-numerical order.  In MS Access, sort is by alpha-numeric, that
is, numbers sort from 1, 10 ,11, 1X, 2, 21, 2X, etc.  I want VB.NET to

We have a large web based internal app written in classic ASP running against
a SQL Server2000 database (!00+ tables, up to ten million rows in a dozen of
the tables).  We would like to begin a staged port of the application by
applying the 1.1 framework to the database server ...

I want to determine the back color that treeview node takes on when selected...
its some blue value but I haven't been able to determine what it is...
The reason that I ask is that when the treeView looses focus, the selected
node is no longer highlighted....  I want to use this ...

I am trying to use the DirectoryInfo class to create links on a web page to
files in the specified directory.  I can get it to work just fine.  The
problem I am having is when I try to put in a UNC path, it does not work.  It
says it cannot find the specified path.  Below is the ...

how come I can say:
if() statement;  else statement;
but I cannot say
try statment; catch() statement;

Currently I'm working on a C# app for a large organization (700 users
nationwide).  This App is still under development.  I have setup code in my
App to pull C# source code from a database and dynamically compile it at
runtime.  All source code stored in the database will be of ...

I am writing a .Net Web application to reset an AD User's password.  The user
will hit the first web page, answer a few questions and if their answers are
correct then they will be directed to a web page that will ask them what
password they would like to have their ID set to.  ...

I have 2 usercontrols (ascx), one of which contains the other.  Are the
OutputCache settings for the child control deterimined by the values in
the child control itself or do the values from the parent override
them?  Don't see it documented anywhere.

I have tried setting the Format of a FormattableTextBoxColumn to "c" to
display the values as currency but it does not seem to have any affect.
Could I be missing something?
Thanks

I am experiencing some browser weirdness.
My app uses session state to hide values I prefer to keep out of the
querystring. I am testing to see what happens when cookies are fully
disabled in IE 6 and NS 7. NS behaves as expected: it has no recall of

I'm looking into a good Text Editor (either stand alone or can integrate
into VS 2003)
Needs to have the following:
1.  Powerful Search & replace

Somebody on the Net must have thought of putting  ... maybe with search
capability for method names.
Isn't something like that out there?  Sounds to me like a good ,Net Windows
Forms exercise.  I'm too new in .Net to undertake it.

From a VB.NET application, a VB6 ActiveX DLL needs to be used. This
ActiveX.DLL (source not available) has an Announce() method which opens a
socket to a given server for communication purposes.
Problem is the Announce() method does not work from VB.NET - nothing happens

in C# how do i transform an xml document with an xsl document when my xml
document is a string and my xsl document is a string? the msdn examples only
show how to do it with steams and files. in my case i have everything in
string

OK, maybe this is my opinion, maybe these are bugs.
Given the folowing:
I have a NotifyIcon on my Form, a Context menu associated with the
NotifyIcon, and a MenuItem on the ContextMenu set as default. When the