Hello to all
   I have an ASP.NET application that uses VB.NET as the background
language and SQL server 2K as the back end database. I just recently
converted this application from classic asp and I have some erratic behavior

I am developing a class which will be used in both a WinForm and ASP.NET 2.0
application. The class needs to know which type of application it is running
in. How do you programmatically determine what type of application (WinForm
or ASP.NET) you are currently running in? I have ...

I've seen a few examples on how to cache data in a WinForms GUI, just after
some thought on the best solution. The data I'm trying to cache will be
generally be small collections of Business Objects (eg Lookup data)
1) Using the Web Cache objects

How does everyone design the database access layer in an asp.net application?
Two options that come to mind is:
1. create a database class and instanciate it as needed, local to a function
or

Hey all,
I have a few questions regarding .NET BLL design. I am a somewhat
self-taught developer with limited resources, so I know there are some
concepts here and there that I might have missed along the way. To understand

[ERROR MESSAGE:]
Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interfac
type 'Manage.Statistics.IManageStats'. This operation failed becaus
the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with II

I am running a .NET application as a Windows Service.
In that application I create a FileSystemWatcher.
I want it to watch a network drive which maps to an IBM iSeries IFS
directory. Every time I log in, I have to retype the password to connect

Does anyone know why in 2005 I might be getting this error everytime I try
and recompile?
Error 226 Unable to copy file "obj\Debug\myfile.dll" to
"bin\Debug\myfile.dll". The process cannot access the file

In my asp.net application i need to run my application on client
machine search for the files on client machine and save those files in
database.But when i run my application it searches for the file on the
pc where where i am developing the application.

I am trying to send an email using SMARTHOST.  But I am running into
problems.  Hopefully someone will be able to help.
In my web application, I have the following code ...
Imports System.Web.Mail

wats the Diff Between Setting an object to NULL and calling the
Dispose() method for that object?

Can anybody clarify this please.
Is there any problem in a web app of saving an object in a public variable
as opposed to saving it in the cache?
In my case, I have an object containing a hash table of text labels and

Creating a new typed dataset using the Data Source Configuration Wizard (and
opting NOT to save the password with user settings) generates a
ConnectionString setting like...
Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\JB74\LISYSTEM.MDB;User

Hi,
I want to hookup some database change events automatically to my .NET
application. The backend is SQLServer 2003. Is this possible? How do I
get notified automatically of changes in my database?

If a .html filename has a "#", IE displays it ok when you double click it
using Window explorer.
In my application I define a datagrid; bind it to a datatable; define a
column in Datagrid as a HyperLink Column and bind its URL field to a field in