Could anyone please suggest a good book which has step by step examples
of web development in asp.net 2.0 using C# and vb.net?
I do appreicate your suggestions.
Thanks a lot in advance.

I have an application that is monitoring a process on another machine.
This application runs as a service.  The error that I am getting when
this runs is:
Couldn't get process information from remote machine.

I have a pdf file, it has 20 pages. Is there a way I can open this file
and go to page # 10 right away using C# or VB.net.
Thanks in advance.
Ted Lee

Seriously, could VS 2005 be any slower?
I've got 4GB RAM, dual core AMD CPU FX60, two 10K rpm SATA drives, and
7800GTX video card and VS 2005 is still horribly SLOW!!  It is the most
frustrating interface I've ever had to wait for (even with dynamic help

I know I can stop my thread by using the CancelAsync method of the
BackgroundWorker but that requires me to monitor the value of the
CancellationPending property in my BackgroundWorker.DoWork event.
This means that if the DoWork event is processing a single line of code then

This is a general web development question about persistant cookies.
I thought I would use persistant cookies to indentify unique visitors to
my site.
When testing my cookie setting code, I found that the cookies are

I've got a couple of web-projects and i want to convert them to class-
libraries. I've tried by just changing te .vbproj file (Changed ProjectType
to from "Web" to "Local"
) and adding a vbroj.user, but it didn't work out.

I have created a listbox called "dtlist1" on my VB.NET form. I call a
procedure as follows:
Private Sub openfile(flname As String)
dtlist1.Items.Clear()

How the class name for windows standard controls(Ex:Button)  are generated
in VS2005?
InVS 2005, I have created one button conrol and compiled. I got a class name
as given below:

What is the best way to handle the database connection string for a class
library project that will be compiled and used as a .dll? This .dll will be
accessed via classic ASP and in the future by ASP.NET pages. I have created
a constant that contains the connection string (as ...

I declare PageObjectsArray1 and PageObjectsArray2 as ArrayList. Each
element in the array is a Page object. Now I want to compare every pair
of Page objects of the same index in the two arrays.
However, it seems that there is no method in ArrayList such as

Howdy:
I have been workwing with CDOSYS and SMPTMail for some time.  I
constantly run into a wall with the way CDOSYS restricts your access to
headers such as 'X-Sender'.  Are there any goo open source and 3rd

I have some FOP-compliant XML that I need to transform to RTF. I understand
that Apache's FOP is the definitive standard for doing this from Java. I've
come across several FOP ports for .NET in my research, and was wondering
whether there's any product or port that others have had ...

I have made a class/class environment
It looks like this
Environment
   User