So far the VS.NET 2005 Releaes Candidate has ben a smooth ride. The install went very smooth, the app loaded with no hiccups and many of my beta 2 projects ran just fine. Of course, its still early, but I am happy so far. <growl>So now I want to jump into the September CTP of SQL Server 2005

Here is another quick example of how to send an email from a web page, this time using ASP.NET 2. (for ASP.NET 1.1, click here [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/john.papa/archive/2005/09/19/132248.aspx]) The code for the ASP.NET 1.1 technique [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/john.papa/archive/2005/09/

Here is a quick code example of how to send an email message from a web page using ASP.NET. First, I drew up a quick and dirty web page UI. <IMG src="/photos/jpapa/images/132245/original.aspx" border=0> I added some required field validator controls for the To, From and Message fie

I've developed .NET applications with both of these products in the past and they both have some great features that save a ton of time. It had been a while though since I last did a comparison, so I decided to put them up to the challenge once again. Here are my initial thoughts on the best pro

A buddy of mine recently struggled with one of those "I can't beleive I didn't see it" issues. It went something like this ... Assuming: * you have a C# Windows Form application * a WinForm * a DataGridView * a button called button1 * a valid connection string * a valid s