Thanks Rick

... and where do you find the question asking for the "best" software...?

Want to know which is the easiest software to learn and use, for making video tutorials of an application. It should be possible to zoom in to a specific region, annotate with text, highlight click events, and if possible add mouse movements while eliminating original jerky mouse tracks that appear when a screen capturing software is used. Need not be free necessarily. What I have tried: Creating videos using screen capturing softwares, creating videos using PowerPoint

Could anyone suggest the best way of resizing an image (.bmp/jpeg) without loss of quality. The problem we are facing is that when we tried resizing one of our images (3000X3000 pixels) to 75X75, it looks fine, and also comes out well when printed directly or as image in a word document, but when the same word document is printed as a pdf, the edges are all jagged and the quality is quite rubbish. Any suggestions? Thanks

Hi, We are in the process of building a new enterprise application, that would comprise of an Oracle database, and a VB.NET application. Now my request to you all is to suggest the optimal architecture, in terms of technology, stability, maintenance, etc, bearing in mind that we would like to have a multi-tier application, with a thin client, and 1 to n business/persistence layers. The application would be used by users who might be geographically separated. Would appreciate your inputs on: Winforms Vs ASP.NET? Communication, Data persistence, Performance, Any other criterion that you might consider important. Your inputs would be highly appreciated. Cheers/RB

Hi, We are in the process of building a new enterprise application, that would comprise of an Oracle database, and a VB.NET application. Now my request to you all is to suggest the optimal architecture, in terms of technology, stability, maintenance, etc, bearing in mind that we would like to have a multi-tier application, with a thin client, and 1 to n business/persistence layers. The application would be used by users who might be geographically separated. Would appreciate your inputs on: Winforms Vs ASP.NET? Communication, Data persistence, Performance, Any other criterion that you might consider important. Your inputs would be highly appreciated. Cheers/RB

Hi, We are in the process of building a new enterprise application, that would comprise of an Oracle database, and a VB.NET application. Now my request to you all is to suggest the optimal architecture, in terms of technology, stability, maintenance, etc, bearing in mind that we would like to have a multi-tier application, with a thin client, and 1 to n business/persistence layers. The application would be used by users who might be geographically separated. Would appreciate your inputs on: Winforms Vs ASP.NET? Communication, Data persistence, Performance, Any other criterion that you might consider important. Your inputs would be highly appreciated. Cheers/RB

Relax, mate....I don't think there is an need to get hyper about it. You have been most helpful in the past. My thinking is that posts that do not see much activity for more than a couple of days seldom get far, I thought it better to jog you into a response. I am sorry if you take offense at such things. RB

The error thrown is "The operation has timed out" Thanks/RB

Hi, I have a small FTP class, written in VB.NET 2.0, which keeps polling for a particular file at a remote location, at 2 minute intervals, till it successfully downloads the file, and then it stops. So far I had been using wget as an external process, and recently I have switched to using the FtpWebRequest class. Now what i have noticed is that the first attempt always fails, even if the particular file is available on the remote server. The error returned is System.Net.WebException. However, in the next run, after 2 minutes, the process succeeds, with exactly the same parameters. The relevant part of the code:

Dim myFtpWebRequest As FtpWebRequest
Dim myFtpWebResponse As FtpWebResponse
Dim myStreamWriter As StreamWriter
Dim strURL As String = ""

    strURL = "ftp://" & strFTPURL & strFTPFolder & strFileName

    myFtpWebRequest = DirectCast(WebRequest.Create(strURL), FtpWebRequest)
    myFtpWebRequest.KeepAlive = False
    myFtpWebRequest.Timeout = 20000
    myFtpWebRequest.UsePassive = blnUsePassive
    myFtpWebRequest.UseBinary = True


    myFtpWebRequest.Credentials = New NetworkCredential(strFTPUserName, strFTPPassword)
    myFtpWebRequest.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile
    myFtpWebResponse = myFtpWebRequest.GetResponse()

Can someone throw some light on this? Regards RB

Use redemption....excellent resource for handling emails from outlook or exchange server.

We have an application which is run as a Windows Service. This application uses a dll that implements some business logic. The service is running fine and now we have implemented some new business logic in this dll. None of the other dependencies have changed. The application remains unchanged. My question now is: Do we have to recompile the application and reinstall the service? My personal view would be NO. Am I right? A quick feedback would be much appreciated. Thanks/RB

Hi, We have a Windows Service, written in VB.NET. This service is set to start Automatically on machine start. Authentication/log on parameters are included while setting the Service. However, we now notice that the service does not start on reboot, returning a Service Failed to log on error. Starting the service manually works without problem. Server: Win 2003, .NET 2.0 Any help towards a solution would be most appreciated. Regards, RB

I have a DSL modem, which has a slot for connecting a USB device, Printer, etc. Now, I would like to connect an External Hard Drive via USB cable, to this port, and access it via the network. Is that possible, or do i have to try someting else. I hear the commercially available External Hard Drives with RJ45 ports are not that dependable for serious network storage....?