Has anyone benchmarked XML Linq speed compared to network'd MySql? I have a fairly big XML database here and was wondering if I might get better performance by loading it into MySql. It's the read access I'm most interested in at the moment. Yeah, I know I could mash up some test code, but I wondered what the scuttlebutt might be. Budsy

My ASP.NET web application has a file upload feature. I can upload files, and download those files, but the server won't let me delete them (using System.IO.File.Delete and similar), giving an error of System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path "" is denied. Anybody suggest how I might get my app to have the required permission to Delete the file? ...and, while we're at it, why can I write and read, but not delete?? Using IIS, f

Make sure the client does not have anything blocking cookies. IE, for example, needs to be set on 'low' in Tools...Internet settings....Privacy. Make sure there is no firewall (specifically ZoneAlarm) blocking them too. I've seen IE do the non-animating gif thing too. Eventually my gifs came back to life in Internet Explorer, and I don't know why they went 'dead' for a long time. Odd. Anyway, there is an animation counter inside animated gifs. Try setting them to some extrememly high value. Budsy

I got around this only by creating a new project and "Add Existing Items" to it, essentially reconstructing the whole project. That worked, and now the properties stick just fine. No idea what went wrong with the original project...I was gettin' worried about it!

What's with this?... Each time I load my web project into Visual Studio 2002 I discover that many objects (random it seems) have lost properties! Objects that used to have Event properties have blanks showing, and when the project is built and run again, links don't work, database queries fail, and all kinds of stuff. It takes an hour to retype all the properties, which is very prone to error, and then all works well...until the next time I load and edit that is. Then I have to retype again. Something broke, because this never happened until about this week... and my project has about 30 pages of C# code. Is this a known bug?

Just recently my Visual Studio has been 'forgetting' the names of webform functions that I put in the Properties window for webcontrols Events functions. I type them into the the properties window of the IDE but they don't stick. The system event is declared ok, however, in the code-behind .cs files, in the 'hidden' managed code section during the page init, so that part doesn't get forgotten. But it's nice to be able to see what routine I've set up for a Button1_Click() for that special Button1 button object. Am I clear as mud here? Did I break my VS.NET IDE? Budsy