it really depends on how your clients are accessing your server. Im sure you could definately program in some HTML scripting into your client game to connect to and login into a server (simply running IIS on NT) but thats not really a secure means of accomplishing that. If your client connects through his webv browser, then this is the best wat to handle it. Just research using ASP to create login pages and user accounts in win2000. If your client is conecting through an application like Quake CLient / Server technology then you will need to program a Server Application to handle that. recurse.org - Recusion For the Rest Of Us.

Hi Gary. The main reason I got into programming when I was younger was to develop computer games. My first game ever was a text based RPG game, similar to Dungeons and Dragons. Don't get discouraged by the amount of reading you're going to need to do just to create the most basic computer game. In the end, it's pay off. I don't recomend C# as your first language however. There's a steep learning curve when a newbie programmer tries to learn Java, C++, or C# and I've seen many beginning programmers give up on programming entirely out of disgust when trying to learn these languages. Start out with something simpler like VB 6 or vb.net (vb6 is the older version of vb.net). Then, if you find that you enjoy programming, go for the more advanced languages like C# or Java. Good luck. -Goalie35

GetDateFormat() GetTimeFormat() GetNumberFormat() GetCurrencyFormat() Don't reinvent the wheel. :)