That first link is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you ever so much for saving me bunches of time! ,Gary

Thanks again !! SABhatti... do you live here(Code Project forums)? LOL

I have read a couple articles on how to encrypt portions of the web.config via command line, but is there any way to do something simillar when console/command line access is not available? such as in a hosted environment? I could possible make a request to the company hosting my asp.Net 2.0 site, but I thought that I had viewed a tutorial some time back where someone did it programatically. P.S. Let me say to anyone that has noticed that this is my third quest for help this morning... I am new to this forum and promise to contribute back to the forum by helping others where I can. 8-)

I am using the onClick event to send an email using System.Net.Mail. It works great. If I add a 'PostBackURL' to the asp button on my form to point to a confirmation page, that works but it breaks the sending of my email. Is there a way, within my C# code behind, that I can send the user to the confirmation page after the mail sending?

that did it.

This may be a newbie question, but I am using System.Net.Mail to send an email, containing the data from a form. getting the text from the textboxes, and selected values from the drop-down boxes was easy. What I am struggling with now is how to get a list of which items, from within the 'checkboxlist' were selected when the 'submit' button was clicked. The most I have been able to get so far, using the .SelectedItem attribute is the FIRST value. I haven't figured out how to retrieve the collection that is a list of all the items that were selected. Make sense? any help or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks ,Gary