For my undergrad project (last year) I developed a P2P (file-sharing & IM) app with use of a central server, developed using the .NET Framework. I should have used .NET remoting, but decided to stick with the Socket classes because it seemed simpler. As for .NET security ideas I really haven’t touched that part of the Framework. Here are two project ideas I thought of awhile ago; you could develop using .NET: * An auction website (eBay) - including a Windows Service which runs on the auction server which expires auctions maintaining the auction database (maybe a SQL Server trigger could do this?). A mobile-phone bid-back system using Web Services would be cool. Lots of ADO.NET programming and Forms authentication for security here. * A stockmarket app – A Windows Forms thin client investment portfolios manager (perhaps with graphing) for stocks. Some sort serialization/saving of portfolios would be cool so that you transport/load them into an instance of another app to compare with other portfolios. Possibly encryption security required here.

Stan Shannon wrote: The brain is like any other organ, the more you use it, the healthier it remains. So when I drink a lot, I'm just excercising my liver? :rolleyes: "The laws of nature, the laws of man This volatile paradox will never stand" -Plasticity, Front Line Assembly