We do plan to include a SessionStateProvider class in our next beta, so I wanted to make you aware of this technology. You are encouraged to download the current Persistore beta and experiment with it, it will be possible to persist session and other data in ASP.NET apps easily and efficiently. The current beta includes a basic implementation of a MembershipProvider, which may be enough to whet your appetite. (Our own website uses it for user registration and login etc). Questions, comments etc always welcome. Hugh

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Yes, this is NOT a windows Vista issue really. However, download the current beta of Persistore from us, the lite version is free (but is still beta at this time). Creating true (automatically) persistent variables (and arrays) is almost trivial and incurs far less overhead than other methods of doing this. Regards Hugh PS: The beta 1.1.0.0 does not run on Vista, stay tuned for the next beta due out very soon. However it will work fine on earlier OS (32 or 64 bit).

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Enterprise Architect from Sparx, supply an add-in for full UML support in VS 2005.

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Wow This is non trivial. The MS Linker expects to see .OBJ, .DLL or .LIB files (amongst others) as input. If you create a valid .OBJ or .DLL file then it will link fine. Creating these files (as a compiler does) requires a lot of intricate code and is a significant part of any language compiler. Microsoft document this in great detail in their MS COFF dicumentation (available online) http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/PECOFF.mspx[^] Bear in mind that this now includes 32-bit and 64-bit support. Hugh

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Hi I am testing an ASP.NET site on Vista (it runs fine on XP and Server 2003). We get a fault in the published site (not under debug though, on Vista) that I think is due to file permissions. This was resolved on Server 2003 and XP bu granting permissions to the ASP.NET Machine Account (appears as ASPNET when granting permisions). VS 2005, .NET 2 etc etc are all installed and (apparently) working fine, we can debug the site too. I'd expect the account to have been setup as part of VS 2005 install, but it seems to be absent. I did run aspnet_regiis -i too, but to no avail. Any info much appreciated. Hugh

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Try creating a collection of collections, this can be used to do what you want. There is no "standard" multi-key collection class, and I think this is because its easy and valid to implement your own.

Check out Enterprise Architect from Sparx, they have an add-in for VS 2005 and Microsoft officially chose them as their provider for UML support in Visual Studion.