Funny coincidence that I came across this thread. I have a trademark name registered in both Canada and the US, for about 10 years now. I market my software under this name, as well as have most of the webdomains using this name registered to me. BUT, I have just become aware of a start up company in the US that are marketing their 'competing' product an related services with a small variation of my trademarked term. After concurring with my trademark lawyer that this 'appears' to be a violation, I am now faced with enforcing the trademark rights, probably at a fair cost. The problem is two fold. If I cannot prove that their use can be damaging to me, then I have given them the right to use the trademarked term. The second will be the cost, since I am in Canada and they are in the US. This is the price of doing business. Most of the information provided to you is to obtain legal advise. I could not agree more. This stuff is best left to the people that specialise in this area, especially when involved with another country. So, get legal advice first, then decide what you want to do at that point. Don't go it alone. Cheers!

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I am working on a winforms project with an MDI Parent and some MDI Children. The Child datasets Fill methods use a parameter set by a combobox on the MDI Parent. I can iterate through the active MDI children, but cannot figure out how to refresh the dataset in the children when the parameter changes, which would then update the data being displayed. I tried invoking .refresh method on the child forms, but it does not refresh the dataset. Any ideas would help. Thanks Paul

Curious about CPU/MEM etc used for ASP.NET developers? I use a Pentium Core2 Duo Laptop for design and coding, then Celeron desktop for final compile and packaging (read SLOW). Standard P4 servers for testing etc... Not interesed in brand name of computers, but curious about configurations?

From what I can gather, since a web service is stateless, then I cannot use global.asax in a web service to store application variables. For example, in classic asp, I could do the following... --> Sub Application_OnStart set g_pcmsrv=Server.CreateObject("PCMServer.PCMServer") set application("g_pcmsrv") = g_pcmsrv End Sub <-- With the above example, I can see and use g_pcmsrv anywhere in the web app. But the same will not work in a web service.... <-- Sub Application_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) ' Code that runs on application startup Dim g_pcmsrv As Object = Server.CreateObject("PCMServer.PCMServer") Application("g_pcmsrv") = g_pcmsrv End Sub --> With the above, I get a 'object not set to a reference' error. Does anyone know a workaround? Thanks VM Paul

When I run this code, only one DDL (cboSDB) populates, the other remains empty. Code does not trip any errors. Am I missing something obvious? Thanks ****************** Using conn As New SqlConnection(connect) Try conn.Open() ' get DataTable with all available metadata collections Dim dt1 As DataTable = conn.GetSchema() Dim cmd As SqlCommand = New SqlCommand Dim dr As SqlDataReader cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure cmd.CommandText = "sp_databases" cmd.Connection = conn dr = cmd.ExecuteReader cboSDB.Items.Clear() cboSDB.Items.Add(New ListItem("Select", "0")) cboDDB.Items.Clear() cboDDB.Items.Add(New ListItem("Select", "0")) ' bind DataTable controls to display rows cboSDB.DataSource = dr cboSDB.DataTextField = "DATABASE_NAME" cboSDB.DataValueField = "DATABASE_NAME" cboSDB.DataBind() ' This is where it won't work yet code is exactly the same as above. cboDDB.DataSource = dr cboDDB.DataTextField = "DATABASE_NAME" cboDDB.DataValueField = "DATABASE_NAME" cboDDB.DataBind() ' End cmdSConn.Enabled = False Catch ex As System.Exception clsE.logWizError(ex.Message.ToString, "COULD NOT CONNECT TO SOURCE.", sClient) lblMsg.Text = "COULD NOT CONNECT TO DATABASE. PLEASE TRY AGAIN." lblMsg.ForeColor = Drawing.Color.DarkRed lblMsg.Visible = True Finally conn.Close() End Try End Using