This is not a big problem. suppose u want to create a web application in say c:\DotNet\Xyz. and not in C:\inetpub\wwroot\Xyz. All u have to do is first create a virtual directory with 'Xyz' as alias for C:\DotNet\Xyz. remember if u try to use other name as alias, then Visual studio will create the application in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ or will throw that Error message.

Until u say Reader->Read(), the pointer will not go to the first record so that's the reason u are getting 0. try this while(Reader->Read) { // your code. }

Actually, I had couple of problems. First thing was, the issue with drop down lists. I had some 5 drop down lists. If i fill a particular drop down list out of 5 the events stopped working. When I commented out the code to fill that one particular drop down. the events worked. that's strange. And another problem i had was with calender controls. My events wont fire if i have some 4 buttons along with 2 calender controls. I replaced 2 buttons with hyperlinks and events started firing, but then I had some validation controls too on the page and if the Page was invalid, then next time a SelectionChanged Event on calender is fired, it opens a new window and throws a java script error. So The Asp.Net Events are killing me. I will follow your suggestion paul for the drop down lists.

hi, I got the same problem too. When i filled some drop down lists in the page load event, the events stopped firing. Also when i put a put a break point, the page load is running more than once. once i took out the code to fill a certain drop down list, the button events fired ok. I know, if you put a response.redirect in a try/catch block, you will have a problem. the asp.net will through a thread aborted exception. but could not figure out my problem.