You can get these free - Visual Studio Express and SQL Server Express (Google them)

Why not write your own captcha, that way you are not invoking third party code and cookies...

Public Function Change_Text(ByVal strInText As String, ByVal strOutText As String) As Boolean Dim strSubText As String Dim intPos As Integer Dim bolCode As Boolean = False 'Default as OK Change_Text = True 'Clear output string strOutText = "" 'Loop through string Do Until strInText = "" 'Look for opening '[' If Mid(strInText, 1, 1) = "[" Then 'Find closing tag intPos = InStr(2, strInText, "]") 'Extract content strSubText = Mid(strInText, 2, intPos - 2) 'Skip text beyond end tag strInText = Mid(strInText, intPos + 1) 'Check tag information.... Select Case UCase(strSubText) Case "/CODE" 'Closing tag strOutText += "" 'Flag outside code area bolCode = False Case "CODE" 'Opening tag strOutText += "

"
                        'Flag inside code area
                        bolCode = True
                    Case Else
                        'Unknown [] tag - Flag as error ...
                        Change_Text = False
                End Select
            ElseIf Mid(strInText, 1, 2) = vbCrLf Then
                strInText = Mid(strInText, 3)
                If bolCode Then
                    'Inside Code Tags
                    strOutText += "∓"
                Else
                    'Outside Code Tags
                    strOutText += ""
                End If
            Else
                'Write character to output string...
                strOutText += Mid(strInText, 1, 1)
            End If
        Loop
    End Function

Need more information, 1) Do you have a source for the email information available 2) Does each user have a unique identification With this information it may be possible to find a solution. :)

More details about the errorcode would be helpful, you may need to update the Web.Config file to show the complete error message, look at the customError section for more details, if you can post the more detailed information then maybe I can help..

You could store the username in a session variable and then display that information.. <%=Session("Username")%>

Problem is the format of PNG is not compatible with the Response.OutputStream method directly, you need to store the image in a memorystream at then send that to the browser... System.IO.MemoryStream memStream; byte[] bytBuffer; Response.Clear(); Response.ContentType = "image/png"; memStream = new System.IO.MemoryStream(); bp.Save(memStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png); bytBuffer = memStream.ToArray(); Response.OutputStream.Write(bytBuffer, 0, bytBuffer.Length); Response.End(); My C++ skills not good, this is a translation of the VB.NET code that I use.. :-D