Toronto - We had -37 last night :D

Wat is going to happen with IT. On one side, theres so much hype about "offshore and outsourcing" and on the other side "open source". The first one I understand because it comes from the business. They always want to save money and ofcourse the currency rates forces them to go offshore. But the open source is pushed by IT people by themselves. Don't they want to EARN a living after a few years. Do they want to give away all the software for free? If people can get everything for free, why would they buy anything? Whats going to happen to IT people in North America? Free software, cheapest labour(offshore).

There have been so many news about IE and Firefox lately. Just want to get opinion of people here that how far do you think that Firefox will take on IE. Heard about XUL too. Do you think just firefox can effect Microsoft's reputation? I hope google doesn't jump in the browser race, heard that they are working on a browser and own gbrowser.com. Opinions?

oh yeah.. drive was terrible this morning.. i hope it'll not snow in the evening else driving home is :doh:

Hi all, I have a html tag. I'm passing parameters, such as page.aspx?uid=122&name=Ali when it goes to the next page using the link, it works fine in the code behind page. I can use Request["name"] or Request["uid"] but in the aspx page I can't use it. Iniside the generated html of the aspx page, it shows the link as page.aspx?uid=122&name=Ali. I believe the "amp;" is the problem since its the html code for ampersand sign. I'm not sure. Anybody came accross to this problem before? Ali

i want one too :).. what do I have to do?

I'm writing a class library which contains a couple dlls. Is it possible to have one combined dll of my class libary and the other dlls i'm using. I just want to make a single redistributable dll. Is it possible? Note: I don't have the code for the dlls i'm using in the class library. Only have the dll itself Thanks in advance

Hi everyone, I was just wondering which certification should be done first: - XML Web Services or - SQL Server 2000 I personally don't have any preference. Wanted to get some opinion. Thanks Ali Haider

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Thanks for the reply Michael.. thats exactly what i was asking for.. i got the solution.. wasn't my code.. whoever wrote it.. used Server.HtmlEncode(TextBox1.Text).. thats y & was convert to amp.. anyways.. thanks again :) Ali

Hello everyone, Have a textbox.. when you enter & and display the result.. it works fine.. but using viewstat it actually has & for it.. so when I save it in the database.. the character & is saved rather than just "&".. can't believe i searched for an hour and couldn't find help for this simple issue :s.. any help would b highly appreciated.. Thanks Ali

Hello everyone, I have a ASP.Net application which has crystal reports. For a batch process I want to create a console application in the same solution. Batch process takes about 2 or more hours to complete, console application would b a better solution as of my knowledge (if anyone has any suggestion, plz let me know). Problem is that reports exist in asp.net project, how do I use the same reports and its .cs files in the console application? I don't want to create a duplicate copy of reports. Thanks in advance Ali Haider

Hello everyone, I have few crystal reports in a project. I need to combine all the reports in one pdf. I can print each report in one pdf file but need to combine all of them in one. Any help would be highly appreciated Thanks in advance Ali