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Hi! My company has a new security requirement.....any program that sends email now has to logon onto the mail server in order to do so. The code below used to work like a charm..... Dim Msg As MailMessage = New MailMessage dim rname as string ''''rname = report name""""" rname = "Backbone Rport" Msg.To = "easyhousewife@aol.net" Msg.Body = "Please find attached a copy of the latest " & rname & " report" & Environment.NewLine & "Regards," & Environment.NewLine & "Quahog" Msg.From = "god@aol.net" Msg.Subject = rname Msg.Attachments.Add(New MailAttachment("c:\112_04_la_fordgt2.jpg")) SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "exchange" SmtpMail.Send(Msg) MessageBox.Show("Message Sent: " & txtto.Text)

Yes Try this tutorial from the guys that brought you the Big Blue Screen of Death and the General Protection Fault http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308278&Product=aspnet Good Luck!

sjn78, I think the suggestion from Denaes would be good. I had started my own business since I was studying in U. And now, my company have 4 years' histories. Wao... How many projects that my company had done and how big were them? Honestly, quite a lot, but scopes are very small. Once I have done with my academy assignments or projects, I modified them and suiting them with certain customers. I sold them with RM2k(about US500) each. Not much right? Cause this amount is just enough to cover all those transport costs and maintenance costs. :c) I agree with pretty much everything that is being said.....I started my own company for side money. It was great. I would find an appilcation or task to perform, take a week off and code it, drop it off and test it....Nothing new there, my addition to the discussion is that I would write an application for one client and sell it to several. I would sell it by the seat (installed application) when possible. That way, it seems cheaper. For example, only $150 U.S.D. per install for eight installs....Since my overhead was low, I would get full life cycle development experience and sell the same product several times.

You should check out O'Reilly: http://dotnet.oreilly.com/ They have alot of sample chapter which are pretty extensive so you know exactly what you are buying.

One thing that I learned as a freelancer is that I never charge by the hour. The good thing about being a freelancer is that you can write your own contracts. I would do it for $X.XX a job. That way the client never makes the association of I am paying him for $200 an hour but I make $40 an hour. As an independant, I have differant expenses than a normal programmer. I have to own my own development platforms, pay insurance, etc.. I had one client where I would get oaid for the install. $200 for the first, and $100 for each subsequent version. I did my homework ahead of time, so I knew how much I would be paid. It ended up to be around $500 an hour, which is much higher than I would have gotten paid on an hourly basis. I usually got paid for each deliverable.

Yes, many people that I develop for dump me to some SME who thinks no matter what I say, I am writing a program that will replace them! Most of the time their proecesses are so screwed up that anything I write would just increase their productivity but not replace them. I have been that subject matter expert so I know the fear, but it is tough to work for people that hate you. I love programmimng, but I am glad to get out consulting.

Sheppard, I think I have about seven hours on you. I am part of the group who got sold by cwplc, so I am very used to working with people on a seven hour delay. Good Morning, UK!

Sheppard, Good luck. Sorry I could not help. It kind of bugged me so I followed up with Winzip for their offical answer.....which was : "The best I can suggest is that you check on the web for companies involved with recovery of passwords used for Zip 2.x encryption. Some sites that we are aware of are: http://www.accessdata.com http://www.elcomsoft.com Please note that WinZip Computing did not create, and does not offer support for, or advice or recommendations regarding, any of the password recovery programs available from the above sites. If your Zip file was encrypted using AES encryption, we know of no reliable methods for recovering a lost password. --Chuck Campbell, WinZip Technical Support

Virtual Reality markup language or Java3D Hey, has anyone done any vrml progrmming (Virtual Reality markup language) or Java3D and if so (a) how did you like it and (b) what software did you use? I wanted to do something interesting for a web page that I am working on. And for the record yes the web page looks very very bad.

This is a commerical solution. I have no financial interest in the company. Nor have I tried the software. http://lastbit.com/zippsw/default.asp Good Luck

Mocella, Thanks. I am messing aroiund with it now. Regards, Quahog

When I saw it he was going for .40 american. I sent out link to a lot of my friends and they thoiught it was a riot! Thanks a lot, Nerseus.

Does anyone know how to block access to someone based upon their IP address using vb script in ASP.net?

Another way they can make money is through referals. It is a form of advertising but it is more subtle. As you can often jump to a site by clicking on the advertisement graphic, you can do so through the hypertext link. If the hypertext link passes a parameter to the destination URL, it can indicate the account of the referring website. For example the site that Robby mentioned has a many links on the Catalogue page. Many of them link to homepages while others are linked to corporate sites. Many corporate sites will pay a referal fee if someone buys a product from their site if the customer came from one of their referal sites. The hypertext link passes a parameter to the destination website indicating the originating URL. A company that specializes in this is http://www.linkshare.com By the way, I did not mean to indicate that the site Robby mentioned was using link referals. I was just using it as an example.

That makes sense. Thanks!