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Why not look to Enterprise Library 2.0.  It's has some really great facilities to help you with logging, dealing with different severities of errors, etc.  It'll take you a morning to get used to, but you'll be a better developer for it.

Google "Enterpise Library"

Good luck, and it's great you're asking these things.

My experiences of VS2005 have been pretty positive.  Yes, I've been hit by the background compiler bug, and the slowness of it (although I bought another gig of RAM to get around the speed issues, worked great, it was only a few quid anyway).

In my mind, despite these issues, my productivity has gone up a lot using it.  Generics!  Better databinding, the new datagrid, superior XML support.  And it's just so sexy!

I was one of the ones on here in October giving Microsoft the whole JUST GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE!! And they did, and I'd much rather have it in the state it was released in than wait until say, now, just to get it.

Basically it's like having a Ferrari that stalls on you every few hundred miles.  Yes it's stalled, but GEEZ, YOU HAVE A FERRARI.

It's actually a winforms app I'm writing?  Is there anything special I need to do for this?  My windows account is a member of the admin group on the server, if that's of any use.

Thanks,

Paul

I need to write a very small tool to allow sales staff to add web sites to IIS6.0 from within a VB.NET (2005) app.  Can someone point me in the direction of the best technology to do this... I've been trying to use the DirectoryServices namespace, but keep getting Access Denied errors when I point it to a remote server.

Any clues?

Thanks a lot,

Paul

They're awesome steve, the one with clouds is my new backgroud.  Good job!

Have a chat to www.userve.net, they are normally on the ball with these things, email what you want to them.

Yeh I've noticed the build speed is worse than on VS2003...

Same with dotnetmagic, used to be free, but the author decided to charge.  I'm a single developer, and paid out the $399 out of my own money, in my mind, if you *really* need an app to look good, it's worth paying for.  Remember, before you go ahead and write your own, your time has a cost stapled to it, I imagine buying one reduces the risk and cost of your project.

www.dotnetmagic.com is also a great set of controls that mimics a variety of Microsoft-style UI's.  They also give you the source code (C#).

Highly recommend it.

I'm at the ICC off broadstreet tomorrow.