If you play cat's I could help ya ;P  My tamer is red so I can only tame things in fel also.

Don't put em in a house at all.  I had like 60 Cu Sidhe in my house for training and left them there after I 120' Discordance cause I was lazy.  Someone paged about it while I was at work (Not logged in), And I still got suspended ;(

Bleh I searched all my tabs & can't find nowhere for port settings.  I guess that's the drawback of the free zonealarm!  I only have program control that I know of.

Yeah I'm going to have to buy a book shortly haha.  There is enough well written tutorials/documentation of mvwd on asp.net which coveres most everything in the software, and a large variety if not about all the controls.  So I got enough to currently cover me since right now I just want to handle mostly a database, maintain it, display it, & allow actions based on table values etc. But I find it hard to find some good c# on the net that isn't 90% random rambling (I wana get straight to the point haha) so I lose intrest in finding help fast.

I decided for a first project for learning I should pick something that I want the project to do, so I have goals to meet.  So I choose to do something UO related that was somewhat simple.  Then I decided to just replicate the uo.tradespot.net website.  I figure my application can do everything thiers can, from there I just expand upon it, make it more user friendly etc.

At the moment I only have just the basics.  Sign up/register, login/out, user control panel (basic settings like display email, icq, aim, pw change etc.), admin pages to maintain the whole user base & other parts.  From there I created a user list like the member list on this page & that's where i stopped.

I'm going to create the buy/sell/trade sections now & get all the posting up for that.  I'd like to keep them seperate from the actual forum system, but still link everything together obviously (user info, post count etc.).  But the 'forum' part will obviously have a bunch more options & view settings.

My problem now is I would like to do custom series of data access, display, modifications etc. based on user interaction, but I haven't learned enough c# to do so.  It's all basic really since its only access/display/modification/adding to data lol.  I really need to learn the basics now of how things are structured.  The only thing that is the same that I know from like vb is like a simple if statement haha.  But now i need to learn how a basic for, loop, while etc.

Hopefully I can afford to buy a book soon since I'm not working again cause of this move haha.  Books made learning VB along time ago really easy.  Since I understand a lot from doing years of vb/scripting it'll be easier since i'm not completely new to 'programming' haha.  I just gota learn the c# language.

Oh well I'm slowly making progress in it.  I just wish it was as easy as scripting for uo is for me hahaha

I don't think merging shards could accomplish too much.  The main thing it would do is put players 'closer' together.  Which would be both a good thing & a bad thing depending on the player.  For me personally if that happened I would just leave & not come back.  Why?  Well I could go on & on but it's mainly about me & my preferences.  I don't play a "dead" shard either, but it's not an Atlantic either lol.

I think uo is mostly a grind in getting items, raising skills, etc.  Once you get all those or work them, there just really isnt any 'real' systems to compete/participate in.  Factions could be one but it is dead and STILL gives a huge restriction (Skill loss in a completely now skill based game...  Seriously, 80-90 in skill during stat loss = go idle afk for 20min or so).  From there guilds/alliances, and player vendors.  But it's just not enough.  

I think UO should focus on more things for player participation (besides crappy ass events that are drug on and repeatitive lol).  Good/Evil, Chaos/Order revamped and all systems have a total different thing then another for endless combinations or whatever.  

And just to tripple post....

It works! hah.

It loads them up perfectly.  I don't really know exactly how i came up with that since i have no clue what that <string> part means ;(.  All I know is it returns a value as far as the location of the rolecheckbox.text inside the selecteduserroles string.

Eh oh well.  One day ill laugh at this!

I'm following this C# tutorial for doing some user roles setting in my database and it gives me the following code:
(Line 13 is the trouble line)
1     private void CheckRolesForSelectedUser()
2     {
3          // Determine what roles the selected user belongs to
4          string selectedUserName = UserList.SelectedValue;
5          string[] selectedUsersRoles = Roles.GetRolesForUser(selectedUserName);
6     
7          // Loop through the Repeater's Items and check or uncheck the checkbox as needed
8          foreach (RepeaterItem ri in UsersRoleList.Items)
9          {
10               // Programmatically reference the CheckBox
11               CheckBox RoleCheckBox = ri.FindControl("RoleCheckBox") as CheckBox;
12               // See if RoleCheckBox.Text is in selectedUsersRoles
13               if (selectedUsersRoles.Contains<string>(RoleCheckBox.Text))
14                    RoleCheckBox.Checked = true;
15               else
16                    RoleCheckBox.Checked = false;
17          }
18     }

Well I punch it in and run it and I get a error "'System.Array' does not contain a definition for 'Contains'" (Line 13)

Well the tutorial then says:

Note: The selectedUserRoles.Contains<string>(...) syntax will not compile if you are using ASP.NET version 2.0. The Contains<string> method is part of the LINQ library, which is new to ASP.NET 3.5. If you are still using ASP.NET version 2.0, use the Array.IndexOf<string> method instead.

So I click the link to that array.indexof thing and I just can't figure it out haha.

I've changed that line 13 to something like:
if (Array.IndexOf<string>(selectedUsersRoles, RoleCheckBox.Text))

But I know it's still not right.  I haven't really covered much of the C# itself yet, I just realized that I didn't complete a few pages of this tutorial in asp.net & want to do it haha.

haha i have no idea either.

I learned vb years back and i always indented like that.  my father has programmed longer than ive been alive and i asked him how he does it, and he does it the way scriptuo and all this c# and all does.  So I have no idea why I do it this way.

On another note I'm off for pure c# tutorials as I have covered everything I need for the moment in the asp & sql for my needs until I get into developing other sections of this project.