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To maintain the scroll position for the large web page you can use on of these methods :

a nice article by Omar Al Zabir about how to run scheduled jobs 24x7 using ASP.NET without requiring a Windows Service.

read it here http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/ASPNETService.asp

If you have been migrated from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0 and still using the System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings to get the application stored configurations ,you may face this warning

System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings' is obsolete: 'This method is obsolete, it has been replaced by System.Configuration!System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings'

when using Visual studio 2003 to sign an assembly you used to generate the key using the snk command utility and override the Assembly.info file manually to set the signing information .

I'm used to generate a GUID for temp files names when dealing with temp files to avoid file name duplications until I got a nice tip from http://dotnettipoftheday.org/tips/PathGetRandomFileName.aspx about using System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName() and System.IO.Path.GetRandomFileName()

To Switch web application project to run on IIS web server as Virtual directory instead of running in the Visual Studio Development Serer you can easily follow these steps :