special characters

Hello everyone I am using ftpwebrequest to download files from an FTP site. It works perfectly till the point it encounters a file with # in its file name. Then it gives the error "The remote server returned an error: (550) File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)." The files that I am...

I am new to VB .net (2010). We encrypt our passwords and then use data controls to write the information out to Oracle SQL tables. The problem now is (didn't happen with VB6) special characters, such as • are translated incorrectly (and written out) as ¿ for example. How and where can I change...