I have read that reserved words can be used as identifiers provided that they are preceded by '@'. But the same keyword can also be preceded by _ and used as an identifier.For eg see the below declarations for the keyword 'if' string @if; string _if; what is the differnce in the a...more >>

Is it possible to communicate with a USB device from VS.net? I would like to use VB.net if possible, but I could use C#. I don't have an actual device yet, I am an EE and I am interested in building a USB device. Before I build it, I want to make sure I can use VS.net to communicate with i...more >>

hi, I have just managed to add a progress bar to my statusbar control. the problem i am having is that t appears in the far left as default. I want it to appear in the far right side of the form. Can anyone help me code this or point me to a good article?? this is my code so far.. Dim...more >>

This is just wierd... if I go to the MSDN web site and try to view an article like this... http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwebhttpbrowsercapabilitiesclasstopic.asp the Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Archatect 2003 - English setup dialog box pops up starts the ins...more >>

I have a Button I want to pull to a Label. I want the Button visualy to move when I pull it. When I drop the button on the Label I want to test some data coming with the Button - f.ex is the Button.Text="The right one!". I have some code that can do the DragDrop-effect BUT this code disabl...more >>

I'm trying to use some COM objects, and have spent days getting nowhere. Does anyone know of any good tutorials on USING non-MS COM objects (i've found loads of tut's on automating office), rather than the hundreds of tutorials on making COM objects that i've found! I've got the "help"...more >>

HI I'm really a newbie to VB.NET programming and so this is probably a newbie problem: I want to create a interactive .net service that creates a notifyicon at startup, so that the user can interact with it (e.g. a double click on the icon in the systray shall cause the service to react)...more >>

Hi, I have MSVS .NET Microsoft Dev Environment 2002 v 7.0.9466 Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 v 1.0.3705 I know this is not up to date because when I open sample C# projects it tells me they have been made in later versions of MSVS, so I run my update. When I run the update the first time...more >>

Hi, I wanted to know how i can enter values into a specific column of a listview. I have tried the following code but this seems to enter all my values into the first column!!! Can anyone please help me out on this?? hers my code so far..... Private Sub btnSelRoom_Click(ByVal sender ...more >>

Hi, I wanted to know how i could get rid of the final row that appears in a datagrid (The one where a new row can be entered). can anyone point me in the right direction?? thx in advance ...more >>

Hi, Im in need of your help once again. I am truing to run a stored procudure to fill a datagrid. However i keep encountering the following error: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException' occurred in system.data.dll Additional information: System error. ...more >>

Hi, I have a question as below: * myProject\bin\debug\question.bmp // image file * new Bitmap(@"question.bmp"); // use it * If I still want use line 2 to use it, but I want to store the file directly under myProject Please advise. Peter...more >>

Hi all i tried to add items to listview using addrange and it is very slow.. then tried using virtual listview which allows to add only text(it is quite fast).. Now i just want to mix up this virtual listview + status images to make my listview fast.. pls let me know if anybody have any idea of...more >>

I found that there is no header file in c# .To invoke a function export form a dll written in c, we can use DllImport attribute.But if I want to use classes that are defined in c++ dll,what shall i do? thanks violin...more >>