A philosophical question I guess.... In VB6, I used a function to take city, state and zipcode fields and combine them with a comma, correct formatting and allowances for null or blank entries. In VB.NET, its it permissible to still use a function, or should I make a class to do this? ...more >>

I'm somewhat new to .Net. I have a dictionary object that I've been putting keys and values into. Is there a way to keep this around after a postback, and if so, can someone point me to some code that does it. ...more >>

Hello, I'm using VB.Net 2003. In MS Access, you can create simple forms to edit/add rows to your table. Is there a simple way to do this from VB.Net (displaying a table and allowing direct update of it, without SQL commands) ? Thanks ! ...more >>

How can you "inverse" a color in GDI+? Say the color I have is blue, the inverse of that is yellow... how would you go about doing this? is there a simpler way then taking the RGB values and takeing the difference from 255? Say blue is 0,0,255 the inverse would be 255,255,0 which is yellow, ...more >>

Is there a way to dynamically add in User Controls where I would get the name from a session variable: If I have the following code: ****************************************************************************** <%@ Page Language="VB" trace="false" debug="true" ContentType="text/html" Respon...more >>

I am using a font to display in textboxes, labels and use it to print using the printdocument. When the "Enable Application Framework" option is disabled, the font works only in a textbox; in a label and printing it, the font is substituted. When the "Enable Application Framework" option...more >>

I had a VB6 app that used a third party ListView control to simply display various recordsets. The control had a VirtualMode which I used for this display. Now in VB2005, I want to do the same with the native ListView to display various datasets in VirtualMode. I have a ListView with the Vi...more >>

Hi, My application is written in VB.NET and has a data access layer that resides on a different server and is accessed via Remoting. Currently, when performing an update to the database, I pass the SQL string and connection string to the data access layer like so: DataAccessLayerClass.Run...more >>

I make a response.redirect to an ABC.aspx page from my web application. In the Page Load event of the ABC.aspx page I make a call to a web method of a web service.But what I notice here is that after the webmethod returns, the Load event of ABC.aspx is fired again and hence it again calls the ...more >>

Hello Newsgroup, I try to resize and move a picturebox. However, after each operation the picture box is being redrawn. This causes flickering. Is it possible to suppress the first redraw and draw both operations at once after they have been completed? I have tried overriding OnPaint, OnBackgro...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm trying to parse through the contents of some text files with regular expressions, but am new to regular expressions and how to use them in VB.net. I'm pretty sure that the regular expressions are correct as I got them from regexlib.com and tested them in the Regulator an...more >>

I'm just starting out, and it's incredibly frustrating when I see sample code and then try to implement it. Case in point. I'm populating a collection then binding it to a datagrid. That works great. The problem is the columns are in the wrong order. OK. I'll use the datagridtablestyle. But when...more >>

I have a collection inside a class, sometimes when I add to the collection, I get the error "At least one object must implement IComparable". What does the error mean ? Thanks. Public Class SessionClass Private Quotes As Collection = New Collection Sub NewQuote(ByVal Message As String) ...more >>

I am working with a Compact Framework project that was written in VB.Net using Visual Studio .Net 2003. That said I have been given the task of making it run "faster". I am a C# programmer and I know there are statistics out there for different ways to do the same thing an which is faster. ...more >>

I'll ask a simple question: How can someone generate any number of threads from within a simple "for" ot Timer loop/sub (including indefinitely)? Dim i As Integer For i = 1 To 10 Dim t As New Thread(AddressOf DoSomethingSub) t.IsBackground = True t.Start() Next i ...more >>

Dear All: I hope someone can answer me this question. I did send out the following url from IE and I can send out correctly, but as I use webrequest.create to send out this http, I just receive special characters and cannot get wthe chinese characters that I want to. http://202.204.20...more >>

I know how to manipulate the text in a Taskbar Icon, but can you display a graphical style progress bar there?...more >>

Hi, Can WinCE & Pocket PC support the "AsyncCallback"? ...more >>

//Thanks for any help,thank you!лл¡£ public override void FloodFill(Bitmap bmp, Point pt) { int ctr=timeGetTime(); //Debug.WriteLine("*******Flood Fill******"); //get the color's int value, and convert it from RGBA to BGRA format (as GDI+ uses BGRA) m_fillcolo...more >>

I am trying to use the bindingnavigator addnewitem button to place the focus on the first cell in the newrow row. I have disabled the default action and I am using the bindingnavigatoraddnewitem click event. Using newrowindex for the row how can I move the focus? ...more >>

Hi All I have a program which is installed on users computers via an msi from vb.net 2005 deployment project At the end of the install (.net framework and my application) I want to auto launch another program of mine from the same CD which contains logic to install sql server express dep...more >>