I've written a control and Inherited a button but I only want to show only the custom properties that I made. Is there a way to hide the rest? ...more >>

Hello, I need to build a project that have menu and two sub programs I thought doing it by creating two controls and one main form which will be the menu and will link to the controls. Is this the best way of doing it or there's another way? Maybe create each sub program as project a...more >>

I'm using Visual Basic in VS2005. It seems to me that in order to create a typed dataset, I must use Dataset Designer or Data Source Configuration Wizard to create a typed dataset class first and then create a typed dataset using the dataset class....more >>

Are the terms weakly type dataset and untype dataset mean the same thing?...more >>

Is there any difference between the following Dim statements? I think they are the same but which way is the correct (standard) way to declare and initialize the object variable. Dim DS as New DSTest Dim DS as DSTest = New DSTest ...more >>

Hi there, I'm not sure if there is a newsgroup dedicated to Vista Sidebar development, but unfortunately I couldn't find one and as my code is VB.NET, I thought I best start here. I'm using the .NET Sidebar Gadget Creator to embed a control into a side bar. I have had a few issu...more >>

I'm using System.Net.Mail to send HTML email. I have a few images embedded within the HTML body. What's the most efficient way of including these images with the message or getting the images to display on recipient's client? Obviously, I want to avoid spam filters and don't want to hog bandwidt...more >>

Hello, I have a program, running in several places, using SQLEXPRESS as database. The different places are stand-alone, and not connected to a network. Regulary, I have to apply changes on certain tables of the database. In a previous program, written in VB6 with an Access database, I used ...more >>

I've spent I-don't-know-how-long digging throught the documentation trying to find an answer to what should be a pretty common question: If I persist user settings via My.Settings, the settings get saved in a file in a folder with a funky name. I can't find any documentation that tells me ho...more >>

I have a textbox that is databound to a table in an access database. The field only contains month/day/year but my databound textbox is also showing a time. Is there any way to prevent it from doing this? --- Kyote...more >>

How do you mark a class as sealed in VB.NET? Thanks! ...more >>

I am having problems using the file.create method within a function that is called when looping through an array of filepaths. If I call my function with a hardcoded file path --> C:\Temp.txt the function creates the file as expected. When I loop through my array I get the error - "ArgumentE...more >>

Hello all I've been trying to do a little project here and i am stuck at the point where I can not clear the data out of datagridview table. I've done lots of reading from different sources on internet. Most of the suggestion is put this line of code in > DataGridView1.Rows.Clear() < ...more >>

I am using Visual Web Developer with ASP and VB.NET to build website. I would like to have Text moving across my screen that says "Example text moving across screen for viewers to read.". I am new to web and VB.NET programming so please help me with step by step. (Just when I got used to V...more >>

Does anyone have any working example code to read the AD security groups a particular user might belong to? Preferably using the user returned from the following snippet, and not a 'username' 'password' type of call. Here's the snippet to return current logged-on user Dim myDomain As AppDom...more >>

Hello! In VB6 I used to do all preparation in my Sub Main which Microsoft wants me to abandon. I guess they have a good reason (but which?), so I would like to go with it. Can you please tell me when you do your preparation, e. g. checking for corrupt database, establish database conne...more >>

Hi Everybody, i need some Buttons Placed on the mdiClient Form. Because when i put some Buttons on the MDI Parent Form they are in front of all forms. Has anyone an Idea how i should make this? Regards Thorsten...more >>