I have a proceedure that reads data from a Web Service.
The data is sent back in a string.  I can put this string into a Textbox,
which works fine.
I now need to get the data without the tags and was trying to use the

I have a combobox that list two items.  Lets call it cbxCombo.  I have
a table extracted from an MS SQL database.  This table has a column
that will either be 1 or 2.  If the value in the table is 1, the
cbxCombo.SelectedIndex = 0.  If the value in the table is 2 the

Dear friends
I have installed visual basic 2005 beta 2 and sqlexpress 2005 and by video
tutorial downloaded from visual basic express site I have created a very
simple database application.

I'm looking for help getting started with MSDE.  Anyone have any suggestions?

I have a function call MyExecuteNonQuery(see bellow)
When I call it with some Sql command like:
MyExecuteNonQuery("Delete from myTable);
Will it close the conneciton which opened in MyExecuteNonQuery?

From MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlr
fSystemDataIDbCommandClassExecuteScalarTopic.asp
Use the ExecuteScalar method to retrieve a single value (for example, an
aggregate value) from a database.

My app (VB.NET, .NET Framework 1.1) intalls database tables for a
database.  Then it is supposed to create full-text catalogs.  It works
well on my machine but not on another machine.
here is error message I get:

I am trying to connect to SQL server data base using NT authentication
from my window service code.
_bstr_t bstrConn =
_bstr_t("PROVIDER=SQLOLEDB;SERVER=SD1;DATABASE=MEDICAPT;TRUSTED_CONNECTION=YES;");

I'm new in ASP.NET
I have TNSNAMES.ORA with all information I need
I have the path of TNS_ADMIN correctely pointing to TNSNAMES.ORA folder
This is true because I have no problems conecting to Oracle using VB 6 or

    i want to auto update a datatable (SQLDataAdapter.Update(myDatatable)
    ) during RowChanged event
    It is possible?
thanks

Problem : Calling .Close() or using {...} (or any combination or these) with
a OleDBConnection does not close the connection to DB2.
Solution : Uninstall Framework v1.1 Service pack 1
Using :  IBM OleDB Provider version ("DB2 v8.1.6.574")

I am presently dealing a project in which  I have convert aWord document
file as Pdf file.
Please let me know is it possible in .NET with out using any third party
component?

I have a dataset that has rows with data that are all different.  In some of
the rows the "DescID" and "PlaceID" are the same, but primarilly they are
all different.  What I am trying to do is group all the rows that have the
same DescID and PlaceID.  If there are multiple rows ...

I'm a VB6 developer tasked with taking a VB6 application and turning it into
a .NET application.  I'm just doing a bit of reading up at the moment...
The VB6 application does a lot of queries returning hierarchical ADO
recordsets, sometimes this goes as far as 4 chapters deep...  ...

Anyone out there have a DAL Generator Utility for sale for free that mimics
what happens in the IDE designer when you drag a dataadapter onto a
component?
I like what MS did here, I just don't like the instantiation of all the