I am adding items to a combo box, but they are not visible when the drop down
list is displayed.  Ther items arethere because I canclick on the drop down
list and the items show up in the text box.
I can add the items in a variety of ways, but all methods give the same

    While I'm learning more about how to develop under Delphi,
which, was some of you know, built by the same person who architected
.Net... I was wondering ...
1. why is the .Net framework so big, while the object layer on which

I have navigated to page b from page a, now how do I get
page a's URL in b, b may be invoked from many
places.....Help

i have this item called Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
installed on my home computer and i have no idea what is
for.  i am not a developer, programmer, or anyway advanced
in my computer knowledge.  i mostly use my computer to go

Hi group
I am trying to add a custom attribute to all .NET elements such as
textboxes, labels, datagrids etc.  I want to add an attribute called
'key'.  I already have the code working for the key attribute (it is

What is the difference between the two and why would you use one over the
other?
Thanks.

Has anyone written an office suite in pure .net ?

I had written an application and few DLLs in VC++ before. Now I have
switched to .NET platform to compile. Then odd thing happens: the application
can be started and run as before on machines installed VS.NET
But on mahines without VS.NET, the app started but when it called a ...

Let's face it, Firefox is slow, buggy and does not support DHTML, JavaScript
or accessibility any better than any other browser but does in fact do a
much worse job in many regards notably its ridiculously poor support for
DHTML. I don't want to argue facts I have already ...

I have an interesting problem that is either a bug or just some local issue
with my PC (probably the later).
If I place my cursor on a word and hit F1 for help, it goes thru a process
(see a message in the lower left corner saying Downloading...) and my hard

(posted this in VB group but then realized I probably should have posted here)
I have a TabControl with several TabPages.  Upon startup, I only want to
show the first TabPage, hiding the rest. Then once the user does some things,
I will show the other TabPages.

I need to install (for a developer associate. I am NOT a developer)VB.NET
versions 6 & 7 on two dissimilar hardware platforms, both running Windows XP
Professional with Service Pack 2. Both are Dell platforms. One is a laptop.
One is a tower.

I'm not sure if this is the right group, but....
Have just got my Beta Version of VS 2005, and have upgraded a small calendar
project with the upgrade wizard.
I have realised that referring to data sets is completely different, so

i have an application, which is collecting files from a defined folder.
I would like to monitor that folder in case new files get copied in, i
should be informed and do proper operation.
how can I do that ?

Can anyone tell me how ArrayList.Contains works.
The docs say that it tells you if an *object* is contained in the list. Now,
by object do the docs mean the exact instance that you pass in, or some other
way of working?