I have a friend that has created a VB.NET Windows Forms application that is
a very specialized shopping cart. It handles safety ladders. The customer
enters a couple of data, e.g. the size of the building .., and the program
will calculate which ladders the customer needs and then ...

Is VBA wholly and completely a subset of VB.net? Are there any objects or
methods or coding techniques that one could learn in VBA that wouldn't also
apply in VB.net?
So if I will have learned VB.net, by definition, I will have learned VBA?

I'm using visual basic.net, I need to take in input a string containing an
expression and return the value, example:
"14=14" must return true
"14+14" must return 28

Is there a way in .NET to monitor the clipboard?  Specifically, I'm looking
to have an event triggered whenever any program pastes anything to the
clipboard.
TIA,

My instructor is an idiot. I'm trying to convert txt to int and things like
that. I keeps getting errors on one part. So it has me wondering, can you
convert lbl to int or dec?

I have a 1GB XML file that I need to read once a day and I would like to get
feedback to find out what is the most efficient way to go about reading this
file. The application reading this is in C# and I am using .NET 2.0.
How can I read it without loading it all at once into ...

I get the following error: "Retrieving the schema for
MyOleDbDataAdapter failed.  The connection string is invalid."
I get this error when I:
1) In Visual Studio 2003, I right click (in design view) the

How can I terminate console application in Try…Catch…Finally…End Try block so
that code in Finally gets executed. If I use End statement Finally does not
get executed.
Following is my code written in Console Application.

I have a VB.NET application distributed to all employees in our
company, and only one person's PC is having problems with it.  After a
restart of her computer, the next time she runs my app she gets the
message:

   This is driving me nuts, especially since I have this working for
my main application with no problem.  I suspect it might be due to
Namespace conflicts, but I'm not positive.  Any help is vastly
appreciated.

does anyone know if windows scripting host is enabled by default in win2k3?
wouldn't that be a security concern?
Aaron

OK,
so i'm designing a very large business auction website for a customer.
It would include such features as: Auctions, search, registration,
payment, fees on auctions, consignment services etc..

Does anyone know how to control another program that is running?
Eg: I would like to control the outlook express and tells it to minimize.
Thanks.

2 problems:
Example: If a person types in a part number into Yahoo:
1. Is there a way for Yahoo to list your web site as one of the
results.

is there a way to decrement a foreach loop?
for example
string s = "cat";
foreach(char c in s)