I have a background thread that opens a form. But when that thread ends, the
form I opened disappears. This makes me want the background thread to tell my
main thread to open the form instead.
The form should be opened by my main thread when my communication thread

I am working with a DataGrid using VB .Net (Windows Forms).  I want to
make one of the columns un-editable.  I was able to do that by setting
the  .dsName.Tables("TblName").Columns("ColName").ReadOnly = True
That made it so you can't change the value in the column, but you're

I have a parent form, with a menu item used to open the child form.
If I open the child form, then close it, and try to reopen it from the
parent, I get the error message:
An unhandled exception of type 'System.ObjectDisposedException' occurred in

Is it possible to share controls, ie a label or a textbox, amoung Group
Boxes?
I have some statistics info that I display on a couple of different
forms and it would be nice to be able to maintin one control rather

   I have a service with settings in the app.config file. I would like to
be able to change these settings without restarting the service. Something
similar to a web.config with web services. Whenever I change a setting, for
example the folder that data is written to, the change ...

Hey guys. I am running Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 1. Now, I was programming
my application that I started today, I compiled it, pressed CTRL-S to save,
and then my computer shut down 5 seconds later.
I boot back into VS2005, and lo and behold, the application is not there.

I'm trying to use the remove method on a string but it doesnt seem to change
it.
name.remove(instr(name," ")-1,1)
If name = bon jovi, I would like bonjovi but I get bon jovi in the msgbox to

I'm writing an application where I need to know the URL of the user that
entered my application (the user comes in from a completely different site
who knows where and who knows how).  For all I know, the user wrote an HTML
page with a button that does

I have a function which gets passed a streamreader object as an
argument (I know this might sound a little weird, but it's to avoid
code repetition).  My problem is this - given a streamreader object is
it possible to determine the file path the streamreader is referencing?

I need to get some components for some tasks and would like to know what you
recommend.
-Chart Control(Dundas,ComponentOne,xceed chart?)
-Flow Chart(Diagram Control)

Alright, I'm trying to change my application icon without setting the icon
property of every form.
I've replaced the App.ico file in the project dir with a new icon.  When i
compile and run my app the standard vs.net icon is displayed on both my main

I am struggline to make my VB.Net windows client connect remotely to a MSDE
database. The database is accessed ok from the remote PC when i used web
forms (aspx) to access it.
Can anyone provide me with an idiots guide to make the connection work from

Hi, I'm sort of new to Stored Procedures; and I'm building a search
page where there are 9 parameters the user can put in; as little as
1, at most 9.. then it runs the Stored P and looks at the values.
I am using the COALESCE; to skips nulls,... but I'm still not getting

I'm working on an asp.net application that reads a users username and
password, and starts a process with the username read.
The problem is that the program returns value 2(ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND).
Here's my code:

Could somebody explain me, why the next three lines of code freeze my
application ? (1.1 Framework)
// ---
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)