I'm looking for advice here, and I would really appreciate it if you
could help.
Is there a VB 2005 book that you like and would recommend (and why)?
Would you consider it good for beginners to programming, intermediate,

Is there a way to grab the connectionstring value from the web.config
in another project? I created a DataAccess layer to store my typed
dataset and it automatically created settings.settings and app.config.
The settings.settings grab the connectionstring from app.config.

In a .NET 2.0 winforms application, I've got a textbox that, when updated,
uses the validated event to cascade the change to another textbox (along with
another value). This works well if the user does indeed move the cursor to
another textbox, but if the user clicks my "done" ...

Hi have a table of customers in Access and wish to add a primary key and
unique customer ID.  Have been warned that adding customer ID field will
corrupt existing data. Is there a way it can be done?

Hi;
What is the correct syntax for checking for a file's existence based on it's
extension ?
Example:

I want to call a Activex exe from .NET Webservice. I want to configure
the server of activex exe in the web service (if tomorrow that
Activiex exe is moved to some other location I do not want to re build
my web service).

I need to open an excel Workboot from an existing excel file, but I get the
following error:
Old format or invalid type library
Here is my code:

My designer has created a Word document with some graphics on his Mac. When
he emails them to me they are normal size but when I change them and resave
the file size goes up to 9Mb. I am workin gin Word 2003 on a PC.
I am a very novice user so pls keep advice in relatively lay ...

I accidently unistalled my sonic cd and dvd burner file on Jan. 19. It says
that you can restore a file that has been deleted anywhere from 1 to 3 weeks.
I located the files and attempted to restore them. The computer goes through
all the motions, but it says that it cannot ...

Cannot configure fonts in outgoing messages. Font color defaults to white,
signature block does not appear - ideas??

Hello everyone, I would really appreciate if someone helped me in this matter
cause I am going to lose my mind...
I am using a Sony Vaio Laptop with Windows XP professional (512MB Ram, 1,7
GHz CPU clock, 50GB Hard disk) and for the past 10 days i have noticed that

My case is simple: I use a httpwebrequest to authenticate to a web
site (using POST method) and I get the auth cookie in a
cookiecontainer. I can then re-use this cookie container to make
requests to protected areas of a web site. Now what if I want to open

I ned know how set the number of rows obtained from a interbase 2.0
query, hi have tried with instructions has fetch rows, limit, top...
but i didn't have found a correct result,
Please if somebody can help me!

I cant get i tunes/ quicktime working on the computer,
I had both of these before but they are not working now for some
reason.
Advice given on Apple site was to uninstall and then install again.

I downloaded and ran the New Window Vista Adviser to see what I needed to do
to install the New Windows Vista, afterward, I went to Control Panel, then to
Add/Remove Program to remove the Adviser, the Change/Remove button was not
displayed,how can I return it to the site?