If you expose an object as a property in a VB.NET class, like so:
public class MyClass
   private obj as NestedClass
   Public Readonly Property NestedObj as OtherClass

Is there a way to execute a SELECT statement *on* a dataset itself?
After it has been filled, without having to go through the dataadapter?
Also, hoe can one loop through the dataset?
would it be something like:

Does anybody know (or have any tips on) how I can pause a job in my print
queue and then either release it or delete it based on my criteria?
Daniel

I have to do a lot of calculations when leaving certain controls.
Somewhere along the order of 800 to 1000 fields.
I'm considering translating all of the numeric fields that are in a
string collection into a fixed double array. I would use the already

does anybody know if the built in support for the "Exit For" statement  is
just a left over from earier versions of VB and therefore inefficient or if
it's truely a VB.NET language feature?
The reason I ask is because even though the "On Error Goto" statement is

I did a test today and made a form with a button on it, it doesn't do
anything but just open up and sit there.  If I move the form around the
desktop it's memory consumption slowly climbs.  I did the same thing
with C# to see if it would happen and it does - What the heck is ...

I'm a VB6 programmer migrating to VB.Net .
I have a question regarding the usage of Collection in VB.Net. The following
is the code i would use in VB6.
'************* VB6 Code ***************

I am trying to validate the data in all of the text and combo boxes.
The text box validation seems to be working fine, but I am having the
hardest time with the combo box validation.  I am not sure why, but I
keep recieving the error message:

I installed the exception management block on my computer and it defaulted
to:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Application Blocks for .NET\Exception
Management\Code\VB\

Can somebody please explain what DDE has been replaced by in .NET (in
simplistic terms)?
"remoting"?
A dde custom written server app to listen out for the specific application?

I just installed Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and wrote a very simple program
that references a .tlb file called "Wilbur".  The first time I ran the
program below everything worked fine. But subsequent attempts to run it are
causing the following error:

I was wondering if there is a way/command to do the following:
I have a dataset that is filled with a few tables and the tables are related
together (dataset.relations.add(...)).
Now, I want to populate a listview with specific data. I mean, is it

   I was wondering if anyone had any examples of the AlphaBlend API being
used in VB.NET, I'm having problems with passing the BlendFunction
structure.  Thanks in advance.
Nick.

In an effort to try curbing the amount of memory my application is using I
would like to ask a simple question...
I have multiple forms with multiple subs in them.  does a Dim statement
clear itself from memory when a form closes. the reason I ask is that I have

I don't know how to start reading a text file from a 30 line ? I got an idea :
For i=1 to 30
streamReader.readline()
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