In vb.net I am try to save an rtf field to a database field using an sql string:
GetSQL = "UPDATE TestsConfig " & _
                "SET ReadMe = '" & Rtxt_readme.Rtf & "' "
                "WHERE Type = '" & TestSelected & "'"

Sorry if this gets duplicated, but I posted it and cant see it for a long
time so repost. . .
I have an application which is writing to a graphics object, the main UI
thread and a worker thread are writing to the same object, whats the best

I have a listview and a textbox.  when I select a row in the listview I want
to be able to click on the textbox and type in some details.  This obviously
works fine - however when I click on the textbox the selected row in the
listview loses it's selection (the usual windows blue ...

If I have a parent form (form1) and 2 child forms (Form2 and Form3).
How can I excecute a function that located on Form3 from Form2 ?
I'm using this commands to load the child forms: (VB.NET 2003)
       Private WithEvents frm2 as Form = New Form2

I have a form that display the pictures in a given directory.  This form
opens maximised inside an MDI parent, but it open with out scroll bars.  How
do I get scroll bars on the for so that the user can scroll to the bottom of
the form?

How do you read the serial number to a hard drive?
Thanks...Arne

Jay and Herfried are telling me every time when I use CDate that using the
datetime.parseexact is always the best way to do String to datetime
conversions. They don't tell why only that I have to listen to them because
they know it better.

Can someone please write the code for getting System Information
WINDOW(not just information about the CPU and RAM of the pc)???  I
mean when the user clicks the About option in the main menu of an
applicatin, a small window pops up with a button in it that says

I am using a combobox in an application, where I don't want the text
to be changed, limiting the displayed text to those assigned to each
item in the control's item collection.
I don't want to allow users to type in anything into the control's

I am trying to create a User Control with no BackgroundImage property, so
that I override the property with Browsable is false as the followings:
<Browsable(False)> _
Public Overrides Property BackgroundImage() As Image

Has anyone else experienced this?
When a number of source files are open in the editor if a Form designer is
also open while another file is being edited occaisionaly controls get
dropped from the Form. What seems to happen is the definition of the control

Hey there!
I have a tabcontrol on one of my forms. Some of the tab should not be
accessable (and thus invisible) until you give the correct password. But I
can't hide the tab...

drag and drop works fine, but it differs from VB6. In VB6 when I drag a
control the control follows the mouse.
Am I correct in the assumption that in VB.NET I myself have to change the
controls top/left attributes (in the mousemove event) to let it follow the

I have written a service in vb.net that can take several minutes to perform
one iteration of its process loop.
When windows is being shutdown is it possible to prevent windows from
stopping my service whilst it is in the middle of its processing?

   My problem happens when I'm trying to write a string in DER. I'm
using the following code:
signed  = SignedData.Sign(Signer, False,
CAPICOM.CAPICOM_ENCODING_TYPE.CAPICOM_ENCODE_BINARY)