I've just downloaded the vb.net version of David Irland's blowfish
algorithm
I used his VB6 versino quite sucessfully for password encryption.
Moved up to vb.net and downlaoded the above. The projext as downloaded

I am having problems with Declaring a function from a dll.  I had it work in
VB 6 but I can't get it to work in VB.net.  This was the call in VB6
Public Declare Function MBTConnect Lib "MBT" (ByVal szHostAddress As String,
ByVal port As Integer, ByVal useTCPorUDP As Long, ByVal ...

Iam plcaing some textboxes and combo boxes in rictextbox control. And am
placing 2 command buttons oin the form.
So when i run the application, i will enter some text in textboxes and i
will select a value from combo box.

I'm new to .NET.  I have found a problem that seems simple but I can't
resolve. I
want to create a very simple usercontrol that includes a label and a textbox.
Everything works fine, but I would like to be able to resize the label and

I have a datatable which I try to update but the update fails because a
required property of one of the fields is set to True.
Where can I find this property?
On the Column there's only a AllowDBNull property but it's not the same...

I have the following code that works as long as I dont add the switch -h
'Dim sStartInfo As String = "/hf -z -s 1 -h " & CompName & ""
 Dim sStartInfo As String = "/hf -z -s 1"
 With securityprocess.StartInfo

OK - thre has to be an easy solution to this...
Migrated from VB6 to vb.net
*eventually* got to populate a datase (instead of a recordset) with
the contents of a table based on an SQL query, but...

I'm trying to connect to a Mysql server version 4.0.21 running on
localhost. The localhost is running on XP Pro and is hosting the web
page using the bulit in Microsoft web server.
I am using the ODBC drivers and can connect to the server from the

What I want to do:
I want to add a button to the shortcut menu (context menu/rightclick menu)
that appears when a user right-clicks on a piece of text.
I want it to be compatible with word 2000 and up

Could you please help for a simple boolean expression
If  a is not equal to Null
I tried
If (a != null) Then

hi,
i'm using a datagrid, bound on a datatable.
i can delete a row with the delete-key.
how can i prevent this

I'm using a webclient to send data to a remote server. If an error
exists in the data the remote server returns an http error 403 with an
error text.
I can find out that an error occured (try/catch) but I can't read the

I have create a small spyware detection utility.  I'm looking for code
to restart windows prior to deleting some files.
Does anyone have a class that will do this.  I search the msdn site
and found nothing.  Clients are running 95-ME and 2000-XP

Is there any difference between Application.Exit() and End?
Are there circumstances when I should use one instead of the other?
Matthew

i'm appending lines to my RichTextBox.
can i append each line in a different color? how?