I'm trying to get a proper response from a web server serving an xml
document. I keep getting "<" as the response. Normal web pages return fine,
so I must be using the wrong approach. Can anyone point me in the right
direction?

I know this might seem like a dumb question, but how do you test that an
object exists.
Maybe i should explain a little.
I have a variable that points to an object.  Now if that oject is released,

I have an application which displays some data in listview
in VB.NET,those data are displyed by threads and in those
threads one thread go to connect to the net and getback
with webpage source code,this process is done contineously.

Hi group I already posted this problem yesterday, and I've found a
"solution", but I don't like it, in my opnion there has to be an easier way
to do this, but I can't find, I hope some one can help me with this. Just
copy paste the code in an empty form and press the draw button, ...

I am new to ASP.NET and i want to develop my personal
dairy in ASP.NET.
In that,i want to  write personal details for particular
timeings of particular date(like in yahoo calendar).How

I'm trying to display one of two form pages using  a tab control. I get the
tabs displayed ok but I am having problems with changing to form2 etc...

The following statement binds data to a dataset
tempTable = ds.Tables(0)
TextBox1.DataBindings.Add("text", tempTable, "casenumber")
If my dataset contains 50 records, how does one bind to record # 21.  When

I want to serialze my data (data type is user defined structure). There are
2 tools to do this work. One is to call XmlSerializer in namespace
"system.Xml.Serialization",the other is to call BinaryFormatter in namespace
"system.Runtime.Serialization" and

Yes,  I need to specify a font type so that the characters
will be evenly spaced when I write to a tab delimited text
file.  So how does one specify a font type to write/print
and which font is best for evenness?

...
rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader()
Do While rdr.Read()
For i = 0 To rdr.FieldCount - 1

I am creating a VS .NET Add-in. There's an xml config file that will
installed to same folder as the DLL is installed.
The installation path probably is something like C:\Program Files\Company
Name\VSAddin

I'm using the following code to get the file name and path, but after the
user click the file, Excel open it.
I don't want the Excel file to open, all I need is to get the file name that
the user selected from the FileDialog box to pass it to excel object:

Heres the situation: I currently have an excel file with approximately 3500
project entries
with fields such as job number, management, address, project description,
type, etc.,

What's the difference between the following 3 declaration methods. I am
really confused out here.
Dim date1 as Date()
Dim date1() as Date

In windows forms (vb.net), i use my own controls subclassed from base
controls and i override the Onxxx methods.
for example:
Public Class MyBouton