First Question:
Due to the hours of my job i can not go to school right now and i can't
afford online classes.  My questions is that i have learned a lot about .net
and i am pretty sure that if i got the right books i could learn what i need

Hi;
I have a Datagrid in ReadOnly Mode, so i want to show from the selected row
the first two cells by pushing a botton.
Thanks on advance.

In C/C++ for MUDs that I used to work on, I'd use the following defines:
#define IS_SET(flag,bit)  ((flag) & (bit))
#define PLR_ISALIVE   (1 << 0)
#define PLR_THIEF     (1 << 1)

Does anyone know where i could find a good website that explains many
techniques for direct control referencing?
thanks markh

I have some values in type of double such 0.00009 , 0.0000007, when I want
to show them in a text box and convert them to string they are changed to
scientific notation while I want to show them as they are.
I tried to use  tostring("f")  but it needs to have a precision number ...

I recently jumped on the .NET bandwagon and have been playing around in
Visual Studio and reading a few books for about 2 weeks now. It occurs
to me that I've never seen a desktop application written in .NET, at
least none that ever required me to install the framework (I only

Is there anyway to mark a block of code so that it will only run in debug
mode?
Like a # debug region ?
Thanks,

The FolderBrowserDialog control in my toolbox has vanished!  
I did not delibratly remove it and it is just not there anymore.  I tried to
add it back to the toolbox but there isn't even a .NET component (or even a
COM) available to select from in the "Customize Toolbox" window!

     As an old programmer just now looking at VB.net I have a question:
How does one simply open one form from another ? I don't mean how does one
create a new instance of that form , but rather how to refer to THAT form  ?
And having done this, how does one get data to and from ...

   We are working on creating a company newsletter for our clients that
want to receive it. We are wanting to send it via email and have it
displayed in the body of the email not as an attachment. From what I
understand you create a html version of the newsletter and have the ...

I'm trying to insert 2 fields of same ROW in a ListBox.
Following is the code in VB I had done previously: It worked
pretty straight forward.
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How do I tell ( in vb.net code ) if a certain program is installed e.g.
outlook, excel, word etc.
regards
Tim

I am trying to bind one column of a datagrid to a seperate textbox and
the rest of the fields to a datagrid. the comments are too large to
fit in a datagrid so I created a textbox below the datagrid and need
it to hold the data for the current record selected in the datagrid.

My coworker has a simple desktop app created in VB.NET.
He compiled it and posted on the network drive. When we try to run it from
it's network location, it generates unhandled exception error.
When we run it from local machine it runs fine.

if i enter any digit in textbox1 and textbox2 , i do not get the
required result of the arithmetic expression. i am putting the
operator between the operands thro the radio buttons which assign a
operator in the variable "op"