In my application, I want to load a MS Access database, open it and get
the database structure (number of tables, name of tables and their
structure - fields).
how can i do it ?

I have a vb.net application with a browser. The user has to select a
.dat file and when he clicks the send button that file is sent to the
db and the data in the file is split and put into the correct fields
in the db table.

I have set a DataTable and one of the columns I set  "AutoIncrement" to True.
I then populate the Table by setting the columns to values then add the row
to the table.  I inadverently set the AutoIncrement Columns to different
values but didn't get any errors.  Should I be able ...

All
I have an issue with a deployment of VB.NET I'd be interested in your
thoughts please.
I have rolled out VB.NET onto a box running W2K Advanced Server in

I had an error in a program I was working on.  A dialog box came up saying
"do you want to view Disassembly?"  I clicked OK just for the fun of it, and
now every time I run the program it opens a new tab in VB.NET titled
Disassembly.

Environment: VB6 under W98
I have a USB hardware device I wish to program directly. The original
software installed a low level driver and the hardware is both
registered and operational.

I would like some advice regarding implementing inheritance using vb.net.
I have an application written in vb6 that I am rewritting from the ground up
in vb.net to take full advantage of .net, but I have encountered a design
issue implementing inheritance.

Hi all (me again.  I do try to answer the posts I can instead of just
asking!!!)
Any ideas how I could load a webpage into a control that was about the size
of a stamp?  I tried a few things but it just put scrollbars on the control

I currently have 2 text files which contain lists of file names.  These
text files are updated by my code.  What I want to do is be able to
merge these text files discarding the duplicates.
And to make it harder (or not???!!) my criteria for defining the

I currently have 2 text files which contain lists of file names.  These
text files are updated by my code.  What I want to do is be able to
merge these text files discarding the duplicates.
And to make it harder (or not???!!) my criteria for defining the

The length of Tooltip string is not fixed, how to wordwrap according to
width size? Where to find a function to return Multi-lines string from a
long string?
Thank you

  Now, I have deployed a window application with strong name provided.
After reading some references, I know that the binding policy and codebase
should be set in Global Assembly Cache Tool for the clients to update the
new version of dll. Now, I have some questions about that.

if i create custom public properties, why won't they be displayed in the
properties sheet (windows controls).
I've added a few properties to my form (base form), & find that they don't
appear in the properties window.

does .net has an unload statement?
thanks

I wrote the following function to accomodate a legacy driver function
that only accepted VB6-style strings.  The driver expects a string
that represents an array of binary data to be sent over USB.
Private Function byteArrayToString(ByVal byteArray() As Byte) As