Is there a way in Visual Basic that I can open a txt file such that it comes
up as a wordpad file that the user can see what is inside that file
Thanks in advance
bbdobuddy

There is a checklist component in my form, where there are serveral items for
the user to check.
How can I detect which items have been checked and return their names using
a Button click instance?

Thanks Robby and Bob Powell for excellent answers on yesterday's question
about reversing coordinates in gdi+
I guess this is a new question.
My first step is that my bitmap is an aerial photograph of an agricultural

I have the following issues:
1. I want to make it so that ToolTips never go away once they are shown
until the user moves the mouse outside of the control for which the ToolTip
is assigned.  It seems to me that setting the ToolTip.AutoPopDelay to a large

HELP!
The below code seems simple, but just does not seem to work! I am trying to
pass a byte array through a arraylist, to another byte array...but i keep on
getting unable to convert object type to 1 dimentional byte array....what is

Greets,
I would like to access individual records and fields using an arraylist is this possible with arrarylist or must I use an array?
Example:
Populated arraylist

Could any one help?
"myDt" is used throughout the project and just only the statement below
generate an exception
My snippets:

Here's my code:
Private Sub dgServerList_CurrentCellChanged(ByVal sender As Object,
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles dgServerList.CurrentCellChanged
       If dgServerList.CurrentCell.ColumnNumber = 2 Then

At last I have found the problem why I can't get to work w/ importrow.
The fact is that I'm trying to import data to related table. But after
importing data the foreign is blank. So thats why the record is not
showing in to datagrid.

can i send data  to a listitem?
for example
item1 ----> index 0 ------> data 15
item2 ----> index 1 ------> data 10

I'm just getting started with a small TCPIP project in VB.Net.
I've written a successful bit of code but I'm trying to make it work like
VB6 did. In VB6 you have a winsock and set it to connect to an IpAddress on
a certain port. The program then sits there waiting for some data to ...

This may sure sound a silly question, but it's the only way i will learn.
I am trying to create a web.config file for an application i am trying to
build in visual basic.net
If i want to connect to a database, how do i go about the following line of

Does the inability in .net to add activex components like in VB6
signal Microsoft's plans to deprecate com and activex?

I have been very pleased with FileWatcher and I am hoping there
is something similar which monitors registry changes, any ideas?

I code in C# and I have a problem in VB.NET
how do i declare bytes in VB.Net
the code in C# is as follows
string fileName;