This is driving me nuts.  I'm trying to update an Excel spreadsheet
using ADO.Net and Oledb in VB.Net.  The connection is open, the
adapter is connected and the dataset is loaded.  Here's the code in
question:

Greetings Folks
I have a series of radiobuttons( 1-19) that I want to reset to checked =
false without creating a command line for each individual button. I was
thinking of a for/next loop to increment the buttons but cant figure out how

When I used the above I got
"4:08:16 PM"
But I want
"16:08:16"

I need to prepare a large text database field to display in an asp.net
repeater control. Currently I am replacing all chr(13)'s with a "<br/>" and
it works fine. However, now I also want to be able to replace TAB's with
"&nbsp;"'s to preserve the user's indentation. My questions are ...

I hope this is one of those simple questions that for some reason or another,
I'm just missing the obvious.
Using VB.NET 2003
I want my messagebox to display centered on the parrent form instead of the

Suppose I have the following C# code which I want to convert to VB:
for (int i = 0; i < nFieldLength; i++)
   Console.Write((char) sValue[i]);
sValue is a byte [] array.

Anyone know how to create a sorted list with duplicate keys?  The sorted
list dies when you try and insert a duplicate key.

Anyone know how to do something like:
MyString.LastIndexOf("Some*Crazy*Pa??ern")
Thanks!

I'm looking for a function for converting the input to a regular text.
Example: when the input is "aBCdefgHI     jkLM ooPP" the return value of the
function should be "Abcdefghi Jklm Oopp"
Thanks in advance,

I need to connect to a paradox 5.x and SqlBase tables. The data adapter
doesn't work because I only have VB.NET Standard.  How does one connect thru
ODBC without the data adapter control?
Any references to textbooks or code samples would be greatly appreciated.

I am an amateur programmer (it's more of a hobby for me, actually). Years
ago, I used VB 3 for a year or two, and then just forgot about programming
for quite some time. About a year ago, I started to look into it again, and
realized that obviously VB 3 was not up to par with ...

How can you look for a character in a certain position with VB.Net and
if the string length is less than the position have it return and
empty string instead of an error?
Substring returnns an error if the length is less than the position of

After building a solution for deployment I have two files that I am not sure
of what they do or if I need to include them on my installation CD. I have
the following files....
myProgram.msi

When trying to use a folder browser dialog, my application freezes. I
found this is only when I set the default to "MyDocuments". Has anyone
experienced something similar. I'm thinking it's a Windows issue and not
a VB issue.

Lets say I was given a Char array as:
Dim Arr(size) As Char
and this array holds a string which ends with a C-Style zero termination.
I want to make this into a String object and cut it off at the end.