I am using a ListView control, I set the View property to Details, then I
went into the ColumnHeader Collection Editor and added some column headers,
but there I cannot set the color and font for the column text?  Are these
properties inherited, if so, how can I change them?

I have a comma separated text file in the form:
11/28/2004 12:00:00, 2.78655354
11/28/2004 12:00:10, 1.9978
11/28/2004 12:00:20, 0.978

I have the following:
   dim tmpString as String = "11/21/2004 07:55:33"
   dim tmpDate as Date = CDate(tmpString)
But I keep getting <cast from string "11/21/2004 07:55:33" to type 'Date' is

I have a listbox with Selection Mode set to MultiSimple and it's based on a
DataTable.
lstEmp.DataSource = dtEmp.DefaultView
lstEmp.DisplayMember = "EmpName"

Hi people,
How can I validate if a string with the format "MYDOMAIN\MyUser" is really the logon name of one of the users on the Active Directory (on my domain), or if it is a local user on the server ("MYSERVER\MyUser")?
What I want to do is to receive a string (in the format ...

i'm reading some books on memory mgmt in .Net framework. And here is my
understanding: The memory for each object in .Net comes from managed heap.
The GC is in charge of collecting unused memory and reclaiming memory
automatically.

can anybody help me with this !??!
I have been using VB.NET for only a few months (and VB6 for a couple of
uears) and I understand the basic differences between .NET and VB6.
However, I wondered if somebody could offer a more meaty evaluation of

I have a class that does some database acess. I'm pretty meticulous in
closing all connections when done with them and disposing of all objects
that have a dispose method .
Does this class need to have a dispose method of its own? I'm a little

I have a listview and a treeview in a form . With an OpenDialog I let the
user select multiple files and then these files are added to the listview
with the complete pathname, while they are added to the treeview without the
path (only file name). I'd like the user would be able ...

What type is it?
How do I set it to that of a form?

I have a public object that I only want one thread to access at a time.
However the access to this object is not limited to one procedure. Will
SyncLock work in this case? If not what options do I have?
Thanks

Hi all.  I am using WMI to read some printing information.  It runs soooo
sssslllooooowwww for me though when retrieving information.  My computer is
pretty quick so I don't think it is the PC.  Is this normal?

I understand the basics of what managed code offers and that you open
yourself up to security issues if you allow unmanaged code.  We already have
a decent amount of VB6 code to include COM DLLs.  If we put wrappers around
some of our code or leave some "asis" what makes our ...

So I get the following error when I try to update my dataset from a windows
form. "Can't create a child list for field 'TableName'" This is the error I
get in my application, I found this error in the KB (Article ID : 816799 )
The error is built by design, and the cause is from ...

I got a simple form and using databinding manager to do the add new
Now , my big trobule is . I can update the 'addnew' record, However, after I
new the record, and then amend it , it got concurrency violation error, (I
can solve it but I need to clear the dataset and fill in again, ...