What is the difference between a Property block that has a ReadOnly keyword
and a Get block, versus a Property block that has only a Get block?
Thanks,
Jon

I am using a system.windows.forms.datagrid and i set it's data
source to a system.data.datatable which has a column that's
dataType is system.dateTime.  When I try to enter minutes and
seconds into the grid it removes that time data and leaves only

I hope you can help me with this one (my code is below my message).
I have many clients connecting to my server. When any of them
disconnect, something happen.
This user get disconnect from the server and this is fine.  But

My appplication spawns an external DOS process that creates a file. I
use Process.Start() and Process.Close() for calling that. After the
process closes, I look for the existance of the file it created.
The problem is that checking the existance of the file with

Hello all, This is my first time posting a question to this forum, so here is
hoping I am following protocol. I am scraping the rust off my old Basic
programming skills, and have just recently upgraded to VB.NET, and I have a
lot of catching up to do. That being said, I have come ...

Has anyone used ComponentOne's Enterprise studio that comes in the
VB.Net resource kit? I like some of the controls they have, but I've had
a few wierd issues and I am wondering if that's a sign of things to come...
Thanks,

Users need to doubleclick a populated windows forms datagrid to select the
row and initiate an action.
This works OK if they doubleclick the row header or even the line between
two cells, but the datagrid doubleclick event doesn't seem to fire when the

Quick sanity check: in VB.NET 2003, is the function below guaranteed
*always* to return False?
Public Class myClass
   Public Function testFunc()

I have an application where I docked a TabControl with 'FILL'.
In these TabControl I have:
- a Label with anchor 'Left, Top'
- a TextBox with anchor 'Left, Top, Right'

Have way to make controls that Run time control.name get the designed Name
Automatically?

Now that VB is multithreaded, are there any critical sections?
Thanks
Mark

Does anyone know if there is there an easy way of programmatically disabling
an event?
I want to enable drag-and-drop on a listbox using the listbox_MouseDown
event but also under certain circumstances allow a listbox_DoubleClick

Is is possible to find a count of the number of items in an enumeration?
Something like:
Public Enum MyEnum
  First = 1

Does anyone know if there is there an easy way of programmatically disabling
an event?
I want to enable drag-and-drop on a listbox using the listbox_MouseDown
event but also under certain circumstances allow a listbox_DoubleClick

I have a public variable in a class of type color declared as follows:
public mycolor as color = color.Empty
I want to check to see if the user has specified a color like;
if mycolor = Color.Empty then.....