Receive the following error when stepping into the  FILL  (see last line).
Being a newbie I cannot see anything obvious.
Error message:
An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in

If there is such a thing, can anyone point me to a list of known
existing or potential issues with running VB6 and VB .Net on the same
PC under XP.
Thank you.

Hi group,
I've got what seems a simple problem, but I can't find the solution. I've
got a textbox and a handheld scanner to scan barcodes, the scanner just
generates keypresses like a keyboard would so if I scan a barcode and the

I am having a problem with forms rendering differently on a windows 98
machine (It is Taiwanese aswell but hopefully that's not an issue).
The form's height is larger than I expect, but most importantly the two most
important buttons on the first tab page aren't there!

How do you clear the content of a *.txt file?
Thanks.

   Thanks for Jim M and Herfried K Wagner first. I'd posted a question here
about building dll output file in standand edition. It works after changing
outputtype to "library". And now I want to know how to build ocx control ?
Anyone know how to do so? Please help. Thanks

Anyone know how to check whether a website is available or down by
using VB.NET or Visual Basic?
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I have gotten this to work for a single image load in SQL server, can anyone
help me make this a "For...Each" statement to include every file in the
folder?
on the 4th line of the main code, is the file path i made, all i need to do

I have written some code to manipulate data/records in a MASTER (order
header) and DETAIL (order details) tables.
What I have written is too extensive to post but essentially trying to:
1. Assign to a datarow (dr1) the first record of the MASTER table

I was reading in the .Net Book of the MS Press, and they said that the
system namespace is the root of all namespaces and classes in the .Net
class library.
However I noticed the existence of the Microsoft namespace which is not

I have a comma delimited file and I want to export it to an MS access table
already designed with appropriate field names. How do I do this
programmatically using VB.NET ?
Thanks for any help in advance.

I have a situation here regarding a VB.net application. I
need to convert a bunch of data to a presentable and
printable format.
Is there an economical (perhaps an open source third party

I am new to .net programming and I want to know if I can loop thru a
specified number of controls on an html form.
In Access, the code looks like this:
For i = 1 to 10

I keep hearing persistant rumors (along with my own experience) that .NET is
going to be abandon by Microsoft due to performance & security issues?  I
realize no one from Microsoft is likely to confirm this publically, but if
anyone that does have insider knowledge, could you ...

I'm trying to develop a tool for pocket pc (windows mobile 2003) that
detects if a specific exe is running and based on that makes changes to the
registry.
What would be the best way to do this with visual basic .net?