Hi there, I have been playing with sorting my arraylist and having some
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and one of the members of the object is 'name.'  I would like to sort the
arraylist based on object.name - is that possible?

I have added a Namespace to my vb.net project.  The
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project from Sub Main
Module1

Please can someone explain this behaviour:
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If I Dim a variable of type Derived and New it as Derived the code in the

Is there a way to put a limit on the text size of a datagrid column?
Thanks,
Aaron

I need a path string to put in the InstallUrl so that if
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right to this path location so they can install the
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I have looked and looked for on the property pages for my
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i have kept a statusbar in the form with panels = true. and total there 3
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In vb.NET i am trying to use showdialog() for a modal form.  The form loads
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once which is obviously what i want, however the form ...

I know this is probably very basic - bt I;ve never had cause to use
this so...
In a main form (MDI) how do I trap for the form closing with a "do you
want to quit y/n" dialogue box?

What is th best/easiest way to access a public contacts folder on an Exchange
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I would like to be able to provide the user with a list of contacts and
their associated details from what is stored in Exchnage on a custom form

I am using Oracle 8 I and Vb 6 and connection to oracle by DSN.  
************* Code **************
This is my code:
Public con As New ADODB.Connection

i have string "2+6/3-8/2" and how to get result (in this case is 0). String
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thx

I am testing in a TextBox KeyPress event to validate characters in the
TextBox.  How do I tell it to abort appending my "e" if I deem the character
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Where xlWs is an Excel.Worksheet and xlRG is an Excel.Range
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xlRG.Font.Bold = True
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Is there an easier way to convert a UInt16 to Int16 than the way I am
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Dim iValue As Int16
Dim uValue As UInt16