I would like to know how can i get the table structure (fields name)
from MS access DB ?
thanks a lot,
Maileen

Hi,
I am trying to write my first Windows application using VB.NET and I
am having some difficulties designing the UI.
Basically its one Windows Form with 4 menus on the top (no drop

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 At present I have created my custom control without any
interface. It also has all the necessary properties and

I've got a databound combo (databound to a System.Data.DataTable), but some
rather unpredicatable behaviour -- even though I have 8 rows in the source
table, only the first 6 are showing up in the items collection.
I've been scratching my head over this for a while now, but can't ...

Hi list, can someone point me to a namespace or piece of sample code that I
could use with a VB.Net windows application to go out to the net using http
and retrive a file and save it locally?
Thanks!

Environment: VB6 under W98
I have a USB hardware device I wish to program directly. The original
software installed a low level driver and the hardware is both
registered and operational.

I had setup a VB.NET application using Setup factory 5.0.
I set the serial number key to the application for asked
in the runtime.
I installed that application successfully with the serial

Probably a dumb question, but I need to generate a random number between 0
and 9. I was hoping that someone could help out with a code snipplet on how
to do this.
TIA

I was thinking about community the other day, and wondering what would be
the holy grail for a developer in need. I mean, we do get help here, but its
done on a best endeavours basis and its really really good most of the time.
What Ideally would you guys like to see in the perfect ...

Environment: VB6 under W98
I have to use a DLL which has a single entry point expressed as an
absolute address. Any function to be invoked is then specified as one
of the arguments. The number of arguments is fixed.

Imagine I have two classes A and B.
Class A has the function I, function J and Attribute K.
Class B has the funcion X, function Y, Attribute Z.
Is it possible to establish the following Class C through interitance:

I am looking to draw a dotted line between two controls at design time and
render this at run time in a similar fashion.
The most basic application of this would be a panel with two buttons on it.
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This was posted yesterday and earlier this morning. Neither of the responses
worked. If you are not certain that something works, why respond? Many see
+'s by these postings and look no further.If you can run this code and don't
get any sort of cast exception, then please respond ...

1.    My application with launch condition checking the client PC has .net
framework 1.1.4322,  but i have tried that if there are .net 2.0 installed
it seems not work well as expected. I still prompt and require 1.1 framework
to be installed. How to solve it so that my version ...

I've tried the following code straight out of MSDN.  But my app still blocks
while listening.  Isn't this code supposed to keep the UI responsive while
listening?  Or maybe I'm not doing it right....  any help is begged for ;-)
Public Class Listener