I want to out some text in the listview when there is no items in it, and
there is no text property to use.
for example, "There are no objects available" when the Listview is empty.
any ideas?

Does anybody know of a good book that specializes in VB.NET for Win32
apps. - especially Window Forms Applications - including the data
components? I bought a book "Programming Microsoft Visual Basic.Net" by
Francesco Balena but that doesn't explain enough detail. I need to learn

Ok. im new to programming. and sorry for fuzzy discription :)
I am using a program called leechget. this is download manager that i use on
the net.
When i add a dowload , i can see the information such as path , file name

I wrote a VB6 application which communicated with other applications via
COM.
Now I want to build my VB application in VB7. The problem is that VB7 does
not working with registry.

Does anyone know how to create in VB.net an application which acts similarly
to Excel/Word 2003, whereby it is an MDI application, but the user has the
choice between displaying the windows within the MDI interface or in the
taskbar (which makes the app look like an SDI application) ...

How does one know whether a event has a hnadler associated with it.
Also is it possibel to get them? count them ? know the order in which they will
be entertained.  ..etc etc
Mahesh NAik

Anyone know how to ... make a user control property that shows up in the
property pages and  allows one to select a value from a set of values ?
like a combobox for example ?

I'm pretty new to VB .net and Network coding, what I'm trying to do is
interact with a NNTP server to retrieve a list of news groups.
When I run thru' debug I basically get what I'm after, when I run without
debug the results vary - which to me suggests it's some form of sync ...

How can I get the name of computer and domain in vbnet

hi guys, its me again, with a few simple (probably silly) quesetion...
hi guys, i've managed to create a custom textbox class.
& i'd like to access the parent control (in this case this would be the
form, cuz i drop the textbox onto the form), in the constructor of the

As part of an evaluation of a small utility that I wrote that converts some
data held in a large number of Excel spreadsheets into SQL Server, I decided
to convert the utility to VB .NET and run both versions both in the IDE and
as standalone compiled exe and see what the ...

In textbox, I know I can set e.handled = false in keypressevent , So I can
restrict the user to input some invalid character or disallow the user to
input any thing
Now, in datagrid, there are 3 columns one is account code, 2nd is debit, 3rd

i'm trying to create a custom textbox class, by simply creating a new class
& inheriting from the textbox class.
But i don't have a UI of this class.
I.e., how can i set up the default text, color for this text box - via the

how do I construct a dataaccess layer in VB.NET !!??!
Is there a common template that I can use !??!