Does anyone know how to draw on the taskbar? IBM has a battery app that runs
outside of the systray (just to the left of it) and does not show up as a
toolbar either in the taskbar, and I was wondering how you go about doing
something like that.. thanks!

   Im currently developing a web site using PHP.  Unfortunately due to
limitations with my web server I am having to use XML as a method of data
persitance, this doesn't really bother me as I prefer XML anyway.  I'm not
using ASP.NET for design reasons at the moment.

I'm not shure if this is the right forum but the core program is VB.NET. So,
my question is: can I create, open, read and write Access.mdb tables even if
the user for which I'm writing a program hasn't Access installed?
Regards,

         I would like to disable the close icon on the
form which will be available at the right most corner of
the form in VB.NET which property i have to set.
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I have a VB6 application that uses MSFLIXGRID's all ove the place to display
lists.  I programed a popupmenu to display when a click event occured on the
gird and it displays a menu to Add, Change, Delete, etc.  
I am attempting to convert the application to VB.NET and off ...

I have already set up some properties that automatically appear via
Intellisense in the consuming class, but it would be nice to have those
properties show up in the Properties window during design time.
Also, I would like to know how to add a drop-down list that displays

Hi.  I am trying to write a VB.NET windows service to go through a
constantly changing list of servers (could be win2000, win2003 or even XP),
connect and authenticate to these servers, pull info like wmi, event logs,
files within shares, etc. and then disconnect.

After I read a piece of text from a richtextbox control as blow:-
txtAddress = RTB.text.Substring(50, 100)
I then put them into a textbox control:-
tbAddress = txtAddress

I'm currently developing a Windows application. At the start of the
application I load several tables into datatables in a dataset. I also use
a progressbar to show the user how much percent of the total is already
loaded. But I do this in a dirty way: I increment the progressbar ...

In following example, while playing file, if thread goes in WaitSleepJoin
state, due to Thread.Sleep method.
Now I want to suspend thread by clicking on cmdSuspend button. I have
written following code, which doesn't suspend it.

Finding name of all forms
I want to create a procedure that can loop trough all objects of type form
in an application and print the name property to the debug window.
TIRislaa

Is there an example of creating a Window List on the fly so that the
user can select a form that may be hidden behind other forms.
Or if you could help me with a code snippet to do this ;)
E.G:

How to make output in .txt file in next situation
Dim folderspec1 As String = "e:\a"
       Dim n As String
       Dim di As DirectoryInfo = New DirectoryInfo(folderspec1)

Can anybody tell me how to get a function to call another function once it
has finished processing. That is, I have a function which I run, in its own
thread, which does some processing. As soon as it is done, I would like it
to call another member in the main form of the ...

Are there any preferred methods on :
1. asking a user to register your app
2. giving them the ability to register online and creating a serial number
2. stop the apps usage after a set period of time if they don't register.