Is there a way in vb.net to delay the firing of certain code till after
everything else has run?
That is, I have an event with some code in it that needs to run AFTER
everything else has run when the form is loaded.  Is there a mechanism in

Hi
Is there a method,  or has anybody already ready written one to determine a
contrasting color to a background color for text.  In my case during a paint
of a cell in a data grid.

Finding name and type
In the activate procedure of a form I want to write to the debug window,
name and type of all controls at that actual form. Is there a smart way to
do that?

I must read a txt file and when I found a line beginning with the word
"Backup", I must replace this line with "Save"
The read and the write must done into the same file!
I know how to read line after line a file (I use StreamReader), but how

Herfried and Cor:-
I used tracing and actually tracked down the code that was causing the
problem most likely. I wonder if you wanted to comment on it.
Also I wonder if there is a better way of testing if there is data than

After I bring up a minimised windows form, I hit the error below:
Rectange '{X=0,Y=0,Height=33}' cannot have a width or height equal to
zero.
I have checked my code, I did not write any code in the resize event

If we declar a varible as:
Dim series(10) as Double
then series can contain 11 items in maximum ( 0 - 11 ).
How do you declar this varible, making the first item as

When I try to change the Color.Lime with a string that
contains the contents "Color.Lime" I get a Casting
compile error.  So how can I get past this casting issue
to change out the color programmatically?

I'm using the WebBrowser control and mshtml library to modify the HTML in a
web page.  E.g. the code below is meant to change all .txt links to .zip,
but doesn't because mAnchorElement is just a copy of mElement and doesn't
reference mElement and any changes I make to it affect ...

What is the closest equivalent to Main in a VB.Net form?
Geoff

Hi experts,
I wrote a function which retrieves a file in the folder, the file path
is :
Dim sr As New StreamReader(strFilepath & ReturnFileName)

If I specify a type of parameter as varchar or decimal, etc, is there a time
when you are required to specify the size of that param as well.  Or is it
safe to simply specify name, direction, type and value?  To this point I
have used that and it works fine, but I'm wondering if I ...

After the login has been authenticated successfully, I written the
code below to call the main form:
dim loMainForm as new MainForm
MainForm.ShowDialog()

I have an application where a database entity that progresses through a
cycle.  As it completes a step along the cycle, a todays date is assign to
one of the date columns in the table row.  However at the beginning of the
cycle many of the dates hold null values.

Cor,
I found a previous message from you on the newsgroups with code for a
DataGridComboColumnStyle.. This one seems to work a lot better than the
one that I wrote, however I'm having a couple of problems. One, if I tab