What's the advantage of inheriting from CollectionBase as opposed to
just implementing IList?  It seems that it saves you from having to
implement a few properties (Clear, CopyTo, Count, GetEnumerator, and
RemoveAt) but the way it implements all the other things you need to

When you run a program like ip config from the command line you are
given the option to use switches like /all /renew ....
In vb.net how do you create a shellable application with switch options
like this?

The function Microsoft.VisualBasic.Chr( ), is there a similar function in
System.Text ? How does this work?
Thank you,
me.

I can't work out what is causing this problem. Can anyone suggest what the
typical causes beyond the obvious might be? Could you get it with datasets?
Maybe I should run in debug mode and test certain bits of code for
"erroneous" and unpredictable values?

How would would you deserialize this example below?
Imports System
Imports System.Collections
Imports System.IO

I am trying to reference an object that already exists,
ie, I have a dll project (dllProj) which contains a simple
form.  Then I have a main app and a secondary app which
both have references to dllProj.  When I start the

Is it possible to access excel worksheets without starting the excel
application?
If it makes any difference I'm running vb.net 2003 and excel 97.
thanks...charlie

VB .NET 2003:
When I click on the Start button (>) in Visual Studio to run my project, I
get several messages in the Task List window.  The first says:
C:\code\CaliberGenerator\Inherited Forms\frmDepartmentSummary.vb(278):

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GPGProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd"
GPGProcess.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = False
GPGProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False

I've got an application that, in the main form, Starts up a thread. That
thread consists of an endless loop (a WHILE TRUE loop), at the end of each
iteration is a Sleep() command, so it will sleep for 5 seconds between each
run.

I have an XML File which looks like:
- <xml xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema">
- <s:Schema id="RowsetSchema">
- <s:ElementType name="row" ...

I am trying to automatically select the text in both text fields and Numeric
Up Down fields and cannot find the best way to do this,  any suggestions
would be welcome!

I have 2 applications running on my desktop. App1 wants to
activate App2 and call a public method in the mdi main
form, passing this method 2 pieces of info: one string,
and one integer.

I need to get the column order in a ListView in Details mode after the
columns have been rearranged.  The only code I could find to do this was to
use SendMessage with msg = LVM_GETCOLUMNORDERARRAY = &H1000+59.   The column
order indices array I always get back is all zeros.  I'm ...

I have this code snippet in C# that I have to convert to VB
              object o = null;
               if (mode == PageTrackingMode.ByApplication) {
                   o = Page.Application[HitsKey];