I have the (usual) problem that, in a combo or listbox, I want to keep a text
and a related key value. For instance the country description and the country
code.
In order to solve this I uss the following approach:

I have two DateTime pickers one shows the Date and the other the time, this
is a requirement of the solution. The problem I have is that when the time
is saved to the sql database into a datetime field it uses the default date
which is a problem when I try to sort, what I wanted ...

I need to know all the directories that exist within a given location.
Is there a way to get such a listing?  Any help is appreciated.

In my treeview, I need each node to hold a "value", not just
text/label.  Kind of like how a ListBox item has text, and a value
associated with it.  I need this because when a node is clicked, i need
to get the "value" behind the node and then use it do do something.

As a matter of practice, where would people put the following elements of
object creation/initialisation:
Create shared member objects
Initialise shared member objects

I am having trouble using a component - I believe a managed component, but
that's part of the problem.
I have to source, as it is freely available on the internet.  I have
communicated with the authors of one of these components (there are several

Vb.Net Make dll that contain one function. Help Please.
I would like to call a function from different applications.
I think i have to make a dll.
I have Visual Basic.net 2003 Standard Edition, that teorically does

To pass the instance handle of a client application we use
VB6.GetHInstance.ToInt32   in VB6.
What should we use in VB.NET ?
Actually I am trying to do TAPI programming in VB.NET .

Is there any what to convert content of a richTexBoxt from rtf to text?
thanks
Al

I would like to set command line arguments to a service at install time. I
need to do this because I need to get information from different registry
locations depending on my command line argument. I have to do it this way as
the consumer of the service should not be able to ...

can anyone help me how can i capture ENTER keystroke when the cell in
datagrid is in editing mode.
I'm now creating a data entry form with primary key in header and details in
datagrid. So when user key in the details in datagrid, I would like user to

Good day,
I nned to find a way of opening a new window. I have a aspx page with a
whole bunch of text boxes and so on on it and some command buttons. What I
need is that when one of the command buttons is pressed and some preocessing

this question was asked before but i didnt get the core idea of how to have
a datagrid (datagrid1) with three columns (col1,col2 and col3) have the same
size everytime we run the application.
in VB6 it was straight forward (right-click ->properties).

I need some resources to understand best practices when filling a listbox
with a large datatable.  I've got the basics down of making calls to the
database returning a couple hundred rows at a time on a separate thread, but
I still get a flickery listbox as each new page is added ...

I am creating a toolbar for an application. The buttons contains images
and text. I set the wrappable property for the toolbar to false so the
toolbar does not add another line when resize. In this case, when I
resize the form the buttons on the toolbar get cut off. Is there a