I have created a simple login keyboard with QWERTY keys with a user textbox
and password textbox. When I press a key the text goes into both boxes....?
The focus event on both boxes eval to TRUE. Why? this is driving me nuts,
must be a simple answer. Here's code

Customer wants the Close (X)-button of the forms top right corner to be
Disabled or removed from Windows Form-application, which is made using
VB.NET, but leave MinimizeBox and MaximizeBox.
I think this is not so clever to do like this way, but have to do like

What is the equivalent of VB6.0 locked property in VB.NET ?
How do I make uneditable textbox [i'm not using enabled property because
it'll change the backcolor of the textbox if set to false]

George Shepherd's great Windows Forms FAQ has this article about creating a
datagrid with no active cell:
http://www.syncfusion.com/faq/winforms/search/856.asp
Unfortunately, this only works properly for datagrids that are not ReadOnly

Someone gave me an article from MSDN once on here on mail merge data
document creation in VB.NET does anyone know of where a doucment onf MSDN is
like this? i searched MSDN but didn't get it back thanks!

Is anybody aware of any source code that will export and convert pdf, doc,
rtf, htm, or .pdb to a plain text file?  Thanks,
-Dave

I wonder, performance wise, if it is better to have one form and repaint the
components on that form or to have mutiple forms and show and dispose them?
Thanks

I have a treeview which contains nodes of a class (classA) derived from
treenode.
These classA nodes may contain nodes of a class (ClassB) derived from
classA.

we just got a little problem with the correctness of VB.Net.
What would u expect as the result of
4.35 * 100.0
435.0 u think ?

Is it possible to create a macro that will auto run when a VB Project
is loaded or when VS.Net is started?

When working with enums, I've noticed some behaviour that seems
completely counter-intuitive to me.  I was wondering if someone here
could help restore my sanity, or at least help me to understand the
"why" of the behaviour.

I've written a procedure to select a certain row in a datagrid.  After
finding the row, I use DataGrid.Select(RowNumber) to select the row.
However, I need the datagrid to scroll so that the newly selected row is
visible, preferably at the top.  Is there a way to do this?

       I have a problem whereby I have a combo box in my datagrid, however
it does not allow me to do predictive type e.g. if there is a value in the
combo on the grid called order, I have to select Order from the list, I can't
just type Ord and it will fill in the rest of the ...

If I have two VB .NET apps on seperate servers, which I have full access to,
how can they communicate with each other?  For example, forms in each app
sharing data (one form getting textbox value from another form), just as if
the forms where in the same app.

I have an arraylist (arlNAMES) that is bing used as a datasource for a
combobox.  When an item is selected in the combobox I want to remove it from
both the combobox and the arraylist.  This doesn't work.  DOes anyone know
why and how to fix it?