Just as I, an object of the class human, know my name I wonder if an object
of some VB.Net class knows it's name.
That is, if an object resides on a form and is called TextBox25, can the
object get the string: TextBox25

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Lloyd Sheen

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Hello Group I need to make functionalities, that in vb6.0 are hacian to
traves of bookstore SQLDMO, in vb.NET, Somebody knows as I can do them?
Thanks

I have recently noticed an unwanted behavior that I do not know how to get
rid of.
To Recreate Problem:
Windows Forms App with 2 forms. Form 1 has nothing on it and this code

Are there VB.NET equivilents to the 'uint' and 'ulong' keywords as well as
the bitwise compliment operator '~' ?

I have code that works fine in VB 6.0  but do to the marshalling differences
it doesn't work in VB .Net and I need to get it to work as we are going away
from VB 6.0.
I am using it to send ScanCodes, but an example that sends Virtual Keycodes

From reading the documentation, this should be a relatively easy thing.   I
have an arraylist of custom class instances which I want to search with
an"indexof" where I'm passing an instance if the class where only the
"searched" property has a value.  I expected to get the index ...

I am looking for a generic way to see if an object supports the ToString
method, then invoke that method to return the results of that generic
objects ToString method.
I have a generic exception class and one of the arguments I pass in is a

I'm thinking this may be an easy one but I am getting frustrated. How
can I detect if a process is showing a modal dialog. Like "Are you sure
you want to exit?", or an error message etc...
I stumbled across the GetWindow API but am unsure how to work it

I using the routine below to copy file to a network drive for a regular
backup process. Before calling this routine I using another function to check
the presence of the LAN connection and the server where the network drive
exists.

how to return code from my app?
like in ol' dos progs
i need to call my app from a batch file and do some things based on the
return code

Does anyone know how to run MS Access reports from VB.net.  I'd like to keep
the existing reports in the database if I can.
Thanks
David

SELECT @sql = 'where voucherno =' + quotename(@voucherno,'''') + ' and recid
= ' + str(@recid)
As I print the above statment to check , the syntax is correct
Where voucherno ='GL123' and recid = 123

In VB6, if you clone a recordset you get a ptr to the same recordset with 2
different cursor positions.
If the original recodser had 100 records then the clone had 100 records.
This doesn't seem to be the case in .Net datasets. It appears that clones