Does anyone know the difference between Const variable and ReadOnly
variable.
Const Var1 = "123"
Shared ReadOnly Var2 = "123"

What do I need to add to the following code to be able to add a record to an
Access Database using VB.NET 2005 Express?
Dim da As New OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter("Select * from LCMR", cn)
Dim dt As New DataTable()

I am not really there yet with namespaces.
I have a "common.dll" that is referenced from another project.
now in the consuming project, source file to i'd like to have a
"imports common".

how can one compile vb code into dll?
The vstdio build project it tends to build exe.  When I looked at the build
in help I did not find anything about configuring for DLL. I  even try
custom build but did not see anything like dll.

It's easy to control one ball (a graphic) to move and bounce inside a square.
But I don't know how to create and control a large number of balls (10 or
100) and count how many times they hit a wall of the square.
Anyone can help?? I have little experience in VB.net.

This is probably not the perfect newsgroup for this posting, so if I offend
anyone I apologize.
Does anyone know of any reasonably priced text to speech engines that can
translate to both US english and French and can be used in VB.NET with

Hey guys,
 I've never seen a dataview.rowFilter example that was anything more than
something like "id = 100" or something like that. I'm trying to right one (in
asp.net/vb.net) that looks like this:

I need to parse the date I'm getting from this sqlstring to compare it
with today's date. If it's before today's date, i need to show the
viewers one page. If it is after today's date, then I need to show
viewers another page.

Does the standard VB.Net combobox support multiple columns?
I have created a 2D Array and set it to the comboboxs DataSource property.
The code doesn't error but I can not see how to set the display to the
desired arrays dimension and when it displays... well it doesn't it kind of

I have this giant table in our database that represents a dumping ground for
file imports.  It's 44 columns wide and nominally about 30 million records,
indexed in blocks by the file the records came from.
I also have this incredibly elaborate class library that cleans the data in ...

Hi all! I have problem trying to edit the item in listview. When I set
LabelEdit to True, I can only edit the first column's item. How about
editing another column's item?? Thanks in advance!
Stanley

I was dragging a third party component from the toolbar to drop on
form1, when for some reason Visual Studio gave me an unrecoverable
error and told me to save my work and restart VS.  After restarting VS
I reloaded my project and was greeted by "Maximum Number of Errors

Help a newbie out.  I cannot seem to explicitly convert an Object to a
Reflection.AssemblyCompanyAttribute type using DirectCast().  Turning Option
Strict "Off" is not an option.
Here is the Error:

I've noticed that selected items in a ListView are only highlighted if the
control has focus.  I find this to be highly undesirable because it can cause
the control to behave differently than what would be expected based on the
visual appearance.  Is there any way to force the ...

How do you define whether the return value of a function is ByRef or ByVal?
I have a utility class that cleans imported records by doing *really heavy*
string manipulation in lots of different methods, and it operates on
DataTables in excess of 100,000 rows of anywhere between 4 ...