How can I do this without loosing special characters (í, ó, ú, é, etc) so I
can replace some parts of it later.
I was using this code but it eliminates those characters.
Dim str As StreamReader

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       I am a newbie in VB.NET and wanting to create a toolbar(User Control) for Database Navigation. What exactly I want is to have a user control which is inherited from the system.windows.forms. usercontrol and contain a toolbar which have buttons for navigating ...

I'm stretching my fairly elementary vb.net experience by trying to
write a report generator for a specialised utility. The report will
contain a simple tabular output, but there could be up to 100 or more
column types from which the user can choose to include on a specific

I am making an admin interface, which allows me to upload photos to an
access DB. The admin interface also needs to display the uploaded
photos, but only needs to show them at a maximum resolution of 100px per
side. All photos will be JPEG. Below is a showimage.aspx file that

I am attempting to use the AppDomain.UnhandledException event in a
Windows Forms app and also in a Windows Service.  But the event doesn't
seem to be called.
In a Windows Forms app, the event IS called but only if I run the app

I am confused on serializtion.
I have a class called picture.  It has a bitmap member and several others.
I have a collection class called pictures which inherits from
collectionbase.

I've seen this kind of thing in C# quite often :
cbo.Validating += new CancelEventHandler(cbo_Validating);
what is the vb.net equivalent ?
Please don't send me to

   I am a beginner of VB.NET . I would like to set the property of the
textbox that only input numeric only or date format. But I can't find any
property can do that...Anyone know how to do that ?
Thanks

Anyone know of a good resource that details how to inherit from
CommonDialog?
Thanks.

I'm confused on the best way to create a combobox with "YES"/"NO" and values
of "Y""/N".  I'm trying this way...but I get an error: Could not bind to the
new display member
Public Class combo

I have a datagrid that successfully allows editing and updating (with
dataadapter.update command).  I want the user to be able to edit the
"text" in the datagrid, but i DON'T want the user to be able to DELETE
rows.

Is there anyway to get a tooltip to show for a specific treenode in a
treeview? thanks

for some reason I can get a string.index of to recognize a substring like
"%s".
dim s as string
dim i as integer

I would like to reproduce the same control as in Visual Studio for the
propery editor or the message feedback window. That is, a scrolling
panel that would appear when the mouse is over one of the side of the
main form. There should be the possibility to anchor it as well. How

I am making a form template that will be used across our windows
applications.  It will be used several hundred times.  I so created a
class called FormTemplate and inherited that from Form.  All our future
forms will inherit from FormTemplate.  Want I need to happen is for