Anyone know of some good dashboard controls, such as guages, tickers,
and charts for .Net? I've found some nice looking ones, but the price
tags have been more than shocking... It doesn't have to be free
(preferable), but cheap would be nice.

I m new to this class..
With System.Reflection... u can create run time objects for a specified
class in a assembly...
Now if once the Assembly is loaded in the memory then does that means that

Say I have the following Treeview :
N1

Below we can get the checkedItems within a checkedListBox but I have
attempted to find the unchecked items but I cannot seem to find a method. Is
there one or can I somehow manipulate the below code to find the uncChecked
items?

I'm trying to build a VB.NET function for an ASP .NET webservice whcih
returns certain data from a database.
I've got to the point where by i can retrieve data from a select query, but
i cannot deal with it if zero rows are returned. I'm convinced there must be

I know how to use Process.GetCurrentProcess to find out the PID of the
current application (vb.net) but I'd like to know the PARENT process PID
somehow.  I've been looking at various methods including some of the WMI
stuff but inside VB.NET I'm still kind of confused about how to ...

I am trying to view (with the option to print) a MS Access Report from a
Menu Item Click event.  Can anyone help me.

I'm hoping someone can point me in the direction of a solution to unhandled
exceptions in MDI child forms causing the application to crash.
I've found various articles describing a method using Application.Run(new
MyMainParentForm) to place in the application's Sub Main to allow ...

How do I get the first selected item of a listview
here is what I've tried but it crashes on the item= part.
i do have items in the list view and i do have 1 item selected
Dim item As ListViewItem

For a datagrid, I would like to have a label (outside the datagrid) that
reflects the current record in the datagrid. A click event work fine when you
click on the row header or on a datagrid separator line, but when you click
into a cell, the event is not raised.

   I just wrote a code for the combobox to show a list of supplier name from
the sql server. After running the code, it seems to take a least 6 to 10
seconds to activate the combobox, does anyone knows how to speed up the
process?? Following is the code for it.

I need to convert a value reading from XML file to specific type,
the XMLstring is look like this:
<Field1 DataType="System.Int32", Value="123">
Dim t As Type = Type.GetType("System.Int32")

I have designed my own messagebox that simulates the standard .net
msgbox, but I've added a checkbox that says "Do not show this message
again".  It works but it's a little bit clunky and non-standard.  For
one thing my msgbox doesn't automatically size itself to the size of

1. I was trying to use a flatcombo box.  I found code on codeproject
that did what I needed.  They used the following code in the WndProc
overridden procedure.
      Dim g As Graphics = Me.CreateGraphics

I have a requirement to map the enter key in the number pad to behave
like a tab key in a asp.net application. Since the keydown event of any
control in asp.net returns 13 (keycode) for both the enter keys I'm not
able to get hold of num pad enter key event. I would appreciate any