I'm using the property autoscroll = true on my forms. I have to. But
the issue is that I soon as you give the focus to, say a control in the
middle of the form, the scrollbar will scroll down to this control. But
I don't want that, I want to manually scroll it. How can I stop this

If you have a panel control with scroll bars displayed, how do you scroll
the panel programmatically?

I want to time how long a specific sub takes to execute, what is the best
way to do this? this is only for one sub, and i just need a result back in
milliseconds or such to display to a user. thanks!

I am having a problem where the validating event of a text box is not
always firing.  I am using vb.net 2003.
I have an MDI application, one of the child forms contains a tab control
which has on the first tab a number of text boxes (amongst other

I would like to format the Display Members of a combobox's datasource.  Is
there a way to apply a format without subclassing the original datasource?
For example, given a list of decimal values, format them as currency values
with a leading currency symbol and 2 decimal places.

I'm having some strange problems with a VB.NET application that I support.
The application currently uses SystemInformation.UserName() and
SystemInformation.UserDomainName() to determine who is logged in, and what
network domain they are logged into.

(VB.Net 2003)
I have a UserControl that exposes a number of public properties.
When using this control on a.n.other Form, how can(?) I prevent
the Forms Designer from adding code into InitializeComponent to

  I am using VB2005 Beta 2 in VS 2005 and am running into a small
problem.  I need to be able to add a picture box to the main form from
within a thread.
The program goes to a web site, performs a search based on POST

I'm trying to call a program (and/or batch file) from a command line
from within a standalone VB.NET application - something I would have
done using the "System()" function if I was working in C.
The only way I've found so far is

This code snippet fails with 'Specified cast is not valid' when running
the query to get application warning events in the last 10 days...
What am I doing wrong?
HankC

Let's say I have the code below, and I want to complie this on a
machine that does not have VS2003 installed on it, but does have the
.net framework...  Is it possible to complie this code below, and if so
how?

What happens to an object which is not nothing has another object
deserialized into it? I assume that the data in it is completely destroyed by
the new object.
I am interested because I have some strange persisting data elements

I have a problem regarding clear method of the listview control.
In my application sometimes the "listview1.Items.clear()" method
is giving me a "null reference exception".
All I could thought of it is related to the no. of items in the

I want to create a userhelp for a program i've built.. but how do I create a
Helpfile like the standards in Microsoft environment?
/Lars

What is your solution to send mail via winform ?
like system.web.mail
but how to be sure there is a valid smtp ?