I've been writing C++ COM controls and VB 6 Applications for years.  Before
that Windows applications in C and OS2 Presentation Manager in C.    My
question is what book do you think would be best for me to use to learn
VB.NET?  I've already done some small project conversions of my ...

Basically, I want to convert hex values in the range
"00000000" to "FFFFFFFF" to a signed, 32-bit Integer
value.
In VB6, I could just write lngValue = Val(hexstring$).

I wish to find the serial number processor for locked my application to
processor.
Could you help me??
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I have a need for an extra facility to be available when the user presses
the SHIFT key whilst clicking on either a Button Control or a textbox.
I am using both VB6 and VB.NET2002.
Could anyone please advise on the best way of managing this.

if a string contains surrogate chars (i.e. Unicode characters that consiste
of more than 1 char) do functions that use an indexer or a string length into
the string e.g. Mid, Len work correctly?
guy

I need to get the name of the default printer. I purchased a book that said
it is in the "My.Computer.Printer.DefaultPrinter" but I can't find it there.
I also tried using the PrinterSettings member but am having trouble.
Please help

[Grumble]
Is there some way to get Web Matrix to *stop* screwing up my <pre> tags
when switching between Design and All views?
It keep indenting and inserting text to make it align with table tags

We are working with a hardware vendor that has a device that works fine on
Win98SE.
The code even makes sure it has the VB6 run time library.
On our windows XP machine it goes belly up.  (it appears that a method of

Have the following setting in my app.config:
 <setting name="Scenes" serializeAs="Xml">
     <value>
         <ArrayOfString

Is there anyway to tell from inside an exception class when it is thrown?  
I'd like to add logging to my application whenever a certain exception is
thrown.  I don't want to have to add the logging code everywhere the
exception is caught.  

Is there an easy way to parse a string that is set up like a query string?
I have a string that I normally send in the query string to another page,
but I would also like to take the same string a parse it directly.
Thanks,

I've read that the framework is completely accessible to c#.
Is that true for VB?  If not, what parts of the framework are not accessible
to VB?

I have frm1. On this form button.Click code for this
button is:
Dim frm2 as New frm2
frm2.show

How do I add a dataset control to a ASP.NET 2005 app?
It was easy in 2003.  I would just drag a control onto the form.  In an
ASP.NET web project VS.2005 project the control doesnt seem to exist.
What do I do ?

I'm trying to understand what property or method raises the drawitem event
of a statusbar control. I've been struggling to draw a progressbar, but i
can't make it work.
Thank u all