What is the best way to create a menu bar like the Office menu bar ie
one that can dock to the four corners of the screen?  Is it a standard
windows form or is it some other more specialised control?

Any idea, how to create Outlook 2003 Style Navigation Bar in VB.Net 2005 ?
Best Regards,
Luqman

after i press a record or ok button i would like to know how to make it
apear a alert box and where do i have to put the following code (button
code?) plz help?

I created a namespace (Class Library Project) in a solution, and converted
it to a component. Everying works OK.
I am now adding a little functionality to the component and desire to set a
breakpoint in the component that gets instanciated via a form in the windows

Hi -- I hope someone can point me in the right direction
I have a DataTable that I want to fill using a DataGridView.  I've set the
DataSource of the DataGridView to my DataTable.  My problem is that I want
some of the columns to be drop downs.  For example, the user will need to

I've been playing around with VB since version 3. I now have VB6 Learning
Edition. I'm thinking about getting VB.NET Express Edition. I have a lot of
demo programs for version 3 thru version 6. I realize that the convertor
might not be able to convert the source code on the older ...

It's possible a button with image and style xp in vb.net 2003?
Thanks a lot

OK I haven't ever done this before... I'm going to need to create "project"
files to which my application can save and retreive data. Rather than
worrying about the details fo the format too much, I'd like to just have
everything saved as a serialized collection so whatever I ...

I currently know very little about VB code and want to learn for use in
MS office applications such as Access and Excel, while also learning
how to write some login scripts using VBS. The only option as far as
company paid training that I have locally is an introduction class to

how do I get the file's parent directory name out of a path like this?
c:\test\myDirectory\file.txt
Im looking to extract the "Directory" from the path so I can create
myDirectory in another directory and copy the files.

VB2003.  I need a large positive integer.  Which is larger int64 or double?
I see int64 also apparently is known as long and will hold
-9,223,372,036,854,775,808 through 9,223,372,036,854,775,807.
But I'm not good with the E+??? notation so when I'm told double holds

I just want the name of the file selected - I have no use for opening it up
in a stream.
Is there a built-in dialogue I can use to select a file, or do I need to
write my own? If so, are there any simple examples out there?

Okay, last go 'round for today.  I'm looking at the msdn for private font
collections.  If I add a font to work with - let's presume I'm printing a
single line in a particular font and won't use it again - how do I dispose
of it.

If I create a form and add add a bunch of controls and code, etc to it, I
can see that Visual Studio adds all of the requisite "creation" code behind
the form.
If I wanted to create a 2nd copy of the exact form, how would I go about

How do I make my VB.Net form callable from an Excel application? It's a
utility independent from Excel, but I want to be able to call it from Excel.
I know a lot about VBA but don't know how to get a handle on the .net form
and make it visible.