I'm trying to expose a string dictionary to a COM client (VB6) and I'm
having some trouble with the Keys property of the StringDictionary.
My class is laid out as such:
The problem is that when I hit the Keys property VB6 says that the object

Let's say I have a type name stored in a string (e.g. Dim typeName As String
= "Decimal").  Is it possible to CType() a variable to the type whose name
is stored in that string?
e.g.

I need to know how to grab text from and enter text into another
running programs textboxes. I dont know where to begin to look.

Hallo Leute,
ich versuche seit langem eine Lösung für das Auslesen des
Standarddruckers zu finden. WMI, API,
System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings habe ich alles schon versucht,

Dear Experts,
I have created a script to extract the Event Logs from the system into an
excel sheet. The logs are separated into 2 worksheets (Application Log and
System Log). After this excel file being created, it will be sent out via

When I'm working on a VS.NET solution which has been added into VSS, I need
to checkout the solution & project.
Hence, no one else is able to check these files out and work on this
project.

I have a question, wich goes faster (The table has 15000 rows in it and
growing every day)?
- at the start of the program run a querry and put this in a dataset and
during the program search the dataset for the information needed

I am trying to avoid that a webbrowser object will be closed by a
window.close() javascript. Trying to use the WindowClosing event i
discovered that it is not fired.
I am using VB.NET 1.1 and it seems that several events have the same

I'm looking for a way to increase performance on a few rather simple integer
array operations, such as adding the values of one to another. I know I can
do this procedurally, but was wondering if there wasn't some sort of "mass"
operation that would be faster, and can be done in one ...

I'm writing a program to handle multiple tasks in a single batch, which may
take few minutes to complete all tasks.  To reduce the impact to user, no
windows form will be displayed, instead I have create a NotifiyIcon for the
program, it can show the current status whenever user ...

I'm using .Net framework 1.4 and having problem sending mail with
System.Web.mail. Got error System.Web.HttpException: Could not access
CDO.Message object.
What do I need to do to get thru this?

I have a Collections.Generic.Dictionary(Of Integer, Integer). I want to sort
its contents based on the keys.
Right now the only way I can think of doing this is manually creating a
KeyValuePair array from its contents, sorting it, and then clearing out the

dim s_err as stringbuilder
dim xx(6) as double
dim ret_flag as integer
' This is a function to call an unmanaged C-style library function.

In my application I am using several Stored Procedures written in MS-Sql
Server. Of that one SP takes much time to execute. Because of that, one of my
pages using that SP is throwing Timeout Expired Error. The SP is optimized is
the saying by my DB Team. So now I need to counter ...

I have a piece of code (which I can't change) that uses On Error for its
error handling. It calls into a piece of code in another assembly that
Throws an exception.
Is there any way in my On Error error handler to determine the stack trace