I would like to check if a text field is empty; I'm using this code ...
Dim strTitle As String = String.Empty
Try
  strTitle = Trim(txtTitle.Text)

Not sure if this is the right forum, but I need the formula for calculating
the amount of Sales tax (GST) from the tax included price
In Australia GST is 10% and the standard formula is to divide the total by
11 to get the gst amount

This may seem a little strange, but in all my years of developing Windows
Forms apps, I've never really used Resource files; however, I would like
to start doing so in order to store icons, pictures, and most importantly,
error message strings in resource files so I don't have to ...

I have to capture data from the com-port that comes from a barcode-scanner
with rs232-cable.
What is the best way to do it in .net?
In my first attempt i used the msComm-ocx (the one that came with vb6). This

Hi All - I have a question that I think MIGHT be of interest to a
number of us developers. I am somewhat new to VIsual Studio 2005 but
not new to VB. I am looking for ideas about quick and efficient
navigating within Visual Studio 2005.  Let's say your project (or

below is the error message I received when about 2/3 of the process is done.
Where in my code I sould look for?
Thanks
Bill

I created a combobox on a form, and setup project data source connection,
carted a table, a view for the table:
create view vw_Favorite as select code + '=:' + value from codetable where
codetablename= 'Favorite' and sequence > 0

Continuing on from my previous post I am trying to access the MP Project COM
Server which is installed with MS Project. However, I get the following
error message, what am I doing wrong.
I have done the following

I am having a problem creating a class dynamically.  The class I have
is a base class of another, and the parent class has the constructor
(which takes one argument).  The base class (Class1, below) does not
have any constructors.  I am using code like this to create it, and

I have a textbox in windows form that should only accept alphabets,
numbers, spaces and underscore. If the textbox contains anyother
character it should display a msg at the time of validation.. Is there
any funciton in vb.net for this? or any other way??

I'm new to .NET stuff and trying find a way to do automation with
Excel, using VB 2005 EE.
I searched this forum, there are samples that use some namespaces for
office automation but I was not able to use those, is this feature

Hi, All,
I used to use include file (filename.inc) in asp to incude common varibles'
value and DB connection, I tried to use same include file but failed, so
anyone knows how to use include file in VB 2005 ASP? or has another solution

Can you tell me where to buy VB.net program/software?
I am reading a abook and cannot continue without the program so that I
can work on some of the exercises...
Please tell me where to buy

My HelloWorld program works on localhost but not on server. I have 2
hello world applications, one in VS 2003 and other in VS 2005. Both
programs is working on my computer but if I uppload it on server it
doesn't work. Message is "Server Error in '/' Application.". My web

Thanks in advance! :-)