I created several classes that supports custom typing as following:
Public Class DataManager(Of CustomType As {DataObject, New})
Public Class LockableDataManager(Of CustomType As {LockableDataObject,
New})

I have a very basic form that has controls bound to a SQL 2005 database for
an Employee Directory.  I'm using a PictureBox control to bind to the
"Photo" field which is of datatype image.  However, it doesn't seem to work.
It does not display the image from the database (it's ...

I have a small html file that I have added to my project.  When I added
"sample.html", I set the build action to "embedded resource".
In the application I would like to do something like this ( but this
doesn't work ):

I noticed that when there's a crash in my programs,
the finalize methods of my objects are not called
(the memory is freed, but some things are not done,
like deleting files or tables).

I'm writing a .dll. I'd like to know how to stop all the code running
from anywhere in the solution. For example:
-A class of the .dll is called from an .exe.
-Function A is called from the main sub.

Hi, All,
I put gridview within View container, when running on web server,  the
gridview doesn't show on the web page, can anyone help this out? Thanks

This is my first attempt at an application, so kid gloves are
appreciated.
I need to make a very simple form that only has a few elements.  One is
TraceCode - a text field that is populated when a user scans a label.

how convert CanGetfocus From VB6 to VB.Net
anywone, can help me?
thanks.

I'm trying to create a user control which cannot get focus, but is enabled.
In VB6, I just set the CanGetFocus property to false, but I can't find the
.NET equivalent.
The .NET CanFocus property is ReadOnly.

How may I open/convert a Visual Basic 2005 project into Visual Basic
2003 or Visual Basic 6? In the same way, what'll be the procedure to
open/convert a VB 2003 project into VB6?

Hi! I tried to change my application's priority to high and i tried
maybe all ways to do that - i used Thread.CurrentThread.Priority class
to change it, but Task manager shows a normal priority of my app. How to
do that?

i am trying to save some data in a excel spreadsheet, whenever the programm
shuts down.
Mostly this happens when a user is logging off or shuts the computer down.
im am using the

in VB.Net, I use Excel to display results :
dim xl as new Excel.Application // creates an Excel process
// snip (putting values into cells)
xl.Visible = true

I have a COM project which is already produced and using for in-house,
As it is COM project, by default, VS2003 create a setup project for it.
Right now, I need to do some improvement for the proejct,
But I found there is no way to do the upgrade action.

In order to deploy my app, I need to specify the following file path as
relative to my project.  I need the image to be a file so that it can be
processed by the "DrawImageToScale" function so that the image is reduced in
size to a panel on the form.