This stuff drives me nuts.
Checkbox's on a form inside a tabControl that I seem to have no
control over. Checkstate=Checked and Checked=True, but the controls
appear checked and dimmed.  Same checkbox on a form with no tabControl

Just instaled the new Office 2007, and the new layout is really cool. Will
there be any upgrades to VS 2005 Pro that will include new controls whith a
smilar look and feel as that you get in Office 2007?
/A.

I own VS.Net2003 which I used to build several simple PPC data collection
programs, and I've done extensive VBA programming in Excel- I have the basic
logic of programming, but now I'm out of my knowledge base... I have a new
project, but I'm not sure where to start (using VB ...

I had code to use connection strings using integrated windows security and
that's been working OK for years, Now in my testing environment ( a W2k
server and 4 computers on a small LAN all with fixed IP's) I had to change
my IP address ranges from 192.168.1.xxx to 192.168.0.xxx. ...

Has anyone ever run into a problem converting a text version of number to
it's whole number equivalent?  If so, can someone please post an example in
2005 of how this is handled?
ex. "Four" to 4 or "Forty-Five" to 45

I've taken a couple of hours to read what is available, and I still
cannot figure out how to do a very simple task in vb .net...lol.
All I need to do is read an xml file and parse out specific information
based on simple criteria. Let's use this as the xml file:

I need to store information in a 2 dimensional array. I understand ArrayList
only works for a single dimensional array, is that correct ?
So, I use the 2 dimensional array like in VB6. I pass the array into a
subroutine, and inside it I "Redim Preserve" the array to increase the

I'm trying to programmatically set a listbox to have several items
selected when it is loaded. Which items are selected is based on a
saved user setting.
Right now, I'm trying:

VB.NET Windows Forms VS 2005
I would like to give the user the option of changing the background color of
the textbox to anything they want.  Can someone provide code how to save the
textbox1.BackColor to a string and then convert it back to a color that I

What I want to do is delete the last line in a RichTextBox.
The RichTextBox has a ReadOnly property called lines that seems like it
might help but I cant figure out how to use it.
Well, the question is what is the easiest way to remove the last line in a

I got this error message occasionally, sometimes is says that it couldn't
close connection because its execusing.
I call this sub below every 200 millisecond(the applivcation recives measure
data from a PLC), and the errors occurce irregularly, somtimes 20 minutes

Ever needed to get byte values from an integer?
just convert the integer to a color using Color.FromARGB and then use the
A,R,G,B properties
and to do the reverse use Color.FromARGB(A,R,G,B)

I have a couple questions about updating data from a dataset to a
database using a data adapter.  If I declare an adapter, set the
batchupdatesize property to 0, and then call the
adapter.Update(dataset.GetChanges) function, will the entire batch

Software: VB.NET 2.0 and Excel 2003
I have an Excel sheet with 140 records. 135 of the records have alphanumeric
data in fields.item(2) (see code below). 5 of the 140 cells in this coloumn
is however numeric.

First off, I'm a hardware/OS guy. I just write code on the side and I'm
completely self taught - so bear in mind my total lack of expertise.
I have a program originally written in VB2003 using the dotnet 1.1
framework. The program makes extensive use of Win32 API calls to help ...