I have a problem which I think can be solved by creating new Settings
on the fly, but I'mnot sure if it's possible, or if a better solution
may exists.
Here's the situation: I have a project with many different

Ok I must admit I stink at regular expressions... been trying to learn them
for a while now and its not sticking how I wish it would... but I am trying
to take a very long string (about 30KB) and pull out all the dates in it
that are in mm/dd/yyyy format and put them into a ...

I have a lot of old VB 6 experience and for the last several years
have been programming in C#.  Now I'm going to be doing some VB.NET
development.  As I'm "relearning" things so to speak, I remember I was
taught that using commands like Trim$ and LTrim$ instead of Trim and

Has anyone played with MS's SMTP sample, mailer.exe? I downloaded the
sample, and ran it, but keep getting the error "Failure sending mail". Where
might I look for more information? Maybe some troubleshooting tips?
Thanks in advance, you folks have helped with some of my other ...

Hey all...
I've been using the following to calculate the height the textbox
needs to be in order to grow it vertically to its necessary size.
textbox1.Height = Me.CreateGraphics().MeasureString(textbox1.Text,

Buon giorno a tutti,
potreste spiegarmi come si fa a formattare con vb2005 un numero 1234   in
1.234,00 oppure un numero come 1255,00 in 1.255,00
Grazie a tutti

I am unable to build a project, and can not figure out why.
Is there a log file or some way of seeing what is going on. I get 'visual
studio is busy.....' message if i try to click or do something within VS.net
2005.

Hey all...
My boss typically dislikes the packaged components, and so I'm
wondering if there's any code out there to modify the way a scrollbar
looks.  I'd love to change colors and, if possible, the arrow buttons.

I'm writing a VB2005 program that needs to generate some printed
output, including a main table. At present I'm doing this output
simply as a text file, which works well enough to allow printing via
eg NotePad, but there are a couple of important refinements that I'd

I wanted to know what is the best or cleanest way to fire an event from a dll
to the app that is using the dll in vb.net 2.0.
Description:
The dll will call or fire an event called “MyEventName(“Info to pass”)”

I just noticed this about value types and return values, and it kind
of bugs me that the compiler won't treat it as an error, even with
Option Strict On.
Try this out:

I have forgotten how vb.net deals with long strings, I know I used
this once but I don't remember.
Or was it C# ???
dim s as string = @"string1

I need to buy into .NET, primarily for VB development. I need to
upgrade my Visual Studio 97 and get a new computer(currently on
Windows 98). I will be doing personal development at home to learn the
new stuff. At work, we will migrate to .NET in a year or so, so I want

I am familiar with using My.Computer.FileSystem.GetDirectoryInfo to get folder attributes, see code below...
This does not work though for network drives on my companies system.
We use windows as our server, nothing exotic.
I looked at the security permissions and the "write" box ...

What could the possible reason be for obtaining "timeouts" when executing a
stored procedure from my application? If I execute the specific stored
procedure in Query Analyzer I do not get any timeouts and the stored
procedure takes approximately 30 to 40 seconds to execute.