I wonder if I can write applications in .NET and then download it to a POS
Terminal, like a Verifone terminal.  Verifone has its own software called
Verix  to accomplish that, but I want to know if can I do that with some tool
of Microsoft.

'--this code works but only reads text into one column when contains multiple
cols
Dim ds1x As New DataSet
Dim ConStr As String = _

I have created a backup maintenance plan in SQL Server 2005. Is there any
way to run/execute this SQL Server backup maintenance plan from VB.NET ?
Thank you.

On a form - I have a datagridview which is docked to the entire form.  The
datagridview allows users to Delete and/or Add Rows.  On the Form_Load event
I Fill the datagridview source table with a sql DataAdapter (da)
da.SelectCommand.CommandText = "Select * from Servertbl1"

I am working on a vb.net 2005 project using sql server 2000 as the backend .
I am having a bit of problems with date variables... Here is the scenario...
I have a table that includes a couple "smalldatetime" fields.
In my class for this table, when inserting new or saving a row in ...

Is it possible to join tables from different databases?  If so, what is the
format of the select statement?  Both databases are on the same server.
TIA,

Having a hard time with this VS2005 VB 3tier winform app.
I run teh app in debug mde just fine.  I go to the folder for debug
and click on the exe file.  The JIT error comes up:
************** Exception Text **************

I have the name of a control in a string variable and I want to change one
of the controls properties.  Right now I recursively scan all the controls
on the form until I get one whose name matches the name in my string
variable, then I know I have the correct control and can ...

I am using VB.Net to do the code behind pages for a website. Is it possible
to view files from a network drive without that drive being a virtual
directory? For example, website is at www.hostname.com. Can I list some
documents (.pdf's) here that are foe example in \\T:\DocsFolder ...

I am new to VB2005, but have used VB6 for a few years.
I have a simple web form in an asp.net project consisting of a DropDownList
and a TextBox.
I have managed to set a datasource for the DropDownList so that it will

I know about AddHandler and RemoveHandler, but my requirement is a little
more complex.  I pass a form to a routine.  In that routine I must scan each
control, and for each "button" control I find, I must delete it's "click"
event handler.  I can't see how to do this using ...

I would like to let the client input numeric, "," and "-" in the
textbox,
all the other else charater will take no effect on the value of the
textbox.

I have a datatable that has about 1000 rows of data that I need to encrypt.
I have written the datatable out to XML and encrypted it using Rijndael and
DES encryption.  I have decrypted it and tied it back to a datagrid
successfully.  The purpose is to encrypt the data to go ...

Assume a user enters  3.54875 into a text box how would you round it to 3
decimal places ?
Such that the number would be 3.549
Thanks

Need to grab an image off the disk, preview in a picturebox, then save
in SQL database for later viewing, etc.
Got the "grab/preview" part working fine, and *something* is being
stored in the SQL database, but when I go to retrieve the image and