Using VS 2008 to create a Windows app, I need to bind a combo box on a form
in my main app to a dataset I created in my business logic layer.
The business logic is in a separate project under the same solution as thge
main app.

I am having difficulty believing this but it appears that setting a form
Invisible drives the formclosing event. Actually, i am intercepting the user
close (the nasty x box top right that causes more trouble thay other button
in windows) and setting the form invisible and ...

I have a data bound combo box. It is bound to a XML file.
The XML file is structured like so,
  <Software>
        <Name>Test1</Name>

I can get a list of Groups from my Active Directory, now I want to get a
list of all members of a group.  Does anyone have code or can point me in
the direction to set the filter or do a search for this?  Thanks.
ohn

I need to extract sections out of a long string of about 5 to 10 KB, change
any date format of dd Mmm yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd, then further from each section
extract columns of tables.
what is the best approach in using regex for this?  I can see match and

So, if I have 2 richtextboxes, call them rtbSource and rtbTarget.
I can say  rtbTarget.rtf = rtbSource.rtf and it works.
But if rtbTarget already has something in it, how can I 'insert' the
text from source into target?

I'm trying to create a new connection to an SQL Express Database from inside
Visual Basic .Net
If i try to choose an sql Database created with SQL Server Management Studio
or try to create a new database, the error message is the same:

Here is my problem :
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Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

Crap - getting the SOS. This is an old post, so I'll try to recycle it
as new with hopefully enough details.
Here's the relevant code causing this error
SQLOfficeData.ExecuteNonQuery()<-----ERROR [42000] [Microsoft][SQL

I tried to create a user control with non rectangle shape, but i have
to specify
his size that it implies that i have to specify its width and its
height.

What is the difference between Nothing and dbnull.value?
Thanks
Regards

I would like to know how to write regular expression in vb.net that
would be valid for a piece of text that is only numbers, letters,
dashes, and underscores that is allowed.
Thanks

how do i create such combobox that its fields are derived from a certain
table of my database and every time you add a field on that table it
automatically adds up also to my combobox?

I have written a windows service using VB 2005 (.Net 2.0).  I have a
couple of settings that I need to store, just some paths.
I put them in the Application settings section and then manually edit
the file and start the service  and everything works fine.  However

can any one tell me the how can I read the pdf file on vb.net. I am
trying to read the pdf as text files, but it is not working. So plz
can any one help me out about this.
regards