I have a class that creates a thread for some I/O that blocks in the absence
of any activity. I need to be able to shut down that thread when the
application using the class closes. I tried putting my code to close the
thread in the Finalize call of the object but when the app ...

I have installed VB2008 Express a few months ago, and yesterday I was trying
to create a new program and that program requires the use of a database, so
I tried to create the SQL database, but I get an error message that tells me
that I do not have the appropriate autorisation to ...

I am extremely new to programming and this is a school project that I
am stuck in. It is supposed to be very simple. I have an access DB
with 1 table and 3 columns in that table.
Description, Price and Quantity.

VB 2005.
I receive the error, "You cannot add or change a record because a related
record is required in table 'Purchase Orders'."
In my form, the parent record Purchase Orders is in details view.  The child

Is it possible to programmatically fill in the Title/Subject/Author
information in the properties Summary tab of an application's exe file (or
shortcut to the exe)?
How to do this?  

I am trying to ascertain the value of the Error Provider Control and
it does identify the control failing validation without any extra code
but I cannot figure how to abort if the user throws in the towel and
cannot correct during the session.  The following is my basic

I am trying to find the fastest way to search a txt file for a
particular string and return the line that contains the string. I have
so for just used the most basic method. Initialized a variable as
IO.streamreader. Read each line and perform an if-then to see if

I want to install/uninstall a driver(only inf file), this inf file does not
support right-click to install in explorer, it can only be installed from
Control Panel/Add Remove hardware.
Can anyone tell me how to install/uninstall in VB.NET?

I have a application done in VS2008 which uses ClickOnce deployment.
The application is set to check for updates on application start -
this is working... more or less.
My problem is:

I am building a Risk Management utility for IB TWS and am facing the
following issue:
i) I have to disable the IB software once a drawdown limit is reached.
The issue I am having is this:

Hi everyone! I've got a problem with a windows forms application. I
modified source code, but when I ran the application the new code was
simply ignored. Then I tried and debug, but debug points were also
ignored. VS finally showed the following message:

i am a beginner of VB
i try to copy VB code from the help topic of "How to: Download a File in the
Background"
ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_fxmclictl/html/9b7bc5ae-051c-4904-9720-18f6667388bd.htm

I'm using a treeview control.
One parent node, several child nodes, several grandchild nodes.
Each of the nodes has a checkbox.
My question, when the user changes the check value of one of the grandchild

I am wanting to display an excel file on the web and allow it to be
editable and be able to be saved online through the web.
Any way to do this?
thanks.

Hey Everyone,
1: Public Function GetCustomerInfo(ByVal intCustomerID as Integer) as
DataView
2:     Dim dtCustomerInfo As DataTable = _dtCustomerInfo