I have made a application that scans barcode. The barcode scanner is connect
to the PC via one of the USB ports.
The technique that I use is hidden textbox that constantly has the focus to
process the input on the keydown event. This works fine.

How can I generate the following xml code from vb2005?
<item>
  <title>Sunshine up Ahead</title>
  <media:credit role='author'>Peter Jones</media:credit>

Hello World,
I am trying to read an intptr() returned from a call to EnumPrinters into a
structure and keep getting an exception. The relevant code looks like:
   Public Structure pInfo

How can I put a watch on the "Foo" control in the following exemple:
MyInput = CreateMyControl ("Foo")
MyInput.ReadOnly = True
TD = New HtmlTableCell

We have just started getting the following error during compiles of our
forms-based application.  We are developing in VS2008, VB.Net, with Team
Foundation Server-based source control.
Full error message is:

This is weird
i have a method  :
Public Function SendMailMessage(ByVal Recipient As String, ByVal Body As
String, ByVal From As String, Optional ByVal BCC As String = "", Optional

When determining whether a String can be converted to a DateTime, you can
use the IsDate() method. However, I would also like to know whether the
string is a date, a time, or both a date and a time. Is there any simple way
to do this without using manual pattern matching? Thanks.

The following code works in VB.Net 2003, but not in 2005
While webBrowserTemp.ReadyState <> SHDocVw.tagREADYSTATE.READYSTATE_COMPLETE
Application.DoEvents()
End While

how do i hide columns in my datagridview?

I would like to create a program to keep track of all of DVD in my
collection, but I do no know how I can do such a thing. I use to use Access
to do this but Access 2007 refuse to use most of the forms that I need to
get to the information.

I am planning to build an Office 2007 Add-in in VB.Net.
I'd like to have it have the ability to be in other languages as well as US
English.
I assume that for a form's text box labels, a function, say,

can you input a field in a datagridview that can be save to your database?
can you make a calculation on it? please tell me how.

Say that I have the variable "RomeDate" containing a date with my
local time, in Rome, Italy.
I wish a function to convert RomeDate to another datetime variable
containing the same date

If a function get passed some variables by val and by ref. how can i
call that function again in the same class.
For example:  Private Function Number (byval x as integer, byval y as
integer) as integer

I use Visual Studio 2005 v8.0 on two different computers. On one, the
"Find and Replace" dialog gives me the option to look in the "Entire
Solution". On the other computer, the "Find and Replace" dialog does
not have that option.