I have a listbox of cities.
The listbox is bound to a database table.
But I want to add the option - "all cities" to the listbox.
How do I do that?

I have an EXE that calls a method in a DLL. This DLL runs an import
process and needs to provide feedback to a progress bar on a Form in
the EXE. I can set a reference to the DLL from the EXE so the EXE can
call the import method but a circular reference is caused when I

Hi - hope someone can help with this - this code was working for a while in
the 'real' code and then suddenly stopped - not sure what happen.
I made two simple forms on localhost to try to test what is going on.
I'm not getting any errors right now, but code is not working either - ...

What is wrong with this?
Dim strFindMax As String = "max(ProfileID)"
Dim drFindMax As DataRow() = DSet.Tables("Profiles").Select(strFindMax)
I get an error saying strFindMax does not evaluate to a Boolean.  What I

Hi,  Is there a way to make the lable background transparent? I though I was
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Brian

Hi every all.
I Have a dude ( I hope you can help ).
How can I generate Popups (Style MSN 6  =>
http://www.fotosmes.com/descargar/msn6/fotos/NickPopupVentanas.jpg )

First, thank you very much for your help.  You lead me down a right
path.  With the help of this article:
http://forums.vbcity.com/forums/topic.asp?tid=123101
and this one:

VS 2008 Pro
It appears that the form_closing event of a form may not always fire. I put
an explicit lock on a customer record when it is open for edit and then
remove the lock in the form_closing event when the form is closed. This used

I'm trying to use webrequest - webresponse to post a stream.
I have set up a simple test with one aspx form holding the post code and
trying to get another aspx form to receive the post on localhost.
Can you explain to me the possible reasons why a 'GetResponse' - to send the

What would be the best way to post and receive http xml post using vb.net?
Thanks,
CindyH

I know I can use the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left function to get the left
portion of a string, but I would prefer to avoid using any
Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace items. What is the equivilant in VB.Net
2005?

How can i compile my application with more than 1 icon ? i have tryied
adding external .ico to the solution and settign them to content or resource
but then they are not visible as normal icons of the file, just the primary
one is.

How do i know if my application is the current active window?
i have tryied using me.focused but that only work if the form is focused, if
a child control is focused it then returns false and i want to know if my
application is the current active one in windows so i dont need to ...

I'm still trying to get my head around how to do TDD.
I have a situation where I have a set of classes which build a tree
which contains nested (subselect) SQL statements. The tree is completely
internal to my project and there is no need to make it public in any

Hope someone has a solution or some suggestions for this.
This cannot be right?!?
Problem:
I have multiple non-modal forms open at the same time.