I am sorry that my description is not better but it is hard to think
of one for this problem. I have a program on the user computer and I
need to only let them have one instants of this program open at one
time. Is there a way to check to see if the program in already running

I ran into memory problems while tying to search and replace a very large
text file. To solve this I break the file up into chunks and run the search
and replace on each chunk. This works fine and has solved the OutOfMemory
problem.

I have a odd but a known question about listbox. I know listbox
control can provide multi-select, multi-extendend selections. But i
wonder if this selection type belongs to them or it has another
tecnique.

I have problem with translate next code from c# to vb :
private UStateEventHandler  _myUStateEventHandler;
//where UStateEventHandler  is defined as :
//public sealed delegate UStateEventHandler : System.MulticastDelegate

I'd like to retrieve default values for properties (of a user control) via
code instead of having string-constants.
Consider the following (simplified) property:
Private _MyColor as Color

i'm using mySQL as my backend to my program. i know this is not VB.NET
anymore but i don't know how to do it. i have a query that will calculate if
it satisfies the condition. it goes like this:
SELECT

I need to split a string in chunks of max 160 characters but ensuring that
no word is broken. How can I do this?
Thanks
Regards

I have a button on the form which has causes validation set to true... when
I click on it not one of my validating events fires on the form... every
single control with it just skips over it and the button executes its
procedure without validation... now when i go to a control ...

Can anyone recommend a free or open source Secure FTP (SFTP) library that
can be used from VB.NET?
I can see a number of commercial solutions but if there's a library we can
use without getting bogged down in licensing issues it would make things

i'm in a trouble handling timeouts of the SerialPort class.
If I set timeouts (<>0) what i have to expect? An error? A call to
DataReceived routine? A call to Error routine?
What is the initial moment when the timeout count starts? When i open the

Has anyone every used VB.net to control/write/read a tape device such as
LTO or SDLT? I'd like to be able to write a TAR utility within vb.net
that write to the tape device. Any suggestions?

I have the following code;
   Public DA(3) As Object
   DA(1) = New Class1
   DA(2) = New Class2

Does anyone have any point of source on how to create context meny and
property tabs shells extensions in VB.net?
My intention is to integrate my program with jpg and bmp extensions and be
able to display a custom menu on the contextual menu of these filetypes.

Hey All,
I've been searching for a code snippet, not a 3rd party tool, that takes a
.csv file and transforms it to an .xml file based upon an .xsd.
Can anyone point me in the right direction or provide a code snippet?

I have an arraylist of for example 1200. I want to re organize the
array so that position 1 on the arraylist if actaully now position 3
and i want to add 3 position before position 3 and at the end of the
arraylist. Can i use the Redim statement?