I am writing a program that will be placed in the startup folder so
that on login it executes, it also needs to delete itself so it
creates a batch file which cleans up. After that it restarts the
computer so the changes take effect, the changes i refer to being that

How hard/easy is it to use/learn VB compared to c#?

I have a napplication that launches several long running progress.
Each procerss spawns it's own progress dialog.  The problem is that
after some time (3 min to 25 or 30) the UI stops updating and is
marked as "Not Responding."  The apps basically move large chunks of

I have a factory class which I want to use to create new objects which
inherit a certain base type so I have a declaration
  Public Class MyOwnFactory(Of T As MyOwnBase)
As I understand it, a new MyOwnFactory will get instantiated for every

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I looked around but found nothing.
I have a MDI container calld frmMDIMain, that contain some child
form....one of that forms is called frmPostIt and I need that form

I have a couple of users that are running a vb.net 2005 application,
and @ 6:00am when they are trying to run the automation they are
getting the below error. But when I get in and they try to run it
again there is no error.

EventLog.GetEventLogs() returns all the event logs. How can I get just one
event log with a specific name?
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(1) If I have two datagrid and some textboxs, labels and buttons in the
form, How can I do if there is a resize of the form and I just want only
datagrids which can auto resize to the proportional to the form size.
(2) How about in the web form?

I am trying to populate the server list in a listbox as soon as the
user opens the application and then depending which server he/she
selected the databases within that selected server.
I am not sure how can I achieve that...I have the code posted below:

Is there a way to get the password of the currently logged in user?
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how do i change the text property to a lot of textbox if all textbox are
calle textbox1, textbox2 .... instead of doing it one bye one, i mean
something like
for i as integer = 0 to 10

I am converting an application that writes to an Excel spreadsheet and the
code trips the "option Strict" that I would like on because the parser says
"option Strict On disallows late binding", I am struggling to understand why
I am tripping this error.

I'm using  VB.NET 2005 and we need menu items that have both the
Checked property set to True and an Image as well. Something like
this:
oMenuItem = mnuFiles.DropDownItems.Add(strText,

This has been been asked before, however before I came here and post
this I really researched a lot and couldn't find a clear answer for my
problem.
Basicaly I need to run code that is stored in the database. More

I need a way for a user to click and choose a time, much like they can
click and choose a date using a calendar.  Can someone point me to a
control or something else?