I am trying to avoid global variables and take advantage of OOP and
now understand how to pass a variable to another form using a
constructor.  But how to I return that variable if changed on Form 2?
Ed

In vb6 you could start a program from a 'main' routine that was in a
module.  But I don't see modules in vb.net.  There just seem to be
forms and classes.  Is there any way to start the program so that you
aren't showing a form immediately?

I'm attempting to create a new MailMessage object by following a
tutorial and I can't seem to get it right according to VS 2008. I'm
hoping someone here can help me find out what I am doing wrong. I
would greatly appreciate it:

Hi Group,
Can someone tell me how/when this event is called?  I've looked at loads of
examples and can't see how this event is triggered.
Regards

I have a Windows DLL written in C that I need to call in VB code. The
function has two parameters and must modify the character array for
just one of the parms. A simplified example of C code I wish to call
from test.dll is as follows:

Say I build a simple .exe file.
n exe that will look at a file, read that file and put the contents
into an email.  If I take the .exe that I built from the Bin\Release
folder and copy it to a machine will it work or do I need to make sure

If this (below) is something that can be done in VB.NET can you provide an
example, link to page explaining, or at least a keyword I can use to search
Google?
What I want to do is define a group of constants so that when something

how do I do this in 2008 using the datagridview?  The SetDataBinding part.
mySQLCommand.CommandText = "select * from VH_TBP"
mySQLCommand.Connection = myDbConnection
myDataAdapter.SelectCommand = mySQLCommand

I am using VB.net 2005 windows forms
I use the Datagridview.cellformatting event to change the colours of
individual cells as required and all works fine
How can I do the same for the datagridview column headers?

Hello people. I'm having a Winform app that contains a webbrowser control
that keeps navigating from one page to another permanentrly to make some
tests. The problem I'm having is that after a while, the application is
using more than 100 or 150 Mb in RAM, and if I let it ...

I using Access as the database for  a VB .Net application I'm developing.  
I've developed reports in Access and would like to run the reports from the
VB .Net application.  Any suggestions on how this can be done?

RemoveHandler MyBase.DocumentCompleted, AddressOf Me.myDocumentCompleted
Warning 27 The 'AddressOf' expression has no effect in this context because
the method argument to 'AddressOf' requires a relaxed conversion to the
delegate type of the event. Assign the 'AddressOf' expression ...

I've been developing an application using Visual Studio 2005 for a few
months, and suddenly it is returning hex values in the watchlist when I'm
stepping through code to debug.  Is there some setting that causes this?  
Does anyone know how I can get it to stop returning hex ...

I would like to add some menu items at runtime to my program,
something like tools -> external tools in visual basic
does anyone have a snippet for this ?
thanks

I have a vb.net 2005 project and have made a lot of modifications to it. The
project runs fine in debug mode. Now I want to implement it and first I am
running the executable on my machine to make sure it runs properly...
However, when I run it locally as an executable, I get no ...