My company has Visual Studio.NET, and Visual Basic 5. I
don't work in the products myself, which is why I am
posting this question.
1. For developing VB.NET appilcations, what is better VB

At my organisation we have various web based systems in place using ASP 3.0
for the front end but with VB6 ActiveX DLLs (installed within component
services) for the business logic.
I am aware that with VB.NET I can still create a dll and access it within

i have a combo box and a datagrid. i want my datagrid to focus on the
whole row of datagrid when my combobox selected the particular item.
But, seems that the coding i've writen below can only focus on one
cell of the selected item.

I wrote a small application in VB.NET and my PC OS is Win
XP Pro, how do I run my application on a PC running Win
98??

On my PC  installed together Visual Studio 6 and Visual Studio .Net. I've
created COM component in VB.Net and use it in project in VB6. On that PC
project runs OK. I've created Installation package in Visual Studio
Installer 1.1

I am calling .NET components from my Classical ASPs.
For this I strong named my assemblies, then registered them in the resistry
( using RegAsm), and put them in GAC (using GacUtil) .
Everything worked fine and my ASPs were able to call and use them.

I'm upgrading a VB6 Application.
Its having a number Control Arrays in each form.
Although the Upgradation Wizard has upgrated these arrays referencing
Ax...Array assemblies, should I change the logic such that the new VB.NET

   i am developing a project in vb.net. my project is on
a hospital. so i made a module and its functionality is
just to insert data in the Database(SQL SERVER). then i
made a function insertdata in a INSERTION class. and in

Does anybody know how to call the function embedded in the ActiveMDIChild
form?
   Dim variable1 as integer
   variable1 = 1450

How i can get the length of a string(in pixels) in vb.net
In vb6 I used picture.textwidth("foo").
I tried to use API call to GetTextExtentPoint32()
but failed getting hDc,using GetDC call.

do you know if there is a way to deploy a VBnet apps
without instaling framework on all machines?
Thanks
Bib

The company I'm working for is about to migrate to .NET and I'm
participating in the projectgroup responsible for this. One of the
argumements for going .NET, we were told, is that MS is not supporting
VB6 anymore within a couple of years. Does anyone now if this is a true

I need to be able to get the attributes of a file given
the file path/name.  There was an API that returned a
value that represented all of the flags (archive, read-
only, etc) that you could use to get each individual

hi, I am upgrading from vb6 to .net.
the prog, which opens an avi file by calling the
avifil32.dll works ok in vb6 but not in .net. Anyone have
any ideas? below are the code cutout from vb6 and .net

i have 3 forms.
the 1st form contains textbox1
the 2nd form contains textbox2
i pass the value inserted from the 1st form to the 2nd form's textbox2