In the old MFC days you could create a ListView with the LVS_OWNERDATA style
and you would be asked to provide the item to be drawn as the list view
needed it. This way you could have lots if items in the listview but none of
them would exist as data in the list view.

Hello VB Users,
    I am about ready to start working on a small VB.NET 2003 project for my
company.  I will be creating an MDI application that will using docking
extensivily.  So far, I was able to create a MDI application and then able to

Does any body know how to do visual studio.net style resizable tear off MDI(s)?
I have played with the new splitter tool in vb.net 2005 and it is somthing
like what I am trying to do but it doesn't have closing or push pen abilities.

Is there a way to determine if the closing event is happening because of a
user click on the window Close-Box as opposed to because of other reasons
like calls to the Form.Close() method?

Is it possible to using connect  to a SQL Server database on a shared hosted
web account using sqlconnection objects?
What would the connection string look like?
Thanks.

I have several items displayed in a ComboBox.
Only a subset of these items should be selectable, the others are for
display purposes.
What is the best way to handle this.  Via an event or create a subclass to

Hi, I'm having this little issue which i dont know how to fix properly.
I have a button that instanciates a form, then it shows it normally (not
modal), this opened form is owned by the main form, the problem is that
I dont know how to check if it was previously openeded (the ...

I create a MainMenu and set its text to &Admin. In VB6 this means
Alt-A would execute the menu. It does execute the menu but when the
form is first displayed, the "A" in Admin is not underlined. It does
show up underlined after I use Alt-A once.

I’ve just found a minor bug in how the TabControl selects the SelectedTab
after you remove a TabPage.
The code from TabControl.ControlCollection.Remove is shown below (thanks
Reflector!) notice that the SelectedIndex is always set even if a different

1) How can I make a Panel fire Key events?
Neither overriding the OnKeyUp event nor somePanel.KeyUp += new
KeyEventHandler(somePanel_KeyUp) seems to work.
2) What would be the procedure for doing this on a Control derived control?

Googles shows that this question has been asked a couple of times but every
"answer" turns out  to be a snappy "only an idiot would need that" rather
than a real answer. I'd kinda like a real answer if there is one.
question, in 3 parts:

Can someone explain to me why the following segment of code will not remove
all rows from the datatable?
My application is a Winforms front end connecting to an Access mdb back end.
   Public Sub ClearTable(ByVal pstrTableName As String)

I have a form that runs a batch task. (say every 15 minutes)
When it is kicked off it connects to the DB and then runs through all of the
things it is supposed to do.
The length of time to complete these tasks is unknown in advance.

to all
i'm skumar
i'm woking in VB.NET frame work
i need to place a link to remote ftp page

I need to check if someone is really using workstation or not.
As using i mean moving mouse, or clicking keyboard. There
are a lot of "ergonomical helper" application (workrave for example)
that will stop users work after several minutes of real work, that