I am designing a brand new vb.net application. My aim is to have the main
app as a shell only and all real functionality is provided by plug-in
modules. Modules are to be loaded at runtime depending on which modules are
present. Modules also need to communicate to the main app to ...

Is it possible to display Custom Shortcut Keys for menu items. The standard
Property Page for menu items allows only selected shortcuts to choose. I
tried following text for menu item: "Process\tCtrl+Alt+P" but symbol '\t '
What you can suggest me

I have a vb.net 1.1 winforms app that needs to open webpage reports that
contain confidential data.  I wanted to use web services where I can encrypt
parameters being passed in and also encrypt the web page content coming
back.  Then in the client app I wanted to decrypt the ...

Can anyone tell me the difference between ¡yApplication.Exit()¡z and
¡yApplication.ExitThread()¡z?
I'm confused by the MSDN's explanation....
I'v try some codings but find nothing different between two of them!

There must be something happening behind the scenes to "help" me, but I've
got a real problem.
I've embedded an AxWebBrowser directly onto a form, and I'm trying to set
the size of the form to accomodate the contents.  The width sets to a

I am setting the helpstring for all interesting controls to a default in the
form load method.  I am then using the SelectedIndexChanged of a combobox to
dynamically change the help displayed using the popup menu, F1, and the
toolltip depending on the currently selected item in ...

I have a directoryInfo named Folder with a name property of "A:\".  I'm then
trying to loop through and expand it a level.
But when I say:
For Each myFolder in Folder.GetDirectories...

dim DriveList as string() = Environment.GetLogicalDrives
gives me a string array of every drive on the system
If I cast any of those strings as a directoryinfo, and it is, for instance,
'A:\' and drive A is empty, I get an exception when it is referenced.

I have a vb.net winforms app and need to open a browser and point it to a
URL.  How can this be done?
Thanks.

how can I set an app's main window visible from an other application? My
problem is, that I know only the handle of the other app's main process,
because the application's main window is set to hidden, so it doesn't
have a mainwindowHandle, so I can't send a message to it.

I've modified the Windows application icon (App.ico) and now I can't see it
when the application is in runtime and especially I cant't see it as icon of
the file myapplication.exe... What should I do to restore the situation?
I precise that in Visual Studio, when I open App.ico, I ...

I am new to working with images. Can anyone advise me as to what would be to
the most efficient kind of (maybe PictureBox?) control I could use to
populate and manipulate a scrollable horizontal Panel containing 10 visible
thumbnail images out of some larger number?

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tion+%22Class+already+exists%22&rnum=3&hl=en#07f785365ada27b7
We are encountering this bug in our .NET 1.1 (SP1) ...

 In C# when I change the isMDIContainer property of a Form to true, the
background color of the Form changes to a default color set by Visual Stuidio
(a dark grey) . Is there a way I can change this color to something of my
choice. If so how?  Changing the background of the Form ...

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