I have a windows application written in VB .NET which pulls a lot of data
from different databases into one source.  This often takes a long time and
therefore I track the progress using a progress bar and a status bar.
When the program is running and I use another application the ...

The smart client offered by MS is more like a concept and the features is
more separately.
I think the client application vender need a clien side framework like
Eclipse RCP.

I have in a dropdownlist the following values: "aa", "bb", "cc"
I want the item "bb" will be the selected item.  I can find it in a
collection by:
myItem = myControl.Items.FindByText("bb");

I give a login form for my application,
and I give 3 times to the app's user,
if he input his name and pwd out 3 times,
the login form will closed .

First of, I am posting to this newsgroup as it seemed best suited even though I am writing C++ for a standard Windows application. The application uses GDI+ which forms the basis of the System.Drawing namespace...anyway here goes:
I am trying to create a 1 bit per pixel mask to ...

Is there any way of making the following code into a function so that I
don't have to re-use the same code for all my buttons? I've tried to do this
with the code at the bottom of my post but I get a build error saying 'Type
FormToShow is not defined'.

I have a Windows forms application that is reading messages off off a queue,
and I want to stream them into a window to view.  Currently I am using a
textbox classes/methods of textbox.Append(...) and textbox.ScrollToCaret()...
It seems that there is limit to the number of ...

I have a winform that looks beautiful. All the panels have bacground
images. I even have rollover buttons for the main navigation.  My
problem is that it loads slower than a "plain" winform app. Also when
minimizing the form and switching back to my application it has "blank

I have designed a custom control derived from UserControl which contains a
LinkLabel and a TextBox. If the user uses the TAB key to move the focus to my
custom control I want the TextBox to get the focus and not the LinkLabel.
Therefore I set the TabStop property of the LinkLabel ...

Using VB.NET
I have the path to my Access file stored in an App.config file:
<add key="constring" value="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data
Source=Data/METL.mdb;Persist Security Info=False"/>

I have a useful framework, written in a different language (PowerBuilder),
which I'd like to replicate in .Net and Forms, but I'm unsure of how to
approach it, as the Event model is being used different between the
development environments.

 I built a windows form client app that access a db on a network. Now I was
wondering how can I set it up so that the app accesses the database through
the web? I don't want to rebuild the client app into an asp.net app. Maybe I
could or should use Web Services that sits on a ...

   I know I've done this in the past but can't remember how I did it.
How can I turn off the ControlBox but still have the Close X in the upper
right of a Form?
It's some combo of FixedDialog and ControlBox = false

I am creating a linklabel look-a-link in a datagrid with the following code
by overriding the paint sub:
If column = 0 Or column = 3 Or column = 4 Then
               Dim UnderlineFont As New

My application needs to have three Forms, each of which runs on its own thread ie with its own independent message loop etc. I've implemented this by creating three Thread instances, where the ThreadStart delegate points to a method that does something like this :
void ...