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What is the difference between these two lines? Dim args As Object() = New Object() {strText} Dim args As Object() = {strText} args seems usuable from either, say, like so: Me.Invoke(delegate, args) Zytan

In VS 2008, why doesn't ToString require "()". If I have Option Strict On on why can I do both: selectedIndex.ToString() selectedIndex.ToString or sQuery = temp.ToUpper().IndexOf("friend")

hi i'm looking for an example of localization using resource files

Hello, I found some code that I could use in my application on the web, but it is written in C#, and I would like to convert it to VB. And I am having problems with one section. Is there anyone that could tell me how to convert these two things? 1)

In the "good old days"... I used to put most of my code in different modules, to keep it tidy, then it was no problem writing in a module like: Form1.textbox1.text = "Some text" or from a form Form2.textbox1.text = me.textbox2.text Now, in vb.net iI get an error saying "Reference to a non-shared member

Hi All, I'm trying to chunk a long string SourceString into lines of LineLength using this code: Dim sReturn As String = "" Dim iPos As Integer = 0 Do Until iPos >= SourceString.Length - LineLength sReturn += SourceString.Substring(iPos, LineLength) + vbCrLf iPos += LineLength

Hi Suppose I have two forms: Form1 and Form2. I create and show an instance of Form2 in the code of Form1 e.g. Dim myForm2 = New Form2 myForm2.Show() How do I tell myForm2 that Form1 is its parent? That is, when I look at either "Parent" or "ParentForm" in Form2, they both show "Nothing".

(Slightly religious question): Suppose I have the following class: ---snip--- Public Class MyClass Private _MyVariable As Integer Public Property MyVariable() As Integer Get

Hi All, I am sorry if am cross posting but just wanted to get the right answer for this. I have a experiece of 15 years yes i am a old man now. Most of exp is in electrical field. After 15 years for various reasons i want to swithc to Softwares. After consulting many of my freinds who are already in this field i did the following :-

How to create a system restore point in VB.NET 2003 only, please? Google never came up with anything of any use TIA

I love VB.Net! The next version is going to be even better. I'm sorry if I offended anyone with my rants. Please forgive me. OK?

I am wondering if I should turn to C# from VB. How long will this turning cost for an ordinary man? Thanks for any response, Peter

Hi, I want to use the user color scheme to set the color of my forms. I now I have to use the. System.Drawing.SystemColors, but which color is the color of a form background as used in other applications. In the end all I want to do is form1.backcolor = system.whatever.color

Hi I have about 1000 records of users to store.. I dont like the ideea of a database server... How to store does data in a structured way? An XML? How big can became such an xml, because I whould like to load it and search for data. Can I search for some data without loading all xml into memory? --

Based on a prior posting, I've written a function to convert a recordset to a dataview. The first call to the function for a given recordset works perfectly, but the second call always returns a dataview with a count = 0. Can someone explain why and how I might work around this problem? Here is the code for my function: Public Shared...

I have an implicit conversion set up in an assembly from a Stream to something else. In C#, it works. In VB it does not. Does VB support implicit conversions? And if so any idea why it would work in a C# program but not VB? -- Chad Z. Hower (a.k.a. Kudzu) - http://www.hower.org/Kudzu/ "Programming is an art form that fights back"

how can i set up vb.net to interact with a game i'm playing online ? the game is a java applet. i'm trying to write a program using a winform to assist me with this game.i tried using sendkeys but wouldn't work.i need to have the program automatically click a button for me in the game every few seconds or so.how would i do this ? api call or...

I have used VB3 - VB6, so learning all this OO stuff is reasonably new to me (although I looked at Java a few years ago). Anyway, I thought I would write a small class to begin with, with a property and 2 methods, along with a constructor (where you use New(), I think, yes?). So, I decided to create a class that represents a die, which can...

Hi, I have a text file with following content: "((^)|(.* +))§§§§§§§§" if I read it with: k=System.IO.StreamReader( "file.txt",System.Text.Encoding.ASCII); k.readtotheend()

Hi there I'm trying to use the IsDaylightSavingTime property of the datetime object. The PC I am using is in GMT, DateTime.Now.IsDaylightSavingTime() returns true DateTime.UtcNow.IsDaylightSavingTime() returns false

Hallo, I have promised Jay B yesterday to do some tests. The subject was a string evaluation that Jon had send in. Jay B was in doubt what was better because there was a discussion in the C# newsgroup on 25 September. The regular expressions where in that newsgroup too involved. I told yesterday night, to Jay that I would test all 4...

Hi everyone, hope someone can tell if there is any way to, dynamically, build an statement and then call some functions to execute the statement. I know examples always help, so here what I am trying to accomplish: Dim myStatement as String myStatement = "Dim result as integer result= 2 * 3" now is there any way to actually let a program...

This are the people who are awarded for ther work in the newsgroup 2003-2004 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;en-us;mvpaward&style=toc Except Herfried you see nobody on this list who is real active in this farmost largest developer newsgroup As Fergus Cooney once said"this is the backyard from the Microsoft...

Hi, What is the better way to save image into a database ? Just save the path into a field or save the image itself ? I have 20 000 images (~ 10/12 Ko per image ) to save. Stan

In my Finally block, I was using cn.close (where cn is an ADO.NET connection object, SQLConnection to be exact) and then I came across the following in some microsoft code. If Not cn Is Nothing Then CType(cn, IDisposable).Dispose() End If I have to admit, I'm not sure what happens here. Will someone explain this line of code (the...