VB Forum / General / June 2005

I am an intermediate visual basic.Net programmer and want to know how to
write the code to shutdown windows, irrespective of the version.
Your assistance in this regard will be utmost appreciated.

Duane Bozarth wrote:

I have a form which has four groups of four option buttons.  Each group of
fdour option button are placed on a frame, however when I select the bottom
group of four option button it automatically selects the top group as well.
I have tried re drawing them on the form and copying and ...

I need to form a XML string in VB. How do I do this. Should I from a string
variable and do a concatenation ?
For example I need to form the below input as a XML string.
<FCRTXN>

I need to implement the ability to load a file that is associated with my
application, when clicked on.
I don't really know the word for this cabability under Windows, if somebody
could help me out?

I try to redirect the output of a DOS Box to a vb TextBox. Therefore I use
the CreateProcess method. Nevertheless it fails for unknown reasons. My
solution is as follows, perhaps you can see why I am failing.
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I've designed a user control that behaves the same as the standard command
button with a few extra features. The only thing that remains is to
implement an accelerator key / shortcut key, and to react on the key even if
the control does not have the focus.

I would like to write an application to do some basic score analysis and
produce a neatly formatted report.
The data will be either read from an external file, internal table or
user input.  The data will be checked against hard coded criteria with

I have a piece of code that calls a popup menu with start and stop items. It
works ok and starts my application going but the next time I right click, to
get the popup menu nothing happens, it does not reappear.
I do get to the line of code:-

Is there a way to suppress an error dialog box?  If so, would you tell me how?
Thanks,
Q

First, thanks for all the input in my previous thread.  It really helped and
I got it working.  :)
My next issue is this:
I have a Preferences dialog with four different pages (frames) of options.

   Newbie to VB and I have a question
   I need to open a text file, read each line, and if I find something in
the line, delete that line from the text file.   Can anyone tell me how to
do this.   Some of my code is below:

Has anybody out there seen an implementation or info about implementing
sticky windows in VB?

A general question please:
In arrays, why are rows listed first and then columns m(y, x) instead of
columns and rows as in Cartesian Coordinate System m(x, y)?
Any idea why it might have been designed this way?

Firstly thanks to all that have helped me over the last few day, im managing
to slowly get a grip on whats going on with this project..
I have however come upon yet another stumbling block, the xml file we
recieve may or may not have an extra child node.