VB Forum / General / October 2006

Hey Everyone,
   I started creating a download manager program and so far it can
pause/resume downloads and displays progress, ETA (100% accurately),
elapsed time, file size, speed and downloaded amount for the current

Here's an interesting one:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/09/26/HNvisualstudioupdate_1.html
 Visual Studio 2005 will be the only version
that can run on Vista. The article doesn't

i have some tools which I call from the command line.
currently the output to the console window is done by creating a file and
printing it via dos command after having exited. This causes the output to be
rather late sometimes. Is there a possibility to write directly to the ...

I would like to use a Try Catch block to catch an error generated by a blank
text box. I thought a good way to do that would be to try to perform some
action on the string that cannot be done if the text box is blank. I do not
want to use an If then else statement. Can anyone ...

I am pretty new to VB.net so excuse me if this sounds simple.
I have an application which i want to distribute over the internet -
now i know it probably wont be possible to completely secure it from
people copying and distributing but i would like secure it as much as

Maybe someone here can provide a little help.
I have a program that reads a HTML table with 3 columns and parses it (maybe
not in the prettiest way). I am parsing it now by looking for specific
"markers" before and after the data elements in a text file.

Is there a way to prevent an RTF box from scrolling?  When doing a word
search for instance, it scrolls all the way to its end. Is there a way to
make it remain stationary where it happens to be?

I have a routine I call to post XML from vb.net to a url over http
It can be the XML file can be quite a size sometime I expect it to
exceed 10mb.
I started using a routine to post the file to a URL from vb.net, but

Does anyone know how to build a menu display like WindowsXP and the
START button. I would want to use large characters with it.
Thank you
Jacquelin Hardy

I have an mObj class to represent MS Access database tables in my
VB.net project.  It handles all table schema stuff like adding columns,
setting properties of columns etc.  For example, I have a property in
mObj called AllowBlanks.  This is mapped to the 'Required' property of

I use a simple sub to put a form on top
and yesterday I noticed that it didn't
seem to work in XP when a window
underneath is clicked. Is there something

I am using ADO to run queries against Access tables.
I have a query with 2 INNER JOIN clauses and the query works fine.
I'm modifiying it and adding another INNER JOIN.  When I try to run
this, I get

I'm having a problem with my autorun code can anyone help me out..heres my
what I have for my script so far
[autorun]
shellexecute= Test Folder\Try\test1.htm

I'm having a small problem with Me.MousePointer = VbHourGlass not taking
effect.
Total picture: MDI Project, One Childform with three buttons, a listbox some
textboxes and two DTpicker. Each button contains an operation that takes

Is it even possible?  I've tried all the usual dim <name> as
<activexname>, but it ain't workin'.
Is this bad form or something?
Thanks!