Thank you Dave, Let me give it a try

bensoncd wrote: How can I code a text box to accept characters of the alphabet, a spacebar (and a - for double barrel names) only? Ideally this text box is named txtName and is supposed to accept people’s names. You could run a regular expression on the contents of the textbox changing, and disable the OK button (or whatever) until the expression matches. bensoncd wrote: (2) In VB. NET how can I create a library of common procedures that I will constantly need to copy and paste to different projects Try creating a Class Library project. This allows you to create a .NET assembly (held in a DLL) that can contain your common code base. Ian Darling "One of the few systems...which has had “no deaths” in the reliability requirements." - Michael Platt

You might want to learn what the rules for leap years are: If the year is divisible by 4 then it's a leap year. However, if the year is also divisible by 100, then it is not, but it it's divisible by 400 then it is. Hence 2000, 2004, 2400 are leap years, but 1900 and 2100 are not. A leap year has one additional day, which is February 29th. ------------------ If you're using .NET, just use DateTime.Parse or something to see if the date entered is valid or not (as the DateTime APIs handle this stuff anyway, so you're better off using them). VB6 may have a similar API. Ian Darling "One of the few systems...which has had “no deaths” in the reliability requirements." - Michael Platt

Once upon a time, Microsoft created a standard set of API's that allowed programmers to access SQL and ODBC databases through a common programming interface. Since Microsoft's flagship technology at the time was known as ActiveX, they called it Active Data Objects, or ADO. When they decided to create a whole framework for developers to extend or implement in their code (.NET), they updated the acronym to comply with the new framework terminology, so they called it ADO.NET. MSDN: ADO.NET provides consistent access to data sources such as Microsoft SQL Server, as well as data sources exposed through OLE DB and XML. Data-sharing consumer applications can use ADO.NET to connect to these data sources and retrieve, manipulate, and update data. In VB.NET, this means that you can use the classes in System.Data (SqlClient and OleDb and their children) to access data stored in databases. What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable . . . and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? -- Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii.

use the FileInfo method provided in the system.IO class. copy and paste the following code into a new project, test it out, and edit. edit: oh ya, this is for a console application. Imports System.IO Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim myFileName As String = "C:\file.txt" Dim myFileInfo As New FileInfo(myFileName) 'print time created on 24 hour scale Console.WriteLine( _ myFileInfo.CreationTime.Hour _ & ":" _ & myFileInfo.CreationTime.Minute _ & ":" _ & myFileInfo.CreationTime.Second) 'print the date created in YYYY/M/D form Console.WriteLine( _ myFileInfo.CreationTime.Year _ & "/" _ & myFileInfo.CreationTime.Month _ & "/" _ & myFileInfo.CreationTime.Day) Console.ReadLine() End Sub End Module ------------------------ Jordan. III

Thank you Michael , you may have clarified a point. I had got the instruction from the Dummies addition (VB.NET Database Programming for Dummies), to use Windows 2000 disc to install SQL Server 2000. Seemed not to work. So it seems I will have to purchase SQL Server 2000 package hey. The version of Visual Studio I have is the Student version; does not ship with MSDE. As someone who is still on the learning curve, I would also like to get an opinion on the future of an aspiring VB.NET/SQL Server programmer. Thank you Mic

1. In your Button2 click handler, write something like this: If ListBox2.SelectedItems.Count > 0 Then 'Code to move your items from ListBox2 to ListBox1 Else MsgBox("Please select an item from ListBox2") End If 2. I don't think the standard listbox supports having different fonts for its items. You may have to create your own user control for that. See example Color List Box[^].

Thank you for you reply. Well, to me it appears that CrossFire may be having jobs for VB.NET programmers in the very near future. Working as a programmer in Mobile phone platforms. Is that so?

RichardGrimmer wrote: The only caveat would be if you do settle on VB, then prepare yourself for lots of flak from C# / C / C++ devs for using a "kiddy language", or a "language for middle managers" etc....language snobbery is generally pointed at VB more than most lol Hmm, are you thinking of any developers in particular? ;P Steve S

Don't worry about it. VB.Net is quite easy once you get the hang of it :) OK, regarding your question. In VB.Net, there are 2 possible points of entry in an application, A windows form, or a Sub Main. To set either one, go to your Solution Explorer, Right-click on your Project and choose properties. Look for the "Startup Object" properties and it's corresponding Combobox, which will list any "Sub Main" and windows form in your application. Choose any one to have your program "start" from that point. Nick Seng (the programmer formerly known as Notorious SMC) God, I pity me! - Phoncible P. Bone