IIRC, you can have one OR the other, but not both at the same time. If you set an Alpha for the form, the Transparency Key is ignored. At least on Windows 2000 it is. I can't remember if thats true on XP. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Your installer should simply have it as a dependency. What installer do you use ? If they just copy an exe, it just plain won't run, there's nothing you can do about that. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

If you're talking about limiting the usage of the CPU by your app, then globally no, it isn't possible. But, you can change the Priority[^] of any threads your app launches simply by giving it a new ThreadPriorty value. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

I take it your talking about the FileSystemWatcher. No, there is no event that syas the file has been completely written to and closed. It's impossible to track. The generally accepted work-around is to catch the File Created event, then try opening the file with exclusive access (DenyShare...). When you're finally able to open the file, the other application should be done writing to it. There are exceptions to this, but it depends on the application that's writing the file. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

You can't do that. If you give a user permission to open that file, they can open it using anything, including Notepad or some file byte editor. You're only solution, like Christian said, is to encrypt the file so it can't be understood by anything other that your application. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

All you have to do is convert the C# code to VB.NET. I haven't found any VB.NET examples and, frankly, have no time to convert them myself. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Put a PictureBox on the form and in the code type the following when you want to display the gif. PictureBox.Image = New Bitmap("GIF PATH") Where PictureBox is the name of the picturebox and "GIF PATH" is the path of a gif file. If you have a stream loaded with the gif picture in use the following: PictureBox.Image = New Bitmap(GIF STREAM) Where PictureBox is the name of the picturebox and GIF STREAM is the the stream. This can be useful if the gif is an embedded resoource in your app. In such a case (The gif is an embedded resource) use: PictureBox.Image = New Bitmap(GetType(FormName).Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(("GIF RESOURCE NAME") Where PictureBox is the name of the picturebox, FormName is the name of the form and "GIF RESOURCE NAME" is the complete name of the gif including any folders and the root namespace of your project and the .gif file extension. eg: "MyProject.MyGif.gif" All this works for animated gifs as well. Hope it's useful. I also hope I didn't misunderstand you and that you actually meant 'How to programatically create an animated gif'

Hi, If you are trying to make the window as top-most accessible window you should try to load it with .ShowDialog instead of show. batmike2000

Good then, what you can do is Dim frmChild As New ChildForm fr.Show() Me.Activate() PS: You can't use ShowDialog

A simple search would have given you lots of answers[^].

It is quite simple to convert C# code to VB.NET code. And the theory is the same, so what is the probblem? -------------------------------------------------------- My development blog Q:What does the derived class in C# tell to it's parent? A:All your base are belong to us!

To add it to a module you'll have to do two things... 1) Change the line Private Shared Function IsThemeActive() As Boolean to Public Function IsThemeActive() As Boolean (i.e. remove the word Shared and change the functions visibility to Public) 2) Add Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices to the top of your file. I havent done any VB.Net in a while so I hope that works :) Cheers, Will H

Thank you first. In my task, I need to get some files from the client machine with some input and save them to file server and add a row in database. I have a application to do so. However, In some case, the user will need to reference the old file which display in a asp, I would like to pass the reference (a integer) to the client application, so that the application can indicate that the relationship between the two files (Actually, I am going to do file versioning.) I am finding a solution that user no need to enter any key to do that, but just a click for check out the document and then open the client application to finish the process. (I cannot simply use the asp upload since the user selected a file and the application will have some process in client machine, I don't want those process done in server.)