ya know how when you select a method from the list that Intellisense gives you, and it shows that little tooltip that describes what the method does? and when you start to type in your parameters, it gives desctiptions of what the parameter names represent? well is there a way to make your own methods that behave the same way? i've tried , but that doesn't do anything. any help is apprectiated, stephen

well it would seem that the the site you gave me only lists API functions that retrieve the datatype, not change it. am i wrong?

well then again, i may be wrong. the Draw method only allows drawing within the client area.... any help anyone?

looks like GDI would be the way to go, but i'm not sure of the exact commands right now. try MSDN-ing GDI there's always something useful there.

hey i have had this problem alot, too, but it was with daSomething.Fill and it kept selecting FillSchema. the best solution i found was to type the same commands over and over, but using something completely different. once it starts selecting the new command for you, then it should be fixed for the other one. another problem is, (though it not be relavent in this case) is if the desired word comes after the selected word, you will have to type out almost the entire word to get intellisense to select it. your best bet is to type the "t", scroll to your selection and hit ctrl+space. i'm not sure of any way to "reset" intellisense, though i think there should be. hope this helps, stephen

i'm writing a small app to change the windows mouse in VS'05, to change a key i do this: Imports Microsoft.Win32 . .. Dim key as RegistryKey = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Control Panel\\Cursors",True) key.SetValue("Arrow","%SYSTEMROOT%\NewCursor.cur",RegistryValueKind.ExpandString) i would like to do this same thing in VS'03, but it does not facilitate the last parameter where i use the RegistryValueKind class (or enum, whatever it is). does anyone know the vb03 equivalent to the line: key.SetValue("Arrow","%SYSTEMROOT%\NewCursor.cur",RegistryValueKind.ExpandString) ?

i'm doing a project for school and i need a web site that is standarized enough to be able to retrieve a stock quote for any given stock symbol and return those values to either a sql database or an xml file for import into a sql database. i'm sure there is a Google solution to this, but i won't know where to start with that. thanks ahead of time, stephen

Does anyone know the VB equivalent of going to the Mouse Properties in the Control Panel, changing the mouse schema, and saving/naming that schema? i'd like to write a simple program that changes the mouse schema to one i made, and i got the setup to move the cursors to the right place, but i don't have any clue as to how to change things like this within windows from VB.NET thanks for any help, stephen

ah. i missed the e.handled = true part.

tried it already. those take up more space than i have.

I have a textbox that the user inputs numbers into. i would like to be able to create a KeyDown event for the control that, when the user presses the UP arrow, the value raises by one. this i have accomplished. but unfortunately this does not override the action already taken (moving the cursor to the left). how to i override this? thanks ahead of time, stephen

does anyone know of a control (third-party or otherwise) that allows viewing/manipulation of an excel spreadsheet or a specific range on a spreadsheet?

just wondering: is there anything that VB.NET can do that C# cannot? i noticed some of the Enterprise Library was written in C#, which is why i can't use it. which angers me, but i guess i'll just have to spend the $600 to... anyway, back to the question. is there anything one can do with VB that one can't do with C# or vice versa?

can no one help me? all i want to do is bold the selected text in a rich text box.

ok, so i have a rich text box, txtMain. i need to add a sub that changes the text i specify to bold face. but format cant' do it. and the way the designer does it changes all the text instead of just some. is there a way to specify what text is bold? and maybe incorporate a Font dialog also?

well to be honest, the only real reason i got Developer Edition was for the enterprise manager. if i only used the free Desktop Engine, would Enterprise Manager sill work with maintaining the databases on the Desktop Engine?

I just purchased SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition yesterday from Amazon, and i'm disapointed. when i finally got it up an running, i went to the server explorer in my VB.NET Standard, and when i tried to connect to a database, it said: "Unable to connect to database. It is only possible to connect to SQL Server Desktop Engine databases and Microsoft Access databases with this version of Visual Studio." wtf is up with that? do i need Visual Studio Professional? Enterprise? or do i really have to spend the $2500 on Enterprise Architect? i thought the $50 price tag on SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition meant it was intended for low-budget developers, and considering the $109 price tag on VB.NET Standard, i thought they would go hand-in hand. apparently not. i can connect to the database programmatically just fine, but the inability to do it visualy is very dissapointing any help is appreciated. stephen

well, i guess in never looked at it that way.

well if you really want to know. he says .net is a mistake because the file size of apps made in, for example vb.net as opposed to the vb6 equivalent is considerably larger, and, to quote him "anything that depends on a framework is useless." -- modified at 12:36 Thursday 1st September, 2005

i was talking with a developer friend of mine about the new windows vista, and he told me that the new shell doesn't even ship with the .net framewok. now this wories me because i am a learning developer myself, and if .net was as big of a mistake as he explained, then the last ooooh, 6 months of my life have been a complete waste. is there any truth to his claims?