If you mean descriptions for classes and methods you made, you can use VBcommenter[^]. It makes a xml file with all your descriptions in it. Pompiedompiedom... ;) "..Commit yourself to quality from day one..it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.." -- Mark McCormick

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?

medicenpringles wrote: i'm sure there is a Google solution to this, but i won't know where to start with that. "xml stock ticker vb" works, in fact the first match is a full solution. If you use it, obviously read the article and then rewrite the code, so that you understand what it does, and you've actually done your assignment. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

http://vbcity.com/forums/topic.asp?tid=70485&#RID205981

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

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Mike Hodnick wrote: VB.Net and C# are arguably becomming more and more different over time That would not surprise me. Redmond has probably heard a lot of whining from C# developers to the effect of: "When we used C++ we never had to bother with developing a good user interface, since that was basically impossible, and so we had that extra time to bash VB developers instead. Now not only are we expected to create decent GUI's, but we really can't whine about VB anymore. Why can't you make C# 'better' so we can get back to the good 'ol days?" And they are probably concerned that Sun is telling all the Java developers "C# may look like Java, but it's really just VB." :->

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

Frankly, I've never tried it. I think it would work, but it might take a couple of hacks to get it there. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

medicenpringles wrote: to quote him "anything that depends on a framework is useless." VB6 did rely on an external frame work, except it was called a “Runtime Library”. The .NET Frame work is shared by both VB.NET and C#. You can also write Managed C++ code in it. Colon has it right; this guy just doesn’t want to move forward in time. ------------------------------- DEBUGGING : Removing the needles from the haystack.

The difference here is not the dataset or not, it is the data adapter or the execute scalar method. Executescalar returns a single value and will always return a single value. The other query, if it always returns a single value would possibly benefit from using the executescalar method b/c it wont use all that memory overhead with datasets and adapters and such. If you will need to return more than a single value then you have 2 choices really, the dataadapter allows you grab a dataset or fill a datatable - or you can use a datareader. Both return a set of data and have their benefits and problems. So after a long windy explaination - you are querying the database no matter what, but one uses more objects to get the data. Cleako

Hello! It seems that your query is returning more than one record.... Try out this query.. SELECT Price FROM Products WHERE (Name='Classic Italian') AND (Size='Small') This is coz no need to give alias when working with a single table. Also check the table 'Products' for rows having same 'Name' and'Size'. If it doesnt work......try to use a dataset to give value to varialble 'Price' _mubashir -- modified at 7:06 Friday 26th August, 2005

I have code for that... i am success with that... if you want contact me .. my email : ok_jojomon@hotmail.com Jojomonok