Since most of those devices are keyboard emulators anyway (normally refered to as "keyboard wedge") you cannot disable the keyboard. You would find it extremely difficult to tell the difference between a normal keyboard key and one coming from the scanner. You normally would not even bother with the textbox but enable the forms KeyPreview property, then handle it's KeyDown event, looking for the prefix string that is prepended to the code coming from the scanner. You ARE using pre- and post-fix codes coming from the scanner, right? If not, you'll find it impossible to tell the difference between what it typed and what is scanned. All of the characters you see after the prefix string will be whats scanned, until you see the postfix characters. When you see the prefix code, you do NOT pass the keystrokes up the chain to the textbox. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008 But no longer in 2009...

Look in your application properties (of Fr6Customize) The value of your "Root namespace" is the root of the fullname of your Type. To see all types add the following line : Dim types() as Type = CAssembly.GetTypes() Set a breakpoint after this line and add a watch. BTW just nitpicking, your code CAssembly.GetType("Fr6Customise. LoadModule") has a space in the name. no luck mailing my code : "reason: 552-5.7.0 Our system detected an illegal attachment on your message." :omg: modified on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:05 AM

Why don't you ping that server to make sure it is exist before connecting to it? Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error. Samir R. Ibrahim

lol, you haven't made the list............but there is always hope. My personal list (probably shouldn't post it, but wtf): pdnet ccdnf vereshindia ghumman63 mr.wonderful I wrote down the member #s as well incase they changed their name (might be hard to tell initially, but their stupidity will probably give them away again). Any suggestions, ideas, or 'constructive criticism' are always welcome. "There's no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid people." - Mr. Garrison

I had the same problem but when I change the keys it worked out. Actually teh code doesn't belong to me. Try to use different string keys. What a curious mind needs to discover knowledge is noting else than a pin-hole.

Guy, the best source of information you have on this is going to be the people who wrote that printer library you're using. I have no idea what it is, nor how it works, so there's very little I can tell you. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008

pdnet wrote: If I am go for "Form1.Save" its working, but after save the focus will be return back to the "Form1", So the focus is staying in the form that was active? Or do you mean that if you're on form2 and you press save for form1 the focus goes to form1. If that's the case, you most likely set the focus during the save. pdnet wrote: hen If I doing any activity in my "Child1" it throws an error message "Object reference not set to an instance of the object..." Didn't quite get what was child1 but I'd guess you store a reference to your form somewhere which is at call time nonexistent. pdnet wrote: also a strange problem occures in my form after these any event will be called twice Most likely you have duplicate handlers for those events. The need to optimize rises from a bad design.My articles[^]

The basic code behind creating a share can be found here[^]. It's in C#, but is easily translatable to VB.NET using any online code conversion tool. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008

Do not post the same question in multiple forums. This question is not an appropriate topic for this forum, and will be ignored.

You can use CASE to modify the result based on the value, like: SELECT ... CASE WHEN (Type = 2) THEN (SELECT Group FROM TableName WHERE ???) ELSE Group END, ... FROM TableName but the problem is, how you identify the previous product group? There should be somekind of logic for that. The need to optimize rises from a bad design.My articles[^]

I've never turned the thing off myself, so, this may not work. But, I'd start by turning Keypreview on the MdiParent form on, then handle it's KeyDown event and eat the Tab key if Ctrl is being held down. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008

That's true. One basic rule is to make operations top-down in relational order. It's quite simple rule of thumb, but works in many cases. The need to optimize rises from a bad design. My articles[^]

You should be asking this in the SQL Forum. It has nothing to do with VB.NET. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008

EliottA wrote: Sometimes project specifications is to run it full screen so that the taskbar isnt visible. The code I posted earlier in this thread accomplishes that. The form covers the task bar, just like VS if you run it in full screen mode without changing the settings or killing the task bar itself. Any suggestions, ideas, or 'constructive criticism' are always welcome. "There's no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid people." - Mr. Garrison

You could always try using the KeyPress event handler, and in the event handler have something like e.Handled=true. That will force it to ignore all key presses. "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham