Could anyone tell me how to grab a copy of the default Windows icons? I'm looking for Office-related ones. I read that you can use an icon ripping program to extract them out of DLLs and EXE files, but so far I can't find the correct file. Or if there's another way to be able to use them in your own programs (ie. in a toolbar), then I'd love to know. Thanks, Sean

Is it possible to save the contents of a Rich Text Box to an XML File, including bold text, italics, etc? If not, could someone suggest an alternative way to do it? Thanks in advance. -Sean

First of all, I just want to say that I've recently started learning VB.NET. I'm making my first real program with it, and had a question for the more experienced .NET developers out there. My program is just a simple desktop application, with an Access database for storing data. I also wanted to have a login system when the program is loaded, so that different users can use the same copy of the program. I've never implemented anything like that before, so I was curious if any of you had reccomendations on how to do it. Using another Access database, or perhaps some other way I don't know about? Any comments would be greatly appreciated! -Sean

After doing some reading, I'm not exactly sure how to do this. Basically, I have a login screen with username and password textboxes. The user enters their information, then clicks Login. In the login button's click event I want to search an Access database table to see if the user is found, and if so, proceed to the main screen. Could someone point me in the right direction, or post a link to a code sample? It would be greatly appreciated! :)

I'm not really sure where you'd look on the web, but Mastering Visual Basic.NET has an entire chapter on manipulating Word, Outlook, and Excel from within VB.NET. Perhaps the e-book is available online somewhere.

Does anyone know how you would detect an mp3 file that's currently playing, through WinAmp or Windows Media Player, and display the song information? Any help would be much appreciated :)

I found the program with a search on Google. Thanks very much for the response. -Sean

I was wondering if someone could tell me how to be able to use the default system icons? I set up a Toolbar and an ImageList, and wanted to be able to use the default Windows icons for new file, save, save all, etc. I know the default icons are stored in shell32.dll, but I'm not sure how to proceed. Any help would be appreciated! :) -Sean sean@codemonk.org

The project is just on my own time. I just got sick of Outlook and wanted an alternative. I figured what better way than to create my own, learn more, and get rid of Outlook at the same time :)

I'm currently in the planning stage for an email client written with .NET. I was hoping for some suggestions as to a way to store the email related data: email itself, contact info, etc. This may be a really question, but I've never attempted anything like this before, so any help/comments would be greatly appreciated.:) -Sean

This is true. Our company is looking at using ASP.NET for our next version of our software. At least then even if a client wanted a client/server version for their local network, we could port it fairly easily , using C#, and not have to reinvent the wheel to do it. -Sean

Hi Deepak, vdeepakkumar wrote: We would really wait-n-see about C# and J#!!! Something more interesting!!! I'm wondering why they even bothered. I mean MS wanted to incorporate the better points of Java with their own stuff, ok, enter C#. But then why still have J#? From what I've heard, converting code from Java to J# hasn't gone that well anyway. Which would probably mean that developers would just end up rewriting it in C#. I'm theorizing, because I haven't actually seenb J# yet. I guess I just figured C# + J# = Too#. -Sean

David Stone wrote: I wish I had those design skills. Actually, it bears a striking similarity to our old company website before I redesigned it :wtf: -Sean

I just spent the last half hour reading some blogs about Java. Up with Java, down with MS. MS will burn, etc. Maybe it's just me, but the last while I've read quite a few blog sites, and most of them seem to be about nothing. Kind of like a Seinfeld episode, only not as funny. I was just curious how many of you out there have a blog on your personal site. I mean something other than just posting updates as to new software releases, patches, changelogs, etc. Do you think they're a good idea? Bad? I ask because I was thinking of starting one. I guess I could always use it to rant about work, but a few months back I read a weblog where its owner complained about his boss, and a co-worker snitched to his boss about it. 24 hours later the blogger in question was sans job. I guess the moral there would be never to blog about work, or if so be deliberately vague about it. -Sean

David Cunningham wrote: Just for consistency I always say I'm from Vancouver, BC, I'm born on January 1, 1955, etc. Funny you should mention Vancouver....That's where I'm from. Nice to see another Canadian on here :) -Sean

You mean Archon? I know there have been several different versions over the past several years. The first time I played it was on my Commodore 64, back in 1986. In CGA graphics, no less ;) -Sean

The point I was wondering about was the several thousand more lines of code in the J2EE implementation than the .NET one. Too bad the Java programmers don't have as good an IDE as VS.NET. Unless of course JBuilder 7 has changed a lot from version 6. -Sean :)

What about NTEmacs??? :) -Sean

I might be if I knew who she was. Er... what kind of music? :confused:

I'm in Vancouver, but I've been to Regina. They don't count sheep there though, they count the endless rows of wheat...and all the red combines :rolleyes: