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    o_O $29 .NET 2003 upgrade?????

    and for us "standard" users: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/howtobuy/standards.aspx
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    o_O $29 .NET 2003 upgrade?????

    whoa, just found this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/howtobuy/upgrade/vstudio03/default.aspx am I reading this right? upgrade from 2002 to 2003 for only $29??
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    Webbrowser control runs so SLOW!

    sometimes its the web site you are viewing... have you tried something little like hotmail.com? you could try seting the url to "about:blank" and see if the cpu is still being used that much, if so then it would definately be something in your code... the code you posted, however, looks ok...
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    Quick ColorDialog ?

    heh..figures...something that simple -_- thanx, Cywizz! preciate it...
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    Listbox and colors

    Sweet!! yup, your better way does work best... GetType... Think Ill do some additional research on that ;) thanx again, VolteFace
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    Quick ColorDialog ?

    Ive been trying to change the color ( in code ) of a colordialog box but with no success... Ive been using: Me.ColorDialog1.Color.FromName("Red") Color.FromName(ComboBox3.SelectedText)   Every time I try to change it this way, even if I specify"Red", it will...
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    Listbox and colors

    niiice, VolteFace... it got the name of every property including the color names :) hmmm... how do we get it to refrain from pulling in the non-color properties... So far this is the closest Ive come: Dim col As Reflection.FieldInfo For Each col In GetType(KnownColor).GetFields...
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    Listbox and colors

    Ive been trying to modify that code to allow me to get the names of all the known colors... so far, no luck -_- any ideas? Dim ff2 As String Dim ifc1 As System.Drawing.KnownColor For Each ff2 In ifc1 Dim zz = ComboBox3.Items.Add(ff2) If ff.Name = "Black"...
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    Public Sub Main/Fade in/out Show/hide forms

    sorry to hear bout the ankle... actually, youd keep the folders ( even if theyre empty ) and if there are exes ( the dlls should be ok to my knowledge....I have vb standard and cant save dlls without a little creativity ;) if the board doesnt like for dlls to be posted then Im sure someone...
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    Here's a good mouse detect on resize ? for everyone...

    thanx guys... to clearify: Grimfort: While the user is moving their mouse, the resize event fires because it is set up to fire when the size of the control ( form1 in this case ) changes. Also, when you first load the form or minimize/maximize then restore it, the_Resize event fires...
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    Public Sub Main/Fade in/out Show/hide forms

    niiice, right on... thanx for example, itll help out a good # of ppl on the board :) btw, fyi, please dont post binaries ( exe files ) vs will put these in the debug and obj folders of your programs as it compiles your code for playing... When you are ready to post up examples...
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    Here's a good mouse detect on resize ? for everyone...

    hmmm.... The thing is that I am creating multiple label controls at runtime on a panel that is dock.fill... The thing is that it take a couple seconds to run the code for calculating the new sizes based on what the user has set the new form size to as well as the graphins used in each...
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    Graphical Font Listbox

    Yes I know but the example downloads blank :-/ Im gussing that when the site was moved earlier that the zips got lost...
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    Graphical Font Listbox

    I dont suppose theres a way to change the font of the text in each listbox1 item to reflect the font detected? much like how word does it with their combobox object...
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    Here's a good mouse detect on resize ? for everyone...

    Does anyone know of a way to detect when the user finishes resizing a form so that if processor intensive code can be run at that point? basically, I have a sub that runs its code in about 1.5 seconds... it scans the width and height of form1 and readjusts the controls on it accordingly...
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    Other uses of DirectX?

    Microsoft is coming out with a DirectX 9 book on July/30/2003... Check it out! Microsoft Press DirectX
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    Create Control At Runtime?

    Having control arrays would have some benifit for developers... When I first started messing around with visual basic many years ago, my first idea was to create a tetris like game using many image objects accessed by an index number on each image... This allowed for an easy way of...
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    How to get an ownerdrawn context menu to display properly on a notifyicon...

    * Raises eyebrow * I have MS Office installed ( word xp in particular ) and everytime I copy something, it gets added to the office clipboard... Any ways, if I right click on the office clipboard icon in the system tray then it brings up a menu with icons and appearance just like...
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    How to get an ownerdrawn context menu to display properly on a notifyicon...

    D@mn!.... After much research, I am in agreement with you :( owell, then its normal menu on notifyicon and Divil menu on everything else >-)
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    Any ideas on how to change tooltip colors & font

    nice one, mutant... Images do provide a sweet appearence of tooltips... I find text-only can be just as useful if we can work out the size of it ( make it autoscale its size to accomidate any length of text ) Thisll be fun to work on for a while ;) One thing Ill need to do is use...
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