Whilst working on a new Visual Basic 2005 application I was puzzled as to why the buttons were a pleasing XP-style rounded shape in the design environment but reverted to the old style rectangular shape when the application was run....

 

Recently we hit a strange problem on a VB.NET 2005 application. Stripped down to its bare essentials the code was as follows: Dim connectionString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\LinkCheck\db.mdb" Dim sql As String Dim adapter As OleDbDataAdapter Dim cmdBuilder As...

 

In this blog I discussed ClickOnce deployment in Visual Studio 2005. Another benefit of this approach when used on Windows Forms applications that are to be used on many machines on a network is the ability for each copy of...

 

One of the great improvements in VB.NET 2005 over VB6 is the ease of publishing for simple applications by using ClickOnce Deployment. By simple applications I mean those just using controls provided by the .NET Framework. Simply open up the...