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I'm curious of the impact of using shared (static) methods vs. instanced. Take for example I want to save a text file to the hard drive. I would use code such as Friend Shared Function WriteToDisk(byVal textData). It's simply easier than creating an instance of the class to access the method...

http://blogs.msdn.com/msdnmagazine/archive/2008/05/16/8508638.aspx

I love how Lutz Roeder's reflector checks if it's out of date, closes, downloads a new version, starts reflector again. Does anyone know how to go about this type of framework/pattern? There is a great framework for the MAC called Sparkle and I'd love to do something like this in Windows...

You could load your data in a dataset on a background thread (background worker) and then when done bind it to the grid and refresh. You may also want to use a higher performance grid such as the Developer Express XtraGrid.

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Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds :)

No, can't use the built-in functionality due to a custom login/authentication system. I rewired it using the owner property in a .Show method, thanks for the tip, that seems to be working.

Graphics programming with GDI+ (the title is NOT "Game programming..."). There is a lot more to GDI+ than what you're thinking, read the table of contents on a resource such as Amazon.com.

I show a splash on startup and need to make sure the splash is always top most so I have the TopMost property set to true. The problem is this "TopMost" property is in "Windows" and not just the application. My customers don't like that they may launch my app, go to check e-mail and yet the...

Thanks! I'll see if I can figure something out along the path you suggest.

David, I think this issue you're talking about is actually a new way intellisense works in VS 2008, not a VB specific issue although I haven't tried it in C#. I do know that intellisense works differently in VB 2008 vice earlier versions, I think...

You forgot one JB: .Bounds :)

I have an EXE running and then an update comes along. I have an update system, essentially another EXE that drives the MSI updater. During the update process I want to tell the main application to close. I don't want to kill the process, I want to have the application run its close chain such...

It sounds like whatever code you have running in the background worker may in fact not be working properly. If you want to provide more code for review I can help better, but without seeing more it's too hard to help you with this.

You only get a setup.exe if you add a setup project to your solution. For the specific project you are building you can select DEBUG or RELEASE mode and then click the Build menu to build the project. You can right-click the project in the Solution Explorer and build it from there as well...

Web method is the same as any other method, it's called only when you deliberately call it. Just like you call MyCode.DoSomething you also call My.WebServices.MethodName, or however you call the method from your proxy.

Try putting a Thread.Sleep(250) before or after the DoEvents call.

A great article to help make your coding easier!