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[RESOLVED] Is there a VB.NET alternative to the Command function? To get the arguments passed to the program in VB6, you would use the Command function to get them. This exists in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace for .NET v1.1, but .NET 2.0 BETA does not have it. (A friend of mine has 2.0...

I've got an idea for a gag program. Someone I know has a desktop microphone and has it on all the time. I want to write a program that runs in the background that can detect sound and play a .wav file that randomly says stuff like "SHUT UP!", "QUIET!", "SHUT UP, SHUT THE H**L UP, SHUT UP!!!"...

[RESOLVED] Unusually slow windows forms I've been ignoring this problem in my program for a while. When the program is executed, the hard drive spins and spins for a good 10 seconds until the program loads. Where the same application in VB6 would have been instantaneous. There is virtually...

Resolved: Determining the Windows folder location properly I'm aware of Environment.SpecialFolders but the Windows folder is not available there. I've been using what seems to me to be the sloppy way of finding the Windows directory: Environ("windir") That doesn't seem like the right way to...

[resolved] TabControl: Tabs are out of order at runtime As the title states, I have all of my tabs in the order that I want them in at design time. When I run the application, for some reason, they seem to be randomly out of order. I never change their location at any point in the code. What...

I have successfully put a toolbar button into Internet Explorer that launches my program (only if the user wants it there though ;)). Everything works great, no problem. But I want to do the same thing with Firefox. For some reason, most likely a security reason, the dev team for Firefox didn't...

[Resolved]: Determining the user's home directory I'm writing an application that cleans out the Firefox browser's cache folder (among other temp folders and such). Under Windows2k/XP the cache folder is located in: c:\documents and settings\<username>\applicatiion data\... etc. How can I...

While there are a wide number of tutorials on VB.NET available, I am having a hard time finding one specifically for winsock (sockets class). I have been making the switch from VB6 to VB.NET for the past week and could use a good code example or tutorial on this. Does anybody know of a...

RESOLVED: Just made the switch from VB6 to .NET yesterday... I searched on this topic already and couldn't find anything that directly related to my problem. Sorry if this is a repost. I just made the switch from VB6 to VB.NET last night and I'm having some trouble. I have searched Google...