Essentials for Programming in VB.NET

Posted September 28, 2004

Chat Date: September 21, 2004

Please note: Portions of this transcript have been edited for clarity

Introduction

Moderator: Ed_H (Microsoft)
Welcome to today’s chat on Essentials for Programming in VB.NET. We have members of the Visual Basic team here to answer your questions today. I will ask the hosts to introduce themselves.

Host: Manishj (Microsoft)
Hi I am Manish. I am a test lead in the VB Compiler team.

Host: robgruen (Microsoft)
Hi there, my name's Robert Gruen and I'm a support engineer.

Host: SteveHoag (Microsoft)
Hi, I'm Steve Hoag, a Programmer/Writer on the Visual Basic team - I'm also known as the V-Bee.

Host: WHorst (Microsoft)
Hi! My name is Bill Horst and I test the VB Debugger.

Moderator: Ed_H (Microsoft)
And I am Ed Hickey, Visual Basic MVP Lead. Glad you all could make it today!

Moderator: Ed_H (Microsoft)
Let's get started! Fire away with your questions for our hosts.

Start of Chat

Host: robgruen (Microsoft)
Q: Hi, my name is Francois and I'm a newbee with VB .NET. I currently developing an Addin and defined my own menu within the CommandBars("MenuBar") of the application object. Therefore, I would like to divide my menu with submenu but I can't. Any Ideas?
A: The toolbars for Vs.NET derive from the CommandBars class from Office. You can use the samples from Q830502 to get an idea on how to do this. Q830502 - How to customize menus and menu bars in Excel - https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=830502

Host: robgruen (Microsoft)
Q: I'm playing around with defining a dataset using the XSD Editor. I have a parent table with two child tables. I defined relationships between the parent and the childs. I also have the IsNested property set to True. But, when I do a WriteXML, the data is not being nested.
A: There is probably a problem with your relationship. Your constraints (many too many, 1 to many, etc.) might not be setup correctly. I'd check into that a bit further, try viewing the contents of the dataset within the ide.

Host: SteveHoag (Microsoft)
Q: I want to know how to create msgbox with my own buttons
A: A MessageBox is really just a modal form. You could create your own form with buttons and then show it modally wherever you would have used the MsgBox function.

Host: Manishj (Microsoft)
Q: I’m doing a chat application that fires event each time message arrived on the socket when I’m doing the form.show or trying to make a icon try visible my form is not responding any idea for the cause?
A: We have a KB article that tells you how to write a chat server. Here it is:https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312114

Moderator: Ed_H (Microsoft)
Thank you to everyone for contributing. Unfortunately, it is time to go. Thanks for participating, and we'll see you next time!

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