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I've used linked servers before to connect to remote data, but I'd like to use ODBC instead. We have a very cross-platform environment here and linked servers don't always behave. So is it possible to setup an ODBC connection on the SQL server and call to it from a stored procedure? That would...

In VB6 you would use the OLE control to display any office doc in a form, but how do you do it in .NET? A way to display it would be great, but a way to allow editing in form would be even better. Specifically I'm looling to show and allow users to edit Word docs. Thanks

I'd like to be able to place a dataset in the designer on one form and then be able to bind controls on another form to it. But even when I make the dataset's scope public the controls on the other form can't see it. Is there a way around this?

How can you format an actual string in V.NET? In VB6 I'd do this: format("010102", "00/00/00") and get this: "01/01/02" In vb.NET this: format("010102", "00/00/00") gets this: "00/00/00" Now I know that making the first arg a date or...

After reading that article I think the answer is no. You have to write all the code manually to populate the sucker, no easy way out. Oh well. Thanks for the help!

Does anybody know how to bind the treeview control in .net to hierarchal data so it is displayed corectly without having to write all the code manually? I havn't been able to fugure out any complex databindings available for that thing yet. It seems only the combobox and listbox have any built...

Why is it when I hide the desktop icons on win 2000/XP, suddenly dbl-clicking on the desktop brings up the start menu? (I have the taskbar and start button hidden as well.) I'm using basic API's: lngDesktopIcons = FindWindowEx(0&, 0&, "Progman", vbNullString) ShowWindow...