ADODB Issues in VB.NET with an Oracle Database

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During my recent VB6 to VB.NET Forms upgrade adventure, I had to wade through quite a bit of code that, while still functional, should be upgraded further when time permits.  Most of this code is used for data access, and being that it was written back in the VB6 / Classic ASP days, Active Data … Read more

Check / Uncheck All Child Nodes and Uncheck Parent Node in TreeView

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As mentioned in my last post, I am working with a TreeView control that has been upgraded from VB6 to Visual Basic .NET (2012).  To programmatically cause the TreeNodes to be checked/unchecked properly, we must use the AfterCheck event.  Here is the code which is called from the AfterCheck event: And here is the code … Read more

Differences between the VB6 TreeNode and .NET System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode

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In working on the conversion of a VB6 Forms application to VB.NET (as mentioned in my last post), I have discovered many instances where Microsoft decided to keep the name (and sometimes even the associated syntax) of an element, while changing the functionality of the methods related to that element.One such example is that of … Read more