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Frank G. Dahncke

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I can answer most questions realating to real-world application programming in Visual Basic .NET (including SQL-Server 7.0 and up). I NO LONGER ANSWER VB6 QUESTIONS. My speciality is GUI/frontend work and API calls. I do not know about Internet, games or graphics programming, just the bread-and-butter stuff. I answer questions in German as well.

Experience in the area

Experience: I have been programming BASIC applications professionally for 22 years now (2007), having done most any application type from multimedia CBT to telephone directories to database frontends. Organizations: RA-MICRO Software GmbH

What do you like about this subject?

I just love VB.NET for it's ease of use and it's power.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

animated 3D graphics; Internet programming

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

VB is the most widely used programming language in the world.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

Nobody needs C anymore - VB can do it all !

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Recent Reviews from Users

User	Date	K	C	T	P	Comments
Marco	10/15/09	10	10	10	10
Mohamad	10/10/09	10	10	10	10
Rebecca	10/05/09	10	10	10	10	Thanks Frank! This was exactly what I .....
rafida	08/25/09	10	10	8	10	thanks for the reply
Ali	05/04/09	10	10	10	10

Recent Answers from Frank G. Dahncke

2009-09-30 Get file path:

Among the controls provided with VB.NEt is one called OpenFileDialog. Drop that on your form, select it and press F1 key to call up the help. You will find detailed instructions on how to operate it there

2009-09-18 VB Web Broswer Address Bar - how to show the current address?:

This will work, however, the user is required to enter a fully qualified URL into TextBox1 (i.e. http://www.microsoft.com): Private Sub TextBox1_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal

2009-08-12 listview:

I'm afraid there is no way to do that - the control does not support that. However, there are some listview controls by 3rd party manufacturers that can do that, but they are not cheap. If you want

2009-08-09 Creating interactive AVI program in VB:

Yes, but you need a control to play the AVI for you (writing one for oneself would require CODEC programming, not an easy thing to do), and the only one I know of is included in a suite of controls costing

2009-07-21 VB8 february dates:

There are several useful functions in VB .NET to help you with date computation. If you look up the date variable class in the help system, you will get a long list of things to help you. In the meantime

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