MustangJoe

Ok, I got it to output text now, but for whatever reason my SQL data reader isn't working properly. I've got 6 rows I'm trying to insert into the text file, but it only writes one. More problems to figure out tomorrow I guess.

I'm new to the VB.NET Framework and language, and am still a little confused as how to write to a text file with just plain text. I've figured out how to write a stream of bytes, and how to convert a string to an array of bytes, but I want to write to a file in just plain text. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It might not necessarily be true in all cases, but you could always just use me.sendtoback() to put your application behind the Adobe Reader program. This is merely assuming that there will only be 2 windows open, your application, and the Adobe Reader. I'm not sure if the Reader's z-level will take precedence over anything else, since it was opened from your application, but it's just a quick workaround I guess.

There was no activation event, and the form_load had nothing that was resizing. VB.NET wasn't updating the initialization code for the form controls where it had the sizes of items. My main form had an instance of another form class, and would open that form on certain events. The initialization code for the form class had it set to a previous version that I had before I needed more fields on it. I deleted the code and it worked like a charm ;)

Never mind, I figured it out after asking like 5 people here at work. :)

Whenever I make a change to the visual aspect of a form (size for instance), it does not recompile and reflect the new changes whenever I try to build/rebuild it. I'm trying to make a few of my forms a bit taller, but each time I try rebuilding it and running the program, when I display the form, it cuts it short, and I have to manually resize the window to see everything I need to see.