If you are working under Visual Studio 2005 then you can display the Splash screen just by going to the Project properties and on Application Tab just check the box 'Enable Application Framework' and choose your Splash Screen from the Splash Screen drop down and select the startup form from the 'Startup Object' drop down. No need to use timers here. But if you are not then just add a timer control to the form set its Enabled property to 'True' change the interval to '5000' for five seconds then in the Timer's Tick event just enter the following code: Me.Timer1.Enabled = False Me.Hide() Dim frm_main as new MainForm() frm_main.Show() Hope it helps! I need an editable grid like Flexgrid in vb6.0.

There is AXMSFlexgrid in.net 2005 that works like vb6.0 flexgrid That's becuase it IS the VB6 FlexGrid. The 'Ax' prefix give away the fact that it's an ActiveX control wrapped by a.NET interop class. May 9, 2010 - While googling I found this link for downloading the MSFlexGrid ( though I have not downloaded ) however seems to me that it would be.

Hi You are right. We can use the datagridview control.

But it is not working exactly as mshflxgrd works in vb 6.0. I tried to use Datagridview The main problem i faced is that I am not able to position the focus to the cell (that is to set other cell as the current cell when the data entry of one cell is completed and enter key is pressed) which i wanted at run time. If you can help out this issue then hopefully we can use datagridview instaed of mshflxgrd. If fact i am also in the process of converting my vb 6.0 application to vb.net I am now stuck up with this issue. If you can help it out my time could be saved thanks in advance. Download soal cpns. Absenm 26-Oct-07 23:55 26-Oct-07 23:55 I am hoping this is a simple question to answer. I have done various searches for an answer but I am getting nowhere.

Maybe I am not using the right key words. I am designing a POS system.

Basically everything is done via buttons on a touch screen. But I would like to have the system also detect text input from a magnetic card reader.

The readers are just simple HIDs that mimic a keyboard so the input device is of no real concern for this issue. Download hiren boot cd-11.0 ru full.iso. As far as the computer is concerned the scanner is a keyboard. I was thinking about having a text box that would await data to be entered and then run a subroutine when [enter] is detected. But I am running into two issues. 1) The textbox won't seem to take focus and wait for data.

And 2) I don't know how to set things up to trigger a sub on the [enter] keystroke. Any help would be highly appreciated. The scanner should give you some capability to prepend a character string to what it scans. For example if the code it see is, it should give you the ability to tell it to prefix the code with a character or two, like @123456789 is sent to your application. Don't worry about the focus. The focus will change with every button that's pressed.

On the Form, turn KeyPreview on. Handle the form's KeyDown event.

In that event handler, check to see if the key being pressed is a '@', or whatever you want. If it is, then you can force the focus to the TextBox and let the rest of the keypresses through. Oh, the scanner should also let to append a character to the string too, like ASCII 13 (ENTER). This information is helpful and points me in the right direction, but I seem to be running into an error. Below is the test code I am using. [CODE] Private Sub Form1_KeyDown1(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown If (Me.KeyPreview = 'q') Then MsgBox('q') TextBox5.Visible = True End If End Sub [/CODE] However, I am when I press the [q] key I get 'System.InvalidCastException was unhandled.