Recieved the following question:

Can anyone tell me what to use as a work around for the span and upto methods in VB6. These seem to be missing in VB.NET

The First chunk of code below is VB6 filling a richtextbox called rtbEdit; the keyup event is finding the string zzzzzzzzz and highlighting it -below that is the same code but in VB.NET

Hope this helps somebody!

-Chuck

Private Sub Form_Load()

For i = 1 To 10

 rtbEdit.Text = rtbEdit.Text + "Hello " + vbCrLf

Next

 rtbEdit.Text = rtbEdit.Text + "zzzzzzzzz"

End Sub

Private Sub rtbEdit_KeyUp(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)

     rtbEdit.UpTo "zzzzzzzzz", True, False

     rtbEdit.Span "zzzzzzzzz"

 End Sub

Private Sub rtbEdit_KeyUp(ByVal eventSender As System.Object, ByVal eventArgs As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles rtbEdit.KeyUp

            Dim KeyCode As Short = eventArgs.KeyCode

            Dim Shift As Short = eventArgs.KeyData \ &H10000

            'UPGRADE_WARNING: UpTo was upgraded to SelectionStart and has a new behavior. Click for more: 'ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/dv_commoner/local/redirect.htm?keyword="9B7D5ADD-D8FE-4819-A36C-6DEDAF088CC7"'

            rtbEdit.SelectionStart = rtbEdit.Find("zzzzzzzzz", System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBoxFinds.None)

            'UPGRADE_WARNING: Span was upgraded to Find and has a new behavior. Click for more: 'ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/dv_commoner/local/redirect.htm?keyword="9B7D5ADD-D8FE-4819-A36C-6DEDAF088CC7"'

            rtbEdit.Find("zzzzzzzzz")

      End Sub

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal eventSender As System.Object, ByVal eventArgs As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

            Dim i As Object

            For i = 1 To 10

                  rtbEdit.Text = rtbEdit.Text & "Hello " & vbCrLf

            Next

            rtbEdit.Text = rtbEdit.Text & "zzzzzzzzz"

      End Sub