Newsgroup: it.comp.lang.visual-basic
Titolo: Help

Smiley and Associates - 
http://www.johnsmiley.com
Hi Everyone
On Thursday afternoon, I received a surprising voicemail message from my
publisher---Activepath---informing me that he is discontinuing his
publishing business.
I say surprising because just the week before we were talking about my
latest book, and plans for expanding the ActivePath business in many new
and exciting ways. Then this bombshell was dropped on me.
What this means is that my books will eventually---in the next few months
or so---go out of print, and no longer be available. This also includes
the book I am now working on---VB and the Web---which may now never come
out.
The quality of my books and sales (my first book has sold nearly 40,000
copies in its first year, and my Objects book has sold over 3,000 copies
in its first month) are not in dispute. I'm told this is a business
decision. My publisher was hoping to build a brand out of my
books---unfortunately, it seems we didn't get enough titles out quickly
enough.
I never sought fame or forture through my book writing--- I can assure I
have made neither, although I have met and corresponded with many
wonderful people (you included!)
Quite honestly, when I set out to write my first book, I was just trying
to find a good book I could use in my own Penn State classroom.
I'm happy to say I did that, and wrote the three others after it for the
Penn State VB program as well. However, if I don't find a way to keep
these books in print and available, I may have uwe inferior books in my
own classroom--something I don't want to do.
Copyright and rights of publication to the books will revert to me,
however, and right now I am looking at a variety of means to keep these
going.
I have contacted several publishing houses who have shown some interest.
I am also looking at electronic publishing via Fatbrain.com
Or possibly just publishing these books myself---however, I know next to
nothing about printing and distribution, and with a family to provide for,
I can't afford to make a bad financial decision.
I am also considering the idea of taking on partners and incorporating in
order to publish.
Regardless, the hard work of writing and mastering the books has been
done---now it's a matter of keeping them alive.
I'd like to ask your help now.
In the past, I've asked you to post reviews on Amazon.com, and try to drum
up some publicity for my books. Now I need your help more than ever. If
you've bought one of my books, liked it, but not yet posted a review,
please do so now. Postiive reviews will help my books as I shop them
around for a new publisher.
Also, if by any chance you have a contact in the publishing industry, who
could help me, a friend who writes in a local newspaper or magainze who
might publicize my plight, or any ideas on how I can save my books, I
would love to hear from you.
Thanks for your help!
John Smiley

come faccio ad esser sicuro che in una textbox venga inserito qualcosa o
nulla "if text1 ="" then.... else error" non funziona se si inserisce uno
spazio la text risulta non vuota.  ciao a tutti e grazie

 spazio la text risulta non vuota.  ciao a tutti e grazie
direi
dim tmp as string
tmp=trim(text1)
if tmp <> "" then
o direttamente
if trim(text1) <> "" then