Something is messed up... I was using MSDE but I just bought/installed SQL Server instead and stuff has stopped working. I used to be able to connect to the server through VS2002 (and VS2003)'s Server Explorer window and from there I could add/edit databases, tables and stored procedures. ...more >>

Anyone know the equivalent of this in VB.net or c#? dwRead=fread(pWAVBuffer,sizeof(SHORT),dwSamples,pFileIn) i.e. dim dwRead as ? dim pWavBuffer as ? dim dwSamples as ? const itemlen = sizeof(SHORT)=16 ?...more >>

Its been a while since I used VB and I'm new to VB.net. I set up an sqlConnection, sqlCommand and sqlDataAdapter (by dragging the controls to the form) to query a local database. I set up a text box to display the length of the sqldataadapter by doing this: sqldataadapter.defaultsourcetablename....more >>

I moved my folder to another location on the same drive and now my form's scroll bars don't work. Please help! Thank you....more >>

Hey, I have a complete frontend setup, the first window/form that shows up gives you an option of 3 databases. One of them will only need to be accessed by about 2 - 3 people within our organization. so i want to password protect it. How can i do this? I was think i can just have a fu...more >>

Toooo tired to look this one up. I have data that I need to acces in a small program. The data is accessable from an ASP webpage that I created myself. If I need to see data from record #25, I just open http://mydomain.com/datapage.asp?recnum=25. I would like to read this data directly in...more >>

Hi! I would like to implement a treeview in my existing application. It should show my entire Active-Directory structure, i.e. all Groups, Containers and OUs. Could somebody help me with that. Im trying for about 3 hours but can't get it to work. Thank you! Greetings Jan Wrage ...more >>

I was earlier trying to persist a windows forms control to disk using the binary formatter class. I have devised a workaround, however I have Classes added in as references to my project which still won't serialize properly. I have tested the referenced classes separately as individual...more >>

Hi there, I have a VB.NET application which opens a new Excel workbook (and obviously worksheet). The cell values in the worksheet depend on certain formulae, therefore the sheet Calculate event is triggered whenever a calculation occurs. My problem is that I can't find a way within this ev...more >>

In my solution's Setup project, I'm adding a folder to the user's Start Menu, and putting a couple of shortcuts in it. When I use Add/Remove Programs to uninstall the application, the shortcuts are deleted, but the folder stays there. Any thoughts on how I can cause the folder to be delete...more >>

In using GDI+ drawstring, if the string to be drawn is in rtf format, how do I make GDI+ to recognize the rtf attributes. In other words, how do I draw one string in GDI+ , within which the font size , bold / underline attributes are different....more >>

I need to keep track of up to 100 values. When the list reaches 100, I'd like the first to be removed and the new item added to the end. My first thought was the Stack class, but I need to be able to update items 0-99 with updated values. The version I ended up with today is an ArrayList, whe...more >>

Every time I click Debug/Start or Start Without Debug the entire solution (27 projects) gets compiles. Even if I just Built the solution. Or if I run it 3 time in a row with no changes. I've looked for an related option but have not found one. Thanks Cal ...more >>

How do round up to nearest dollar in VB.Net.(to the next dollar price). If i get 9.46 or 9.65, i need to round up to 10.00 Thanks in Advance ...more >>

I want to create a copy of a String array. Is this the best way to do it? CopyOfArray = CType(Array.CreateInstance(GetType(String), _ UBound(OriginalArray) + 1), String()) OriginalArray.CopyTo(CopyOfArray, 0) Thanks....more >>

Is there a function that return some random ID like string alphanumeric? Like this: A35sDsd1dSGsH Thanks Crirus ...more >>

Anyone? Has anyone successfully used P/Invoke to create and use Spread2.5? If so, how did you create the Spread control/window? Kim Johnson ...more >>

I have created an ASP.Net page that adds radio buttons dynamically to a table. All works fine and they display and work correctly. I also have a server side button, when I click this how do I detect which radio button has been checked. The problem is that the name of the radio button only exists...more >>

I am trying to save data to disk. I intend using the Binary Formatter Class. I have an arraylist populated with custom class objects. Several of these custom classes contain button controls as properties. i.e Public Class MyCustomClass Property Button As System.Windows.Forms.B...more >>

Hi, We're implementing a Windows application using Visual Basic .NET. One of the key features we need to implement is that we should be able to get the accurate byte offset of user selected text in the file. We've been trying to use the RichTextBox control to load a file, and get t...more >>

The documentation on dynamic handlers comes across as abiguous. Perhaps somebody could help set me straight? I have a situation where I need to dynamically create several usercontrols of the same type within a form. This usercontrol has some events associated with it. For example: Pri...more >>

There is a unique identifying number of each hard drive. There is suppose to be a way of picking up that number. Does anyone hear remeber how to do that? ...more >>

anyone know or know of a good place to get connection strings to an as/400? thanks in advance tony ...more >>

hi all, i want to change the color of keywords while entering in a richtextbox. like vs.net environment. any ideas? thanks in advance ...more >>

I am new to VB .NET and always hear database access using ADO .NET, is there any things besides ADO .NET can access database ? ...more >>

Is it better to use AndAlso and OrElse by default rather than the regual And & Or? MikeH ...more >>

is there a chart component or chart tool with .net that I can use to create bar graphs, pie charts, or other kinds of charts? does anyone have any sample code on how to print the created chart to paper? thanks *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just parti...more >>

Where can I find such a list of all types (classes) that are collections of another types..arrays included -- Ceers, Crirus ------------------------------ If work were a good thing, the boss would take it all from you ------------------------------ ...more >>

If you take this Byte Arra Dim bytes() As Byte = { 207, 224, 135, 161, 253, 233, 111, 110, 99, 111, 100, 105, 110, 103, 32, 69, 120, 97, 109, 112, 108, 101 and write the byte array to disk FileOpen(2, "f:\aaapicture_album\result.txt", OpenMode.Binary FilePut(2, bytes ...more >>

Hello, I have a small VB.Net application that instantiates many objects (about 200), when I look at task manager the application is using about 50 meg. Now if I minimize the window then restore it the memory usage goes down to about 8 meg then after a while it will go up to about 15 meg. Does...more >>

Kind of new at programming/vb.net. I'm doing this junky die roller program. Heres's what is supposed to happen: Roll 2 6-sided dies. Add rolls together put total in rolls(d6total). Display the number of 2 or 12 rolled, then display those numbers and average rolls. I didn't know how t...more >>

When I create a form (Dim f as New Form1) and try to display it using the f.Show method, the form shows, but no controls do. I have a textbox and a progressbar on the form. It displays fine using f.ShowDialog, but I need the form to be modeless....more >>

ok. I have a basic understanding of the dataset but still more questions than answers. For example, if you use the Server Explorer to create connections, and then wizards to generate datasets... 1.) What if this is an app that you will redistribute and not a corporate app where these conn...more >>

Hi there, I have some experience with Java and C#. But currently I have to work with VB.NET And I was wondering if there is a good SHORT text about OOP features of VB.NET and its matching with C#. Something like: /*** C# class declaration ***/ .... '*** VB Class declaration *** ... Or e...more >>

I have a page where I dynamically create checkboxes. When the time comes I need to know if any of them checked and if they are check I need to update DB to reflect the changes on the page. I know the ID's of checkboxes than are on the page but I can not capture them in any way. I tried looping t...more >>

Hello, I am trying to program a button to click with code. I do not want to have to repeat the code that I already have in the project. I figured that I could use the button that is alreay there instead of redoing it. The only thing is that I can't seem to get the button to fire wit...more >>

Is there any way to change the column that the Listview uses for the keypress event? Item 0 is the employee number, Item 1 is the Last name... I want the keypress to scroll through last name. Thanks! Matt ...more >>

Hello everyone: I am using vb.net 2002, msde2000 database, and windows 98,and i set up .net framework 1.1 and MDAC 2.7 and msde2000 ,everything fine but i have a problem,i load a report I see "Load report failed" my code and dialog message down here please help me ----- Dim tbCurrent A...more >>

Hi, How many report tools are there in VB.Net? (other than Crystal Reports) MTIA, Grawsha...more >>

I am trying to delete all the records in a table, but I keep getting a system.data.dbconcurrency exception. Is there an easy was to delete all the records in a sql table? Here is my code... i get the error on the dataadapter.update: MessageBox.Show(Me.DataSet11.tblPreReqWorking.Rows.Count) ...more >>

Hi all, Is there a way to configure the Dropdownlist web control to accept user input and perform the auto complete process as VB 6 allowed? -Rich ...more >>

I have some question related to the other post about iteration on a class members. I had found a way to figure out when a member of my class is array so I can pull out it's elements to iterate on that classes members, recursively I designed a Strong type class, inherited from CollectionBase. ...more >>

I need to extract data from a recordset. I have to find the identifier of the table and add 1 to it. In VB6, I used a recordset, as in the code below: 'get a new item number strsql = "Select * from Action where item_identifier = " & intActionID & " order by action_identifier" Set rsActi...more >>

What is the best way to provide a user interface to a Windows service? Should I use DDE or remoting? How can I do that? Thanks. ...more >>

Do you know about some IRC channel concerning VB.NET, kind of a realtime newsgroup? -- Ceers, Crirus ------------------------------ If work were a good thing, the boss would take it all from you ------------------------------ ...more >>

Hi Friends I am quite familier with .NET also i am working ASP.NET for quite some time. I would like to learn network programming in .NET. I am new to network programming, i did not do any network programming till now. So where i should start from, coz the .NET SDK information expects some kin...more >>

I have a .NET windows application I created on 2000 but all other users will be on Windows 95. An error appears when I try to install "You must install the .NET Framework on this machine." Is this true? Is there a work around? What would I need to include in the build to allow the appl...more >>

I have an application that uses a COM port barcode scanner. This uses a listener to notify the application when a barcode has been scanned. The application now needs to be modified to use a Human Interface Device scanner. This means I need to read in the barcode from the keyboard input and notif...more >>

i am attempting to write something which can morph itself to whatever comes in and get the value property from it but i don't know what type it is until runtime. I am therefore trying to use reflection and get the type from there and then cast it to that type so i can use it. When i use Direct...more >>

Hello, I want to start working in VB.net but seem to have trouble in understading how I get to an equivalent of a recordset as in VB6. The only examples I find are working with binding, but that is not what I want to do. I want to be able to create a recordset and go forward and backwor...more >>

I can't seem to find the setting on VS 2003 but I had it working fine in VS 2002. I like to have the help as a separate window. I don't mean just "undocked" or "floating" but rather the browser for help (in VS 2002) contained the search window, the list of matches and the help pages itself. Th...more >>

Hello!! I am trying to declare an event in the service Web to soon be able to use it in the clients but there is no way. In order to declare a function in the service Web it is very simple: < WebMethod() > Public ponHora(ByVal Function hour As Integer, ByVal minute As Integer) As String...more >>

When using the NewMail.Body object, ! and spaces are being added into the email after the email has been sent. Has anyone else had this problem or even better a solution??...more >>

Hello, I am new in VB and also VB.Net What event should I put the code in VB.Net if I want to start the application with a form (I need the benefis of form to do all the process) and then shut down by itself? Thanks Zarowich ...more >>

Hi I have an existing app, and I would like to incorporate a web update facility, At first I would only give a message, but at second stage I would like to update the .exe itself with the update. Now what I have to do is go online and check for an updated version of the .exe in some way, ma...more >>