Hi all, How to inform Parent thread from a Child Thread? I mean want to notify something from Child thread to Parent Thread. Please help, Thanks in advance, -Regards, Dinesh *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in USENET...get rew...more >>

Hello. I am trying to open a filestream using the following code: Dim myStreamReader As StreamReader = New StreamReader( _ New FileStream("H:\files\file.txt", FileMode.Open), _ System.Text.Encoding.Unicode) I receive the following error: "An unhandled exception of type 'System.Un...more >>

What up everyone, I have to write a program that uses a stack to determine whether a string is a palindrome (a string that is spelled identically backward and forward). The program has to ignore spaces, case sensitivity and punctuation. I need three text boxes. The first will be for input o...more >>

I have a few timers that are added to a form at runtime. I can handle the event fine, but I cannot identify which timer fired. Is there a way to do this? Timer Creation: ------------- ....some code... Dim usersTimers(4) As System.Windows.Forms.Timer For i = 0 To 4 'Build timer users...more >>

Hi, I managed to create a SQL server database and a table in it. The table is empty and that brings me to my next chalenge: How can I get the info in the table in the dataset to go in an empty SQL table? Is there a short way like the FILL method to get data into the dataset or do I have ...more >>

Hi, I created two base forms: frmList and frmDetail, compiled them into a dll, and then want to use in my new project. The problem: When I created new inherited form, say frmClients, I cannot load the form in design view - the IDE complains with "Argument 'Path' is Nothing or empty." er...more >>

Hey all! Just wondering if there is an easy way to generate a random ENUM? For example... txtInput.Dock = DockStyle.RandomStyleHere ....how would I write this in VB.Net code to tell the textbox to dock with a random side (or fill, or none)? ...more >>

To all the VB master, i'm new baby in VB. I would like to get ur's advice on how to stop the application when user is not in use within 5 or 10mins? Hope to hear VB master soon. Tks, Law...more >>

I need a simple dataset to textbox example that will show me how to "bind" (not that i know what that means) a textbox to data in my sql server. So.. basically i open the form with the ID of the person, the form fills with the person's info. Then i click "update" to update their info. Not...more >>

Hello. I am trying to open a filestream using the following code: Dim myStreamReader As StreamReader = New StreamReader( _ New FileStream("H:\files\file.txt", FileMode.Open), _ System.Text.Encoding.Unicode) I receive the following error: "An unhandled exception of type 'System.Un...more >>

I am making a screen saver, but I don't know how to resize the form to take on the size of the screen. It doesn't seem like I can set it explicitly in the properties menu of the form because different people use different resolutions. Is there a way to code it out (or some property) that will al...more >>

Hi, I'm currently having a problem with a vb6 project I once wrote that needs to be converted to vb.NET. The problem is as follows : On a form I have a listbox and two commandbuttons. The 2 buttons act as ‘up' and ‘down' buttons. The listbox contains some items that need to be sorted "BY T...more >>

There is any free control for FTP access? Or... any good documentation in the web about writing a custom class for doing it? Bye ...more >>

Hello I want get the Screen Coordinates of a Control. I do this with Control.PointToScreen. vlob_Point = Me.PointToScreen(New System.Drawing.Point(0, 0)) This works fine with a Single Monitor but if I have a two Monitor solution then I get the wrong Coordinates..... I try to take...more >>

Dear friends I have some drawing commands in the Form1_paint event. It works pretty well. The drawing gets redrawn when the window is resized. It gets redrawn after I minizie the window and bring it back. But when I bring another application to the foreground and drag it across my graphic...more >>

I declared a class called database. I have the following code: Dim myDatabase as Database myDatabase = Nothing Does the nothing keyword free the object for garbage collection or do I need to create a dispose method? -Ivan *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***...more >>

I am aware that following code clears a listview including column headers. ListView.clear() How can I clear the data in a listview and retain the column headers? -Ivan *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!...more >>

I think I found in VB6 that when mousedown occurs the item is highlighted but it is not selected until MouseUp. I believe that may be happening in VB.NET also. Anyone have any info pro or con? Has anyone dragged out of a ListBox? Just knowing you didn't have to do anything special wou...more >>

Code below. Starting to use DragDrop and I get the message that the index is out of range when I mouse down and move a little. The box has maybe 10 items and I'm selecting one in the middle. Second question. In the examples for ListBox they use: alstFrom.SelectedItem.Text but when I add a dot...more >>

bonjour how I do close all active children forms in parent? Pardon j'nais parle pas bein englais...more >>

I've got a program that collects info from an Access. I'm trying to use the following select command to select all the information from the "Families" table and store it in a dataset, plus join the Surname and FirstName fields to create a new field, FamilyName: selFamilies.CommandText = "SELE...more >>

I seem to be into styles these days. In any case, I use application.enablevisualstyles() and develop using visual studio 1.1. How can I change my main menu to appear as it does in vs .net - you will notice that as you move from main menu option to another, the selection option is 3 dimensio...more >>

Hello all, I am new to this newsgroup but look forward to participating quite a bit. I have a simple question which hopefully someone will be able to answer. I am wanting to write an app with vb 6 or .net in which the app will be responsible for keeping my different passwords, the associa...more >>

Hi guys A have an ASPX page (a main menu) and from it I need to launch existing exes on the local PC that has invoked the page from IE. I'm thinking that I would have to do this via JavaScript but I can't find how to start another process searching numerous sites. I know .NET has the Process obj...more >>

Hi guys On my main menu I've got 4 sub menu items which all point to the same form containg a tab control what I would like to do is set a specific tab to be shown dependant on the menu item which is clicked, is this achievable and how?...more >>

Hi I am using the latest redemption. I am using the below code in vb.net to send mail in html format. The problem is that text does not get sent as html and html tags appear as they are in the message like '<HTML>' etc. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Thanks Regards Yahya Impor...more >>

Hi, my school teacher said we didn't have to worry about disposing of objects because .Net would do it automatically. But he said this isn't true always. How do you know?...more >>

Hi guys I'm sure this is really simple, but passing commands between forms is a whole new thing to me, what I want to do is when I load my child form I would like a menu item on the parent to be enabled so I tried... --\ Dim objParentForm As New MDIParentForm objParentform.menuitem46...more >>

I use application.enablevisualstyles() and develop using visual studio 1.1. I know that changing flatstyle for certain controls will give me xp styles on those controls. However, I don't know how to get the xp look and feel for toolbar buttons. Mine highlight as I pass over them, but they are n...more >>

Hello all, Just downloaded the .NET SDK and, to test it works, I write this "Hello world" code: Option explicit Imports System ' A "Hello World!" program in Visual Basic. Module Hello Sub Main() Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.MsgBox("Hello, world!") End Sub End Module ...more >>