I have a label on my form where I some text. The width of the label is limited, when I enter text longer than the width of the label the text automatically continues on the next row. I need to alter this behaviour so that the text doens't get a new row (and the label should stay the same size). ...more >>

I'm trying to dynamically add a picturebox control to a form. I'm following some coding I see in the form designer generated code: ....and so far....nothing. Any help is appreciated. Dim myPicture As New PictureBox() With myPicture myPicture = New System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox() ..Vi...more >>

Hi I am getting my form using; frm = New frmMyForm. How can I check if this statement has been executed? I have tried If frm Is Nothing Then, but it does not work. Thanks Regards ...more >>

I'd like to Alt + PrintScr my form, paste it to a word document and send the document to a printer programatically. How can I do that? Any help will be appreciated Dino -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! Download S...more >>

I want to add a number of items to a list box and then set the focus on one of the items. I can do this using ListIndex but it desnt work if the listbox is sorted. Is there a way around this? Thanks, Steve...more >>

Hi Gang, I am trying to accomplish something that should be terribly simple. I just want to send ALT+A to another window. What SendMessage Parameters should I send? Thanks, Christian Blackburn ...more >>

Hi everyone, Here is my problem: I have the following classes: - DataNode - this class is designed to hold some data and will be contained in a tree like data structure DataTree. When DataNode is changed, it raises "Changed" event. The class has a reference to the DataNode it is being cont...more >>

I have a web service which provides updates / additions to active directory. I can add accounts, change values etc, for everything I need to except the accountexpires field. I have been searching for this one for weeks. I am using the DirectoryEntry & DirectorySearcher classes as follows: ...more >>

We have created a program P1 (VB.net) which must be permanently active in order to perform some administrative tasks on the hard disk. It will be installed as a service and thus has no user interface. We want to create a program P2 to allow the Sever Administrator to monitor the activity of ...more >>

I am having a brain drought here. I used to code in VB until about 3 years ago. I guess it's not quite like a bicycle because man i feel dumb :) Here, quickly, is what i am trying to accomplish... One way or another i need a form to appear inside another form when clicking a command butt...more >>

How can i know if the close event was sent by user or by the windows? Because a use on my appl. it Private Sub Form1_Closing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles MyBase.Closing e.Cancel = closeit If not closeit Then Me.Hide() End If ...more >>

in my application1, i want to run application2. application2 generate xmldocument which it should send to application1 How to do it? ...more >>

Hi all, In the days of VB6, I used to add a module to my project that did nothing but declare all of the variables I was going to use throughout the entire application, just to keep everything together and a bit cleaner. Are modules in VB.NET still available to be used like this or am I only...more >>

I need a little help with an algorithm. Let's say I have an array with 15 items. I want to find "Fern" where there are "Able", "Me Also", "Zimmerman", etc in no particular order. Forget about the fact that it's an array - I know how to search an array. I just want an algorithm that will do t...more >>

I would like to show in ABOUT BOX of my application list of assemblies( not ..NETframework assemblies,but companies assemblies) including version and path of each of them which application is using... i have no idea about how to get them dynamically Thanks for HELP ...more >>

I need a Browser Helper object written in VB. Please point me at a good example. Joe MCPx3 ...more >>

I am using visual basic 5.0. I have tried for a considerable length of time to get the unique computer Id (or computer name, whatever it may be called) with no luck at all. I am hoping that someone can provide assistance in determining the unique Computer ID. ...more >>

Hi Guys, I am trying to use a C++ dll in VB.NET code. I have imported the dll in the following manner: <code> Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Module modDllImport <DllImport("hsec.dll")> _ Public Function sha1_hash(ByRef co As String, ByRef ci As String) As Integer End...more >>

I have an MDI application which contains a menu, MDI child form and properties window. On my Edit menu I have Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete. The shortcut key for Delete is set to Del. In the MDI child form I can select an object and its properties are displayed in the properties window. All ...more >>

In VB6 I could cycle though loaded forms like this. Dim MyForm as Form For each MyForm in Forms debug.print MyForm.Name Next How can I do it in VB.NET? ...more >>

some one knows how to check if my app. (Example ap1.exe) is running (because i don't want than it run twice at the same time in the same machine) somebody knows like verifying if my application at the moment this executing itself, since I do not want that the application runs twice in the...more >>

hi, how can i open and close a help file thru code? i tried dim procHelp as System.Diagnostics.Process procHelp = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("help.hlp"), it did open but i couldn't get it to close, when i issue procHelp.kill, it doesn't close when i looked in the task manager...more >>

Attached is my code. Which I know there is a better way of writing however this is what I came up with and it works until the value is null or not = to the <> value. 'Do While rdrSQL.Read() 'While rdrSQL.Read() ' Dim result As String ' result = Trim(rdrSQL.GetString(0)) ' Do While res...more >>

For one of our windows apps that has, on one of the windows forms, an instance of a browser (IE), I was given the task of creating a valid string of HTML and using it directly in the browser, without writing it out to a file and then reading it in again. I have looked at the properties of...more >>

I was just asked if I could replicate a piece of functionality (having a VB program send an email) using the VBA in Access 2000. I figure there's probably a VBA way to do it, but I was also wondering if VBA can access the .NET framework? ...more >>

Hello, how can I exclude an MDI child Form from the list shown by a MenuItem with MDIList prop. set to True? Is there a way to do it? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I have a heap of data that sits on my SQL server that I use in my vb.net app for things such as drop down values and so on. they really do not change very often. My inital design was to select all this data into a sqldataadapter/dataset when my app started. But that seems to be having a ne...more >>

Hi, I wanted to know if it is possible to use the onclick event for a Tab control. I wanted the data that is pulled from my database and displayed in my datagrid to be refreshed everytime the user presses the tab. Is this possible? thx...more >>

Hi All, Newish VB.NET programmer seeking help! I have a TreeView with a node that I wish to drag and drop to a Textbox. In the Treeview_ItemDrag i have DoDragDrop(e.item, DoDragDropEffects.ALL) - (I have tried copy aswell) In the Textbox DragEnter I have e.effect = DragDropEf...more >>

Hi all, I have about 10 books about VB.net, but no book explains anything about setup projects. I need to do some things during setup which are not as straight-forward as copying some files and adding some icons and some documentation would come in very handy. I need to let the user select ...more >>

i add values to this file but i don't know how to get them in application.. do i have explicitly to load and read the file using xml reader..or whatever? does any one have a sample? ...more >>

Greetings In VB 6.0 using WNetGetConnection Windows API you could convert a physical drive designation to a UNC. How do you convert a physical drive to a UNC within VB.NET? Thank you ...more >>

Hi guys When working with random access files .NET creates, saves to and loads from a default location (i.e. the solutions bin directory) how can I specify at runtime where I want these actions to take place, presumably I'll have to use the common dialog controls for open and save but I've g...more >>

what're some good websites with vb.net multithreading code samples? ...more >>

I have 2 functions, CheckThis and CheckThat. Each function can return some of the error codes in the Enum below (CheckThis can return 0, 1, 2 or 3 and CheckThat can return 0, 4, 5 or 6). I'm trying to evaluate the following: if CheckThis OR CheckThat then Select Case ErrCode ... obvious...more >>

In VBA, I could fill a listbox with data from an array like so: Dim ListArray(?, ?) .... Fill ListArray ... ListBox1.List = ListArray How do I do this in VB .NET?...more >>

i run the following: installutil "my service.exe" and it goes through and tells me the install and commit were successful. i go to the services list and it isn't shown. i've done this multiple times before with other projects and it won't work. if i try to do net start "my service...more >>

I posted this in vb.controls but it now occurrs to me that it should have gone here. When I click on the Add In Manager the resulting list is empty. What I need is the API Viewer that VB6 had. Thanks in advance for any help! ...more >>

I know this isnt really a VB question per say, but is what I am developing in VB.NET and Excel is the only place that has provided direction. I wanted to ask the public if perhaps you could lend me a hand a point me into the right direction if there is someone who has had experiance with this. By...more >>

We have an application that is accessed using shared drives, client executes program from server. We have already coded the program to create and save the a bat file either locally on the users machine or on the server. Our problem is that when we execute the bat file from the vb code it does n...more >>

Ok. I have traced the problem with multiple logs and emails to this section of the code and can't figure out why it repeats itself. Any help would be appreciated. ---- Begin Code ---- Public Sub LognEmail(ByVal strMessage As String) Dim sSource As String Dim sLog As St...more >>

I wrote a program in VB6 for the local library, which catalogs all pertinent information on videos inventory, on hand, checked out etc. The program has works flawlessly on the six computers used there. All computers use the Windows 98 OS. I need to make some changes to the program. I recen...more >>

I have a question. I have some data that I am pulling into a dataset that needs to have each row of data emailed out. I got the email funciton working great but its extracting that data that is becoming the problem. I assume it would be in a loop, and to do that I am guessing something like this...more >>

Does anyone have any good vb examples of creating a new deskop and then using the SetThreadDesktop facility to talk to applications on the new desktop ? Thanks ...more >>

Hello, I am trying to store an object and its type in a database table as text and then restore the object to its original form. I have created a couple of functions to help me with this: 'Takes an object as a parameter. 'Returns the XML representation of the object. Public Shared Fun...more >>

Could someone please tell me what the C# equivalent of this VB.NET code is: Dim aPropInfo() As System.Reflection.PropertyInfo aPropInfo = GetType(System.Drawing.Color).GetProperties This is what I came up with: Color dummy = new Color(); System.Reflection.PropertyInfo[] aPropInfo ...more >>

Hi. We had a in-house program that use a PRINTLBL.EXE to print label in DOS mode. after the label was printed, Window XP will issue the error message ( Invalid procedure call or arguments ). But if use under Window 95 or Window 98 it will work fine with no error. the code we use is as follow L...more >>

I need to write a program, exe, that's called from a third party application. This third party application allows me to configure the name of the application to be called. When it executes it calls my program passing it two parameters, absolute file names that contain data I'm to process. ...more >>

Can someone point me towards something explaining how to overwrite an exe that is currently being executed, if even possible? I'm trying to build in an update routine to ahve it look for a newer version of itself on the network and then copying that new version on itself... of course I keep ge...more >>

Hello All, The combo/list boxes in MS Access has the ability to show multiple fields in separate columns. I have found that in VB/VB.NET that combo/list boxes can only show one field in one column. What do I need to do to achieve combo/list boxes similar to MS Access in VB or VB.NET? ...more >>

Hi, I'd like to use a datagrid with a 1. most grid's use SQL data adapters as a datasource. I'd like to use a parametrized query into a stored procedure (specifically a sqldatareader) instead of using the data adapter. does anyone have any code samples that will do this? I'm looking f...more >>

Ok, heres the scenario, this is code that you'll see peppered in most of my classes that utilize any kind of object that has a Dispose method Dim conn as SqlConnection = MakeSqlConnection() Try ' do some DB work conn.Close() Finally ' following line FAILS if conn is actually nothin...more >>

Hi, Have written a service for a win 2000 server using vs.net 2002, framework 1.0 that checks a sql server database every 10 minutes (interval of 600000 in timer) and sends email using System.Web.Mail if record(s) found. Supposed to catch errors and write to Event Log if any occur. This pro...more >>

Is there any Winsock control replacement in VB .NET, including support for events like DataArrival? I have tried the Sockets class, but has NO events ... How can I know when I receive data? Using a loop to check for DataAvailable just eats up the processor. And you just don't know when to c...more >>

I need to save a quite big structure of classes... but only some members that I need to recondtruct the whole ierarchy. I want to ask how serialisation work... is a efficient way? Or should I deal myself with persistent members in my format? Thanks, Crirus -- --------------------------...more >>

Alright... I created my class, but I discovered that it is no more useful to me and I want to delete it.. How can I do it??? Thank's ...more >>

I read that you could add a old Activex Control to VB.NET. I try to add 'Microsoft ADO Data Control 6.0 (SP4) (OLEDB)' and 'Microsoft Hierarchical FlexGrid Control 6.0 (SP4) (OLEDB)' to a form but I get "You do not have a license to use this ActiveX Control" Any help? Thanks. ...more >>

Using MSSCRIPT.OCX in VB6, it was easy to evaluate code that was in a string, for example "10 * 3 + 1" using the Eval method of the script control. Is such a feature available in VB .NET? Thanks, Mike...more >>

I have a vb6 application. On the main form is a picture box with one or two images and several pieces of text displayed in it. These are created on the fly using gdi32 routines that are all in a referenced, custom dll. I call a PrintImage routine in the dll and pass it only the the Picture...more >>

How can you set security on the program code so that no one can access it except if you know a password?...more >>

Hi Gang, Is there a way to return the handle of one's application when it's a sub_main module? Does it even have an associated handle? or just a processid? Also how can I get the handle of a string - variable? Thanks, Christian Blackburn ...more >>

One of the things that drives me mad about vb.net is spending time trying to make a program do something then finding that there's already an inbuild procedure that does exactly the same thing. So before I begin on this can anyone tell me if there is already a routine to do this: I am ...more >>

Hi Gang, I don't know what to make of all of this, but I'm having nothing, but trouble copying data to the clipboard which should be the easiest thing in the world. The only systems I can get this to not crash on is my development system w/ VB 2003 installed and Windows NT 4. My development s...more >>

Is there a way to get the Application.mainForm from any place in the code, e.g from a shared property of any class ? Thanks Atara *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!...more >>

Hello, i made an app that use sockets, based on this sample : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4B3215C0-62E7-4B84-9944-7582B8CD0125&displaylang=en i'have a problem, i can't obtain the client IP adress on the server side (i have a pointer to a TCPclient object) Is...more >>

I use ProgressBar control and one Label to display the status of the process. Both of them are placed in panel object. When the process finish doing one task and before start the other task, it will update value in ProgressBar and text in label. The problem is ProgressBar is update and cor...more >>

I bind a collection to a data grid, and it works okay, but when I try to create customized columns, it just doesn't work. Here is the code. Note that if I uncomment that section below, and use "DT" as the mapping name, it works fine. But I don't want to have to copy the collection to the data ta...more >>