Hello, I want to save the position of all the controls on my form. I would like to write them out to a preference file. I have done this in DOS BASIC like this: TO WRITE the preference open "c:\preferences.txt" for input as #1 input #1 ,a,b,c close #1 TO READ the preferen...more >>

I am using Microsoft Access database. I'm using an oledbdataconnection,oledbdataadapter, and a typed dataset. When I get information out of the database on a form it keeps putting in the date and also 12:00:00 am is there any way to keep it form putting the time in the textbox. ...more >>

Is there any way to determine the time when an object was placed on the Clipboard? Or, if not, then is there any way to determine the newest object on the Clipboard? Thanks, Lance...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to create a form in VISUAL BASIC .NET wich shows values of records from a customers table. For example a form wich shows the name, surname and sex of a person. For the name & surname i create a textbox. then I select the correct table in the databinding propertie of the name a...more >>

I want to display the physical path of specific URL. Can window form do that? Which is object or method I can use? ...more >>

I'm looking at a piece of code that gets called over 100,000 times and was wondering if there would be much performance difference between these three scenarios or is there an alternate approach?: == Scenario 1: == Dim colA as new Collection 'Collection of clsA objects <Add 10-20 clsA...more >>

Hello, I have a datagrid bound to a datatable which has an Identity column. I load the table from data in a spreadsheet and manually assign seq. values to the identity column. Once that is done, I set the AutoIncrement property to true and the AutoIncrementStep property to 1. When I try...more >>

Hi all, I really needed to get the icons associated with each file that I want to show in a listview. I used the follow modified code sniplets found on the internet. I have left in commented code for anyone else who may be looking to do the same. I only care about the small icons in my...more >>

Hi, Is there an easy way to load the content of a dataset into a listview with a few columns? Thanks! -- Lasse ...more >>

I have an active-X control (ATl/C++) that expects a date as Variant Time (a double). How can I convert a date in VB.NET into such a double? Any help would be much appreciated. thanks. ...more >>

Hy guys... I'm creating a class (class.vb), and need to create a property that will be an array... How can I do it???? thank's ...more >>

All, I want to retrieve Users from my AD via a Web appliction. I ran this script to populate a combobox in a normal app and it works... But when I use this script in a Web App it fails Any Idea Why? Marc Dim entry As New DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("LDAP://DC=PROD,DC=TELENET,DC=BE") ...more >>

Hi all, I wrote a tiny little Windows Forms application that periodically checks a database for certain conditions and then pops up a message box asking if you want to do something about those conditions. It runs in the system tray. I find that when I start this program, it automatically...more >>

Hello, If I have some older C++ functions that I am calling from my code behind in a web form; and these functions use the C++ runtime which is found in the windows/system32 directory; how do I ensure that I have security set up to access these functions from my web form code behind? My app...more >>

Hello Can someone tel me why My defined object wont work in a WEB servece. The web servece does not return any XML when TestW is Invoked <WebMethod()> Public Function TestW() As Returobjekt TestW.mTest1 = "ABC" TestW.mTest2 = "DEF" End Function ' MY Object Public Class Returo...more >>

I am looking for a list box that supports icons along with text and that can bind to collections. Do you know of any? Note: I have tried ListView. ...more >>

I have a | (pipe) delimited file that i need to import in to a Dataset. With code below i get 7 items in the first column of each row and the rest is empty. PLEASE HELP Below if the code that does it. For it to work i needed an ini file with columns defined and at the top of the ini these o...more >>

I have a subroutine that I call to bind a dataset to a combobox. It works sometimes. See the code below.. 1 Private Sub BindDropDownToDataSet( _ 2 ByRef control As System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox, _ 3 ByVal ds As DataSet) 4 Try 5 control.DataSourc...more >>

Hi Is it possible to communicate with a usb device from VB .Net Thanks Chris ...more >>

I have a | (pipe) delimited file that i need to import in to a Dataset. With code below i get 7 items in the first column of each row and the rest is empty. PLEASE HELP Below if the code that does it. For it to work i needed an ini file with columns defined and at the top of the ini these o...more >>

I have a vb6 program which has a grid displaying 55000 rows from a recordset through a SQL ADO connection. I was always disappointed that there was no way to be notified when someone else updated/deleted/added a record. Is there any way to do this in .net? Cheers, ================ ...more >>

Hello What kind of Objekts is safe to return in a Web service? (will work ok) Where can I find a list of these I have found out that a collection or an unspesifyed Stringarray do not return. I had to spesify the length of the array { A(10) not A() }. Is it possible to make new clases and...more >>

Anyone heard aboud such a group where I can post question related to game development, especialy RTS kind? Sorry for this off topic to vb.NET -- Cheers, Crirus ------------------------------ If work were a good thing, the boss would take it all from you ------------------------...more >>

Wassup guys/gals. I'm really new to VB *cringe*, and i'm tryna to easily, expeditiously return a row(that i double click) from a data grid populated with data from an access database. what's the simplest way to do this? and if i wanted to update it later on? Thanks. Arch...more >>

Hi: I'm trying to write a program that will print envelopes using a HP Laserjet 4 that has three trays. In the future this program will work with other printers so I don't want to "hard code" (or send raw output) to accomplish this. I'm trying to figure out how to set the PaperSource prope...more >>

I am writing a program that will connect to a device and potentially retrieve 1000+ records at a time for processing. Every record will get processed and saved in a SQL Server database. I am planning of acomplishing this by using an Arraylist to hold the records from the device while the...more >>

Boy, someday I may get good at this stuff! Until then, I have a "TCP server" that accepts multiple connections. That all works wonderfully! YEAH!!!! I have a TCPClient that is the client connection to my server, my question is, how do I get the client's IP from tthe TCPClient so I can know wh...more >>

Hi newsgroup I was answering something to Dotnet Shadow when I remembered me that I had send a posible Bug to Herfried and Ken Tuckers private newsgroup "microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb.controls" on 25 november about almost the same question Robert was asking. I never did get any answer o...more >>

I seem to remember that you can copy a control, like a textbox AND any code associated with it to another form. Is this true. If so, how? When I select a textbox, for example in form and, copy it and paste it to another form, the control shows up but not any code in any of it's events. Is ...more >>

DoubleClick in DataGrid Hi I have a Datagrid bound to a dataset that I want to write a DoubleClick procedure on. My problem is that the DoubleClick event is raised only when DoubleClicking the column or row header. How is it possible to get a DoubleClick event to occur on a row wherever it is ...more >>

I want to install the VB studio onto my D: drive but the installer is not allowing me to change the default install location from C:. (the drop down box is grayed out) Does anyone know if this can be controlled via a command line parameter when running setup.exe? Thanks....more >>

How can I edit the layout of event methods header ? I want to see it so the the "Handles XXXXX" is in the next line under the Sub name. KS, Denmark ...more >>

I'm building a MDI application that has child forms. I'm trying to find a way to hide the inner boarder of the child frame area. Setting the FormBoarderStyle of the child form has no effect. Also, when the parent form's FormBoarderStyle is set to nothing, then the child form is maximized, I ...more >>

I have this situation 25 26 ........ 9 10 11 12 13 24 1 2 3 15 23 8 x 4 15 22 7 6 5 16 21 20 19 18 17 I need a way to iterate through that grid in spiral order strating from 1 -- Cheers, Crirus ------------------------------ If work...more >>

Hi, I have a textbox with the words "Enter your name here" inserted as default text - At the moment, to remove this the user must highlight all the text and delete before they type in their name - I've seen sites where all this text dissapears as soon as the user clicks on it - how do I do tha...more >>

I have a VB.NET program that needs to print envelopes, letterhead, and regular (default) documents from a printers that may have three trays, or may have only one tray and must prompt the user to load an envelope or letterhead. (I know that each must be a separate Print Document). I have code...more >>

Is there no way to make a label or link label transparent in vb.net? This is a real pain on about screens with nice graphics where you want your text backgroup to be transparent. I can drawstring most of it--shouldn't have to. But how to do the linklabel I don't know--other than using the ...more >>

Greetings! I am introducing myself to VB .Net by rewriting a stock market simulation program that I developed in VB6. The original program uses MSHTML, the DOMDocument class and the various IHTML types to parse the contents of a web page that contains the market information for the stocks in ...more >>

I want to make a program that checks for updates at start... The way I am doing this is to create 2 projects... A simple exe checks the server for the version and downloads a dll if needed. The dll contains the program itself (so simple a form out of that dll is started). My problem is tha...more >>

Can anyone point me articles/links on sthe steps to call ActiveX from VB.net? TIA lei xu lei_xu@hotmail.com...more >>

I created a form for enetering values in lookup tables (eg Phone Types) in a project. The form uses a SQLdataAdapter and works fine in project A. In another solution - Project B- I want to reuse the same form. It will look in the same database as it does in project A. If I go in poroject B a...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to rename 2000+ jpg files in a directory. all filenames are similar, so that makes it a little bit easier. They look like at123456a, at123457a, etc. What I need to do is delete the "t" in the 2nd position of each file. I can't seem to get my loop to work quite righ...more >>

Hi! Is there a way to execute a string? That means: 1. My app shows dialog box where I write "StartCounting" 2. My program run StartCounting sub Is there any other way then just using "case"? ...more >>

Bonjour, J'ai developpé une application sous VB.Net qui utilise un datagrid . Ce datagrid utilise un dataTable d'un DataSet comme datasource. ce dataset est rempli de la sorte : 'Debut du code requete = "SELECT ln_nomencdtl_articleentree as 'Article', CASE WHEN e.en_item_key IS NULL TH...more >>

How converts a string to a byte and then add it to a byte array? I tried 2 different methods and both failed to work. For example: Dim A as string Dim B(2) as Byte 'array (from 0 to 2) A="7B" B(0) = convert.Tobyte(A)'ERROR1 B(1) = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(A)'Error 2 B(2) = Hex("00") ...more >>

I am having a problem on how to update view from sql server 2000 database. I have tried dataset and sql dataadapter but no luck. I'm using this view in datagrid and i want to update the datagrid if there is changes. thank in advance...more >>

I have this classes tree GameManager 1 object Game Multiple objects Map 1 object Player Multiple objects Squads Multiple objects Units Multiple objects Now each Squad or Units have to know about da...more >>

I am trying to make a splash screen for my vb.net app. It is an mdi app. including the splash code produces wierd results. not inluding makes things fine. Also have tried loading the splash form from: * load event of main mdi parent * sub main in a module * my own application class i...more >>

I want the users to be able to reorder the columns in a few of my listview controls. It's easy enough to make that change in the listview control but I can't seem to find a way to get the new ordering back from the control. Because of this I don't see any way that I can save the new column order...more >>

Hello I use GetObject() to get a running Activex/COM Object. I now want to use the Eventhandlers of the COM Object. If want to do: AddHandler ComObject.EventXY, addressof MyEventHandler How can I do this with a COM Object. (Late Binded) Thanx ...more >>

Hi, I have a baseclass and several clases that inhereits from this baseclass. In the inherited class I need to change a variable that is used in the base class, but I cant figure out how. Here's an example.... Public Class MyBaseClass Friend Shared _tableName As String ...more >>

Hello I have 512x512 grid of booleans At a specific point in my application, I need to find out if a particular point in my grid have value true of false. Now I need a way to store the boolean value for each coordinates in my grid. I found some methods: 1. I could have a 512x512 BitArray...more >>

I want to declare the following Dim BoolGrid(511,511) as Boolean and Dim Bitgrid As New BitArray(511*511) How can I find out the size of memory allocated on the heap for each one = ? --=20 Best Regards - OHM O_H_M{at}BTInternet{dot}com...more >>

me.fraDate.Top = Me.Controls("fra" & Me.cboDate.Text).Top The top line is from vb6 how can I do the same thing in vb.net? fraDate is a panal me.cbodate is a combo box with a value of 1 - 6 in it. I also have 6 panals named fra1, fra2, fra3, etc. Thanks for the help!...more >>

I am trying to make a VB .Net Kiosk which will automatically scroll through an RTF file. I can load the RTF file into a RichTextBox but so far I haven't been able to get the application to continuously scroll through the file and start over when it get to the end of the file. Any ideas on...more >>

Hi All, In Winform Application, MDI form is having Save button. When i close the application, it will ask Save Changes? YES or NO or CANCEL. after i select CANCEL button, i have set e.Cancel = True So application will work continously, But Save button Event is working. Can anybody give me...more >>

Hi, For my application I need the following behavior: When I press F4 the cursor has to move to the next line in my multiline textbox which begins with "0". Finding lines starting with 0 isn't that difficult, but to find the next line is more difficult. For exemple: if my cursor is on line 2...more >>

SSIA, I don't see a switch or something that might do this but I hope I'm overlooking it. Any suggestions? Thanks! -- Matt "Gravity. It's not just a good idea, it's the law!" ...more >>

I am developing an application in VB.NET using Visual Studio 2003. I have a dialog box where the title may be somewhat long, so I want to resize the window to fit the entire title. I already know to use CreateGraphics to measure the length of the string, so my code is something like this (from ...more >>

Ok, to update: I have isolated this problem to two tab pages within my tab control. = However, I dont think the problem is in the control itself.=20 I have found that running Data, Generate Dataset produces the error, so = use this as my test. I deleted the two pages in question & the p...more >>

Hey there, i wanna fire up the Add Printer wizard. In vb 6.0 i used: RunShell "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHHelpShortcuts_RunDLL AddPrinter" whats the code in vb.net ? i need the code. Thanx...more >>

Is there a way to change the font size of the TabPage Titles in a TabControl?...more >>

Hello I'm having some difficulty searching a set of rows in a DataRow collection.. This is my question What would be an efficient way to search any column of an DataRow array Let me try to explain the context of this question, that will help you understand what I'm looking for.. Assume that ...more >>

In VB6, when printing a hard copy of your code, there was a dialog box that offered options, "Print Image", "Code", "Form as Text". In VB.Net I can not find this option. I can certainly print the "Code", but I can not print the "Form as Text." This is very useful to me. How can it be don...more >>

I need to populate a drop-down list box with names from a table (via SQL Stored Proc). Each name has a unique ID associated with them e.g. NameID 1 Name "My Name" The problem is how can I tell the combo box the ID associated with each name added to it. (I used to use Itemdata from...more >>

I need to be able to call some .NET code from an old VB application. Looking around on MSDN it looks like I should expose the .NET code as a COM object and access the COM object from Visual Basic. Does anyone have any experience of doing this? Is this the best strategy or is there another wa...more >>

I am using an AxWebBroswer in a C# project. (.Net 2002 If I use it to touch external sites, then thing work as expected. I can open multiple windows with AxWebBrowsers in them and everything still works If, on the other hand, I open a local file (e.g., d:\index.html) then nothing is displayed a...more >>

Is there a way to copy text that is always in the same place in a word document, (such as an id number in my case) and then paste it into a text box in another program? I've tried various approaches but none of them seem to work. Thank You...more >>

I have an class that I want to have a PictureBox as a member of (passed in), and I want to be able handle the on click event for it. How do I do it? Right now, the PictureBox is declared: Public Class MyClass Friend WithEvents f_PictureBox As System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox Pri...more >>

I am trying to right click on a form and have a custom popup menu display. Does anyone know how to do this in vb.net. Thanks!...more >>

Hi How to know if a control has an handle. To be more clear, sometimes I have to remove handle using RemoveHandler MyControl.Leave, addressOf MyControl_Leave and use AddHandler MyControl.Leave, addressOf MyControl_Leave But before using the AddHandler, is there a way to know if the handle is ...more >>

Hi Guys, I have been having this problem recently where I have a form with a textbox and button, if in the button event I have the following: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Me.Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor Tex...more >>

Hello, I have a text box called txtPriceLoad that is bound to a money field from the database. I would like this text box to be displayed as a currency field with 2 decimal places. How do I do this. Geraldine. ...more >>

DEAR SIRS, I AM DEVELOPING A SOFTWARE BY USING VB.NET AND SQLSERVER 2000 FOR A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT. I HAVE A BROBLEM THAT I HAVE A FIELD FOR PRIMERY KEY WHICH IS AUTO GENERATED. I NEED THAT WHEN THE FORM IS LOADED THE NEXT AUTO GENERATED NO SHOULD BE IN THE REQUIRED TEXTBOX. HOW TO GET THE NEXT N...more >>

Hi! I have a list of data in a textfile which is tab delimited. Each line is seperated by a VbCrLf. I want to collect this data in a multidimensional string array. I do not wish to use a database or a Disconnected ADO Recordset since this is just passing data along to be written into an XML...more >>

how can i make a hierarchical access of procedures if i want to access it from another form. for example i have a form named form1, so i want to access its procedures or function i just call form1.procedurename. What if i want to make a level of calling for example instead of calling form1.proce...more >>

Hello, I'm having trouble with a little programme of mine where I connect to an access database. It seems to connect fine, and disconnect fine, but then after it won't reconnect, I get the error "operation is not allowed when object is open" so I take out the line of code: BookDetails.Conne...more >>

In the "good old days"... I used to put most of my code in different modules, to keep it tidy, then it was no problem writing in a module like: Form1.textbox1.text = "Some text" or from a form Form2.textbox1.text = me.textbox2.text Now, in vb.net iI get an error saying "Reference to a n...more >>

Hi all, Further to my mail yesterday, haven't received much help and am getting slightly worried ! I am trying to add a block of cells but sadly can't get excel VBA to exactly read my intentions. I really wish cells H8 to H12 to be totalised but using the following statement the formu...more >>