I am using the RS232.vb class to talk to the serial port. The problem I am having is when I try to read if anything is on the comm port. I call the read method, with the number of bytes I am expecting to read. As long as I know the length of the command that I will be getting on the input of ...more >>

Is it possible to determine where the DLL itself exists from within a class library project at runtime, similar to the way Application.StartupPath works for a windows application project? - Don ...more >>

If anybody knows how in the management class we could get a computers serial number that would be very helpful. I cannot seem to find the method. Also in the hardware in your machine I can get the pieces but I am having trouble with identifying numbers like serials or such. Does anyone have id...more >>

Hello Can anyone tell me Context Menu shell extension? It is better that provide some samples or links. Thanks ...more >>

It is possible to expose an enumerated type from within a class library so that other projects referencing that class library will see it in the class's namespace? For example, if I have a class library called "foo" which has a public enumerated type called "bar" declared in a module of that cl...more >>

I've been programming in VB.Net for quite a while now, and just realized that it seems to be mssing the MaskEdit control! I never much cared for it in VB6, but I have a customer who insists on the function (where the text box contains " / / " and they fill in the date. It seems that yo...more >>

Hi, This is driving me crazy. Once the TableStyle is added (last line) the datagrid comes up blank. If I comment it out, the data grid shows the column names from the dataset. I must be doing something out of sequence Thanks in advance for help provided To ------- Dim dsComputerFileDeta...more >>

Hi all, Only when a printpage event is fired from my printdocument am I able to get a handle on my printer through the passed parameter as follows ByVal e As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs from e I can obtain the length of the string that will be printed on my printer by usin...more >>

Hi, Could anyone tell me how the VS.NET IDE to specify the resource files to be embedded with assembly? I only know how to do it with command line vbc /resource: resource files Thanks! John ...more >>

I Have the need to upload a file to a ftp site on the internet is this the correct way ? and if so where the user name and password go ? Webclient.uploadfile(ftp:///www.zxy.com,"Test.txt") ...more >>

I amd playing around with inheritance a little in VB.Net If I create a new class which inherits from ListViewItem and I am only wanting to override the ToString Method. In this situation, If I only override the "ToString" method, I find that I only have a single constructor. Do I have to ...more >>

BlankI'm new to VB.NET and OOP and have been reading and surfing the web in an attempt to learn and understand. At this point I'm spinning my wheels and wasting time. I want to be able to move a control1 around on a panel1, which I am using as a design surface on a form. I can't find examples of ...more >>

In know i might sound stupid but i`ve looked all over and carn`t find out. I have a Tool Bar on my project vut how do i assign a button to a command, say i want ToolBar1, Button1 to Open a Form, Button2, to open another form, Button3 to run the Close.Me command etc etc Many thanks for any he...more >>

Hi all I have developed a windows application (VB.net) that uses a web service on a remote machine as a datasource. through numerous web service calls it extracts data from a sql server and saves this data into a number of xml files on the local machine, These xml files are then pulled into...more >>

few questions about Delegate in vb.net : do i need to create NEW delegate each time i use invoke ? or i can use the same delegate object when using specific invoke ? and if can use the same one, in case its multithread application, i need to put it in synclock ? -------------- can i ch...more >>

Hi, I've only got a typical crappy Microsoft book about ADO.NET (MSPRESS !"(¤#&/()&¤# you for mixing manual written code and suddenly adding designtime controls and wizards for updating data) I've got a function that is just for learning purposes the naming convention is bad and such since...more >>

Hello Group, All I wanna do is to get the contents of a web page and display it in my application. VB 6.0 has the INet control. How do I do it using VB.NET/ Thanks for the help, Chris. ...more >>

anyone have experience when u hit F5 to run... the vs.net ide closes.... any idea here? thankx ...more >>

I am dragging Panel controls on a form (run-time). I am looking for a way to show an outline that is the size of the panel so the user can position the panel accurately. Is there a way to show an outline of the panel control as it is moved on the form? ...more >>

Hi, I am working on a control that inherits System.Windows.Forms.TextBox. Of course one of the properties of a TextBox is the Text property. I would like to replace this property with a property named DatabaseText. I do not want the Text property to show up in the properties window, and I d...more >>

Hi, I try to bind my dataset to a listbox, but i can't find a way to make it work. I'm lost ;o) Dim ConnStr As String = "myconnectionstring..." Dim SQL As String = "SELECT Town from Info group by Town;" Dim myConnection As New SqlConnection(ConnStr) Dim myCommand As New SqlCommand(SQL,...more >>

I have added an email program to my vb .net project. 1 problem, everytime i press the send button, an error occurs... "CDO.message". Some help please :shock: Greetz ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgrou...more >>

I have added an email program to my vb .net project. 1 problem, everytime i press the send button, an error occurs... "CDO.message". Some help please Greetz ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Serv...more >>

I want to capture the textbox ongotfocus event, but it is missing in the event list. I found the Enter event, but it seems doesn't work. What I'm doing wrog? Thanks in advance Gabor ...more >>

I have a user control that will not allow other, normal, controls to receive focus. It works good the first pass, then holds focus when I re-open the form with the same dataRowView again. Tab passes between controls that are within my usercontrol only. Any ideas? thanks...more >>

Hi All, I am having a problem that is driving me crazy. I have Windows 2000 Professional, Visual Studio Professional, IIS installed and running... I am reading ASP.NET Developer's JumpStart by Paul Sheriff and Ken Getz. I've downloaded the examples and now want to try some of them out. ...more >>

I am trying to connect to an AS400. I can see the files in my Data Connections, but the following code is generating this message: "Comma, ')', or a valid expression continuation expected". The code is: Dim objConnection As New OleDb.OleDbConnection( _ "Provider=MSDASQL.1;Persist Security ...more >>

Hello VB .NET - ADO .NET - SQL Server (MSDE) I want to retrieve the parameters of a stored procedure before execute it. I've already try the fillschema but it return the "return object (table)" and not the stored proc. Thanks Benoist...more >>

How add a line of text to a textfile? I need a way to open an existing file of type .txt insert a line of tekst and then close the file again. TIRislaa ...more >>

Hi All, I'm writing a data access class in which I expose an SQlClient.SQLCommand's Parameters Collection via a property. How would I go about overloading the parameters.add method with one of my own? The reason I wish to do this is be able to supply on one line the Name, Type, Direction...more >>

Hi all Can anyone help. I'm writing an vb .net app that displays stock information and I need to have multi coloured lines on my datagrid so that the line colour is different for each stock category. Example Category 1 Green Row Category 2 Blue Row Category 3 Red Row Category 4 Ye...more >>

Hello, How can I change the output directory for dlls in VB 6.0, (The compile destination directory). Thanks :) ...more >>

hell when i set windowState to Maximize, my i cant see windows tool bar, it's like it goes behind the form, how can i maximize the form and still have windows toolbar show at the bottom ? thanx alot...more >>

Hi I have 2 calenders on a form and am setting a seperate variable for both calender selections. I need to have the variables have scop for the entire form, that is what is set in calender1 selection visible in calender 2 selection function. I tried using th Private test1 as string and private ...more >>

Greetings! I am working with some math functions such as Square Root, but what if i need to use a Cube Root or Nth Root of a certain number, how can I make use of the Square Root function? Or is there another function to use other than SQRT? Hoping for your immediate response. Thank you....more >>

Hi All, I have an object that gets serialized, now when the object gets deserialized I what to be able to pass it an object reference which is not serialized and is used internally by the class. Does anyone now how I can pass an object reference to the class when it is being deserialized. I am...more >>

Greetings! In one of my files, the IDE shows me an icon consisting of a blue arrow pointing up and bent to the right. What does that mean? Thanks! Rob ...more >>

I have been having just on going problems with my MS Datagrids. I have NO idea what I am doing wrong. What is esentially happening is that say I have three records in my Dataset. I click on the third row to populate the textboxes below the grid that correspond to the various columns in the gri...more >>

hi there, here is my problem i wrote a piece of code in vb.net and i used and ADO connection ... i compiled the code and tried to run the exe on another machine, but it wouldnt run . i install the .NET framwork and it work yet the ADO statement faild .. my question, is there an ADO.net Framwork...more >>

Hi, I'm writing a control that inherits from TextBox. I need to adjust the width of this control based on the number of characters in the control. I'm having a hard time with this. The problem (as I see it) is that the size of the font is in points, but the size of the TextBox is in Pixel...more >>

Hi, Is there a code snippet or suggestion on how I might detect whether a computer is connected to a internal network?? Thanks, Merlin ...more >>

I am using the following Try statement. I want to exit the application and cease all processes. I am not sure how to do this. TIA, Steve Try ' Downloads the file myWebClient.DownloadFile(checksSignatureResource, checksSignatureLocalFile) Catch ex As System.Net.WebException MsgBox("Unex...more >>

Hi, I can't remember how to get the sending controls name; used it before but can't find which of my programs has it:- sender.GetType.GetProperty(???????????????? Please help. Thanks, Merlin. ...more >>

I am doing a dataset.Update operation that takes quite a while. Is there any way I can use a progress bar to display the progress of the dataset.Update method? ...more >>

Hi, I would like to make and put a query in my database by VB.NET code. Is this possible? Thanks for your help, wim ...more >>

I'm hoping someone can help me out. I'm a newbie to vb.net still. I'm trying to convert the code below from VB6 to VB.NET. I'm not sure of the best way to go. This is basically a simple application to do scoring for a competition. I'm using an Access database and all of this code happens "b...more >>

Posted before and got a response but still have the program blowing up. Anyone know how to get the icon associated with a file extension and not blow up the program. I want to pass .EXE or whatever and get the icon, then add to a imagelist to display in a listview or treeview control. Eve...more >>

Hi I'm new to VB.NET. I've developped a VB.NET application. But the BUTTONS on my form or any Message Box(MsgBox) contains, are NOT the Windows XP style buttons. I want the XP style buttons to my entire application. I've also created a Manifest file and put it in my application's folder. But if...more >>

hi. i have a thread ,with form. and there is no COM object when he runs. can i still set this thread to run as STA ,even, if i dont use com object ? ...more >>

This is what need to do Win32.User.SendMessage(Win32.User.HWND_BROADCAST, Win32.User.WM_WININICHANGE, 0, "windows") Tried both of these in Win32.User. (one at a time) [DllImport("user32")] public static extern int SendMessage(int hwnd, int wMsg, int wParam, String s); [DllImport("user32"...more >>

How can I find out what folder is MyDocuments for the current user? I figured that I'd find it somewhere in system.environment but I don't see anything useful there. It doesn't look like an environmental variable....more >>

Does anyone know how to list every group that a user is a member of using the System.DirectoryServices namespace I appreciate your help...more >>

Hi. I have a asp.net/vb.net application I'm working on and I want to add some shared functions for some frequently used code. I've put one in my global.asax.vb file as that seemed like a good place to call from elsewhere in the app. Is that an accepted practice? Then, to call it in another aspx....more >>

Anyone have any idea why this code does not work? FileOpen(1, "c:\JUNK\MYTEST.TXT", OpenMode.Binary, OpenAccess.ReadWrite, OpenShare.Shared) Dim X As Integer For X = 1 To 26 FilePut(1, Chr(X + 64)) Next Lock(1, 5, 10) When it hits the ...more >>

Hello all I'm going to try and be brief with my question, please tell me if I have the wrong group. We are querying transaction data from a DB3 database application. The dates are stored as text fields. Each date for example 10/31/03 or October 31st 2003 is stored as 10/31/A3 in the syste...more >>

I have a Dataset containing a DataTable (say, 'dt1') that has all the fields that are contained in a SQL Server database's table. In addition, it contains a field (let's call it 'HasItems') of type boolean. I want to populate 'dt1' with all the records in the SQL Server table, and populate the 'Ha...more >>

>_< If I use the "Drag & Drop" function in the application, then the "Click" function no more work!!!! For example: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click MessageBox.Show("C") End Sub Private Sub Button1_MouseD...more >>

I have a form with two cboboxes with the DropDownStyle set to DropDown. When the form loads, it fills cboCategory1 with data. When the text of cboCategory1 changes (when an item in the list is selected or a new entry is made), cboCategory2 is supposed to fill with relevant categories: \\\ Pr...more >>

why aren't my messages appearing?...more >>

MS or anyone still claims that C# and VB.NET generate the exact same IL code? http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602&page=3 ...more >>

Can anyone help with the code to call the following C routines: /* Memory model that allows to access memory at offsets of lzo_uint. */ #if !defined(__LZO_MMODEL) # if (LZO_UINT_MAX <= UINT_MAX) # define __LZO_MMODEL # elif defined(__LZO_DOS16) || defined(__LZO_WIN16) # define __LZO...more >>

Hi I designed a server with tcp that should listen on a port (9500) for incoming connections I designed a client application that use WebRequest to connect to my server. Anyway, everything works just fine on my PC. Now the client should be able to connect from any intranet/internet computer...more >>

Hi, I have multiple people that working on one VB .net project using separate forms and reports. I was wondering if it was possible to put some forms and reports in seperate folders. I tryed doing this and it would copy the files to the root of the project when I would "add an existing it...more >>

Hi Group, Im trying to Format some coloums on my Datagrid so that only 3 Coloums are show out of the 20 in my Dataset, I just carn`t for the life of me get it to work, i`ve looked everywhere for info but with no joy. Does anybody have any example code links? or even better project links? here ...more >>

How can I send a message (for example WM_MDIMAXIMIZE) to other application from vb.net app? Thanks Boris...more >>

Does anyone have a sample block of code they can share for checking a DWORD value on a remote network machine's registry? For example, to validate a patch deployment. MSDN has a great sample for access the local registry bur I'd like to mount several remote registry to check a specific key for...more >>

I'm looking for something in the 1.1. Framework that works very much the same as the IO.FileSystemWatcher object except for printers, does anyone one know if such an object exists. I'll Explain what I'm doing so you can have a better Idea of what I'm trying to do and why. I have an Applicatio...more >>

Is it possible to drop a file from the VB.Net Application to the "Desktop" or somewhere and start the copy file action? (I already know how to drop in the application, but no idea how to drop out) ...more >>

I am currently writing my first application in VB.Net and have come accross the following problem, my code is as follows 'Alllocate memory for class objects m_oBusiness = New Validation() m_oGetMethods = New RetrieveData() m_oDataReader = New SqlDataReader() lnResult = IIf(m_oGetMethods.Ge...more >>

It says this is not defined though I have for imports: Imports System.Management Imports System Imports System.Configuration.Install Imports System.Management.Intrumentation What am I missing? ...more >>

Can I load the ComboBox with ListViewItems? After I do load them into the comboBox they display as "ListViewItem {"My Item"}. How do I get it to display the text of the ListViewItem correctly?...more >>

Hi, I want to write a VB 5 program that works on the command-line (cmd.exe) and can be used in a pipe (e.g. dir | find "blabla" > textfile.txt). Is there anyone who knows how I put the output to the dos prompt and read from the output of another command-line tool? Thanks, Andreas...more >>

hello, I would like to add a rich text box to a datagrid. does anyone know of any code samples, or any other way where I can display a field in a datagrid and allow the user to click on it and enter a large amount of text, without the datagrid showing all the text in the grid. Thanx in adv...more >>

I want to know how to use the clipboard class. The class take dataobjects. Does that mean that U cannot add controls to the clipboard. I am designing a Form Designer and I want to implement cut,copy and paste for that I need to use the clipboard. But it throws me exception when I try to add any ...more >>

I have wrote function that upgrades access database Public Function UpdateDataTable(ByRef po_dt As System.Data.DataTable) As Boolea Dim conn As New OleDbConnection(mstrConnectionString Dim sTblName As String = po_dt.TableNam Dim dt As Data.DataTabl Dim da As New...more >>

Hi, I'd like to disable an event handles. How to perform that? Thanks ...more >>

PLS, post me file mfc71ud.net (not read from my CD) ! e-mail: kesh@amngr.ru...more >>

Hi I used msi to deploy application. I'd like to know if there is an easy way to upgrade the application with a new msi without unstalling but just upgrading it Thank ...more >>

Hi all. How can I detect CPU speed (in MHz) with .NET (VB or C#)? There are some DLLs or registry tricks, but is there a way detecting it using dotNet's abilities or windows API? thnx in advance....more >>