Hi. A couple of months ago, I ordered the Visual Studio .NET upgrade from Microsoft and installed it. Today, I just realized that I have both the 2002 and 2003 IDEs on my system. Did I do something wrong upgrading? I thought that the 2002 IDE would be upgraded and essentially become th...more >>

I use a bitmap class new bitmap(filepath) this should and does load my jpg into memory. I then want to use mybitmap.save(filepath,imaging.imageformat.jpeg) to save it; overwriting the original. If this outfile path is different there is no problem but when it is the same file it blows up...more >>

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Dim AESobj As Object Dim boolResult As Boolean Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER As Integer = &H80000001 Dim strResult As String AESobj = CreateObject("AESRegLib.AESRegistryObject") boolResult = AESob...more >>

Hi, I am building deployment project for my vb.net application. The process is pretty much clear except one thing. I'd like to include a folder with icons for my application. How can I do that? Regards, Dino -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------...more >>

for a function parameter of a non-reference datatype ... such as date or boolean .... how to determine if the parameter was not specified in the calling code ? in vb6 we would have used the IsMissing() function ... ...more >>

If i inherite a queue class into my class, and do an override of the enqueue member, how would i then go about actually doing an enqueue of an item? I am a little confused on this one... does over ride just add aditional code ontop of the current class or completely over ride it in vb? I am us...more >>

Hello, I'm a junior in using VB.NET. I encountered the following problem: I have a form with some buttons (change password, change username, logout etc.) and below those buttons I have a label that I want to display some text, depending what button was pressed (i.e. Changing Password, etc.)...more >>

Greetings. I received 4 VB .NET books and looking through the indices and tables of contents, I see that none of them addresses multithreading in VB ..NET. I just bought a bunch of books because they were so cheap. Does anyone have any suggestions for books that cover multithreading? I h...more >>

1. No Columns collection. 2. No ability to easily synchronize the underlying DataTable of a DataGrid when a row is deleted in the Grid. Once you sort (via the column headers) all bets are off as to whether the current row index of the data grid can be used directly as the Rows index of the Data...more >>

I found the following bug in Vs 2003. In Vs 2002 I was able to open window with Tasks for permanent. In 2003, when I build the project, it closes the task window and I have to return it back manually. The only reason for me to stay still with Vs.2002 (and DotNET Fw 1.0)... Did anybody face...more >>

Do you know of a way to load a hash table with random key/value pairs (e.g., 2/"Two",1/"One",3/"Three") and then iterate through the entries in "sorted" (key sequence) order (1/"One",2/"Two",3/"Three")? The following just returns them in the order they were loaded: Dim hshPrimaryKeyInfo as New...more >>

Hi all, Suppose I have a single file (over the capacity of a single CD) to be packed into my setup project and the whole VB.NET application is to be distributed on 2 or more CDs. Any recommendations on how I can go about presumably compressing that file and creating the installation CDs? T...more >>

Does anybody knows, how can I address multiply network adapters on one computer? I've looked up through classes reference and found nothing. Thanks in advance. -- .... blood, sugar, sex, magic ......more >>

I have a few users who are getting the error "Cast from string '1/1/2004' to type 'Date' is not valid". The code which causes the error is the following: Dim LoginString As String = "1/1/2004" LoginDate = CDate(LoginString) Any idea what might be causing this error? Thanks! ...more >>

Hey anyone knows how to find an item in a list view based on text ? Cant seem to get the IndexOf method working. would the LVM_FINDITEM method using SendMessage API work in .Net ? ...more >>

Here is the situation. I want to display Icons, Type of file etc from a file extension. Upon initial program load I may only need icons for certain files. But other operations will require showing all filetypes and icons. I have an object that has extension, desc (like Word Document) and t...more >>

Hey anyone knows how to find an item in a list view based on text ? Cant seem to get the IndexOf method working. would the LVM_FINDITEM method using SendMessage API work in .Net ? ...more >>

In VB.Net 2003 use the scale method of any gui-window in your application with parameter (0) (that's a zero) and run the code. When this line of code is executed your PC's OS (windows 2000 Professional SP3 in my case) will lock up. No tasks can be killed or anything, you'll need to reset the mac...more >>

In my current asp.net application i'm getting the user network short name and displaying that on the screen. What I want is the users Full name and display that instear. How can i go about doing that, would I use LDAP or Active directory to do that? I never had to do this and not sure how to d...more >>

Using VS2003, VB.NET, MSDE... The code below is from a demo program. I don't under stand the Byval e as CancelEventsArgs as an argument, and then the first line of code e.cancel = false. What is 'e' used for? How is it generated? Thanks Bob Private Sub FormB_During_Closing(ByVal s...more >>

Hi. What's the best way to do file input, if you are particularly interested in reading numbers from columns 26-37 in a text file? Thanks, Lisa...more >>

If this is not the right newsgroup for this question please direct me. I have been using VB.net for stand alone and client/server kinds of things but am beginning to explore its use for web applications. I need to ask a couple of real basic questions. My understanding is that if you are goi...more >>

am getting data back from the db as name\region. How can I split that in VB.NET and only show the region? ...more >>

How can I find the textbox (handle?) e.g. from http://www.microsoft.com/ on the right top corner from my program? And how can I identify the textbox again, if a new browser window is opened with the same page? Both textboxes have different handles. How can I recognize the same textbox? Marc...more >>

Hi Guys Am I just dumb or is there some new way to get a form property? eg In frmClient I have: Private _ClientID As Integer Public Property ClientID() As Integer Get Return _ClientID End Get Set (ByVal Value As Integer) _ClientID = Value End Set En...more >>

Hey guys, Is it possible in VB.NET to do owner drawn menus? I want to spice up my menus a bit with graphics and colors. Can this be done? If so, please point out some tutorials on this matter. Thank you in advance. ...more >>

Is there a way to determine if the scrollbar is present and what the width of it (or the inner control area) is I'm trying to calculate the column widths to fill the ListView area when viewing 'Detail'. If the V-Scrollbar appears it covers up part of my last column, then the H-Scrollbar appears ...more >>

Hi I am running a console program through my own VB front end. I am redirecting the StandardOut and StandardInput streams to and from textboxes so that the VB front end acts like a console. My problem is that the console program outputs a message, then a newline, then a prompt character (<mes...more >>

Hi, I have a VB.Net program that extracts data from Word document tables and saves it off to Sql Server. I notice that when it gets to the database, there are two nonprintable characters on the end of each field. I thought of using substring-before to parse these out, but I'm not sure how to re...more >>

Greetings! I see from the group archives that a lot of people don't like how Snap to Grid works when placing controls on forms. I am now among that number. When I had the Windows Forms Designer option for snap to grid set to False and the form's SnapToGrid and DrawGrid properties left at thei...more >>

Before in VB 6 I used to reference for examplea progressbar1 doin the following Form1.ProgressBar1.val =1 Now how do I refrence a control for a module if the control is in a different form Thanks ...more >>

I could do this is VB6 but can't figure out .net yet. I need to be able to access a data file that has a list of printers, with their corrisponding share name and computer that they are sat on (Which I have already generated as a CSV file). In VB6 I would use the data control to load this in...more >>

I don't know how to select a line in a LISTVIEW control. In VB6 it looked like lv.ListItems(i).Checked = True, if I remember, but I don't find the write way in VB.NET. RR Thanks ...more >>

Hello, we have data sitting on AS400 (V4R5M0) - DB2-400. I need to access that from my vb.net application. I don't know anything about AS400. Is it possible to get data from tables and stored procedures? can somebody give me the code which shows how to do that? Thanks...more >>

I need to get the signal level from the wave in input from a soundblaster. I have tried to modify a program I found that uses the winmm.dll functions. I was able to open up the mixer , but I then tried to load a meter using mixerGetLineInfo and mixerGetLineControls functions, it was unab...more >>

I have the following code that I get "Cannot convert from DacsaSupport.Inventory to DacsaNET.Inventory" Public Function RetrieveItem(ByVal Product_ID As String) As Inventory Dim RemoteInventory As New DacsaSupport.Inventory If RemoteInventory.Populate(Product_ID) Then ...more >>

Hi, What are the replacement methods in the .net framework for the old vb functions such as IsNumeric(), IsDate(), etc... Thanks --Michael ...more >>

What is the easiest way to get data from xml assuming that it confirms to the default microsoft schema? Thanks, Matt ...more >>

When I access Email Address, A message show up A Program is trying to access e-mail addresss you have stored in outlook. Do you want to allow this? How to get rid of this message. Thanks...more >>

If vb.net is asking me to enter 'Color as system.UInt32' , what's the value of Black?? THANX IN ADVACE...more >>

I'm a newbie. I've created a datalayer class which I creatively called sqlAccess and placed in a namespace I just as creatively called MyDomain.DataAccessLayer. (Well now, I didn't actually use "MyDomain" but you know how that works.) And now I'm working on the business logic layer. When I impor...more >>

Hi, Good Day! Reading 1 excel file into a dataset is fine. How can I read multiple excel with the same data structure into 1 dataset? How can I append those data? Can someone help? Thanks in advanced. rgds, Phoebe. ...more >>

I have a class called LineItems. It implements IEnumerable. It uses an ArrayList to hold objects. When I try to serialize the object that contains LineItems (an object called Order), I get an error that reads: You must implement the Add(System.Object) method on LineItems because it inherits...more >>

I need to set a parameter for a function as optional and color... how can I do that, because seems I cant set structure as optional parameter -- Cheers, Crirus ------------------------------ If work were a good thing, the boss would take it all from you ---------------------------...more >>

....or am I missing something? Setup: - I've created an empty Winforms project, and added two buttons A and B. - Button A's Image property is set to point to a imagefile calles "users.png" - Added an imagelist and added the SAME image to this list, setting the properties (size etc.) exactl...more >>

I'm trying to build a routine that will take a specified file from the user's local hard drive, and copy it to a remote server via WebDAV. I've tried using both HttpWebRequest and FileWebRequest, as outlined in some samples I found on MSDN and elsewhere, but so far have had no luck whatsoever. ...more >>

Which would be the better solution? 1.) 20 Tables In 1 DataSet, no relationships. 2.) 20 DataSet's with 1 Table each. The tables have no relationship with each other (although they represent data retrieved from normalized databases, they are normalized themselves. Basically, if I have...more >>

We're going to look at some real version control programs out there. I have heard good comments about CVS, Visual Source Safe, and Perforce. What do people in this community use? Can anyone make some recommendations or comment about these and others? Or, does anyone know some good online com...more >>

I am building a VB.NET application in Visual Studio.NET 2003. I have an existing project with code and forms I want to reuse in this project. If I am copying a module file, then Add Existing Item works fine. However, if I am copying a form, it pulls it in as a module file, not as a form. I ha...more >>

I'm creating a Custom Plug-in for an ATI Remote, I downloaded there SDK but the damn thing is all in Unmanaged C++. In there example they are posting messages to a Window to get the command to execute.. So that I don't have to change much of the C++ code, I want to post message for my applicat...more >>

Hi, I want to add a tab control to a form I am working on. I drag and drop the tab control to the form, but where do I go from there? How do you make seperate tabs? Please help!...more >>

Hi, I manage to send fax with the faxserver object. Now I would like to schedule fax on a date. Do you have any idea? THank you for your help....more >>

In a very simple learning project, I have a form and a UserControl in the same project. The first time I place the UserControl on the form, it is fine, however, if I make changes to the UserControl, those changes will not be reflected on the form, even if I delete the UserControl from the form and ...more >>

Hi, A stupid question but .... How to add the axWebBrowser in the reference section ? Stan ...more >>

How does one find an item within a listview by just the text property of an item ? I know im suppose to pass a ListViewItem to the IndexOf method but what do i set to the ListViewItem object ? Just the text value of the item im searching ? i.e ls = New ListViewItem("string to search") dim...more >>

Hi Can anybody tell me how would I attach scrollbars to a picturebox ? The example given in MSDN is pretty good.But I have a different problem. I have to do other stuff with the picturebox as well like moving it, rotating it. Therefore, a solution with two pictureboxes (like the one given in MSDN...more >>

HI I have a VB.NET application in which my Image (from a picturebox) is opened by the user in another application like MSPaint or Photoshop or whatever he chooses. The image does open there.But after making changes, the user cannot save the image since it throws an error : "Access denied.File is in...more >>

Hi I have a sorted array containing strings. I am iterating through the array and clearing the contents one by one using "array.BinarySearch" to find each element. So far so good. But the moment I come to the last element, the BinarySearch method fails.It gives me a return value which is negative a...more >>

hello i need to localize mz programe to some languages and i should do that by using unicod well, since i never did that kind of a thing, i need help how to do it how can use unicode in vb6 and is it the best way to read texts from some *.txt or.... thank you very much!!! iva ...more >>