trying to use code below to create dynamic variables but no success, what am I missing ? -------------------------- for i = 0 to 2 dim vString as string = "Dim submenu" & Cstr(i) & " As New skmMenu.MenuItem(" & tab.TabName & ", """")" EXECUTE (vString) next ...more >>

I am now doing my final year project using VB.NET. The project is about implement a multiplayer network game. But now I am stuck in the connection part, no idea in how to start to write the network application. Hope anyone can give me any hint or help... Thank you... Chin Fui ...more >>

Hi all, If I remember correctly, in VB you can refer to your controls from a module simply by referring to ControlContainer, ie. Form1.Textbox1.Text = "something". I have added a module to my project in .Net and I cannot access any of my controls in Form1. In fact referring to Form1 brings ...more >>

I'm new to visual studio. Is there an easy way to 'snap shot' a copy of a project from inside visual studio? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, Is there a 'shorter' way to find a string within a text file without 'testing' each character or using the LineInput function. Does the StreamReader have any search facility? Thanks, Phil ...more >>

I've been googling this for awhile, but can't seem to find anything really solid on skinning a windows forms app. I know how to skin the internal stuff but would like to see an example of stuff like the titlebar and pushbuttons, etc... Thanks, CJ ...more >>

Again I need your help, cuz I'm out of idea ! I get an error at runtime at the indicated line : System.NullReferenceException occured in MyApp.exe If I continue, I get : System.TypeInitializationException occured in unknown module ... Help on these matters is chinese to me. In a standa...more >>

Hi ! I am trying to dispose of the startup form in my application a login form (frmLogin) after it calls the main form (frmMain). I cant seem to get it to work. Here is my code. frmLogin Code ============== Sub btnSave_Click Dim mainF As New frmMain mainF....more >>

I'm very green with this concept. I saw a post before which applied I think, but I can now not find it. I am using Mappoint, a com control which can be very slow to load. I was thinking as a browsed through the post that I could make the form "show" faster if I loaded the control through a s...more >>

Hi I saw the help file for the DataGridColumnStyles object but after reading the overview of it I didnt understand anything... its way too complex for a beginnner like me :( Is it possible for you to give me a simple explanation.. and how I could use that object for what I want? For people read...more >>

The following code works fine: Dim sr As StreamReader = New StreamReader("c:\htdogpro\bhome.htm") htmstring = sr.ReadToEnd() msg.Body = htmstring msg.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html ' as opposed to mailformat.text However, if the htm file has images, they do not go along with the text str...more >>

Is there any performance or end-result size difference if you define several classes in a single module as opposed to defining each class in a separate module? Thanks. Jerry ...more >>

Hi all, I'm trying to create a Word Template, that reads and xml file when a new document is created. The xml file contains information of all employees, that use the template to create a letter. At startup the user should select an employee and then specific information for that employee sh...more >>

Hi ! i need some help and advice i am using asp.net to make a email application it is complete but just one thing , i want to create a pop account at the mail server from my scripts is that possilbe??? by soap or some thing else ? Please let me know and if it is possilbe can you dire...more >>

Trying to get No Touch Deployment working, which is having a .net exe = application on a webserver. My Asp.net page links to the .exe and when = the user clicks on the hyper link, the exe is downloaded and executed = locally. I've got the application downloading , but now I'm having = trouble ex...more >>

How can I do this if a certain event happens within my program? Can I use a hotmail.com account or one of the tribidz.com that comes with my hosting account? Is there a free way to do it? Dim email As New System.Web.Mail.MailMessage email.To = "trintsmith@hotmail.com" email....more >>

Hello everyone, sorry to invade your group. I'm only a casual VB programmer. I'm usually using it to automate some simple text file I/O. Sub testopenwebpage() Const www = "http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2003-09-17/music.html/1/index.html" Dim EachLine Open www For Input As #4 Do While...more >>

What are the best events to hide and unhide the progressbar when navigating to web pages using the AxWebBrowser control. I have tried a couple of events i.e. BeforeNavigate2 to set the pbar.visible to True and the DocumentComplete to set pBar.Visible to False but none seem to function the way I...more >>

Hi I'm new with vb.net I've got application of single form 2 buttons and text field When I try to run my progra I get the following messag 'Sub Main' was not found in 'LoanCalculator.Form1' Where should I put Sub main and what should it contain Thank you in advance Pavel...more >>

Is there a way to substitute for two words using a single Regex command. I would like to do the following substitutions in a text fil From "sans" to "without From "stupid" to "questionable Using two Regex passes is simple. Can it be done in one?...more >>

I need to send a email to a person with my program. Does anybody know how to do that in Visul Basic? I would really like to know how! thanks, Joe...more >>

Hi How do I get textbox text to be formatted on the fly as entering. I have a textbox which will hold numerics larger than a million which I want to autoformat i.e FormatNumber, so that it makes it easier for the person inputting to visually see what they are entering i.e they could enter 10...more >>

I am trying to code a program which when a person enters values in a text box the program should wait for a + or a - to be entered before adding the number to a list box. How do I code it so that the program checks each entry? (the + or - should be the trigger for lstList.Items.Add) Thanks...more >>

Hi I am trying to add a checkbox programmatically next to a list box but with each new item added to the list box it should have a corresponding checkbox. I therefore tried to use a variable for the y co-ordinate to the control. The initial value should be 13 and then should increment by 17 for...more >>

Does anybody know what language computer game programmers use? can you program games with visual studio .net? would they be of good quality? ...more >>

Dim EP As System.Net.IPEndPoint = New System.Net.IPEndPoint(mIP, mPort) Dim S As Socket = New Socket(EP.AddressFamily, SocketType.Dgram, ProtocolType.Udp) S.SetSocketOption(Sockets.SocketOptionLevel.Socket, Sockets.SocketOptionName.SendTimeout, Me.mTimeOUT) ....... it crashes with Ex...more >>

I updated a project that has everything late bound (Sqldmo and scripting runtime). It works in VB6, came across fine in the upgrade process, compiled.... sounds great so far hmmm? It works fine when I test it on another machine with the .NET loaded on it. I tried it on a machine that doesn't...more >>

Hi, I fill a datgrid with data from a xml document, it works fine But.... Now I will to filter the data to the grid so only the data shows from the criteria that I set. My code now is very simple to fill the grid Dim strProj As String Dim MyA As String() ...more >>

What could be the common or possible reasons that can slow down an VB.NET windows database (SQL Server) application. What is the normal time needed for such an application to initialize and show is first, start up form. I used stored procedures for every communication with database and the bi...more >>

I am developing an MDI database access app that will be used by people with varying access rights. Is it possible to make menu items show or be hidden based upon the authority of the user? BTW...the user's access level is stored in the db and stored as a public variable upon successful authent...more >>

Iam very new to .net, in vb6 there was the flexigrid component, you could add rows, columns .. change their width, height, header captions etc very easily... but in .net all I see is one DataGrid. I want to add columns and rows to it, change their header captions etc but it does not give me any o...more >>

Are there any methods that indicate whether a string can be used as a full path for a file? For example, what I'm looking for is a method that would test for things like correct file name format, invalid characters, total number of characters (to make sure the path is not too long), existing local ...more >>

Can anyone tell me what the purpose is to adding items such as a VBScript file or HTML document to your VB.NET project? Once you have these things added, how to you access them and use them in your code?...more >>

Thanks alot Charles m8, your suggestion was very useful, Iam very new to vb.net ... I used application.run and it works fine but I do not know what "Application.Run" means.. what it does.. But Thankyou for your help...more >>

Greetings, I have a problem. I have a client that has an database full of email address. He wants me to make it so when he types an email in the TO box that it check the database instead of Outlook Address book. I know this can be done by either customizing the form or making an Add-in. I am a...more >>

Hi, I pass datasets back and forth between client app and web services (hosted on iis 5). When written to xml file these datasets can be 500kb+. From a bandwitdth meter it seems this amount it tripled to about 1500kb for total traffic to send or receive these datasets thru the webservice. ...more >>

I'm a real newbie so I apologize for the easy question. I have academic version of vb.net 2003. I am trying to write a multiline textbox with data from a text file. Properties for the textbox are multiline = true, scrollbars = both, wordwrap = false. I actually have two textboxes side by sied...more >>

For a Windows Form or a Console application that utilises class libraries, does the search order include the local directory? ...more >>

who can I get the value of a selected "field" of a listview? what I need to know is which index is selected and for exemple LVtasks.items(SELECTEDiNDEX).text is that? tks ...more >>

I have a vb.net app that is controling excel 2000 thru the com interop interface. I have referenced the excel 9.0 library and have cut down the code in the problem subroutine to this: Dim objExcelApp As New Excel.Application objExcelApp.Quit() objExcelApp = Nothing ...more >>

Trying to learn VB .NET is proving to be an extremely slow & tedious adventure. For example... VB .NET won't let me add my own SUBS or FUNCTIONS to Form1.vb. So I created a module and put my SUBS in there. I can call the SUBS from the Form1.vb, but I can't reference the controls in Form1.vb...more >>

This is my problem :- - I have set a form frmSplash as the startup form instead of sub Main. - This means I dont create an instance of it myself at startup.. its automatically created. - I have a timer on frmSplash set to 3000 ms interval - and here is its tick event : Private Sub tmrStartup...more >>

Is is possible to write to a CD-RW drive directly from Visual Basic code...(eg. Access 2002 form modual) DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputTable, "tblTest", acFormatXLS, "E:\Test.xls", False this will write data to any drive but a CD drive.......more >>

Have someone an example for a Telnet application in vb.net?? ...more >>

Hi I'm new to .net. I would like to develop a web application where I can drag a 'Customer Name" from a tree list and drop it on a "Update Customer Address Button" . Are there any simple VB examples that show Drag-and-Drop for a beginner. ...more >>

Hi! I would like to develop a kind of an telephone answering machine for my computer... This means that I need to figure out how to... Detect a phone ringing. Answer the call. Play wave to phone line. Record Wave from phone line. (Hopefully to stream) Hang up. But the problem is that I ...more >>

I'm a newbie to the whole .NET Framework. I need to create a Web Interface to search Active Directory and pull out all the Users and Contacts of a domain. What would be the best langauge to do this in? I was able to do this with VB6 as a windows application but I want to be able to do it through a W...more >>

Hi, Is it possibel to include installation of dotnetfx and mdac in a setup project ? Tnx Totto ...more >>

I have tried all the solutions I have found on the web, including the syncfusion solutions I can get the combobox on the grid ok, but it does not behave like a regular combobox Example On a form, you can tab to a combobox, F4 to dropdown, up/down arrow to scroll, and Enter to select choice On a ...more >>

Hi I'm new to VS.Net Crystal Report. I'm using data sets as the source for crystal report. I've a dataset which has 2 data tables. The first table's schema is like this Ptid String Prid String Chid String PtName String Count int The columnc Ptid, Prid and Chid are the primary key co...more >>