Hi, I'm developing a customcontrol and try to add some design-time support for my control by using attributes. Unfortunately only the 'CategoryAttribute' works well when I drag my control on a client-form and open the properties-window for the control 'DefaultProperty', 'ToolboxBitmap', 'De...more >>

Dim s As String s = ", ,, 1573 ,," s.Replace(",","").Replace(" ","") doesn't give the desired result "1573" ... apparently because s.Replace() returns a new String instance ... so i figured this would work s = s.Replace(",","").Replace(" ","") but again, i don't get the desired re...more >>

hi i was wondering if there was a HTML object in .net ? I need to access a particular web page in my windows application and to be able to parse it. How is this done ? Is there an Inet control or something like in vb6 ? ...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows how to programmatically determine what version an Access Database is in? Thanks in advance... ...more >>

Hi all! How can i specify, that the generic class have the constructor? With c# it's a new constraint. For instance, i write [code] Class cls1(Of T) Public Sub some() Dim tt As New T() ' here is an error: 'New' cannot be used on a type parameter not declared 'As N...more >>

Does the alpha channel show up correctly or do you have to do anything to get it to work right? thanks! ...more >>

Hi There I am having some difficulty referencing Web Services. I am using Visual Studio .NET 2003, with the .NET Framework 1.1, and trying to write a VB.NET Windows Application that consumes an external Web Service When I endeavour to use the "Add Web Reference" and select a URL which I know ret...more >>

Is there any way to store an extended ascii char in visual basic .net In previous VB chr$(254) ' â–  I need to send ascii chars (8 bit) to a serial port Thanks for any help....more >>

How can I in VB.NET set the width of a label or textbox depending on the length of the string and/or the font size. In my control I'm showing a textbox in a tablecell, which is added to a table row after monitoring several textboxes takes two or even three lines, this is not what i want. So ...more >>

Hi ! I cant see the frame control in the toolbox in VS.NET. Can someone tell me how I can add this to my Solution/Project ? Thanks...more >>

Hi all, Someone Know a component to build menus like the visual studio menu(with icons) or the office menu. It's better if the component is free, but not necessarily. Thanks in Advance. Fabio ...more >>

I'm trying to load a form from the Sub Main procedure in a module (I set Sub Main as the startup object). I have this line in the declarations section: Public MnFrm As New MainForm In the Sub Main procedure, I have this line: MnFrm.Show() But when I run the program, the form displays it...more >>

I recently downloaded and installed the .NET Framework 1.1. Previously, I had 1.0. The installation was successful, but when I go to the About Microsoft Development Environment menu item in the Help menu of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, it lists Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 at the top (as it did...more >>

Consider the following scenario: A data packet is sent out of a serial port and a return packet is expected a short time later. The application sending the packet needs to send another packet as soon as the return packet has been received. It needs to wait for the return packet, but time ou...more >>

I want to get characters for given ascii codes. Dont wanna use the CHR or ChrW functions. What r the .NET equivilents of the Chr & ChrW functions? Regards, Abubakar. ...more >>

It was SO easy in VB6. Add a few methods, set a few funky properties and *BAM*, type-safe collection class that supports the For Each...Next syntax. I've been trying to do this in VB.NET with little success. I started inherting DictionaryBase because of the Key retrieval ability, but my code...more >>

Alright, last thing I need. Does anyone know of an object browser that can read a DLL other than an ActiveX/COM or .NET library. Again, C Library problem, need to see if the structs are defined. Thanks, CJ ...more >>

Hello, I want to use the Beep() to alert users about certain messages but in my workstation I can't get a sound out of it. But Beep works in VB6. What do I need to do? Sub... .... Beep() For i = 0 to 100: Beep(): Next MsgBox "testing" .... No sound. Is it my workstation or do I ...more >>

I’m relatively new to .NET. I would like to write a VB.NET app (I read that using C# isn't as elegant when dealing with Office products) that reads in Excel files (forms) of both 2000 and 2003 versions, off a file system. I want to access the different cells, some fixed and some variable, and re...more >>

Thank you in advance. I'm trying to compile to an EXE a VB.net application I've built, but I can't find a way to do it. HELP Please!! Michael...more >>

(using VB.net) Hi, I've created my own component inheriting from the RichTextBox. I override the WndProc's WM_NCPAINT so I can draw my own border (color). When I set my BorderColor property, then I want to refresh my component to draw the new bordercolor. I've tried with invalidate ...more >>

I made changes to my VB.NET application so I need to uninstall the existing version of my app and reinstall the new changed version. I rebuilt my solution on my development computer and uninstalled the application on the target pc by going to add/remove programs. This works fine But now when...more >>

Hi, I'm creating an application that connect to the dabase (MsAccess) I get this message on some computer. Have Any Idea???? Thank you ----------------------------------------------------------------------- See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instea...more >>

When useing a Crystal Report (CR) bound to a dataset.xsd, the paramenter do not show up in the CR Field Exploere. Yes I can access them via my VB.Net code, but I am unable to access them and their values from within my CR document formula code Is there a way to access these paramenters from wit...more >>

Recently, I was charged with developing an ODBC driver for a proprietary database. I have no experience in developing ODBC drivers. Looking to see if there are any resources for this other than th 3,000 - 25,000 dollar SDK's. -CJ ...more >>

I've looked for a 'module' and used the class viewer to put it in there, but 'Public UserID As String' is still not a globally visible string. How do I do this please? Thanks, Trint .Net programmer trintsmith@hotmail.com *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't j...more >>

I have a StatusBar control docked to the bottom of the screen, a horizontal splitter control just above that, and then a DataGrid control that has its docking property set to Fill above that. (I'm trying to create a "Properties Window" similar to the Properties Window in Visual Studio). The pr...more >>

If you embedded an icon into a dll, how would you get access to it form inside the dll and return it to the calling app? I know how to return it, just I cant figure out how to access the embedded resource in the dll from the dll (which is an icon) i can though figure out how to get an embedded...more >>

Hello all again, insearch of a new thingy that eludes me. I need a way to export data into an .xls file without having Office of Excel installed on the local machine. I am a strong believer that I can't dictate the coftware that my clients use, and one needs excel, so I need to include this ca...more >>

Hi Everybody Anyone please help us on this we do not know why we received an error like this we notice this when we are using Windows 2000 but this Error does not show in Windows XP we used to code like this: Dim myproc as new ProcessStartInfo myproc = "http.//www.mysite.com" myproc.a...more >>

Hey how do I import an old C library that doesn't expose COM or anything like that? Would I do it like an API declaration? I have a function in a tbl.dll file such that... tbl_get() no params. Thanks, CJ ...more >>

Hi all I want to send a fax with WebService in vb.net; I use this code to send a fax with FaxService in Windows XP Dim FXServ As New FAXCOMLib.FaxServe Dim FXDoc As FAXCOMLib.FaxDo Dim iFaxJob As Intege FXServ.Connect("\\localhost" FXDoc = CType(FXServ.CreateDocument("C:\fax.doc"), FAXCOMLi...more >>

Hi all, After I read a web page (HTML, ASP ...) into a string, how do I get all links in this string into an array? Thanks ...more >>

I have been looking in the newsgroup but cannot find what I need. I am using Visual Studio to to build a VB.Net application using System.Web.UI.Page NOT windows.forms. The server fills a textbox and sends it to the client. Initially I wanted to print the textbox but after viewing the complexity i...more >>

ok my code that im doing in .net is now starting to look fairly complicated, what started out as a small project has grown and grown and its time for some house keeping of my code im trying to implement a .h (c++) file for use of a better word all i want to do is have one file which has all ...more >>

Hello, i'm in real trouble and don't know how to handle it! May someone can give me a hint? Following problem: In my application you can drag&drop a file from the explorer. In my application this file will be encrypted and then you should be able to drag&drop the file from the application to t...more >>

I want to pass parameters to my app in VB.net, but cannot find anything in the help that would allow me to pas switches to my app and then read the switches in code so i can affect results, I know that you must be able to do this, but I can find nothing on it. Any ideas, suggestions? Thanks ...more >>

Hello I'm trying to open a form from within another form I do this several times, and it works okay, but it won't work for this specific form There are 4 forms that show in the Solutions list, but only 2 of them show up automatically when typing the code to open them I'm using the code d...more >>

Hi All, I'm asking for opinion for the best way forward with storing the path of a network shared document in a SQL Server table. Essentially, I want to store in a part record the path to it's actual word document on my client's network. Currently, I am storing the mapped drive path when th...more >>

Is there anyway to detect whether the .NET Application is Run in "Release" or "Debug" mode of Configuration Manager(Active Solution Configuration) by coding ??? ...more >>

I'm trying unsuccessfully to access some functions within an external DLL; sorry I don't know much about DLL classification, but AFAIK it's not an ActiveX DLL, but a vanilla one written probably in C. I've copied the DLL to my project folder (mydll.dll), but beyond that haven't added any refe...more >>

Hi, I have a function that copys a file, and I would like to use a = ProgressBar, but i can't find a good example anywhere. The one in the = help files uses a copy function that returns a value. Maybe if I knew = how to do that........Anyway, any help is appreciated. Steve Private Sub...more >>

I am running on MS WinXP Pro. I have my virtual directories set up properly. If i run just a simple "hello world" application it works fine. i have the following code, which was downloaded from the internet from the book that i am using, and it worked fine. but then i transferred to a new comput...more >>

I did have UserID as 'Dim UserID As String'. Ok, when I made it 'Public UserID As String', in the Public Area of one program and took out all the 'local' declairations of it, even in the other programs that need to see the same value of UserID, UserID was getting the 'UserID is not declaired' m...more >>

Greetings! I am rewriting a VB6 application in VB .Net. The database (which was converted from Access 97 into Access 2000) has two nearly identical queries. One, called GetNewOrderNumber, is: SELECT IIF ((SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Orders), Max(Order_number) + 1, 1) AS NewOrderNumber FROM Order...more >>

I am writing an active X dll and need to run a telnet session from it. I setup a class module and a form. The internet tranfer control is on the standard VB form. When I run the connect method, I do not get any of the events to fire on the control. ie the winsock.state stays at 6 (attempting ...more >>

Hi everyone Can I create a TextBox component and place it in my tool box with the standard edition of VB.net? What I'd like to do is to create a TextBox control, and then add some specific properties and methods to it. After this is done I would like to place 3 of them on a user control. (this ...more >>

Hello I have a little problem i have a checkedlistbox with several repeated items. The code below only selects the first ocurrence While reader.Read For i = 0 To Me.CheckedListBox1.Items.Count - 1 Me.CheckedListBox1.SetItemChecked (Me.CheckedListBox1.FindString(reader.GetStrin...more >>

Hi I have a form with borderstyle set to None, so i don't have a title bar I would like to drag my form by dragging a label on the form, instead of the title bar can anyone give me a hint than ...more >>

I'm using an OleDbConnection, OleDbDataAdapter, DataSet, and DataGrid to display the filtered contents of a database. In this database, there are thousands of names, and some of them are identical. Is there a way to search for the next instance of a name in a database? Whenever I search for a nam...more >>

I have a problem formatting a string I have a decimal myDecimal which contains 0,3 What I want to display in a string is "€ 0,30" So here's what I do Dim myString As Strin Dim prov As NumberFormatInfo = New NumberFormatInf prov.CurrencySymbol = "€ prov.CurrencyPositivePattern = prov....more >>

Windows XP I am playing an encrypted audio CD on my PC which comes with its own player - CDS-200 from Macromedia. This seriously interferes when I am running my .NET app. in debug mode. Stepping through code becomes virtually impossible. If I then pause the music, all is restored to normal...more >>

I have a dll that I use to communicate with a device. I try to use one off the functions but always get the same erro: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. This is the declaration of my function Private Declare Function SCN_Open_Device Lib "scn_scsi.dll" Alias "SCN_Op...more >>