Is there any way to show - until I save - the changed lines in vs .net 2003? Would be helpful to review changes while I'm making them. Thanks for any help. Bernie Yaeger ...more >>

Does ayone know what Class is used to enable Registry Auditing? Any help would be great. ...more >>

Can a datagrid have thumbnails and hyperlinks? Does anyone have a good sample of that? And is a datagrid better than results pages on searches of a sql server database? Thanks, Trint .Net programmer trintsmith@hotmail.com *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't...more >>

Hi! How to make a transparent ComboBox?=20 Thank Victor...more >>

I don't want to have to do it outside of the vs.net environment...would like to know how to do it with webform and vb.net...the pages need to look a lot like search results on this site except with a thumbnail picture beside the description of an item...how can I do this? Thanks, Trint .Net ...more >>

In vb, how do I find out what type of control an object is? In other words, I want to find out if the Object LastName is a textbox or an image object. ...more >>

How do you iterate thru a dataset to change money fields to a different value? Here's what I have. My dataset is filled directly from a stored procedure. ' Create Instance of Connection and Command Object Dim myConnection As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection(ConfigurationSettings.AppSetting...more >>

Greetings! I am trying to build the add-in I threatened to in my last post. I started by invoking the Add-In Wizard. I then built the resulting project without doing anything else to it. I didn't find anything to invoke the add-in with. Nothing new appeared in the Tools menu, and no new bu...more >>

I'm looking at using the result of DataTable.Select as the DataSource for a ComboBox. Is there an easy way to do this with a minimum of code. I tried to bludgeon it into submission by writing: myComboBox.DataSource = myDataTable.Select and got appropriately vulgar results. I know I could...more >>

The form designer adds unnecessary code to the section when using a subclassed control. I've reproduced this in VS.NET 2002 and VS.NET 2003 so it's pretty fundamental. Outline steps: Create a VB project. Create a subclass of a UI control, I used TextBox. Add no code to the subclass. Public...more >>

Is there any way i can select a number of records from a database and display then. Then give the user the ability to double click on any record to add the contents to a text box. (i will format the contents as xml) Is there anyway of interfacing with a datagrid other than using the Grid.Item(...more >>

Hello, I am trying to have my distributed client machies share a configuration file located on a file share. I would like to use the ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings wrapper for accessing the key-value pairs that I would use. Is it possible to do this? All of the documentation shows using...more >>

I found the icons for files and folders using Call SHGetFileInfo(subDir, 0, mSHI, mSHISize, Win32.Shell.SHGFI_ICON) but can't find the system icon for MyComputer. Later I'd like to also find a way of tapping into the icons used by the system for MyNetworkPlaces, Desktop ... Any sugges...more >>

Hi All... I'm having a bit of difficulty displaying results into a datagrid. My search queries a .CVS file. The Code is as follows: Dim DS As System.Data.DataSet Dim MyCommand As System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter Dim MyConnection As System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection MyConnection = ...more >>

Is there anyway to force an area of the desktop to redraw in VB.NET? - Don ...more >>

All: Can anyone tell me why my animated GIF does not show up as animated when put into a pictureBox?? Thanks. Liz...more >>

I need to be able to generate unique names for files. I was considering that hash alogorithms, but if I had two files with the same name, I'd get the same hash. I am collecting and storing files and I want to store them all in the same directory and I want the names to be cryptic and unique. A...more >>

Using VS 2003, VB.NET, MSDE... This is incredible misleading that the following produces a results of #2/13/04# if you hover your mouse over the Date_Time_Begin, although I do think its value is #2/13/04 12:00:00AM#. This should be correct. ' convert into date. Dim Date_Time_Begin As D...more >>

I am trying to populate a combo box with information from a table in an Oracle Database. Here is the information I have: OLEDBCONNECTION: OleDbConnection OLEDBDATAADAPTER: daModel Dataset: ds_Model There are 2 columns in the table I am trying to query: Model_ID and Descriptio The name of my ...more >>

Hello, I created a small dotnet exe on a workstation with VS.Net. When I tried loading this app on another workstation (win2k), an error message said I was missing some dll. If I load the dotnet framework 1.1 would that fix my problem? Do I need to load the CLR first on a workstation...more >>

I'm looking for a JavaScript/.net replacement for Netscape's window.outerWidth that will work in IE and was wondering is their a way of determining if the search/history/favorites/etc. sidebar is open ??? Any other suggestion on how to find the total with of the IE window would be appreciated...more >>

Greetings, I'm running into a problem where an Object is evaluating to Nothing, even though I'm setting it to a specific Object. Here's my code: <code> Private Sub CmdInventory(ByVal Sender As Client, ByVal Arg As String) 'Shows the inventory of the indicated player. If the player is anyon...more >>

One detail about using DLLImports as part of the PInvoke process that I don't understand: I'm trying to access a function (eg MyFunction) in a 3rd party DLL so I create a class: Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Public Class Myclass <DllImport("MyDLL")> _ Public Shared Funct...more >>

I would like to grant access to my application with the same user of Windows. How can I verify user and password with those of the system? Now we are using LogonUser API but it works only if the user is one of the administrator group of the PC. Thanks Andrea ...more >>

Hi all, i have found something odd...when a combobox is not selecting the first value (or ComboBox1.SelectedIndex > 0) and your code executes ComboBox1.SelectedIndex = -1 it will select the first the value (.SelectedIndex=0) instead of deselecting all values. if you want to make the com...more >>

SORRY, for the crosspost, but I think I posted it in the wrong group! Hello all, I have a question.. I am tying to make a global listview class where other listviews in my application points to, so when I change something in that listview all listviews who points to that listview must be upd...more >>

I need to convert the following code. The online conversion tool could do it w/o error. Any help appreciated. static void Main(string[] args) { args = WebCommandLineHelper.CommandLineArgs(args); string argstring = ""; foreach( string arg in args ) argstring += ar...more >>

Greetings, I'm working on a VB.NET application. Yesterday I was coding and testing it out in the IDE just fine. Today, I coded a little bit more and tried to run it in the IDE and the IDE locks completely up. This confused me a bit as there are no loops that could go infinite on me and I got...more >>

Does VB.NET support overloaded operators? For instance, if I create a complex number class, Complex, can I do code like this? Dim a As New Complex(1.2, 3.4) Dim b As New Complex(5.6, 7.89) b = b * 4 a = a + b I'm not sure if Operator Overloading is an OOP (and thus maybe .NET) feature, o...more >>

Greetings! I want to automatically generate a typed dataset and its associated command objects from an Access Database. I can use the Server Explorer and drag the tables onto a form and use the Data Wizard from there. My problem is that there is no reason for the form to know about the dat...more >>

I want to expand nodes on a treeview. What I have is an array (SubFolder) of node.text not index. What I'd like to do is the folowing: lKey = tvFolders.Nodes(0) ) 'Not in SubFolder For lLpCnt = 0 To UBound(lSubFolder) - 1 lKey.Expand() 'But do not expand the last node lKey = lKey....more >>

I am trying to make a custom user control that gets a list of users from our database and populates the list, its an owner drawn control also, the problem is, I placed the item onto a form and every time i make a change to the control it reads the database and adds new items to the listing but n...more >>

I have an old Win32 Dll that want to pass a string back to my app via one of the parameters (not the return value). I am seeing one way to do this is to dereference a StringBuilder instance. Is this possible in VB.NET? Another possible way might be <MarshalAs (UnmanagedType.VBByRefStr)> ...more >>

I am trying to do a homework assignment, but I am having troubles due to regional date settings. Part of the program requires a date to be read from a sequential file, which gives the date in string format. The program needs to convert the string to a date. However, the text file supplied i...more >>

Team VB.net, I have multiple programs that need a tool to count lines in a text files. I have been solving this problem through writing proceedures but I hate cutting and pasting code. Is there an easy way of making a "module" or object that I would be able to pass a string variable "c:\My...more >>

I went on a job interview today... Basically, you've got mainframers trying to create reports modules in asp.net, and the they need a programmer with vb.net/asp.net experience. One of the questions was... How do you pass data from one form to another, example, you fill out a webform, then g...more >>

I'm having problems with this one: I have a tructure that is being added to an arraylist, so I may have 15 of these structure objects in an arraylist. now, what I want to do is this: dim TT as MyStruct = New MyStruct TT = MyArraylist.Item(3) I have even tried this: TT = CType(MyArrayL...more >>

Can a variable declared as string (Dim strMessage as String) be set to a Null value??? If so, how??? I am using SQL Server as a backend database and want to set values not populated on a VB.Net form to Null in the database. I am using an Insert statement along with the SQLCommand object...more >>

After the following subroutine executes, my listview shows a scroll bar on the right, but it is otherwise blank. I've checked for things like locked=false, visable=true, font color same as background, but I don't see anything that should be hiding the contents. I've inserted various msgbox lines t...more >>

i have some code that pulls a large amount of data from a database and puts it into an excel spreadsheet, some excel formulas are inserted and the whole lot gets printed out (excel in invisble during all this), and excel is closed i currently setup my excel spreadsheet like this: Dim ex...more >>

I've implemented the code from MS at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemNetSocketsTcpListenerClassTopic.asp and am able to send data but it only works once. Nothing happens the second time, not even an error. Here's what my client function ...more >>

I'm having this really strange error, and its only happening on one combobox, I have all the databindings set correctly, I have my valuemember and display member set fine. When the data is saved, it saves the correct selected value, but when I bring up a record again in a form, it comes up blan...more >>

Hi, I'm relativley new to vb.net, i have a datagrid with records from my database on it. I am trying to construct something to select which record i select and transfer some of the information to a richtextbox. How do i do this? Thanks Ryan McConnell...more >>

Experienced members, Can someone point me in the direction of utilizing some existing objects that where writing in java. I was given a .jar file with some documentation about the classes within it. I am trying to create a instance of these classes from within vb.net (VS 2003 Framework 1.1)...more >>

If I have an Enumeration can I give a text description for each value? e.g. something like Public Enum Colors Black "Really cool Black" Blue "Ice Cold Labatts" End Enum If so, how do I get the text description for each value? Code snippet would be great. Thanks! -- Jo...more >>

I can do this and set the folder icon toi a closed folder SHGetFileInfo(subDir, 0, mSHI, mSHISize, Win32.Shell.SHGFI_ICON) subNode.ImageIndex = mSHI.iIcon subNode.SelectedImageIndex = ????? Anyone know how to get an open folder index for SelectedImageIndex? Thanks ...more >>

How can I read a file in, make the contents of the file the body of an email message and then email it? I want to read an HTML file in and send an HTML formatted email message....more >>

How can I get multiple rows in a string? string1 = "row1 of file" &_ "row2 of file" &_ "row3 of file" do something with the next string2, like get info from sql server 2k and: for i string2 next string3 = "row20 of file" &_ "row21 of file" &_ "las...more >>

I have a Graphics object in a control that has an image I want to print...I want to print my already made Graphics object that I use in a control, I try this Private Sub pd_PrintPage(sender As Object, e As PrintPageEventArgs) e.Grahpics = MyControl.MyGraphics End Sub When I do the pr...more >>

Anyone have an example with stored procedure with Microsoft SQL server? I need an example with argument and return value. Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY *...more >>

Hi, I'm making various changes to the controls on a form and the form flickers as images are loaded etc. Is there a way to stop the form showing the updates until they have been completed? e.g. Form.Painting = False I'm sure this is very easy but I can't seem to find a way of doing it! Many...more >>

Hi all, I need to create a bunch of class instances as myapp runs, but I want to avoid code like this: Dim oUser1 as new User Dim oUser2 as new User Dim oUser3 as new User Dim oUser4 as new User Dim oUser5 as new User etc. etc. Is there a more intelligent way to do this? Thanks in ad...more >>

Every time I close and re-open the same child form in my mdi app the form appears lower down each time (ie cascaded How can I limit this so that after opening it up 5 or 6 times it re-appears back at the top say Thank Gerry...more >>

This will be a customer number that is automatically assigned. I want it to be fast (so that it doesn't have to be checked for existance in sql server) and impossible to ever reoccure. Could it be date/hour/minute/second all as one integer? Thanks, Trint .Net programmer trintsmith@hotmail...more >>

VB.NET hi i'm asking about How To Change System Keyboard langauge from the VB.NET or Keyboard langauge from langauge to another without the API function. and thanks about helping me. *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in USENET...get re...more >>

If i put this code : If e.Control = True And e.Alt = True And e.KeyCode = 82 Then MessageBox.Show("SUCCESS") End If in the event KeyDown of a textbox it works fine.... but i want my combination key to raise in the form how can i do it? ...more >>

H I have created an ASP web application in visual studio and am trying to do the following (apparently) simple thing, without success. Can anyone help Firstly, within the class, but outwith any subs, I have declared the following array: Dim max As Double() = New Double(179) { I then populate...more >>

Heya guys, It seems VB .net no longer supports the awesome ability of VB 6 to declare something as a string and specify how long the string would be all in one line: Public myString as String * 32 'this would make it 32 characters long Apparently the VB .net conversion is to do this: P...more >>