I have sent posting to this newsgroup, and notice that if it's answered on developerdex, the posting is removed from this newsgroup forcing me to goto develoersdex. Why is this? ...more >>

How can you print values in variables to the screen in a .vb file when the page loads? The Response.Write won't work -- Dan Sikorsky, MSCS BSCE BAB ...more >>

I've included a .cs file in my project that has all .aspx.vb and .vb files, but can't dim a variable in a .vb file as a .c# class. Dim objCard as DotNetNuke.CreditCardPurchase this fails because CreditCardPurchase is not seen in namespace DotNetNuke Here's the c# file: namespace DotNetNuk...more >>

When you change a query at design-time using the OleDbDataAdapter wizard, you're supposed to re-generate the dataset to reflect the changes (such as the addition of a table in your query) by right-clicking on the data adapter and clicking Generate DataSet (correct?). But if you change a query at ...more >>

I have a datagrid with 4 columns, how can I set the width of any particular column at either design or run time? I'm tired of constantly having to manually re-size a particular column every time I open the form Thanks, Brian. ...more >>

I'm new to VB.NET and I'm trying to get my application to break at a particular point. I have set the breakpoint on the line I want by simply clicking in the grey section to the left of the line of code (the line is then highlighted in brown). I checked the properties of this breakpoint and s...more >>

I received a job offer today... It means moving 150 miles away, and making a 20% less money than I was making at my previous job. But It's more than un-employment :) I would like to take a moment to thank all the people that emailed me with job leads and info. It really mean't alot to me. ...more >>

I'm thinking about buying Basic .NET Standard edition. Does it come with some sort of database or do I need to purchase that separately What do you recommend for just a small windows application Thanks Crai RedBean12@msn.co ...more >>

Hi guys, Does anyone know the conversions for the above (relationship between each of the above). Ie how many points makeup a pixel & how many pixels make up a point. -- Besty Regards, TJ ...more >>

Dear Friends I have a urgent problem to solve. I have created a class and its collection and then bind it to a datagrid but got the following error. Please help. Thanks in advance. Andy Eshtry No default member found for type 'clsAgentPostalCode' Line 44: Dim oAgentPostalCodeC...more >>

Hi All ! I want to know about the constructors & Destructors, constructors ---> New=20 Destructors --> What ? (Which keyword to use for Destructor) Thanks & Regards, ElanKathir.S.N, ASM Technologies, B'lore....more >>

Where can I find information on what can be added as an attribute. IE onmouseover, onmouseout and the syntax. Thanks Mark ...more >>

Hi, I am building a windows service, which monitors a mailbox and parses = email messages into the db. When I wrote the SAME code in windows forms = application, everything worked fine, but I am having a problem in the = Windows Service project and I can't figure it out. For i As Integer =3D ...more >>

Hi I have been assigned a Project to develope the interface of DLP Projector the interface should be able to control the functions of Projector lik Contrast Brightness, Volume Mute, Keysone correction et...more >>

I can get Windows Media Player to start, and play a wav file just fine using a command line "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" c:\Temp\temp.wav But I want it to come up from a VB.Net application, so the user will select the recording he wants and click a button and code wil...more >>

(About me: I know very little about writing server applications. I have done plenty of VB6 desktop app work but this is my first server program. I got it to work by modifying examples. I understand what it is doing but not much about what is involved in extending it. ) I am not necessarily ...more >>

Hello! Anyone knows how to see a file, such as pdf or doc from memorystream with content types? -- Cumprimentos, Nuno Monteiro nuno@rcsoft.pt RCSoft, Desenvolvimento de Software, Lda Telefone: 239708708 Fax: 239708701 ...more >>

Hi, How would I handle Dereferencing in vb.Net 2003. Something like: Dim txt As TextBox =3D DirectCast("txt" & someStringVariable, TextBox) This sadly won't work because a type of string cannot be casted to a = textbox. The "txt" + someStringVariable concatenation would represent a valid...more >>

Hey everyone, I randomly get a StackOverflowException when trying to do a System.Array.CreateInstance. Well I'm not trying to. C1 is trying to do it on a Dataset update... My question is... what can I do to get around it? Thanks, cJ ...more >>

I'd like to use the same different variables of the same structure in multiple classes etc. But even though I declare a structure as eg: Public Structure ExampleStructure Dim A as short Dim B as short etc End Structure in one class and works OK within that class, I'm getting a 'Type '...more >>

Hi, I have application A giving 1 string containing some parameter to application B. I guess it would be 'nice' if I made that parameter-string in XML-format. In my application B I need a way to find out easily which parameters are put into the XML-string, and I need to be able to work easi...more >>

Finding current Procedure I want to write errors to a log-file, where the error log contain the description of where the error occurred and what kind of error it was. Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click On Error GoTo ...more >>

I have an XML file formated as this <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <settings> <databaseServer>Dell5100</databaseServer> <defaultDatabase>bene</defaultDatabase> </settings> relateively simple file... I want to be able to say which attribute of the settings group I want to read in ...more >>

Hi all, I know this is nothing to do with microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb.. but it's the only news group it happens on... I use Outlook Express newsreader, and have set this newsgroup to get new message headers and body.. and mostly it does exactly what I want.. i.e. download all the n...more >>

Hi All ! How to create the User Define Error Object and how to Genrate the Error (How to through the Error?) in VB.NET ? Please Reply ASAP. Thanks & Regards, ElanKathir.S.N, ASM Technologies, B'lore. ...more >>

How can I insert a field name like O'Hare or O'Conner into a table. I would rather not have to check every field entered to see if the character ( ' ) is in the field. I'm entering Streets, Names, Clients, etc. into a table. Everything was going fine until the Name field (O'Hare) was entered. Ca...more >>

The .Net documentation at ms-help://MS.VSCC/MS.MSDNVS/vsent7/html/vxconFormattingIssues.htm#vxconforma ttingissuesanchordates has this wonderful list of examples of *why* you should use the provided APIs for date formatting but neglects to actually explain *how* to use them :-) Will somebody pl...more >>

Hi all, I was wondering whether anyone would know how to programatically set file permission? Basically I am having the same problem as described on: http://www.vbdotnetforums.com/?f=7&m=601 which is codes from MSDN http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q818362 Hope ...more >>

Hello All I am trying to find the owner of a file or folder on our network (Windows 2000 Server) using VB.Net and/or API. so I can search for Folders that don't follow our company's specified folder structure and naming conventions and then send a Net send message to those users telling them t...more >>

Hello I'm new to VB.net and have a question about using data adapters I have 3 text boxes and a list box on my form. The text boxes are search fields that query a SQL database and return a list that populates the list box. The user would enter text into any 1 of the text boxes, or none at all, the...more >>

Hi I have a richtextbox and I want the users to be able to search for text within the control. I would think that the richtextbox.find() would work, but I can't figure out how to get the textbox to scroll down and highlight the search text. Any suggestions?...more >>

Hi to all! I have a bit of a problem. I am new to multithreading, but it is necessary for me to use it in a service that i am developing. I am receiving numerous messages through a UDP port and need them to be processed in the order that they arrived. I would prefer it if they could be proce...more >>

Is there any way to develop a Windows Forms Control in VB.NET and use it in VB 6 (as an .OCX)?...more >>

I know I'm not getting this clearly: I set up a delegate to execute a method. I've done this with no problem re validating methods. For example: I set up the delegate like this: Delegate Sub callm_dropdown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Dim delegd As callm_dropdown ...more >>

Hello, I have create a little program in vb.net. I have build the solution and I have no problem to run the program on my own pc. The problem is when I try to run on other pc so my question is; what do I need to run the program on a new installed win2k/xp pc? Roger ...more >>

I created a custom log by following a walkthrough. It created NewLog1. I logged several things successfully. I then tried to delete it and send my error messages to the Application log. The problem is that they still go to NewLog1 which doesn't show up in the Event Viewer because I deleted it. ...more >>

Every other language I've worked in, you can return a value from a subroutine/method/function. Unless I've missed something basic (no pun intended) you can't do that in VB.NET AFAICS I can do it in C#, but not in VB, am I right? -- PAul ...more >>

Good luck learning quite a new language, good luck with your 21MB+ programs, good luck with the distribution of your applications, good luck when Microsoft releases another new version of Framework! Some people never learn... ...more >>

Hi I haven't seen the following problem mentioned anywhere We have an application written in VB.NET which executes a batch file (named startJob.cmd). We have discovered that if that batch file is too big, the last lines of the batch file will not run. For example, the following one-line batch ...more >>

Greetings! What resources are available for people trying to learn to write VB .Net add-ins? The help files are too disconnected to give a coherent picture of the process. Are there any newsgroups dedicated to them? Yahoo or similar E-mail lists? Web sites? Books? Thanks again! Rob ...more >>

I have opened the Immediate window, but my debug.write and debug.writeline results are nowhere to be found in the immdediate window. Does anyone know where ther results of the debug.write and debug.writeline go? Thanks in Advance, Laurence Nuttall Programmer Analyst III UCLA - Division...more >>

Peculiar problem, All of a sudden today in one of our forms a few of the controls have disappered. The code behind the scenes still exists. No errors , nothing. The controls just don't show for user input. any ideas ? Tried almost everything....more >>

Hi, Class File contains Sub Delete. I can delete one file: File.Delete(1.txt) But I can not delete a few files : File.Delete(*.txt) Of course I can use loop and delete every file : File.Delete(strCurrentFile) or run : Shell("del *.txt, AppWinStyle.MinimizedFocus, True) But maybe exist S...more >>

I have the following Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Clic Dim aform As Form aform = New Form aform.Show( End Su since aform is a local variable, when the function ends, aform goes out of scope (or I t...more >>

How many newsgroup posters does it take to change a light bulb? 1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently 7 to caut...more >>

Hi, I have variable strText, with value "Hello World" I see this value at Watch window. Can I change this value to "World Hello" and continue work or I need to stop program , assign new value to variable and run program again. At VB6 I can do it, but can not find such opportunity at VB.Ne...more >>

Hi, How can I post an existing xml file to a gateway? The idea is that I create an xml file on my end and then I upload(or post) it to a company for them to verify the information and then they give me back another xml file and then I parse it..But now , I am having problems post my xml file ...more >>

I need a webcontrol datagrid with extended capabilities...to show thumbnails and hyperlinks..etc. Like this one does that is just a windowscontrol: http://dotnet.leadit.be/extendeddatagrid But I need mine for a webproject. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Trint .Net programmer trintsmit...more >>

I'm trying the VB code in KB article 818362, but keep getting a "member not found" exception on this line: objSecDes.DiscretionaryAcl = objDAcl any idea why this would happen? link to code http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];818362 ...more >>

hi, let: dataSet1 is having some data from database. dataView1 = dataSet1.table(0).defaultView dataGrid1.dataSource = dataView1 [.. programatically construct a tablestyle for the grid ..] dataGrid1.TableStyle.add(myTableStyle1) ok, now i show the datagrid on a form. the use left clicks ...more >>

When a client requests to leave a Web Page, I want the web page to check for a certain condition. If that condition is met, I want to prompt the user to make sure they want to leave The method I am currently using is <HTML><HEAD .. <script><!- function PageBeforeUnloadCheck( ...more >>

Quite possibly a simple one. I wish to build a web page which will encompass multi functionality (i.e. it wil accept relevant entries to perform a variety of procedure against my data base). When I call the form I pass a query string and use select statements to determine what the form is ...more >>

"selectedprice" exists as a string $5.23 for instance in this statement I need to convert it to double CDbl(selectedprice) how can I do this? It throws an invlaid cast exception. ...more >>

the following code doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know why my form isn't showing? Dim pickarea1 As New PickArea pickarea1.Show() ...more >>

I am having difficulties connecting to a remote Sql server database in VB.net. Lets say my remote server is found at 255.255.255.255 and its name is MyServer. The database is called MyDatabase. I drap my SQLDataAdapter on to the form and set up a new connection at the wizard. I am putting t...more >>

In some situations MS Word is started in another thread by the end user. I am trying to figure out how, if possible, to detect if the user has shut down MS Word so I can kill the thread and clean up the instance. Any ideas? ...more >>

Hopefully this is a good group to ask this question. I'm trying to programmatically control a micro innovations IC50C webcam with VB.NET. Specifically I'm using the Kodak scanner control. My problem is, despite setting the control's ShowSetupBeforeScan property to false, when I execute the Sta...more >>

Every time I go to create a New Item, i get this msgbox, "Automation server can't create object" why can't I add anything to my project? O.o ...more >>

hey ppl, my company wants to basically migrate our vb6 applications onto the new .net platform. Was wondering if theres any documentation on this process ? Some sort of checklist ? Would it be right to just attend trainings on vb.net and asp.net and then start coding.. or should we look at...more >>

I have two tables in the dataset: -Invoice header which contains invoice total (Parent table) -Invoice line which contains line item details (Child table) I am using a data adapter to update the actual database There are appropriate table relations Here is the problem: If I delete a row fro...more >>