I know how to set a timer in a windows app, but is it possible to fire an event, with out too much processing, every 1000 mil. sec.s using the web form timer? I noticed there's no 'tick' in the declairations choices on the code page after I dragged a timer control over to my aspx page. How can...more >>

How does one set the initial focus to a control such as a picture box? Suppose I have a form with a single picture box on it. When the application starts to run I would like to set the focus to the picture box so that it can respond to KeyDown events. I tried placing a picBox.focus in a Form...more >>

My boss indicated he was pleased with the reports that were being generated in MS Word by me and that made me happy. However he also told me he wants the wait eliminated for Word to start up. I explained Word takes a while to start and that is why. He indicated I should find a way for it to st...more >>

Could anybody help ne with this? In VB6 / VBA, I could set up a listbox, with tickboxes/circles to the side of each item. Selecting an Item caused the box to tick. Choosing another deticked the original and ticekd the new one. In .net, with a CheckedListBox with single selection, you can onl...more >>

Hi, I am building an appliaction that will do some processing on specified databases. I would like to specify in a configuration file what databases to process.There is not a fixed number of databases so the number can vary. Ideal (If i just could figure out how to do this) would be if i cou...more >>

Hi The spring is upon us, when are we going see the promised vs beta? Thanks Regards ...more >>

I have the following structure: Structure member Dim name As String Dim phone As String End Structure Dim memberarray As New ArrayList Dim membership As member ******************** Ihave the following form: a lstbox filled with the last,first of all the m...more >>

Can anyone please help me. I am trying to desing a program that will create a 10 digit alphanumeric password. I am new to the Vb.net environment, and sometimes have no idea what to do. I appreciate any help!!! Thank you...more >>

All, I have an arraylist in which I need to add a string, but before I add I need to make sure that the same string is not already there. Yes, I could run a for loop to check all the items but I could have thousands of items and I don't want to run the loop everytime (CPU usage got upto 100%...more >>

I am creating an user control containing a textbox and a button. I don't want my users to resize the control. In VB6 I use the Size statement to define a fixed size for my control. How do I do that in vb.net? Thank you Julian ...more >>

How to pass a Two Date parameter to a report at runtime using VB .NET -- Raj Kumar Mishra jcast Networks Ltd. New Delhi. India. 91-51678212,13,14 ...more >>

Hello, I have an application that uses word automation and everything is working perfectly. However, I have one potential issue 1) I am using Office XP on my machine to design the app, however I realize that not everyone will have that version of Office and thus won't have the version...more >>

I am binding a hashTable to a dropDownList to pick a State (key: like New York) and sends the state designation (value: NY) to a filtering procedure. I have entered the states in the hashTable in alphabetical order, but the dropDownList renders them in a non-order list. code snippet: Di...more >>

Hello! How can I create an Installer entirely in Polish language using Deployment Project in VB.NET (I have already translated the available texts into Polish). I have .NET 2003 EN and I read I have to download some addins/components but have got no clue where from? regards ...more >>

I hope this makes sense ! We have an VB ASP.NET Web Application. In the bin directory are all our compiled dlls. We have written some integration with a 3rd party, which some of our clients use and some that don't. Those that don't won't have a particular dll in the bin directory of the ...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to detect whether a user is logged into a Win2000/2003 domain? I'm writing a VB.NET app and require this functionality within it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Lee. ...more >>

Hello, I would like to populate a listbox with values A to Z. What would be the best and fastest way to do this? I tried to use a for-loop but I don't know how I would change the current char value to the next letter. ...more >>

Hi, I made a client and server application. I'm trying to send an xml file from the server to the client. It works, but there are some problems: the file the client receives is the same as the file the server sends but there are some spaces added at the end, and this causes that I can't open the...more >>

Doing, Dim arrFiles() as string Dim strWinDir as String Dim intRet as Integer Dim strWavFilePath as string StrWinDir = Space(255) intRet = GetWindowsDirectory(StrWinDir, Len(StrWinDir)) If intRet > 0 Then arrFiles = system.IO...more >>

Is there any way to retain the value of an HtmlInputFile control through a postback? I do some server side validation on the page when it is submitted and if an error occurs on the page the HtmlInputFile control value is blank after the postback. The EnableViewState for the control is set to t...more >>

I've seen a posting stating that INI files are obsolete and that the registry or XML file should be used instead. I do not want to use the registry and I've never used XML. Can somebody please post a simple example that would get me started? TIA Brad ...more >>

Hi group, I was making a sample and then I did got a problem. (I never made a dataset with a bytearray in it for directwriting to disk without a database). I got errors and as usual I did not look to the error message and it took more time than I did want. ds.Tables(0).Columns(0).DataTyp...more >>

Hello, I've done a user control named for example myUC with 1 fonction "Beep". When I use it on a project, I put myUC on a form (it is called myUC1). When I type "myUC1.", intellisense give me lot of thing like visible.... I just want to have 1 choice : Beep. What have I to do to hide other...more >>

Puzzled - I have a fairly simple query against an Access database that wants to eliminate the records in the table where the DeviceType is either MasterStation1 or MasterStation2 or .... in other words, I want the records that do not involve the Master Stations in our system. So, I expect t...more >>

My application is run within an intranet environment and is installed on client machines. Each time the application is executed, it checks to see if a newer version is availble. If there is, it launches a new process and starts the installation while shutting down the original process. I'm runnin...more >>

I have a class named "Generic" and a second class named "Specific" which inherits from Generic. I have a Save method in the Generic class. I don't have an override in the Specific class. If I call Specific.Save, is there a way for the Generic class's logic to route back to methods of the Speci...more >>

is there a way to use the directory service to get the current user logged into active directory? thanks ...more >>

Okay, I can certinatly use a For..Next loop to find the specified info I need, but I'm thinking the BinarySearch will be faster, if I can get it working LOL Anyhew, got an array, may have 5 or 5,000 elements, and I need to find the string, say it's "Start here". I've tried this: Dim MyObj...more >>

Hi, Good Day! I need to create a variable that it's value can be carry across within a form. I've created some above the "web form designer generated code" but it seems not working. It reset back to nothing when i click on a button. Can someone help? Thanks in advanced. rgds, Phoe...more >>

Hi, The following code works fine as long as I don't use a smtp-server which requires authentication: Sub sendMail() Dim sfrom As String = TextBox1.Text Dim sto As String = TextBox2.Text Dim ssubject As String = TextBox3.Text Dim sbody As String = RichTextBox1.Text Dim omail As New MailM...more >>

Can anyone tell me why the following code line would give a "Compile error: wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment" TodaysDate = Date ActiveCell.Select ActiveCell.AddComment ActiveCell.Comment.Visible = False ActiveCell.Comment.Text Text:="(" & Format(T...more >>

Hi there guys! I'm still having problems with my ComboBox. I got a table, in SQL, with two columns, ProductID, ProductDescription. I want to fill a ComboBox with the ProductDescription column, but when the user selects an item, I want to return the ProductID, so I guess I got to fill some...more >>

Hello Is there a way in vb.net to get the application version of another appliation. IE App1 is running and I want to get the version of App2 using App1. Thanks in advance John ...more >>

maybe asked this before... I want that the titlebar of my visual studio to show the current open solution name and not the name of the current open project in my solution is this possible? if so, how? dominique ...more >>

How do I get project folder in .NET? ...more >>

Is there any .net function that will create the text that is needed for checks. Example: $5.50 would be Five dollars and 50/100 etc. Thanks. ...more >>

Hi.. Can I display a clickable Web link within the text in a TextBox control Also can I display a specific word in a TextBox in a different color than the rest of other words in the TextBox?...more >>

Hi, I have an existing project using Microsoft.NET. I need helpes. Most programs are 80% finished, just need someone to complete the code. For those who is interested in such project, please contact me. Please no head hunters! You must be able to read Chinese!! ...more >>

Ok, I want to let the user use the .aspx page they are on while there is a process going on from a 'while loop': while not resultint = 0 code...... Label1.Text.WriteLine(ntime) end while Help is appreciated. Thanks, Trint ..Net programmer trintsmith@hotmail.com *** Sent via Develo...more >>

It's easy to create an install package for a VB .Net application, however, I want to install this application on about 20 machines over my companies network without having to install it on every single machine individually. I know this is possible but I can't seem to find the right direction. W...more >>

I have a simple console app that uses: regSubKey = <some registry key> Dim reg As RegistryKey = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(regSubKey) Dim path As String path = CStr(reg.GetValue("")) to grab the default value of a registry key. It works great on my machine. When I try to ac...more >>

here's something odd, maybe someone can explain it, when i turn on application.enablevisualstyles at application start before i do my application.run(context) command in the sub main, when the app context runs and I get my main form, the toolbar is now missing all its icons (24x24) the buttons a...more >>

Hi, I have a VB .Net web application that is displaying some text in a textbox with lots of formatting on it. The text has multiple fonts, colours and sizes. I need to be able to report the data and am using Crystal Reports. I want the report to show the text in the same format that it is s...more >>

I am trying to make a property that creates a drop down control that I can fill with string options..."test1", "test2", "test2" I can make one with True false as shown here but I cant figure out how to make it do a dropdown with custom strings Private _numericTextBox As Boolean = False ...more >>

ok i got this wierd problem which took me 4 hours already and im still stuck :/ anybody know what is wrong here ------Code----- Public Class guildnod Private node() As TreeNod Private tot As Intege Sub New(ByVal gname As String tot = node(tot) = New TreeNode(gna...more >>

I am writing a service that I want to be able to display "debug" information on a desktop window. I have the following code that displays the form (when service is properly set up) and the service starts. However the form is not drawing itself completely and it is non responsive ("Not Responding" ...more >>

Hi, I am writing a program which will be used in Win2000 and Win98 platform. The program include a Form (called myForm) which has a TextBox, Tooltip, Errorprovider and a Button. Tooltip will be set with TextBox content and Errorprovider will be set in TextBox Validating event if it is...more >>

Hi I need to know how to store the OpenfileDialog.OpenFile() in a memorystream. Do I need to do some kind of conversion before this works I can't write dim mem as new memorystream( mem = OpenfileDialog.Openfile( It says not supported cast or something like that So, how to do this Also, h...more >>

I'm having the problem of toolbars not appearing correctly on my forms. While in design view the toolbar appears deformed and when the application is run the toolbar appears with a black background. This is a problem that I have only encountered in VB.NET and would appreciate any help you can give m...more >>