Hello, does anyone know a program for creating uml schemas for developing with ..NET? Links are welcome as well. thanks, Snuyt...more >>

I need to read some of all the different properties on pictures taken with a digicam. All files are jpg. I need to read the properties such as Image Resolution, Camera Model, Shutter Speed and so forth. Is this possible in .net, or do I need 3rd party components? Any help is appreciated. ...more >>

Hi I have created a VB .NET application which emails all staff in the office. I would like it to run every morning at 8am. I thought that the best way to schedule this would be through Windows Task Scheduler as I have to start it up manually at the moment. The program starts up fine at 8...more >>

Hi there I am new to VB.Net (formerly a Centura 'Gupta' programmer) and just trying to do a simple excercise out of the help to populate a couple of text fields on a form by using a parameterized query. ie. Walkthrough 'Displaying Data in a Windows Form Using a Parameterized Query Sounds simple b...more >>

Hi, I have a data grid with drop down combos. When the combos change they prompt changes of text boxes in other columns of the same grid. How do I get these changes to then be saved to the underlying datasource? A code sample would be great ...more >>

Hello all, I have started too deploy my project; but when I test it from my desktop a file is missing from it. This file is a xml file that has user and password within it. Does anyone know why this file is not getting deployed with the other files? Aaron Minoo ...more >>

Hello people, Can somebody tell where I can find a good site for info about rs232 communication with VB.net. TIA...more >>

Hello, How do I create a windows explorer add-in? We use a Document Management System to save our documents. this DMS is integrated with office but I want to create add-in into the windows exlporer so that I can save any file from any application into this DMS. Hopefully somebody has som...more >>

Hi, I have a vb.net app that needs to connect to an FTP server at set intervals and upload some files. The computer where this runs is connected to and receives data from another system via com port. Will I be able to have it via it's modem and have the com port working on something else at th...more >>

This is a two part question. First, how does one go about designing forms that can reflect the XP theme? Take the TabControl for example, even on default the one that you can use in VB.NET looks different from the one that appears in all XP programs. Is it some reference that I need to add, ...more >>

Hi all, I need to retrieve some information (POP/SMTP server names, etc.) of a current POP3 login email account in Outlook 2002/2003. How may i go about achieving this? Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance. ...more >>

Couldn't call it anything better, just remember back when I was programming in VB6 there was some way of accessing stuff like the build version, name, path the program is being run from, and all that other stuff... Can't remember or find how to get all of that again, could you help me out? A...more >>

I have a user control called TextControl on which I have a RichTextBox control. TextControl1 is an instance of the User Control on a form. I do the following in the form: TextControl1.Font = New Font(FontFamily.GenericMonospace, 10, FontStyle.Regular, GraphicsUnit.Point) And the RichTe...more >>

OK, before you flame me because this is not an VB/ADO/INTEROP question rather than a VB.NET/ADO.NET/Interop question, I have not had much luck with this so you guys are a last resort. I wonder is someone could help me. We have an Access DB which has a field type/size we need to change programa...more >>

Hi all upgrade a VB6 Project, and am now stumped. The project contained 4 class modules. These were upgraded from : Public Class HTMLMail to : <System.Runtime.InteropServices.ProgId("HTMLMail_NET.HTMLMail")> Public Class HTMLMail My code gets a string from the registry (I had to r...more >>

In VB6, any column in the DataGrid had a Locked Property. I can not find this property in the .Net DataGrid. Where is this property or what is the replacement property? ...more >>

I VB6 I did this: Form2.Text1.Text = Form1.Text1.Text How do I accomplish this in VB.Net? ...more >>

Hello, i have a dataSet in an ASP.Net / VB page which connects to a database named "DB" with fields AuthorName, BookTitle, BookEditor. I want do display 4 records in my page as follows: Author Name # Number of books published by this Author (Number of records associated with this Author)...more >>

I'm going to be installing VS 2003 over my existing VS; are there any factors/considerations/precautions I should be aware of before doing so ? will the older VS be removed automatically or is it an option ? Thanks ... btw, I'm also going to install Office 2003; anyone know if my Outlook ema...more >>

Basically I am trying to syncronise a MS Access database with a MS SQL server Database and I am trying to use guid's via a VB (.NET) application (will eventually be a web service) to see weither a row is in the database or not. This is currently done by filling 1 dataset with the data from MS ...more >>

Can I do a split() on a string where the delimiter is one or more space characters? I have a string with spaces between the numbers but I don't know how many. You can do this easy in Perl, but VB.net ain't Perl... Ken ...more >>

Hello all, I was wondering if it's possible to write to an application config file at runtime. I wrote a bit of code to read the file and when I tried to write to it I got an error, I've been looking through MSDN for any info, but all I get is how to read the file and no specific statement sayi...more >>

Hi, I am working on a user interface where I have made it possible for users to open a new panel in the main form. However, since this occurs after the main form has already loaded, the new panel opens up next to the toolbar and status bar instead of between them. Does anyone know how I can...more >>

This may qualify as a stupid question -- or as Chris Berman said, "There are no stupid questions. Only stupid people who ask questions. I finally have my windows installer where I want it. It loads the dotnet framework semi-silently, installs the main installer along with an automatic upgrade feat...more >>

How do I check if a file is a valid XML file?, the file extension can be anything including ".xml" Thanks VJ ...more >>

Guys, Does anyone know how to set a RichTextControl Left Margin? I tried using the API but it is not working. I must be doing something wrong. Here is my code: Private Const EC_LEFTMARGIN = &H1 Private Const EC_RIGHTMARGIN = &H2 Private Const EC_USEFONTINFO = &HFFFF& Private Const EM_SE...more >>

Hi Does anyone know where to find info on Aktive X controll for Windows media player. Howe to use propertyes, methode and events and so on. Regards Vidar Martinsen ...more >>

Hello, I've declared a VB callback Sub which is called by an unmanaged DLL (code below). The PData parameter is a pointer to a memory bloc which is allocated and freed by the dll as necessary. The RequestFunc should read a string pointed by PData, and replace it by another one. The problem ...more >>

I have a very simple form that I am using to take in the information and save it to the MS Access Database using dataset. My DataAdapter is called dadConstituent and dataset is called dstConstituent I am getting a "Record Not Added - 0 - Microsoft Jet Database Engine - Syntax Error in INSE...more >>

Hi All, Have you ever experience the situation when designing a WebForm: Switching between "Design" and "HTML" view sometime and you get an error message about Internet Explore, then the design is gone unexpectedly. I got that sometime. Usually I exit VB.Net without saving. But this time I...more >>

I want to use a datetimepicker to selct both Date and Time - but i cant find out how to let me select both it seems to me that it is either one or the other. If this is the case what can i use to select a Date AND Time quickly (getting the user to type them in isnt really an option as there g...more >>

Hello, How do I perform a drag and drop from a list view control to windows explorer? I am looking to perform a file copy from files in my list view to the destination in the windows explorer program. Thanks in advance Regards Simon Jefferies Tools Programmer, Headfirst Productions ...more >>

I have an assembly that opens minimised and uses a notify icon in the system tray. IN the new() I have Me.ShowInTaskbar = False and when the form loads I use Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized but the form opens sort-of minimised but it minimises to a small bar above the start but...more >>

Hi All, User click on a Web Button. -->.....Some code to do something.... --->Then a webpage opened in different Target Window How can I do that? What codes I should use? Thank you, Ben ...more >>

I am fairly new to VB.Net and am having a curious problem. I have an entry dialog form called from a main form. The calling form needs to check the DialogResult field for an OK response. In my button service in the dialog form, I have: Private Sub btnSave_Click(ByVal sender As System...more >>

I'm working on a program that talks to the Yahoo chat servers. But I have run into a small problem and I'm not sure what to do next. After I successfully log into yahoo and receive my cookies I think login to their chat servers. It's at this point I am having the problem. When the following code...more >>

Does VB.NET support XML Documentation Comments like C#? ...more >>

We are looking to encrypt our XML files that is used by our VB application.. Any links or web-articles will be of great help Thanks VJ ...more >>

We are looking to directions on using licensing our product developed in VB.NET i.e issuing licensing keys for each install, expiring the executable based on date and license key and activating the product again back with a key. Can anybody point to articles or web-links that help us develop a s...more >>

Is there any component out there to capture screen text from a specific region on any active external application form. Thanks Marco ...more >>

Hello, suppose I have: Class A with property which is overridable 'paramA' Class B inherits from class A Overrides Property paramA() as Integer Get Return ???.paramA End Get End Property I know that in C# you can write Return base.para...more >>

FormA is the mdiParent FormB is the child FormC is the Form that is used to open FormB How do I open FormB from FormC (that is not a child) so that it it's mdiParent is FormA? Thanks, --Ben ...more >>

Alright, so this is strange. someone let me know if this is a *bug* or not. Whenever I would use Dataset.Merge(datarows()) method, I would always get an exception (IndexOutOfRangeException) on the currency manager after a paint was fired on the datagrid controls. Old code was currMan.Sus...more >>

I have a VB.NET application that is almost ready to deploy. Normally this application is just launched and the user interacts through the application's forms. However, I want to be able to add it to the Windows sheduler to automatically do something once a day but need to specify some parameters tha...more >>

Alright, I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong here. As some of you know I've been stripping out C1 out of my current project, and going back to native .NET controls. However, on one of my grids I have the following code... .... chargeRows = oCharges.GetOpenChargesByFamily(_iFamI...more >>

Hi, Who can gives me a explanation for this Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim xlApp As New Excel.Application() Dim sngLoon As Single sngLoon = xlApp.WorksheetFunction.Pmt(0.09 / 12, 360, 150000) TextBox1...more >>

I need to check if all digits entered in several textboxes are numbers smaller then 100.000 When there is at least on error, I want to display an error message. When all errors are fixed, the message should disappear again. An errorcounter doesn't work, because 2 valid numbers would "delete 2 ...more >>

I have a collection of properties from a WMI query and I want to recreate the collection and exclude duplicates and then enumerate. In VBScript I used the "Scripting.Dictionary" object and the "exists" method to weed out the Dups. Should I use the Idictionary in VB.NET or is there a more...more >>

Is it me or has the VB.NET Treeview control gone back to the darkages. I am trying to update a VB6 programme that uses the treeview control a lot- there are 4 treeview controls which are constantly being altered by user input. On upgrading the treeview errors are too numerous to list all of the...more >>

I finished a Vb.NET windows apllication recently and deployed to users. While it runs <9 seconds to show the graphs in my machine(Win2000 pro with .NET Framework 1.1 + VS.NET 1.0 IDE), it took 200 seconds in clients' machines. To draw the graphs, I put the MS Chart(AxVtChart Lib., which was...more >>

I have had to move to Visual Studio.NET Pro. from Visual Basic 4.0 and am now starting to re-write our code. I was a bit surprised to find that Visual Basic.NET no longer supports fixed length strings, which is a pain as we use our own database format with specific, user-defined data types and rando...more >>