Hello all VB.net friends ! i have done most of my programming in assembly, at least so far. Recently i decided to learn a high level language for windows programming. I didnt take long to realize that VB.net would be my perfect friend. I have already rewritten most of my assembly controls in...more >>

Hello friends, somebody could help he/she stops to place vertical and horizontal scrollbars to a picturebox. Thank you and greetings. -- Ceci est une signature automatique de MesNews. Site : http://www.mesnews.net ...more >>

I am starting to think there is some kind of conspiracy :) but everywhere I try to locate some (working) code showing how to change NTFS partitions on a network share I end up at a dead end. I found tons of references to a tech note (below) but MS seems to have 'lost' it :) Any ideas? ht...more >>

hi all, i have a problem, i am coding a problem, which is suppose to fetch records from database into a combobox and there after based on the selection of value it has to proceed further , i have used sqldataadpter.fill(dataset) as well for the selectedvalue, combobox1.databinding.add(...more >>

Is there a way to determine what TabPage the mouse pointer is at, either on the mouse enter of the TabControl or TabPage? I'm simply wanting to determine the TabPage that the mouse is over. Does anybody have any examples? ...more >>

Hello. I'm using xmlhttp in a windows application to return xml data. The xml data is returned successfully, but I get errors when I try loading the xmlhttp response object to a dataset. I can write the xml to a file & read that in to a dataset, but what fun is that? --------------- code: xm...more >>

If I want to increment a number plus one hex like this: 5f +1 hex 60 or 60 +1 61 How would I do this programmatically? ...more >>

Hello, how can I create a bar graph in .NET? Do you have a link I can make some research and what control to use? Thanks in advance ...more >>

I have a multi line text in an admin page on my cms. I am trying to capture carriage returns as and replace them with <p></p> bfore the string gets written to the database. I have tried all the charcontrols option and chr(13) with success.. was using the following code: Dim s As String = ...more >>

I am launching the EXTRACT.EXE command from my application using the Process class. Everything seems to be working fine except the path I use as the destination argument for the EXTRACT command has spaces in it, and that poses a problem for the EXTRACT command. How do I go about including ...more >>

I am a new user of visual basic .net. before i used vb6. in vb6 to call for a form to be displayed i did this. Private sub command1_click() load form1 form1.show end sub My question is: How to make the same think in visual basic .net? load a form by pressing a button. Thank...more >>

Hi, I've tried a number of different things including the use of threads and timers, but can't come up with the solution yet. The issue is this: launch a window with an animation or progress bar that changes. While this "progress window" is being animated, launch the actual window. Finally ...more >>

Hi question: HowTo, Within the ((Install Project - File system Target Machine - User Programs Menu)) How can I Add a shortcut of the application I am installing into the the users StartUp Program Menu? Thanks BrianDH ...more >>

I've got a form. On that form, I load in a usercontrol (dynamically, at run time, depending on if the users wants it or not). The usercontrol (we'll call it the Search usercontrol) consists of a few textboxes, and ANOTHER usercontrol (call it the LoanList usercontrol). The LoanList usercontr...more >>

We have an application that uses a SQLDataReader to cycle through a control table in the database and process records based upon that data. These records include things like the directory to poll and where to move the data. During this process there is a timer that fires which reports that ...more >>

Hi, I've create an application which includes : - a toolstrip - a toolstripmenu - several toolstripmenuitem(s) so, now i have a menu like that : -File | |-New |-Open |-Save .... With normal menu control, each submenuitem has an index value that allows me to know exactly which one...more >>

If anyone has an example of this I'd appreciate seeing it. I'm having a problem with assigning the value of an object's lastLogonTimeStamp property to a variable. I can do it with VbScript, but can't get it in .Net. The value is 64 bit. I'm trying to assign it to a Long variable. ...more >>

Anybody know how to use wordwrap=true and multiline = true on a textbox, but still have the textbox.lines attribute advance if the wordwrap happens? I have a large textbox that is setup like this and I want to get the number of lines of text, but right now, unless a user hits Enter, it always...more >>

Hello all: I have a list of values from a database table, each of which is identified by name and by type, thus: ValueField TypeName ---------- -------- "Value1" "String" "Value2" "Boolean" "Value3" "Integer" In the application, these values are being put into an array of object...more >>

Hi, I've noticed that whenever I'm doing a print preview (and probably doing a regular print) with a lot of pages a window pops up counting the number of pages that it's processed so far. I don't have a problem with the window but I don't like how it's using the default icon for itself in the...more >>

Hi everyone, I just used the upgrade wizard to upgrade a project of mine. One of the main forms I have has over 200 controls on the form, Uses some tab controls. Now, I have a main tab control that contains 3 other tab controls. The inner tab controls contains the controls. On one of these ta...more >>

I want to use a single event procedure in Vb.net to move the focus on a WinForm to the next control in the tab order, regardless of which control that is. I know that I can use the "handles" keyword to have the same procedure called when events occur on different controls. However, I don't ...more >>

In vb.net, if I instert a new control onto a form and I want that control to occur in the middle of the Tab Order, how can I insert it into the tab order and automatically increment the tabindex of all of the other controls on the form? In VB1-6, this was done automatically, but in vb.net if...more >>

Hi everyone, How can I read and then display information (Name, Full Path, and Date Modified)all of the references in a VB.NET project? I have been unable to find any information in all of my searching so any help you can give is greatly appreciated! Thanks. ...more >>

I have created to XmlDocument objects. Can they both .Load the same file? Or if the first one loads a file is it locked? I am trying to load an xml file again but the object's value keeps on being nothing....more >>

Hi everyone, I am looking for some help understanding the basics of communication between VB dotnet and a MS Access Database. I am fairly new to dotnet and even newer to accessing databases when out of Access. I have created the appropriate database connection, adapter and datasets, but I can...more >>

I have an XML file that has a date element. I want to change this date to unix notation. This works, but if the XML does not have the element I cannot assign the DateField the value. How can I check first if the node exists before I try to replace it? Public Function ConvertDates(ByVal xm...more >>

You know how an XML file looks when you open it in Internet Explorer? I want to do that with the XML from a dataset WITHOUT writing the XML to a temporary file. Is there anyway to send the XML string from the dataset to a AxWebBrowser object? Or, more broadly, is there a way to send...more >>

I have a VB VSE 2005 project in which I need to rank about 35 columns of numbers. I want to end up with a dataset of ordinals. For example, if I have a dataset with 5 rows in which colA values are 6.6, 6.5, 6.2, 6.6, 6.7 respectively, the resulting ordinals would be 2, 4, 5, 2, 1. I am curr...more >>

I've tried the following without success....... AddHandler DS1.Tables("dial").RowChanged, AddressOf after_row_insert AddHandler CType(Me.dgDials.DataSource, DataTable).RowChanged, AddressOf after_row_insert the 2nd raises an "invalid cast" error, neither redirects to my ...more >>

Hi All, I have a little piece of code that is giving me the shits. I have an arraylist colelction which is putting dynmaic objects into it, and the objects are being accessed dynamically too. My problem is that .Net cant intellisense dynmaic code, so how can i tell the collection that only ...more >>

Hello, Thanks for all replies on this subject. I still cannot get CreateFile to retun a good value though. I went to PInvoke.net and saw the VB.NET declaration of this function: <DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError:=True)> Private Shared Function CreateFile(ByVal lpFileName As String,...more >>

Hi, I have 3 forms under vb.net 2005. MainForm (MDI parent) Form1 (MDI child) Form2 (MDI child) i have a ToolStripMenu and when i click on some particular item, i open an instance of Form1 or Form2. The particularity is that : 1. if an instance of MDI child is already opened, i show it, i...more >>

Hi All, I try to use user-impersonation in VB.NET with a user (let's call him Bill). I'm using the LogonUser function to create the token and so on. This works --> calling WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name() afterwards gives me the username I'm try to impersonate. But this is about all I ca...more >>

Hi All, Is there a way to sort multiple dimensions of an array in VB.NET? Let's say I have the following in a multi-dimension array: 3081 100 2 3081 100 1 3081 20 1 3081 1 2 3021 100 2 3021 100 1 3021 20 1 3021 1 2 I need to sort the first dimension, then the 2nd, then the 3rd, to ...more >>

Using VB 2005 Beta. I have a form containing a DataGirdView. The cell enter, cell validating, row enter, row validating events have a good bit of code that gets excuted for each of these events. I have noticed that when the form loads, each of these events run 3 times, before the form is re...more >>

Hello all, I have written an application in Visual Basic .Net 2003 which allows staff members to enable user accounts within a specific group in our Active Directory. However, as an added piece I would like to set a new password for the accounts as they are enabled. How can I do this in VB? Pl...more >>

I have VB.Net project that I'm working on. This morning, when I loaded the project, and clicked on the main form for the project to view in designer mode. I get the following error Property accessor 'IsMdiContainer' on object 'System.Windows.Forms.Design.FormDocumentDesigner' threw the foll...more >>