Hi all Im not sure of the best way to be displaying my forms and just want a bit of clarification. Being only recently moved to vb.net im still used to the old vb6 form.show method, now under vb.net that doesnt seem to do alot most of the time so far as i can tell. So im using form.showdialog ...more >>

Kinda off topic... I went online today looking for T-shirts to reward an IT team that used Agile development on a .Net project to build a workflow system using XML... yada, yada, yada Anyway, 90% of the t-shirts were geared towards Linux or gaming. Personally, I'm not much for wearing a pen...more >>

I'm puzzled! In a web user control (ascx) I embed some server controls. I drop the web user control onto an aspx page. In the web user control's code behind I would like to manipulate the user control's properties every time the page is loaded. All this is fine. The ascx code behind runs ev...more >>

Hi, I am trying to retrieve Product ID from the registry using the code below: <DllImport("msi.dll", EntryPoint:="MsiGetUserInfo", SetLastError:=True, CharSet:=CharSet.Auto)> _ Public Function GetUserInfo( _ ByVal ProductCode As String, _ ...more >>

I have the need to read the printer port as well as write to it. In the old days, you would use peek and poke. Is there a simple way to make this happen? Thank you ...more >>

how do I get Excel version in VB.NET??...more >>

Hi, As part of my Windows application, I need to open a folder containing a file (fileName is specified in txtFile). I have no problem opening the folder: Dim directoryName As String = New FileInfo (txtFile.Text).DirectoryName Dim startInfo As System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo = New S...more >>

I have looked all over the net for an example on how to use this function but got no joy, lots of jargon explaining the function but no examples. In VB.Net the hwnd has gone there was one in vb6 - I tried using Handle but nothing happens Can anyone shed some light on how to use this function...more >>

Hi, If I run the following: strSQL =3D "Select * FROM Clients;" da =3D New OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter(strSQL, Conn) 'Create data = adapter cb =3D New OleDb.OleDbCommandBuilder(da) 'Create = command builder using the datadapter dt =3D New Data.DataTable d...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm a n00b on VB.net programming and now I stumbled upon a problem I can't solve, even after browsing the net for hours.. I have a dataview witg 4 columns; 2 string columns and 2 integer columns I want to use the RowFilter to get the 'records' where one of the integer columns ho...more >>

Dear all, I want to have a toolbar in the main (central) form of an MDI application. All child forms have 5 common buttons for specific jobs like SAVE, NEW etc. So when the user is in the child form1 and press the toolbar button SAVE in the toolbar of main form, then the program will save ...more >>

I use VB Express and I need to dock my form closely to an another application's form. I don't have access to that applications code, only to it's database. My application is doing calculations based on the database and I need to make the user visually aware of which data they are manipul...more >>

I'm trying to port some C++ code to VB.NET but I have hit a snag. I need to add the pointer of a structure which includes an array to an array and then pass it to an API. Here are the two code snippets: long inbuf[2]; // Array that gets passed to the API struct cmbuf { short cmds[2]...more >>

Hi, I have a dynamic datagrid linking to an SQL Table which works fine. I now want the user to be able to click on a column header to selct the column(s) and at the same highlight the selected columns background color as in Excel. Have tried everything but just can't seem to get it right. ...more >>

I put a similar post for CheckBoxes, but i want to use a Radio button & not a CheckBox I have a field named "Male" & this is of SQL BIT data type (SQL Server). How can i bind this field to a check box? I noticed that this field can be NULL, 0 or 1. But i'm having trouble binding this field ...more >>

I have a field named "Male" & this is of SQL BIT data type (SQL Server). How can i bind this field to a check box? I noticed that this field can be NULL, 0 or 1. But i'm having trouble binding this field to my check box. i get an error when i try the following, 'oDataTable is the Data Tab...more >>

I just installed Visual Studio .Net with Framework 1.1. I already had VB6 SP6 installed. I wanted to do a quick "hello world" example in VB.Net. The code is here: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim s ...more >>

Anybody know how to get the combobox to do a incremental search in vb.net window forms?...more >>

I want help from u regarding providing information about form and controls which are presented on the form. when ever user presses f1 if the form has focus then it has to provide information about the form( eg.what it does etc) When the control has focus , if the user presses f1 key then it has ...more >>

i want the code for i have a listview with 2 columns.if i selected the item of the listview and clicking on a button the selected item must be displayed on the another listview control. ...more >>

I receive this message under certain conditions: 1. "Unmanaged Code Debugging" is checked in Property Pages. 2. Certain routines are "stressed." The error does not appear unless loops are repeated many times. I'm using Net Framework 1.1. I found a confirmed bug in Online Technical Suppo...more >>

Hey all, Requesting help from the VB.Net gurus in here. I was given a task to write a Windows Service (VB.Net) that would run an external program, and if that program closed for any reason (other than the service being stopped) it would restart it. I have written the service to do just this,...more >>

History: In VB6 I could create an OCX that had the ability to accept paramenters from a web page <object> tag, do some work, then fire an event back to VBScript or JavaScript on the web page where addition work may have been done. This web page usercontol interaction was easy in VB6. Using...more >>

Now I am encountering my second very strange problem. I will describe = the first one later. But my current problem lies with trying to bind to = a combobox: Try If clubID <> "" And txtYear.Text <> "" Then DsEvents1.Clear() daEventInfo.SelectCommand.Parameters(0).Value =...more >>

Hi All Im using a windows service program written in vb.net using the system.diagnostics.process.start to open exe files but im getting few strange problems that seem to be caused by the fact they are being started under a network service account instead of the logged on users account. Is th...more >>

I'm not sure what the difference is between using the attribute and just declaring a function in a dll. For that matter, what this code is doing is also a question (from one of the 101 examples from Microsoft): ' Specifying Unicode Public Declare Unicode Function UnicodeBeep Lib "kern...more >>

What are people using to protect their VB.NET software ???? ...more >>

Hello everyone-- I've tried many of the things I've found searching the newsgroups in trying to store 2 fields to a combobox and use displaymember and valuemember but nothing is working. Here is my code: Dim strSQL As String Dim dataAdapt As New OleDbDataAdapter Dim cmd As New OleDbComman...more >>

I have developed an Add-In for VS2005 in Basic. It works fine on a couple of machines but fails witht the following error on one: ----Start of Message There was a problem loading the Add-in file 'C:\Documents and Settings\Bob\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins\VSNETcodePrint200...more >>

I have an application that I was trying to convert to vb.net which contains the msscript object to call custom perl scripts which msscript does great. After converting to .net the control doesn't seem to work the same, some of the perl language such as opening and reading files doesn't work a...more >>

The following shows me the last line number executed. It requires an error. 7811: Try Err.Raise(60000) Catch ex As Exception MsgBox("Error 60000 at " & Err.Erl()) End Try Is there a way to show a line number without creating an error. For examp...more >>

oHi, I want to check for a Windows form program if an instance of the prgram is already running: if yes the program's window should be activated and no second program instance should be started. How can I perform this task in VB.Net? Thanks in advance. -- Best regards Henry...more >>

Hi, in a Windows form VB.Net project I use localization for all texts. In App.Config I added: <appSettings> <add key="locale" value="de"/> </appSettings> In the project I have ressource files strings.resx (English text) and strings.de.resx for the German texts. In the Main Module I us...more >>

Hi I have vs 2005 beta1 installed at the moment. Do I need to do anything special before installing nov ctp? Thanks Regards ...more >>

Hi All, I have a windows form that contains 2 listboxes and 2 buttons. The listbox on the right is populated by a database routine (This is the easy part). The listbox on the left is populated by 1 or more selected items from the listbox on the right after clicking an Add button. Clicking a...more >>

I am sure this is pretty basic but I have never worked with ResetEvents before, but how do I signal a ManualResetEvent of a module that is spun off into several threads? For instance, if I have 5 threads of the same Sub and they are all unsignaled, how would I signal them (or one of them)? ...more >>

How do I remove duplicates from an arraylist?...more >>