I am trying to figure out how to place the current time on a form and keep it current. Can someone please point me to a tutorial or code on how to do this in vb.net? thanks...more >>

Guys, I am hopping mad. I am just a hobby programmer making little .net applications for pretty much no-one else but me to use. One application I have written would, to my mind, work best on a handheld PC. Fortunately I have a Pocket PC - an HP jornada bought 4 years ago. Doing my re...more >>

I've got the following array: FileIn(Counter) How can i search the array for example "window" TIA...more >>

A form may not be both a child window and an mdi parent, but why not? I can think of many instances where such would be valuable. Indeed, the basic structure of menus and submenus is the perfect metaphor for this. Anyone know why this is so and/or if it can be overridden? Thanks for any ...more >>

my date format is in yyyy-mm-dd mycommandtext is 'select * from myTable where issuedate >='" & Me.txtStartDate.text & "' and issuedate <= '" & Me.txtEndDate.text & "' " It return zero records, Is that the commandtext got errors ?? Thanks a lot ...more >>

Hi All, I am creating a component library and I have a function that contains optional parameters. Here's the skeleton code for the function: Public Function SearchBook(ByVal page as String, Optional ByVal keyword As String = Nothing, Optional ByVal categoryID As String = Nothing) As Book...more >>

Hi there, I've got a form with a listbox (lstWrkFiles) that populated with a number of files. I'm trying to pass this list of files to an array (so I can use it later). However, I've the code below "Sub FileArray()" is meant to fire when I click on the btnNext1 button, but nothing happens...more >>

As I know Arrays are collections that can store even objects if the type of Array is Object. Other Colletions are base Collection class, Array List, Sorted list, Queue... But this book I'm reading has two seperate chapters. First is Array and second is Collections. Why is that if Arrays ...more >>

Hi All Is it possible to somehow script security settings for the .Net Framework. So in other words can i include into my setup program some sort of code to alter the runtime security policy by creating a new code group and assigning its settings to it ? Any help is greatly appreciated Than...more >>

Hello everybody. Can someone tell me how i can get the index of an listview. I tried it at th e following way: public intIndexListview As ListView.SelectedIndexCollection Private Sub ListView1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ListVi...more >>

Hello everybody. Can someone tell me how i can get the index of an listview. I tried it at th e following way: public intIndexListview As ListView.SelectedIndexCollection Private Sub ListView1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ListVie...more >>

I have a VB .NET application that has a text box with the following code to handle the leave event. Private Sub txtIDiscountRate_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles txtIDiscountRate.Leave If txtIDiscountRate.Text.Trim <> "" AndAlso _ ...more >>

Is there a trial version available for download on the net anywhere? I see on the MS web site that I can get a trial version of VStudio.Net but I am really just interested in VB on it's own. What I really want to know or check in a trial version is that VB.Net Std has a similar capabilities t...more >>

I have an test app where I am drawing some stuff in a picture box. Now I want to enable the user to be able to save that to a file as an image. I know how to save an image, but how do I get what is drawen on the picture box control to become an image? Or, is there some other way? ...more >>

Hi I have a DLL which was created using MFC (and set to Automation). In this DLL there a class called MyTestClass. My question is, how do I create an object of this class from within a vb.net application? Thanks in advance Geoff ...more >>

Hi All, As I know that the tiff contain header information, I can use one software called tifftags.exe to get tiff tag information. However, I can't get any reference from vb.net to do such feature. Please advise.. Thanks. Eddie ...more >>

Hi All, I have a VB.NET app that, among other things, writes data to Excel. I am having trouble getting the Excel process to terminate after I quit Excel. I found an article related to this problem: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317109 Below is a sample of code...more >>

Hi - what's best: ResourceName = CType(dtr("ResourcePoolName"), String) or ResourceName = dtr("ResourcePoolName").ToString or ResourceName = dtr.GetString(dtr.GetOrdinal("ResourcePoolName")) or ....? I guess my main criteria is runtime performance. I don't want to use dtr.getString(0) in ...more >>

While user is working on a windows application, at same time he or she launches another instance of the same application. Will this affect the global variables in the first instance of this application? How can I know programmatically if the application is already opened when user tries to o...more >>

I've developed an application that is using the System.Web.Mail namespace and have run into a rather interesting problem. The aforementioned error displays this: The following exception occurred: System.Web.HttpException: Could not access 'CDO.Message' object. ---> System.Reflection.TargetI...more >>

I would like to interact with PDF fill out forms using VB.Net. Is this something that can be done? Ideally I would like a program to be able to read a list of the fields from the FDF and then be able to write to an FDF/PDF and save the data on the machine. Any advice would be appreciated. ...more >>

Why does the following code throw an exception? Dim o1() As Object = New Object() {"Sankar", "Sankar2"} s = DirectCast(o1, String()) Following is a snippet from VB.NET language specification on MSDN. ...more >>