Working code below (paying back to the groups :) /Tomas Class SidFunctions Enum SID_NAME_USE SidTypeUser = 1 SidTypeGroup SidTypeDomain SidTypeAlias SidTypeWellKnownGroup SidTypeDeletedAccount SidTypeInvalid SidTy...more >>

Assume you have a grocery store application. An order consists of an order header with the "customer" info, and multiple "item" records (one for each thing they ordered). Now, in a regular DB application this is straight forward stuff. However, I'd like some advice as to how to best take ...more >>

Hi Guys, can anyone tell me a good open source project or tool that I can use to sync data over the dial-up conection different two SQL Servers? I tried the replication it's giving wired messages. Please help Thanks, -Aruna ...more >>

There are 8 bytes binary value stored date and time in Registry. 84 8B D7 DF 8B 28 C5 01 I want to convert the binary value to date using VB.NET. Dim a As FILETIME a.dwHighDateTime = 29698187 '(01C5288B to decimal) a.dwLowDateTime = -539522172 '(??????? by 84 8B D7 DF) MsgBox (GetFileTo...more >>

I have recently uninstalled VB5 and installed vb.net 2002. In working on an application, I attempted to add a picturebox and add an image... I immediately received an "empty path name is not legal" error. I attempted uninstalling it and reinstalling to no avail... I have also upgraded to ...more >>

Hi, After genarating the exe when i run the exe the following error is comming. Common Language Runtime Debugging Services Application has generated an exception that could not be handled. Process id=0xdec (3564), Thread id=0xdf0 (3568) When I click CANCEL to debug, I get this error-mess...more >>

(Type your message here) Hi=2E Iam ahving some minor problems regarding for Each=2E=2E=2ENext=2E I= have a form whcih contains a set of radiobuttons in a a group= box=2E i have added a button and on clicking the button, i want= all the checkboxes to be set to false=2E the problem is that i=...more >>

Hello, if i leave the displayed datagrid and immediately go back to it , i get this error. Additional information: De verzameling kolomstijlen van het gegevensraster bevat al een kolomstijl met dezelfde toewijzingsnaam. Translation: the collection of columnstyles of the grid already con...more >>

Hello, always get 4 if the number is 4, but I want 4.00. in the datagrid. How to obtain that? thanks all Hyphessobrycon ...more >>

(VS 2003 + .NET Framework 1.1 + WinXP Pro SP2) Calling Application.EnableVisualStyles() after the initialization() removes all images in the tab control (in the tab headers I mean). Without visual styles enabled, I have no problem. What is wrong and what is the solution? (PS: Using a manifes...more >>

I have a submenu with 3 menuitems on it. I have setup the click event handler to toggle the checked property on/off. I would like the menu to remain open when one of these three items is clicked so the user can see that the check toggled as desired and so one of the other items can be toggle...more >>

I'm creating a second thread from my main form like this: Public t As System.Threading.Thread = New System.Threading.Thread(New System.Threading.ThreadStart(AddressOf _ SynchItObj.ExportAccessToText(CSVFilePath, CSVFileName, DatabaseFileName))) It give this error: 'AddressOf' operan...more >>

I am trying to monitor the CPU usage of a particualar process in VB.NET, and the best that I can come up with is get the TotalProcessor time using the System.Diagnostic.Process object. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks,...more >>

I have a third party application that starts up an application within their application. It requires the classname of the project. For vb6 I specify the following: WindowName:="HmiBanner",Classname:="ThunderRT6FormDC" What would the equivilent for vb.net be? ----------------------------...more >>

Hi! I have some problems with setting PrintDocument margins using PageSetupDialog. Here some code to explain my problem... First PrintDocument declaring this way... Private pd As PrintDocument = New PrintDocument It is possible to set default values for PrintDocument printing in Ap...more >>

I typically open a file for writing like this: Public stLog As Stream Public swLog As StreamWriter ........ stLog = File.Open("c:\temp\Errors.log", FileMode.Append) swLog = New StreamWriter(stLog) But, what if I didn't know until runtime how many output files I needed to open? For e...more >>

hello, I want to add scrolling and auto expanding after X msec to Drop & Drop in a treeview. Can someone me in the right direction. thanks Marc ...more >>

I have a tiny little application that runs, and when minimized it throws itself into the systray until the user double clicks on the systray icon. To accomplish that first part I have this : Private Sub frmMain_Resize(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As _ System.EventArgs) Handles My...more >>

Hi group, I've got this ownerdraw menu module which I got from a site and modified to my personal needs, but the only problem I'm having is with the lines in a menu, when you type - as text, it normaly becomes a full line and the height of the menuitem is reduced but when you set a menu to own...more >>

Are there any free add-ins for VB.Net that will add and remove line numbers from the source code? TIA John...more >>

Hi, I know this has been done quite often before, but all my research and trials have not worked. Basically I am trying to display a sorted list of e-mail Addresses in a datalist control (using web forms) from a dataset. The only table in the dataset has 2 columns (UserID (Guid (defined as a ...more >>

How do I find the weeknumber from a selected date from the calendar? regards reidarT ...more >>

I have a datagrid (uggg) that I use and create the columns programmatically...see below. objCol = New DataGridTextBoxColumn objCol.MappingName = "amount" objCol.HeaderText = "Amount" objCol.Width = 60 objCol.Format = "C" objDGTS.GridColumnStyles...more >>

Hi, Does anyone knows how to read a PDF file from vb.net. I need to read each word in the PDF file in order to search for some special words. Any help?, I am looking for something free. Thanks, KJaime ...more >>

I am doing LAN messenger in vb.net. I created one form on which 2 text boxes,1 button. 1 text box for typing messege & other for receiving. I am using concept of Windows "net send". I can send messege properly. Receiver can see that msg in one window with "OK" button (as usual when we send msg t...more >>

hey all, is it ok to make a dataset public property? ok to make a dataset a public variable? which one is better, if any? why? thanks, rodchar...more >>

Hi All, I have a print preview form in my app which consists of a PrintDocument which is tied into a Print Preview Control, a Printer Dialog component, and a Printer Setup Dialog component. The document property has been set on all of the latter of those 3. I can't seem to get my Print ...more >>

I've made a small vb.net program to read my database and delete records that are specific to my needs. Well, the program says it's complete but nothing is deleted from my database. I've listed the code below. Imports System.data.oledb Imports System.Data Public Class Form1 Inherits Syste...more >>

I am running into a weird problem. I am using the following code: String.Format("{0:0}:{1:00}:{2:00}", Hours.ToString, Minutes.ToString, Seconds.ToString) Just say seconds is set to 1, it should return a string that displays 0:00:01, but it isn't display that, instead I get 0:0:1. Can an...more >>

I have seen lots of information in help and in here about formatting numbers and dates, but what about strings? In VB6 I could do something like this... Format("abcdefghi","@@@-@@-@@@@") ....and the result would be... abc-de-fghi How can I do this in VB.NET? I have looked at...more >>

I have an application that connects to remote machines with valid IP addresses. However, if I try to connect to a machine that does not exist, at least 45 seconds goes by before my application times out and moves to the next machine. I am interested in reducing this timeout to about 20 s...more >>

How do I convert this VBA script into VB.Net? Rows("4:5").Select Selection.Rows.group I did take a look at the office 2003 sdk for excel at the group property but that did not provide helpful information. Any information is appreciated? E-Cube...more >>

I'm trying to display formatted multi-line text in tooltips. It seems that the newline character works fine whereas the 'tab' character is causing problems and can't display properly. More specifically, when I set the caption of a tooltip to something like "Hello" + vbTab + "there", the too...more >>

Hello, is it possible to save my personal preferences (menus, shortcuts, ...) to retrieve them on another machine with another VB.Net Environment? How can I do this? Thank You Joachim...more >>

How live update my vb.net app from FTP site? ...more >>

In VB6 I used to use the Load event of a Form to set its position on the screen (based on wherever the user put the form the last time they used it). This was ideal as it fired before the form became visible. Since moving to VB.NET I'm finding that the Form is already displayed on screen wh...more >>

I'm working in VB.Net, using Visual Studio 2003. I have a project, let's call it Foo, that contains common methods, forms, and objects I use in other projects. It compiles as Foo.dll, which I then reference from the project that needs it. Let's say I have a method, Bar, that I want to acces...more >>

Hey, Can I register an Assembly to the GAC programatically __WITHOUT__ using gacutil? Thanks ahead --Ram ...more >>

Dear All I didn't install the help documents (MSDN) for the VS.net, How could I attach VS.net online help to Microsoft site directly, i.e.. use the msdn on Microsoft (msdn.Microsoft.com) , so when pressing F1 or open the dynamic help window VS open the help from the internet. Ahmed ...more >>

I have a problem that shows up only on some systems - the toolbar text in buttons is not visible (vb.net 2003 app, 1.1 framework). As a workaround, I changed the textalign property to "right". This solved the problem, but I don't know what's happening. I notice that there is a small "dot" in t...more >>

Hi, Iam working with myapplication.exe.config file in my vb.net windows application.Its working fine in my development environment. When i test this application in some other machine using exe and all related dll's and files. Iam getting following error. Thx in advance. Hari. See the e...more >>

Hello All, I have excel version 11 currently referenced in my vb.net proj. I have created an excelsheet using Excel.Worksheet. When I look at the available functions, such as insert i get Insert([Shift as Object], [CopyOrigin as Object]) I was wondering where can I look to find valid valu...more >>

Ok, I have a DataTable: ID Name -- ------------ 1 John 2 Jacob 3 Jingleheimer 4 Schmidt 5 John I have set my DisplayMember of my listbox to "Name"; my valueMember to "ID" and my datasource to myDataTable. So far so good. It shows the li...more >>

Hi All, Would anybody be able to help me on how to use COM components in vb.net? I have a dll and would like to use the functions of the dll. Here are the steps that I followed: 1. Register the dll 2. Add reference to the dll in the solution explorer Is there a need to add import statem...more >>

Hi there I'm downloading data from a remote server to my local disk using Stream.Read() and Stream.Write() (as previously suggested by Ken Tucker in this group). By and large the download and local write operations occur successfully, but frequently the data transfer is "intermittent", ie. ...more >>

I have a problem I can't seem to solve although it should be easy. I've done these many times before. But I keep getting an exception, "Line 1: Incorrect syntax near 'GetFinancialData'." This query works fine through Query Analyzer or if I do not set SQLParameter for the query. I hope so...more >>