Hello there is there a way to call a control on a form with that form being initiated as a public variable? here's the situation: I have a form(form2), that I call as a new variable from form1. I need form2 to be able to access a listview control on form1 without the need to declare form1 at...more >>

I am converting a project from VB6 to VB.NET which has hundreds of plug-in DLLs that perform various tasks on the application database. In order to allow us to use the .NET version of the application without first having to convert all of the plug-ins, I am planning to allow the application to ca...more >>

I know this must be a common question, but can someone point me to a resource that demonstrates how to build a collection class that is serializable. Thanks; Michael ...more >>

Hello everybody my problem is related to internet explorer. By default internet explorer can access my computer and all drive to save, download, open files. i want to restrict this access to particular directory "c:\internet" so that IE can access files system below this directory. It shoul...more >>

How can I read and set the regional setting date and time formats from VB.net?...more >>

hi EveryBody: How can I click the Enter button automatically, how can I write code progrmatically that click the Enter Button ? Any help will be appreciated regard's Husam...more >>

Hi, I was asked to add an auto-update feature to a VB.Net windows application,.Basically when the application starts, it checks for if there is an update on server, if yes do the update. I am thinking about simply copying the updated application over existing application. Question is, the ap...more >>

I have 3 vbscripts and a vb form with radio buttons corresponding to each script. The form's only purpose is to provide a nice GUI for the user to decide which of the 3 scripts to run. Now, because the scripts are mostly identical to one another, I'd really like to combine them into one script...more >>

How would you delare a 2 dimensional array with 3 rows and 3 columns. I know this is really basic but I am just starting out. Derb...more >>

I need to set the mouse cursor to wait and also check to see if Esc has been pressed. To see if Esc has been pressed I do Application.DoEvents before I check a variable that gets set in KeyboardPress if Esc is pressed. According to the Doc calling Application.DoEvents will reset the cursor...more >>

I am writing an applictaion consisting of several web pages and web forms. In one file, A.vbs, I have defined several of my classes within Namespace A. Now I want to create another Namespace A.Util in another file. Here I want to put utility functions that I need in a several places within som...more >>

I use Region and Region to include 10 Sub Functions, Everytime I expand the region, all functions are expand too. I don't want "all function to be expanded", How can I set It ???? Thanks a lot ...more >>

Hi, I want to set visible to false in my datagrid to all fields that are an ID. How can I do this? I'm using ItemDataBound event but it gives me an error: "Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name: index" I have this code: ...more >>

Is it possible to determine which listview item a mouse is hovering over? Thanks, Dean Slindee ...more >>

OK, this is a rather strange request Is it possible to use dot-net dlls in VB6 projects? Is anyone doing this or is this completely useless? thx Peter ...more >>

Hi, there a line in an old vb6 program which i dun understand... "Begin dsSocketLib.dsSocket dsMsock" i know they are using a dsSock32.ocx object, but how do i include that in my new vb.net program??...more >>

Hi, I create plugins for a program. My programs are DLL that references different DLLs from the master program. Every time they release a new update to the master program, my DLLs fail saying that the version of the referenced DLLs is not the one expected. I then need to recompile all my ...more >>

Hi everyone I have a question regarding string format. If I want to write a set of numeric values from arrays to a text file with the "right alignment" format as below, can it be done? Basically, I want to format a number from an array to a fix length. I want to line up digits of numbers in a ...more >>

Hi I have a number of arrays of classes with which i want to copy to data from one element to another, but when i do the data in the first class remains referenced to the data in the second. Perhaps i can make more sense with this: Class MyClass1 dim a as byte dim b as byte end cla...more >>

In a newly created test app, to maximize client performance I tried to make two SOAP method calls in tandem (the soap methods execute some specified query), as each call includes a large amount of idle time by the client as it waits for a query to execute and return a dataset. As a test, I ini...more >>

Hi, I have a listview control that has a column displaying path. I need to change the StringTrimming of text in this column to StringTrimming.EllipsisPath, but there is no paint event available for ListView control, anyone know how can I achieve that? Thanks, Tee ...more >>

Does anyone have a best practices object model for the properties and = methods that would typically be involved with the GDI painting, = rendering, etc. aspect of this control. Classes surely to be involved = will be DataGridTableStyle, DataGridColumnStyle, GridColumnStyles = Paint, Brush, Fon...more >>

Hi, I have a listview with checkbox =true. I want to get only those check boxes are checked. I am developing this application for Pocket PC. What is the best way I can get the list. Thanks, Ravi Reddi ----------------------- Posted by a user from .NET 247 (http://www.dotnet247.com/) <...more >>

If you are or have tried using CVSNT in VS.NET, I'd love your feedback. Thanks, Mark Nadig /\/\/...more >>

Hi There, I'm a little confused how the ActiveSolutionProjects property works in the DTE object whilst working with macros. I would have thought that this would return an array of every active project in the current solution, but it does not, it seems to only return the last one that i...more >>

Hi All, I posted this message few days ago. No one has answered so far. I just would like to know if it is possible to do or not. Even if you can not tell me how to do this, maybe you know which library I need to use in order to access excel information from a VB.NET code. For example, I woul...more >>

Hello all: I have the Crystal Report viewer imbedded on a .NET form, and it works very well... except, on the target machine, when I set the ReportSource property of the viewer (to a ReportDocument object), it PRETENDS to load a report, but displays a blank object. The toolbar becomes active, ...more >>

How do most programmers produce reports from Visual Basic Dot Net. I just got off the phone with the Crystal people (Business Objects) and they indicated that the Crystal included in VB.Net is just a seed version. They could not define what exactly that meant, but it didn't sound good. Does...more >>

Hello Working with system.threading.thread Ok I have an windows user control. It has 3 thread on it thread 1 uploaded files types a thread 2 upload files types b thread 3 upload files types c this all happens at same time Works great Now i put a tab control on my form i create 5 ins...more >>

Hi EveryBody: How can I use raise event statment to get the same action when I press the enter button in the key bord ? Some body give me this: SendKeys "{ENTER}" Note that where you must have focus. any one can told me how can I do so ? any help will be appreciated regard...more >>

Is that possible to change tooltip font in a windows form? Thanks....more >>

i apologize for what is no doubt a very rudimentary question, but i'm still trying to wrap my brain around .net coding habits. in classic asp, if i wanted to show search results, i'd just post the form data over to another page or call a showSearchResults sub on the search page. in .net, i can't ...more >>

Does anyone have actually used SetWindowsHookEx() to hook up= ShellExecute() so as to find what application was started by= windows or which folder is currently browsed by explorer=2E I know= one thing and that is =2E=2E=2E Windows uses ShellExecute() to do= almost every task=2E I need some...more >>

Hi, What is the best way to store a date as text. I want to be able to read the date from the external source (config file etc) and be able to interpret it regardless of the local culture setting. The date may be stored using on culture and read using another. Thanks Tim ...more >>

I'm pulling a list of data from an excel file. When I open Excel files directly, if someone else has it open, I can select 'READ-ONLY' from a pop-up. When accessing the file from within my vb.net application, I don't get a pop-up to ask me if read-only is acceptable, but I assume there is a ...more >>

Hi, I have a component which retrieves to short date format from the culture of the current thread. When the component is called from a windows form environment it returns "en-GB", "dd/mm/yy", all OK. When I call the same component from a web form it return "en-GB", "M/d/yy". These are di...more >>

I am caching some data in VB.NET using System.Web.Caching, is it possible to lock the cache so that other sessions attempting to access the same cache wait when it is being updated? I have the cache using a sliding timeout and a dependency on the text file its data is extracted from. If it's rel...more >>

Hi, Two questions about menu and shortcuts (in WindowsForms) : 1) I create a main menu with two items in menu bar : &menu 1 and m&enu 2 I see the accelarator key (m underline for menu 1 and e underline for menu 2) only if i strike the alt key. If I don't use alt key, never i see these a...more >>

I'm converting a vbscript program to vb.net. Witht he exception of .net idiosyncrasies, most of it is working well with the same code. My only problem is that some properties and methods are missing from the Chart object. For instance, the following line worked fine in vbscript (csPowerSp...more >>

Hi, I want to adjust button height based on label text. Normally I have standard height because label text has one row, but the text can change in runtime. I want to adjust height of the button after text change, if the text is too long and wraps to the second row and 3rd, and so on. The wid...more >>

This is getting very frustrating. I placed the same question before twice and got no response. Hopefully I'll get one this time. What I want to do is to restrict the items in one of the cbo boxes in my windows form based on what is selected in another cbo box. Example: When I choose "George" ...more >>

I would like to display data in Treeview so that data hierarchy can be presented properly: Customer Master Customer Location Customer Location Storage For each record in each level/node, I would like to use Right-click to display maintenance options (Delete/Edit...) Is there...more >>

I posted this once before without any answers so I am trying again. Does anyone know of or have code that will parse Quicken files? I am writing a program that will parse quicken files, pull the data I need out and process it. I have searched the Quicken sites and found their file specs, but I...more >>

I've got an application that has several distinct purposes. I'd like to make these available as different screens that the user can switch between within a single form, using commands from the main Menu. (The "primary" form serves only as a container for the Menu and the other screens.) I...more >>

I want a dialog like SaveFileDialog1 that returns a folder (aka path) instead of a file name. I have a program that has a file with a file name already assigned, but I want to allow the user to select the directory to store it in. Is this possible with a supplied dialog or do I have to creat...more >>

Hi all, is there any short way to accomplish column "auto"-sizing in a Datagrid? (Something like double-clicking column header separator) I suppose datagrid object calls some kind of "internal" method to do it when column header separator is clicked, but I can't figure out which it is. TI...more >>

How to fire a JavaScript from VB code? TIA ...more >>

Hi, I receive daily an email with a attached file from my Outlook inbox. This file must be saved into a specific location manually. I made an app to automate this process. My app can read the emails from the inbox folder, I can catch all properties of the emails. I want to know how to s...more >>

Hi evrybody: How can I make the same action when you press the Enter Button,Is there any function or message in win32 api equevelant to the same performance of Enter Button ? Any help will be appreciated regard's Husam...more >>

Hi, in the old vb6 i can just write "timercount = Timer", how do i get the same vale in vb.net??...more >>

I am trying to make a simple archiving application in Visual Basic.net I have only just begun learning vb.net but so far everything seems to work ok but I have now come to the point where I would like to zip the files/directories to be archived. The ideal would be a function that I could a...more >>