There is another alternative which looks promising - REALbasic. I have just downloaded the demo - so don't lynch me if I'm wrong - but REALbasic looks like a very strong contender to take over where Visual Basic died. Sure, it has plenty of room for growth....but bear with me for a minute....more >>

I am downloading the REALbasic 5.5 demo and was just wondering if anyone else had tried it. I am tired of Microsoft constantly changing things and breaking backward compatibility ON PURPOSE. I'd like to offer my customers the ability to run my apps on Windows, MAC or Linux - and REALbasi...more >>

why if i do a select on ablock of text (in vs2003) when i do a find/replace is find next and replace disabled? replace all is there but i may well not want to do that? if i pick any of the other 'search' options replace and find next are enabled. why? guy...more >>

I've been searching and searching and I can't seem to come up with a decent enough search string at Google to get any useful information on what I'm looking for. I see scores of programs that pop open a web page and fill in form fields. Is this something that is easily done in VB.NET? I ...more >>

Are there any good HTML parsing tools available for VB.NET? I'd like something that will list: - tables (table, tr, td) - anchor tags - image tabs - DIVs and so. For example, it may list all <A> tags in an array. I can then search each entry of the array looking for a specific parame...more >>

I'm currentlyworking on a VB.NET application to control Sketchup (http://www.sketchup.com) using COM. Sketchup has a color class with color.red, color.green and color.blue but this is not appearing in the Interop layer. Instead, RGB colours are of type System.Uint32. I need a method to ...more >>

Hi all, Is it possible to force a multiline textbox to insert a hard cr/lf when wordwrapping ?? What I would like is to get a string array from the textbox representing exactly how the text appears in the box. ie if I type in "hello there everyone" and the textbox wraps it over 2 line...more >>

Hi all, I have created a VB.net application using: Microsoft Development Environment 2002 Version 7.0.9466 Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 Version 1.0.3705 The application was working fine in one system but crashes on the other. 1) Functioning PC OS :Window XP service pack 1, Version 1 (Build...more >>

I need to loop a table and put the string with chr(13) into a richtextbox. Does anyone know the limitation of richtextox ?? Btw, Can It output as excel ?? Thanks ...more >>

how can i add things from a different form to a combo box on a different form? and how do you transfer info from form to form...more >>

Hi all, How can I do a listener that receives UDP messages in a specified range of ports without connection, in my case, 8000 to 8020??? There is a way to do this using the UDPclient Class? Please, I'm desperate Any ideas??? Thanks in advance ...more >>

I've been butting heads with this code, it always errors at objAdapter1.Fill(objDataTable1) Is oledb the best way to do this? How about ADO.NET? Dim objDataTable1 As DataTable Dim objConn As OleDbConnection = New OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data ...more >>

Hi, i have a game im programming where a i need a timer to be disabled if a buttons top edge hits the bottom edge of a label but nothing i try seems to work. Also i need it to stop the timer if it hits a labels left and top edges but nothing works......help!...more >>

hi, i have been trying to convert the following codes to vb.net for 2 weeks, and it still do not work while the old vb6 codes work perfectly fine...i really do not know what wrongs with it... here the vb6 codes... Sub ChangeConnection() Dim DeviceInfoSet As Long Dim GuidPtr As GUID Dim I...more >>

I'm looking for a way to detect if another process has a file open before a second process tries to open it. I've looked into the FileAttr function but I'm not sure if detecting a read-only state is sufficient. Can anyone confirm or deny? TIA... ...more >>

Hi, I asked it previously but maybe I was not clear enough for having any comments from you :) When a socket is sending data, is there any test I have to do to be sure that the outgoing packet is sent and I can trigger another sending of messages? Is it possible for a socket that has ...more >>

I would like to create a query to run in a VB.NET application that searches an Access contacts database for 1 or more strings, e.g. FirstName, LastName etc. and returns the results in a DataGrid. Can this be done and if so can anyone offer me any assistance? Thanks...more >>

I would like to build a portscan detector in vb.net but I have no idea how to start. Can anybody give me any ideas on how to start, what kind of code to use? Regards Geert ...more >>

I am trying to use vb.net to programatically share an excel spreadsheet. is there any way to do that? I can't find it. help. *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!...more >>

I am getting the message: The dependency 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word' could not be found. in my Task List when I do a Build. None of the References under "References" in the Solution Explorer have the little ! icon next to them, so it looks like those were all found ok. Can someone ...more >>

Is there an equivalent to the MSAccess eval() funtion in VB? Any recommendations? Thanks -Bill ...more >>

I am learning VB .Net and Visual Studio .Net while trying to create a Help Desk application for our company's Intranet. Certain pages are available to the MIS Department only. Windows Integrated Security is being used. When a MIS Tech is at another employees pc, and they log into the secure ...more >>

Is there anyway to remove the close button on a form, or is there a "On Close" property? TIA....more >>

In my project's "AssemblyInfo.vb" file, I have set the following for versioning: <Assembly: AssemblyVersion("3.0.*")> Yet every time I rebuild, I get the exact same build number and private part number: 3.0.1907.20745 What am I doing wrong, here? I read that the build (1907) and p...more >>

I am using VB .Net with HTTPWebRequest/HTTPWebResponse to navigate a web site and print invoices (not download them - their requirements, not mine). The related web site, when printing an invoice, modifies the current HTML that displays the invoice, creates a new window and does a print. The ...more >>

Hi, I'm using the following code to spawn another app from VB.NET.. Dim ShellProcess As New Process ShellProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "xxxx.exe" ShellProcess.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = True ShellProcess.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = "C:\Windows\...more >>

Hello all. I'm trying to figure out exactly what is going on here. I'm getting different results on different forms, and it's driving me nuts. For example, I have a form called FormFinish. It's AcceptButton is set to btnExport and the CancelButton is set to btnCancel. btnExport on FormF...more >>

Hello to all! I´m trying to customize my datetimepicker but it seems that I can´t change the background color? Is this possible to be done by other means? One more thing.. is there a site where I can find good vb.net controls? Thank you all ...more >>

Hello, I Write this code for get Stream from a file : Dim _Stream As Stream = New FileStream("C:\Test.bin", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read) This code for Put Stream to File : Dim i As Integer Dim fs As FileStream = New FileStream("C:\app\test.bin", FileMode.CreateNew,FileAccess.Wri...more >>

Hi there, I developed a simple VB executable, i.e. x.exe, that manipulates an Excel File. I have the full Microsoft Office set in my development PC. My question is: can this program x.exe run in a PC that does not have Excel installed? Is there a re-distributable that can be included in a S...more >>

How would one check to see if a program is already running? I don't want my app to be launched more than once. Thanks, Mark...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem with File.Exists function. I have windows xp, when I try to execute the function to check wether a net fiel exists or not (something like \\server\file.wav for example) I get no error. The problem is... when I wait for 15 minutes (aproximately) without doing anythi...more >>

Hi EveryBody: I used the sendMessage function to change the url of internet Explorer to www.yahoo.com and here what I did : SendMessage(hWnd, WM_SETTEXT, 0, "http://www.yahoo.com/") but I face this problem that the internet explorer did not start navigate to the url that I set which is...more >>

Appreciate a lead to specifying where the tab stop is (only need one) in a richtextbox. Use to be able to use an API with VB5. Ed ...more >>

Hi Guys, When I compile and run a project it does not change the file version, though I have made some changes. How can can I force it to Increment the build version whenever I recompile. I am using framework 1.1 (Version1.1.4322 SP1) Thanks, Richard ...more >>

Does some one got an example or tutorial about how to get the MX record of an email address? regards, Guoqi Zheng http://www.ureader.com...more >>

hi all I have one problem in vb.net application. I am having two threads which are starting at the same time. Both these threads are reading one file and retrieving data from same file. When one thread start and during retrieving information from file, if i abort thread then second thread is g...more >>

Hi all I am having problem in vb.net apllication which is multithreaded. I want to detect memory leaks, total number of object which are undisposed at a time of closing application. Does anyone know any utility or application for detecting undisposed object as well as memory leaks. Please help...more >>

I am trying to access and control media player 10 interfaces for controls to video brightness, vizualizations etc. However I havent found any interface in the media player object that allows me to reference a player to that interface, hence I cannot control it. Does anyone know how to get past t...more >>

hey all, i have a string variable for company names. one of the names has an & in it. i'm getting undesired results, how would you normally handle this? thanks, rodchar...more >>

Hi has anyone ever added combo boxes to a datagrid (instead of text boxes) in a winform. It seems to be a lot of pain. I've found a few articles but all the examples are in C#. Do you have any example in VB.net ? thx ...more >>

I developed a usercontrol. This has a datagrid and button. On click of the button I'm opening another form and capturing some information. I wanted to refresh the datagrid on close of the form. I tried all options and couldn't figure out the solution. Any help is really appreciated. -- Sind...more >>

Hi, Do you know if it's possible to have a datagrid that contains drop-down lists ? Thx ...more >>

Hi, Hi, I would like to handle the events for the dynamically created controls at runtime. I Have written the code in HTML View of an asp.net page.like this <script runat="server"> public sub hai(sender as object,e as eventargs) Dim tr As New TableRow Dim td1 As New T...more >>

Hi all i am having error is multi threaded application. I have function in which i am opening form and starting thread. But while doing this i am getting following error. This exception is getting catched in main. Does anyone know what is nativewindow. Error:- System.NullReferenceException: O...more >>

I'm trying to make get my app to delete all the files in a specified folder and all the files within the folders of the specified folder. e.g. Folder 1 contains three files (File1, File2, File3) and two folders (Subfolder 1, Subfolder 2). .......I need to delete File1, File2, File3. Subfol...more >>

Hi, I am looking to get information on software methodolgies and processes. Could someone please post a link to some nice article which has atleast some kind of information as to what is it? thanks...more >>

How do i declare a function when i put option strict On ...more >>