Ok, dumb question from a newbie who does most of his development in MSACCESS: Access has a line control and a box control for placing lines on my form. How is this accomplished in VB.Net? Hopefully we're not back to using pixel coordinates and a draw method! -Mike ...more >>

I've added a property to one of my classes and now, when I deserialize it I am getting a version mismatch. How to you add or subtract properties in classes that are being serialized / desererialized??? Thanks! Clark ...more >>

Ok, here is apparently another odd one... I am (as I said in a previous posting here) building a user control that inherits from System.Windows.Forms.UserControl. This base class contains a ForeColor property that I leave exposed in my inherited class. My intent here is to allow users to se...more >>

I hope this does not post twice. I got an error on the first attempt. I have a combo box on a form with DropDownStyle = DropDownList I have bound it as follows: cmboOp.DataSource = opTable cmboOp.DisplayMember = "OperatorName" cmboOp.ValueMember = "OperatorID The binding works fine. I ...more >>

Ok, I have finally decided that there is ONE big thing about VB.NET (not sure if this same thing exists in C# yet) that really ticks me off. Either I am missing the point here or I have not found what I need to accomplish my need. I am creating a Windows forms user control and am inheriting...more >>

Very simple question. I have a project with multiple forms and a Module1. In Module1 I have written the connectionstring: Module Module1 Public connectionstring = "provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;data source=" + Application.StartupPath + "\mydatabase.mdb;" End Module In Form I am u...more >>

Hi, I'm having limited luck getting an ApplicationException to work right in my code. This is VB.NET, VS 2003, Windows XP SP2, .NET Framework 1.1. I thought it would be convenient to take advantage of exception handling to deal with the case of the user clicking the Cancel button while a ...more >>

I'm familiar with CInt(value) but I'm not with Int32.Parse(value). They seem to do the same thing. Is there a big difference between the two and when would one be best applied over the other? Thanks, Jim ...more >>

Ok, once again I'm at my wits' end with a VB.Net problem. I have a button which opens a wizard that allows the user to enter a new record to a table. I have a datatable called dtItems that stores the data from a table named Items, and a dataview called dvItems that is a sorted subset of the d...more >>

Hello, I am trying to use .NET with Excel. I installed Office 2003 and selected ..NET programming suport option, so it installed all those PIA, as MS sugests. But I can not find a way to destroy Excel process, it still hangs in the taks manager' Processes as running. I am trying very simple co...more >>

Is it possible to open a form from one project from a form in another project within the same solution? If so how is this done? Thanks...more >>

I have a desktop application which communicates with a web server, using a web service. Mostly, the web service reads and writes data to Access databases on the web server. Now, I need to copy a large (1 MB to 30 MB) MDB file from the desktop to the web server, replacing an existing file...more >>

Hi, I'm having a problems with the following code. The line "items.Add(collListViews(i))" gives me a NullReferenceException and I don't really know why.. Private Function sort(ByVal priority As Integer, ByVal items As ArrayList) Dim i As Integer = 0 ' while all listvi...more >>

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Does VS .NET Pro 2003 install a copy of win32api.txt? On another system, I see that a copy was installed by VS .NET Pro 2002. -- http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site. ...more >>

Hi All, What is the naming convention for objects? I checked the MSDN and found naming conventions for class members, etc; but could not find information on the objects. It would be great if anybody could provide me the link to the same. Thanks. kd...more >>

Hey! I have a question, can I use the SQL Server 2000 with VB.net or assists VB.net only SQL Server 2005 thanks very much ...more >>

I'm having problems determining the memory usage of a process using the Process component. If I call Process.VirtualMemorySize.ToString I will get back a value that is nowhere near close to what the task manager reports. In this particular instance the VirtualMemorySize property returned a...more >>

Has any one been able to manage a Quickcam Web camera successfully from a VB.Net program? Specially the "imageto memory" option? I am having problem of acquiring an image into memory. Please help! -- Message posted via http://www.dotnetmonster.com...more >>

Hi there guys. I have some 32 Bits PNGs with an Alpha channel, and added them as icons on Toolbar buttons. However, the pixels affected by the Alpha channel (those that have some transparency) become blue pixels... I found no workaround on Google. Does anyone know of a workaround? I'm using ...more >>