I am using the following function in a windows service. It is fired off by a file system watcher component. It works fine, except for I'll copy in 20 files it has to process at one time. I'll load up MySqlBrowser to check the data, and it says I'm out of connections. (the database is rem...more >>

How can I tell if a user clicks the Close "X" on the windows form control box? -- Dennis in Houston...more >>

I created a UTC clock using this: UTCTime = MyTime.ToUniversalTime() Now that we've turned the clocks ahead 1 hour for daylight savings time, the clock is reporting the wrong UTC time. It is reporting UTC + 1 hour. Is this a bug or is there a way I can querey for daylight time and make the a...more >>

I am using the thread pool. I would like to prevent late binding, but cant figure out how. When the WaitCallback function is called, it expects a function prototype with type OBJECT. My rotuine that does the real work, needs it as a string Array. Whats the best peformance way to handle th...more >>

In VB.net 1.0, windows environment, for an mdi child form in the normal size state (not maximized)... The maximum height of the mdi child form appears to be limited to a value that is only slightly more than the full screen height of the MDI form. Is there a way around this limitation?...more >>

I want to set the scroll bar and cursor the bottom of a constantly updating textbox. I am under the impression that: txtBox.SelectionStart = txtBox.TextLength should do the trick, but it doesn't have any impact. Any suggestions? TIA Brad ...more >>

When I first saw the word style here, I immediately jumped to the conclusion that the styles were of the Cascading Style Sheet variety. It now looks that was the wrong conclusion. Here is what I was attempting to do <th style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;> One or more columns</th> W...more >>

Windows has a search command to find files containing a given string. Makes me wonder if there is some Windows API or managed method to programmatically search a directory tree for files containing a given string. Thanks in advance ...more >>

I have several controls on a form. Each control has various events. The flow may go like this: control1.event1 control2.event1 control1.event2 control3.event1 How can I stop this chain in control2.event1? I'd like to stop the entire process and return control to the form. Thanks, B...more >>

Hello All, I have the following code: response = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes, 0, receivedByteCount) Dim multiline As Boolean = (response.Chars(3) = "-"c) What is the purpose of the c character in "-"c Thanks In Advance ...more >>

I've finally started working in VS.NET most of the day and have a small problem. It's *slow* on this 2.8 GHz P4 with a gig of RAM. I only develop in VB.NET, so is there anything I might be able to strip out or turn off to make things a bit quicker? Even saving a small 3 form project takes 5...more >>

Using VB.Net 2003 to create Excel spreadsheets using MS Excel 11.0 object library: When I run my app in my dev environment, I am never prompted for things like deleting sheets or saving files, but when I release it (with reference DLLs copied local set to true) I am prompted for all of these ...more >>

Hello, Does anybody know any commands that do the same as DoEvents in VB6. I need to delay the program execution a little bit for the form to refresh. Thanks in Advance...more >>

Hi All, I need a little help converting a class to vb.net. I have the following to convert: internal class BBBSDIForm : BBBForm { public BBBSDIForm(FormInfo fi, FormMgr formMgr) : base(fi, formMgr) { sysform=new SmartForm(formMgr, this, fi.pos); sysform.Text=fi.caption; sys...more >>

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I check to see if the Floppy drive is ready and display it's state. But if the user inserts or removes a floppy disk I need an event or Windproof message to cause the code to display the new state. Is the some way the code can be alerted to the fact that a removable disk drive's state chan...more >>

I have written an LDAP application that allows user to select contacts from the search result data-grid and then click on an email to button which generates a new email and populates the To: field with the selected contacts. Note: The application reads the registry to determine what the defa...more >>

I have to read data from an external source, massage the data, concatenate it to one long string, then write it to a textfile. So I am experimenting with the StringBuilder object. I append the data in a loop, then I write the data to text file, then I need to clear the StringBuilder object fo...more >>

Hi, I want to use VB.Net to access a network folder, say \\myServer\myFolder, and enumerate all files in that folder and process each file one by one. Please provide some sample codes. Thanks!...more >>

In VB6, you could set a check box to checked, unchecked, or greyed. The latter would be used to show a setting but disable the control. In .Net, the third choice is not greyed, but indeterminate. And the doc says it shows it as greyed, but checked. So how do you show greyed and unchecked...more >>

Hi all, I'm attempting to port some C# code over to VB.Net. It was going well until I hit the following code: public virtual event PInputEventHandler KeyDown { add { handlers.AddHandler(keyDownEventKey, value); } remove { handlers.RemoveHandler(keyDownEventKey, value); ...more >>

I have a web project (ASP.Net/VB.net) with a data access layer class that passes dataset objects to the web form based on a passed SQL query. I tried to reuse this class in a VB.Net Windows form but the ByRef dataset variable is empty after the call to the data access layer. The class succes...more >>

Is there a simpler way to play from a sound file than this one http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vbcode/html/vbtskcodeexampleplayingsound.asp Thanks. -- Xero http://www.chezjeff.net My personal web portal...more >>

Hy. I need to check: - is the target machine online. How can i do it? if machine_is_online =true then online = yes else online = no end iF thanks...more >>

I have two Access databases: one has records, the other only has blank tables. I want to copy records to the empty database. I am using a DataAdaptor and a DataSet for the transfer. My code works for for editing records or using the Row.ADD() method to append records. To transfer the re...more >>

Hi, I have a datagrid which source is a dataset : dgFields.Rows.DataMember = m_dsFields.Tables(0).TableName dgFields.Rows.DataSource = m_dsFields Now my values are displayed properly and when I add a row I call the follwing : Dim dtChanged As New DataTable dtChanged = m_dsFields.Tables(...more >>

I want to split a large csv file into smaller files. How can i go about this?.. thank you !...more >>

Hi, I want to make an Outlook 2000 Add-In with VB.NET 2003, but I'm not able to find any good information about it how to do it. I want to have a property-page for my Add-In in Outlook to change some settings. do i have to add a form for that? Or how do I do this? Any help would be really a...more >>

Hi All, I need to retrieve a list of computer names that are available on a network and a list of databases that are available in MSDE2K. Can someone point me in the right direction for retrieving this type of info. TIA! Lee ...more >>

Can someone tell me how to do a bit-wise "And" in VB.Net - I've looked all over and can't find it. I thought the "And" in VB6 was replaced by a "BitAnd" function, but I can't find it anywhere and when I try to use it, it is unrecognized. Is it part of a class somewhere? Thanks, Chuck C...more >>

My software relies on a third party data provider to a propretary database. In turn the third party database relies on a Windows Service that runs on the server to supply the data... The problem is that from time to time this service dies without warning. Is there any way that I can write ...more >>

Hi There, I'm just trying to find a range of Windows values that are unused? I was previously using 500's but this has started to cause issues, is there a range of values that are unused? I would rather not have to resort to WM_USER or whatever to value is for *custom* messages. Than...more >>

I'm using a third part component in a certain app. The component has methods and events. I noticed one particular event was not firing after a while but it should have been. The problem was the "handles" part was missing. I didn't remove this that I know of. After putting this back in, t...more >>

I am trying to delete the default sheets that appear whenever you make a new workbook in Excel. I can't seem to find any documentation on this in the ..NET help. I tried creating a macro that does it, and use the code from that, but I cannot seem to find the right combination of calls to do it....more >>

Does the VB Listview have some sort of event which fires when the user resizes the columns in Details view? I want to record the column sizes as the user changes them. If not, can I create an event like this? -- | +-- Thief_ | ...more >>

Dear Group, I can't seem to find a place within the framework to allow me to store my own private (hidden) data within these types of documents. I just need a place to store a few encrypted strings to assist with document tracking. Thanks! -- Liddle Feesh *fap fap fap fap* <>< ...more >>

I started working on a disk replication tool for CompactFlash, to deploy an XP Embedded device. It would save me a lot of time and rebooting into good old DOS, if I could replace the CF's bootsector from within the same tool. The problem is that a filestream doesn't support raw disk access t...more >>

Does anyone have any suggestions on this? I have a form that can be collapsed into a compact size and expanded back to full size. If the user moves the compact size of the form close to the edge, then when it is brought to full size, the right edge goes off the edge of the screen. How ...more >>

Hi, I would like to convert characters as typed in my text box to upper case. How can I do this? Thank you...more >>