I have tried everything I can think of to move records from one Access database to another. It should not be that hard. Read on.... I have identical access mdb's. One contains data; one contains empty tables. From an earlier posting, I was able to move the data by first exporting XML fi...more >>

In it's simplest form, assume that I have created a usercontrol, WSToolBarButton that contains a button. I would like to eventually create copies of WSToolBarButton dynamically at run time based on some initialization information obtained elsewhere. Basically, I'm going to create my own d...more >>

I have a question so basic that I suspect everyone takes it for granted, as i cannot google the answer. Anyone here can probably answer it! I want to create a bunch of variable at runtime, but I don't know beforehand how many. When the program has calculated the number of variables (N) that I...more >>

Public Shared Function GetValue(ByVal keyName As String, ByVal valueName As String, Optional ByVal badKey As Object = "") As Object Dim UserKey As RegistryKey = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("Software\JUNK\ keyName) If Not UserKey Is Nothing Then GetValue = CType(UserK...more >>

Anyone out there use NUnit for unit level testing on VB.Net? I see lots of C# documentation out there but very little for VB.Net? Can anyone suggest some books or web sites that address this? ...more >>

I'm developing an application where I'm representing ASCII encrypted Hex values as a string displayed by the UI. In the line above each of the data strings, I want to have a string that contains the name of the data content and I'd like it to be in alignment. The problems I'm having is that ...more >>

I created a child form that is much bigger than the MDI form in VB.Net. I am trying to capture the whole child form and save as an image or sent to printer. I tried to use BitBlt to capture the child form but I can only capture the visible part of the child form whatever you scroll to any part...more >>

I hope this is a simple question for threading people. VB 2005 Beta2 has a new SerialPort control. I can read the data that I want just fine. However when I try to display the text, I get a threading error. See event code and error message below. How do I get around this threading error??? ...more >>

Not sure if this is a good place to post this... I'm writing and ASP.net app using vb .net. I need to interact with a credit card reader. I have one that sits inline with the keyboard. Works great, except for the fact that no matter what field the user is in on the transaction page (Name, Ad...more >>

Is there a way in VB 6 (and VB 2005) to get the instance name from a class. For example class MyClass 'some methods and properties public property get VarName() as string VarName = somefunction(me) end property end class dim myVar as MyClass Set myVar = new MyClass debug.print ...more >>

I would like to use a WebBrowser Control in a Windows Form & pass information to the loaded pages... ie user name & password type information... is this possible? I know how to load the web page...but I'm not sure how to pass values to the fields within the loaded web page. Steve. ...more >>

Hi, in my program, i want to send a signal to other computer on the network (LAN). so that when other recieves this signal, it will do something... What Class should I use for sending the signal? Is there any example code i can find? thankyou very much in advance!...more >>

I have created a bitmap and set the transparency color to black; mybitmap.MakeTransparent(Color.Black) myicon = Icon.FromHandle(bm.GetHicon) This creates the icon ok but the background color black is not transparent. How do I create an Icon from this bitmap that has also the color black ...more >>

I have a windows form that I only want one instance of. it currently is = a child mdi form which may be changing as the project progresses. I have = made it a singleton object by making the Sub new constructor private = then using this code to call it: Private Shared m_instance As ShippingOrde...more >>

hello, I have a form with a datagrid and combo box. When the form loads up, i want the focus to be on the combo box. however, whenever it loads up, the focus is always on the datagrid. in the Form.Load, i tried both combo.focus() and combo.select(), neither of them will take the focus away f...more >>

How do I select programically select a row in a WinForm DataGrid after sorting it? thx in advance Rui Pedro Nascimento...more >>

VB.net, launch procedure, close form, the whole APP is deactivated. When I say deactivated, other applications (Wind Explorer, My computer, Ect...) come to the foreground and my app goes to the back ground. The easiest way to reactivate the application, is selecting it from the taskbar. ...more >>

I have a dataset that will have say 10000 records in it with the names of files that are used by the system. I then have a large directory of files that correspond to that list of files and want to find any files that are in the directory but not referenced anymore (trying to do cleanup.) I kn...more >>

I have a textbox with width of 504 and height 248. It gets filled with much content so there is a vertical scroll bar present. When I click into this box and do Ctrl + A, it should highlight everything. However, nothing happens. I have to click into the box, hold down Shift and page down t...more >>

hi There, How do i do this. I would like my program to display a message ( a message box with the time) every hour for example, my program it's running and when it's 4:00 i would like the program to display it's 4:00 and do the same when it's 5:00 without anyone presssing any button. ...more >>

Seems like this should be simple, but I'm new to vb.net. I've created a array of strings. I want to bind them to a dropdown list. I was able to do this with a one dimensional array with no problem, but with a separate column for text and value, I can't find how to tell it which columns to use...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to create an object at runtime. The way I used to do this in the COM (vb6) world was to use the ProgID such as: PublicWorksPlugin.PWPlug I kind of know how to do this in .NET but the missing piece is the location of the assembly. So, in the COM world the following would work...more >>

vb.net 2k3: I have this code that doesn't work unless I take out the g.DrawString statements. If anyone can look over the code and tell me why I'd appreciate it. Dim g As Graphics Dim LabelText As String LabelText = "--" ...more >>

Hi I'm using XMLTextReader to parse the contents of XML. I have issues when the xml content itself has some special characters like & ,> etc. <CompanyName>Johnson & Jhonson</CompanyName> <EmployeeStrength>> 1000</EmployeeStrength> When I do a Xmltextreader.read() and then check the conten...more >>

I have 4 applications which are supposed to run 24/7. How can I make a monitor application to know if they're running fine? The best I can come up with is making them update a file/DB every X amount of time and have the monitor app check that mark. If the mark haven't updated then it means the...more >>

Why would you use an Overloads routine instead of just putting the code in the default routine? Private Overloads Sub TextBox1_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyPress Dim isKey As Boolean = e.KeyChar.IsDig...more >>

Not sure if this is the correct place for this question, but I'm kind of grasping for straws at this point. I get an error message when deleting rows from a table in Access database. The original vb.net code is included below. It is running in an Asp.Net structure. My understanding i...more >>

Hello, I found a reply by Peter Huang to a previous post quite valuable with regard to referencing controls on a form by name using reflection. It made me wonder when I would not use Reflection for this task (or any other similar task). So, I thought I'd ask the question ... when is Reflect...more >>

Hi, 'm gettin mad about date conversion. Here is the point. Got and add-in for Excel which call functions from a web service (on a remote server) The remote server has regional settings set to "en-UK" and date to dd/MM/yyyy. (I'can't change it !) One of my function get a string as param...more >>

Hi, How can I convert a character from lower to upper when user press a key in C#, in control, other than TextBox? Thank you User submitted from AEWNET (http://www.aewnet.com/)...more >>

What is the code to open a form at the click of a command button? ...more >>

I am very new to VB.Net and I have been asked to write an application that scans for new files in a certain network folder and then process the file. I need some help with getting the code started. The steps invovved are: 1/ Files are deposited on a network folder throughout the day. 2/ Th...more >>

I have something of type System.TimeSpan. The problem I am having is that it displays as Days:Hours:Minutes:Seconds e.g. 1:17:03:56 and I want it to display the days as hours. e.g. 41:03:56. I have been trying for an hour now and am brain dead. Any takers ?...more >>

Hi - I have a VB.NET Windows Forms application that I developed using MS Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003. I'd like the app to be able to run with either 1.1 or 1.0 of the .NET Framework. It runs fine with .NET Framework 1.1. When I try to run it on a machine with .NET Framework 1.0 i...more >>

Hola, necesito solulcionar un tema que creo que tiene que ver con el manejo de calses. Hello to all, I need to make a button in a form , that when pressed, it oppens a new form, which contains a Webbrowser control, and it passes an url as a string, then, the new windows starts to navigate! Al...more >>

Dear all, By using the following code, I can change the database name of the crystal report .... Dim ReportTemp As New ReportDocument ReportTemp.Load(_report) For Each table In ReportTemp.Database.Tables pPrintSetting.OriDataBase = table.Loc...more >>

Hi everyone, I have a vbscript which is consuming WebMethods from a WebService. Whenever the WebMethod returns a string or integer then no problem but when the WebMethod returns a DataSet then the following error appears: Error: Attachment:Maximum retry on the connection exceeded. HRESULT=0...more >>