I've been playing with the LinkLabel control and it kinda gets the job done, but isn't flexible enough for what I want to display. Is the any way to have a control on a windows form that will display HTML and trigger events when links are clicked? Thanks. Jerry ...more >>

I have an array declared as follows: Dim ButtonList() As NavButtonInfo and a Class defined as follows: Public Class NavButtonInfo Public Shared name As String Public Shared text As String Public Shared URL As String Public Shared parentname As String Publi...more >>

I have some classes which contain a datarow as a property. In application code, I sometimes dim a "shortcut variable" to simplify code. The problem is, sometimes values seem to vanish. That is, they seem to be there, but never arrive in the database. It's as if values set using the shortcu...more >>

can i send u my small project..it is about irc chat. i got project working similar to mirc chat? regards supra...more >>

Converting some code from C# to VB C#: public const int LOCSIG = 'P' | ('K' << 8) | (3 << 16) | (4 << 24); Here's what I have in VB: Public Const LOCSIG As Integer = "P"c Or ("K"c << 8) Or (3 << 16) Or (4 << 24) Problem is, I get an error stating that '<<' is not defined for types 'Char...more >>

i have made 3 forms lets say form1 and form2 and form3 now their is a button on form1 that opens form2 and a button on form2 that opens form3, I want to place a button on form3 that closes form2 but i use the code: dim form2 as form2 form2.close which you would think would work, but it ret...more >>

Hello, I have the controls on my form display the values of the currently selected row of the dataGrid. There are a few fields that I have in my data table where I have the user select a value from a comboBox. The comboBox is populated from a lookup table in my database. The comboBox displays...more >>

I have converted the code shown below from C#. My problem involves the uint data type. When converted to VB.NET it becomes: Uint32 and causes two compile errors. The error message in VB.NET involves not being able to convert between Uint32 and Integer. The error messages occur in the two D...more >>

Hi All, I've been given an XML file (12 MB) that I need to extract data from. The XML file makes the data easy to view, but the data is impossible to analyze in its current format. I've looked at lots of XMLTextReader stuff and I can't seem to figure out how to extract the info that I want....more >>

I know that in C#, the -- and ++ operators can act as prefix and postfix operators. With that in mind, what differences would appear between the following two sections of code when translating them to VB? While (--n >= 0) { do some code } While (n-- >= 0) { do some code } I...more >>

While working on a few projects I have this annoying issue whereby my computer is losing the connection to my SQL database. I have to save my work exit VS log out of windowsXP and log back in, relaunch VS and load my program to resume. I'm getting the following error about every 10 minutes. ...more >>

Dear all, I am a C programmer, and new to VB.NET. In C, any user-defined variables allocated by new keyword, they need to be de-allocated by free within scope. But in VB.NET, it seems not need to do de-allocation manually, does system do it for me automatically? Thanks. -- Best regar...more >>

Hi!, Im am using the VB Express Beta2 but cannot figure out how to create a subdir in the windows directory. Code: Dim windowsdir as String Dim dircreate dircreate="backup" windowsdir=environ$("windir") My.Computer.FileSystem.CreateDirectory(windowsdir) I want to create the director...more >>

I am starting a number of threads as follows: For n = 1 To 10 Dim t As New Thread(New ThreadStart(MyProcedure)) t.Name = "Thread " & Trim(Str(n)) t.Start() Next n I have a timer that, everytime it fired needs to check that all my threads are running. I am having difficulties...more >>

I would like to an IE toolbar with a few buttons & the like. please can someone point me in the right direction. need to do this in VB.NET (found a sample in C# - but taht was complicated & couldn't make head or tale of it). ...more >>

Hi, excuse as I am new to this. I have an Access database with two columns. They are 1. ID which is an "autonumber" and the primary key 2. pkData which is a number I do the following. It works, a new row is added into the access database table. My problem is that I need to know what the ID...more >>

I have some code that I need to implement an event handler in VB. Here is the C# code this.listBar1.ItemClicked += new ItemClickedEventHandler(listBar1_ItemClicked); Can anyone help me change this over to VB? Everything I have tried comes up with errors. It is a listbar from vbAccelerato...more >>

I start up a thread which does this: Sub ReaderThread Dim tcpCli As New TcpClient Try tcpCli.Connect("100.21.0.5", 2101) Catch tcpCli.Close() End Try End Sub This connects OK. If there is a problem, then tcpCli closes and the thread terminates...more >>

Read up on Norm Matloff's latest rebuke to the software and EE industry and their lobbyist's who continue to spread the lie of a dearth of software development talent in the U.S. We never need H1B's to begin with and we certainly don't need them now. Screw you, Bill Gates. Why don't you spend...more >>

Hello I dont want users to sort data in a DataGrid. That means users do not allow to sort by clicking at any column title to sort. I set "AllowSorting" property to false but it doesnt work Could you please help, Thanks S.H ...more >>