im using a crystal reports to print afile, iwant to know if the file printed or not, from the printer -------------------------------- From: thaaer dirieh ----------------------- Posted by a user from .NET 247 (http://www.dotnet247.com/) <Id>OD4EGnUkxU6fJ/lpP40cug==</Id>...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm new to vb6 and i'm pretty stuck. I was wonndering if anyone can tell me or direct me to some code snipets with regards to retieving the text displayed in an entired colum in the msflex grid? Thanks!...more >>

Hi, i want to create a data log using excel. the data i want to log will be from the checkedboxes and radiobutton selection. how do i enter the data into the excel files? how do i make sure their data will not overlapped in the same row and column in the excel file? william...more >>

First off, let me say I am new to vb. I may have done a bad thing and also posted this in vb.general, but I have both vb6 and vb.net and don't know which one I am going to continue to use. I am wondering if anyone out there knows how to get my public ip address from my router. What I want...more >>

Hello I'm new to Regular Expressions.. When the user types in a text box, I want the user to type only A-Z, a-z, 0-9, comma, dash, period, single and double quotes. How do I build such an expression. Thanks Sue.. ...more >>

Ref Dvd Title Location ---------------------------------------- 62 Pilates; Austin Binder 1 63 Yoga; Kripalu Binder 1 64 Yoga; Workout Binder 1 93 The Sopranos Binder 1 94 The Sopranos Binder 2 95 ...more >>

Hi Gurus, I have a file with extention abc. I want to create a html page. When user click a link it should open that file, but IE does not recognise that file(.abc). What I have to do so that when user click's it it should download it as EXE or other files. Please help. Richard. ...more >>

I am trying to understand how recursion exactly works. See example (section) below: Say i = 4, then Number = 4 during 1st loop. Is Factorial(number - 1) automatically recognised as a recursive calculation? During the next loop Number = 3. Ultimately 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 has to be calculated to get ...more >>

After years of developing single user application I have been asked to write a multi user application. Here is my question: what should I really take care of developing such application ? How do I deal with update ? Do I have to timestamp all records and checked that manually ? My backend w...more >>

I saved a project accepting the defaults name “ConsoleApplication2”. After adding the code, I changed the name using “Rename” in the file directory. After opening the file, the project name is indeed changed, but the solution name (in the Solution explorer window) is still listed as ...more >>

Dim objNode As MSComctlLib.Node TreeView1.ImageList = ImageList1 'Assign the image list to TreeView Set objNode = TreeView1.Nodes.Add() 'Create the Server Node I need to conver the above VB 6.0 code to VB .NET. Set objNode = TreeView1.Nodes.Add() changes to objNode = TreeView1.Nodes.Ad...more >>

When displaying output in a MessageBox, using a variable Output as string, the &= operator is used instead of the = operator. In which cases is the &= operator used?...more >>

What is the difference between a While and Do While/Loop repetition structure. If they is no difference (as it seems) why do both exist? ...more >>

Hi All, I am trying to move my experience with VB6 and ADO over to VB.NET. I am having difficulty with assigning values to SQL parameters. In classic ADO a value could be assigned to a parameter by referring to it with the index as the parameter name in quotes. Here is some code to illustrate th...more >>

This has worked perfectly for the past year now all the sudden it will not compile the installer project correctly. All our source code is in a Source Safe database so every system we do this on should be identicle. On one system the installer project will compile correctly, but on two others ...more >>

I don't have MS Access on my machine. But I want to create a simple mdb file to store data and manipulate the data with my VB program. Is there a tool than I can download somewhere? ...more >>

Hi Pardon me for posting an XML question here. Can XSLT be applied for transforming .txt files or are they applicable only for xml to xml transformation. Currently all the clients send file to a server in one particular format. The format of the file which the server accepts is going to ...more >>

Hi, In VB6 I would use the Inet Control to retrieve the contents of a web page to a string. What is the .NET way of doing this? TIA, -- Al Reid ...more >>

Below I have copied in an xml page I'm trying to parse out and the code I'm currently using to do it. My code works great but I want to change the .Item(0). part of this code to a typed refrence of the child node. I have tried everything. How do I search through the xml for these named child...more >>

Hi, How can I add an item to a listbox so that when we select an item afterward, we'll get the id associate, like the display member and the value member for a combobox ? regards ...more >>

I'm confused as to how to use the combo box in vb.net. I want a combo box to contain items that have both a display string and a value string. The display string gets displayed in the drop down and the value string is the key of the item In vb6 i could add these items to the combobox and then...more >>

If I wanted a VB application to find the edit box of another, external application, and enter text into this edit box, how would I go about doing this? How do I get the handle for a specific edit box in another application? Also, is it possible for a VB.NET applicatin to find and click on a b...more >>

I have 2 bound ComboBoxes. I want the datasource of the second to be limited by the selection made in the first. I can do this by responding to the SelectionIndexChanged event on the first, but this results in the BindingContext's Current.Row.Rowstate becoming 'Modified' whenever the Bindi...more >>

Hi, I need to add programmatically several tabpages to a tab control. Those tabpages are all the same (i.e they contain a textbox and a listbox, and a button). How can I create my own tab control so that when I add a tabpage, it will add also the other components ? Regards ...more >>

hi, i have a program that will execute printing with delay. the last time i posted a question on how to introduced delay to my program, i believe i given an advice on using the following... Threading.Thread.Sleep(11000) it work fine, but i do want to introduce a "cancel" function in my pro...more >>

Can anyone point me to some code. There are so many varaiations going on here - VB to VB.net then .net to 2005 .net then beta1 to beta2 - its hard to follow. Help. ...more >>

On running a console app from Windows Server 2003 with Debugger.Break() makes an Abort Retry Ignore popup appear stating that a user defined breakpoint is reached. Works the same in both Release and Debug Builds. How to avoid this ? Thank You rawCoder ...more >>

How do you programatically set the color of the tab control to oldlace, for example? It seems as though this should be easy but I'm having trouble getting past this. Thanks, Mike ...more >>

Hi there, I'm running a process object within a .NET app, very simple, the process is declared with events, i'm handling the Exit event and running a win32 application. No matter how the process closes the event is never raised, is this because it is a win32 app rather than .NET? I've...more >>

Hi all Here is my problem I want to create an image so i can pass it on an object to put it as watermark in my pdf report Here is what i have write so far Dim objBitmap As System.Drawing.Bitmap Dim objGraphics As System.Drawing.Graphics Dim cstream As System.IO.MemoryStream Dim ...more >>

Hi It seems that when I sort the ListView control the Items are losing their sub Items Any explanation? ...more >>

Hi I am new to DotNet. Could some one show me how to get values from AssemblyInfo.vb. I want to use them on several forms. Also I would like to (programatically) retrieve the name of the Icon on a form so that I can use it on another form Thanks Greg ...more >>

How do I print HTML documents using vb.NET Cheers SteveJ ...more >>

Hi All, After I upgrade my vb6 app to dot net I got the following error: ============= If .Cells._Default(iRow, 1) = "blar" Then or If .Cells(iRow, 1) = "blar" Then An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in microsoft.visualbasic.dll Additional informat...more >>

i have a tabcontrol with several tabs. But while working on it soms tabs change places when i compile and run is. does anyone know how this is possible? ...more >>

Hi folks, I'd like to notify the user that rows within a datagrid require user-interaction/processing. The RowHeader is visible and wide enough so that the exclamation-mark icon as i.e. the ErrorProvider-control displays it would fit in neatly. Is there a way of using the ErrorProvider-contr...more >>

Is it possible to generate some kind of makefile from vb? (with VS2003's native tools) Or is the only option to use .sln-files? ...more >>

hi all, i have a form with a tabcontrol with 4 pages. on the first page are many controls bound to a database. now i bound the controls of page two (two multiline textboxes, four SelectedValues) to the db. the program compiles without an error and runs fine, until i click on tabpage 2. then...more >>

Hi. I have 2 Forms, In Form 2 I have textbox. And from Form1 I want change text in textbox on Form2. But I don Want make New Instance of Form2. (Form2 is opened yet.) Can anybody help me? Thanks for answers. ...more >>

Is there a way to draw a string on the form (using the graphic object's drawstring) and set a tab stop on it? thanks ...more >>

I need to communicate with lab analyzer using ASTM E1381-91 protocol from my VB.NET application. Any examples code showing that how to do that or any control. I communicate trough RS232 port (I already can communicate between two computers with RS232 control) thx ...more >>

Hi all, I'm searching a 'simple' vb.net sample application that illustrates the principles of layered design. (UI, Business Logic Layer and Data Access Layer (DAL)). Does someone (Maybe Microsoft) have a pre-designed DAL? I have no idea how to build a complete (vb.net) DAL. Some he...more >>

Dear all, VB.NET, Access 2000 How can prepare a sql statement to retrieve records on a special day? like Select * from <table name> where workday='5/17/2005' Thanks. -- Best regards, RL ...more >>

Hi all, One field of Access table is date/time type, and format is long time. In VB.NET, as this table linked to a datagrid, a strange date 12-30-1899 is shown instead of the time expected. What should I do to let it show time only? Thanks. -- Best regards, RL ...more >>