I want to make a table of links on my page. However, because different users will have different screen widths, I will need to calculate the number of columns based on the screen width and width of the table's data. How can I determine, in pixels, the width of a given piece of text? Any help w...more >>

I have a Picturebox that has an image displayed inside. Through code, I was able to have the "whole image" display in it without distortion. (Like a "Fit All" in most any image viewer program) Now, when the Picturebox gets resized by the user, I want the image to recalculate and display as "F...more >>

Hi, I have created a font which is unique to me. This is stored in a .TTF file. I would like to be able to have an application which witten in VB.NET which when run, prints a Excel workbook or Word document using this font. I do not want to install the font on to the PC or have the font be ...more >>

We are having an odd problem saving images. We capture customer signatures on a Palm Pilot and save them as points on a graph. We are able to reconstruct these points to display the signature, but when we attempt to save the file off so that we can pass it back to our customers we get an odd...more >>

Is that possible in .net to change the target web service at runtime. ie. change the URL and access a different web service totally. which does totally different things but has the same Definition. IE Service1.asmx WEBMETHOD(BYVAL as Integer) Server2.asmx WEbMETHOD(Byval as integer) Serv...more >>

I'm rolling my own with a listbox. The items in the list box are of varying sizes and I'm hit checking when the litbox is checked to see what portion of an item the user has clicked on. Mostly it works fine. The only issue I'm running into is when the item that th users clicks is at the b...more >>

I fill a dataset like this: dim da As New SqlDataAdapter, ds As New Dataset, conn As New SqlConnection .... da.Fill(ds, "tbl1") datagrid1.DataSource = ds datagrid1.DataMember = "tbl1" When the form containing datagrid1 displays, all the records are there. The dataAdapter, da, is based o...more >>

I am calling a function in a third party dll from a VB.NET application (see below), and would like to unload the dll after using it. How would I do that, from the code? Public Declare Function SomeFunction Lib "ThirdParty.dll" _ (ByRef i As Integer) As Boolean .. .. ...more >>

I am using the MailMessage and SmtpMail classes to allow users of my site to send me email at my Hotmail email address. However, it always ends up in the Junkmail folder. Even though I check my Junkmail box, I do not want this to become a problem if I ever use these classes to have email sent ...more >>

I'm passing an object to a funtion that needs to operate on all the the member properties of type string. I know how to iterate through the member properties of the object using reflection, but I can't figure out how to tell if the type of the property is a string. How can I programmatic...more >>

All our deployment systems have MS Office installed on them, which i know you can interact with the office spell check api, but not sure how to.. is there a way I can code or examples of how to interact with the Office Spell check api to do simple spell checking on text fields on my applicatio...more >>

Using Graphics.DrawString, is it possible to specify that the text is draw centerd horizontally and/or vertically in the specified layout rectangle? Thanks. Jerry ...more >>

I have a view that is joining multiple tables. How do I modify this view so that it also returns when the value is "NULL" for some of the join table fields??? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank you, -Valerie SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT dbo.PATIENTMEDICATION.PatientMedicatio...more >>

I would like to have a URL in my RichTextBox so when user click on the URL, it will open up a browser with in the selected address. Thanks Al...more >>

Hi, I am working on a large Text Editor program. I have features like save, but I need help on how to print. I need to print the string "textbox1.text" using a printdialog. I would also like a way to print without the printdialog. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Rich ...more >>

I need to control (Get and Set) this parameters of Windows Audio Mixer: - Master Volume Mute - Master Volume Level In addition, but not mandatory, I need to control also the PC Speaker Mute and Volume. PC Speaker control is aviable only in some Systems such as laptops, in others systems the...more >>

I need help understanding why the following code is not working correctly. When run, I can open .mdb files by changing the filter option to "All Files (*.*)" but while "Access Database (mdb.*)" is selected no db files are listed in the OpenFileDialog box.... ----------------------------------...more >>

How can I send an SMS to a mobile phone through a VB .net application running on a PC ? Regards, ...more >>

I want to be able to store both drawing2d dash styles in a text file as a string then restore them. The first is easy but I can not find a simple way of converting them back. Any Ideas?? Thanks...more >>

I have a class named INDICE that have two properties NAME and COMP Name is declared as string COMP is declared as an ArrayList I have the following code Dim Ind as New Indice Ind.Name="Something" Ind.Comp.Add("XXX") THis last line give me an error "The reference to an object is not ...more >>