I have a VB.Net solution, for which I have created a deployment project. Everything is going good. I find this all pretty slick, by-the-way...... One innocent question. I have added a users reference in pdf form to the application folder, and created a shortcut for/to it in the "Users Prog...more >>

Hi, We are using vb.net in our "windows application" and are using datasets heavily (100s of them). We declare them in our methods and use them and currently are not doing anything to specifically dispose or reclaim memory. What is the best way to dispose them and reclaim memory. We are fi...more >>

Hi all, First of all I just want to know this will work out or not. I am going to have a console application on my server. I am going to call that application from my asp.net page. i'll pass command line parameter as source file path. so the application will copy the source file and past it...more >>

Hi, there! I want to set focus on a control, of which TabIndex is not the first, when a form is loaded. In the form's load event, I have used Control.Focus() but it doesn't not work. The focus is not on the control I set. The focus is always on the control of which TabIndex is 0. Thanks...more >>

When a form loads it fires all modification events for its controls. For example, if I put a comboBox and give it some values at design time, it will fire the comboBox_Change event (or whatever it is called). Since I don't want to handle these events when the form loads, the only way to avoid ...more >>

I would really rather use the "dot-nettified" syntax rather than digging global functions out of Microsoft.VisualBasic. Anyone know the newfangled way to achieve the same results? -- Peace & happy computing, Mike Labosh, MCSD "Musha ring dum a doo dum a da!" -- James Hetfield ...more >>

Hi, probably the question have been asked many times, but I can't find the answer anywhere. Is there a way to detect if an internet connection is active? just like Internet explorers detect you are offline when you try to open it when not connected (then asks if you want to connect or work offl...more >>

Hi! It's been about 2 weeks I'm stucked on this. I have a dataset that I generate at runtime. Then, I want to print the records contained in the dataset. I just don't know how to bind the dataset field to the report field. Please I really need help for this, I looked all over msdn, google. v...more >>

Hi. I have a program that creates an image and displays it to the screen....pretty simple. I put it into a matrix so that I can rotate it. I would also like to be able to know when I click on it so I am doing a rectangle.contains. This works fine if the image isn't rotated. But if it ...more >>

I am trying to decompress MP3 files to WAV using VB.Net. What I really need is a wrapper in VB.Net or C# that includes ALL of the Lame.Dll funcitons including those to decompress to a WAV File. Most I've found so far don't work and lack any form of documention. -- Dennis in Houston...more >>

Hi everybody, i would like to query the Index Catalog, for a site, as describe in the article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;820105 But i'm having an error, I don't know what to do. Please help me. Thanx in advanced. Michel Here is the error. Server Error in '/' A...more >>

I have couple VB.NET apps (windows forms) that I would like to run with smart client. What modification within the apps do I need to do to make it work? Thanks a million. Bill ...more >>

I have an application written in C++ (NOT .NET) which creates an instance of a vb .net object. My application releases the .net object when it has finished using it. However .NET GC is not destroying the object until my application closes which can be minutes or hours later. How can my C...more >>

I am currently working on a vb.net program that interacts with autocad. The thread processes a building that was created within the program and comes up with a price. I then after the job has been priced give the user an option to display a report that they would be interested in. One of the opt...more >>

Hi folks, I'm getting the following error message using the System.Activator.CreateInstance shared method: A first chance exception of type 'System.MissingMethodException' occurred in mscorlib.dll Additional information: Member not found. I'm using the following overload: CreateIn...more >>

Can someone quick shed some light on this issue I am having? I wanted to create 2 constructors for my object, one that takes an ID value and one that takes a datarow. If ID value is provided, it is going to get the info from the database and populate itself. If a datarow is provided, then i...more >>

Suppose I do this: let's say that in my vb.net app's main/MDI form, I declare a form-level variable of type Form1, where Form1 is another form (more technically, I know, another class which itself is inherited from system.windows.forms.form) defined in my application. dim mfrmForm1 as Form...more >>

Used VS2005 to create a windows service and I can't make a timer trigger the tick/elapsed event. On the form viewer I dragged a timer from the components section of the toolbar, enabled it but the tick event does not fire! I tried this other method but the elapsed event does not fire. ---...more >>

Hi I'm in the position where my employer might pay for courses in VB.net or even the complete MCAD certification. But I need some good arguments for learning VB.net that can relate to my current job. I work as a system/network administrator, and I'm currrently the only IT person working in ...more >>

Hi, I'm creating an import module to read data from old textfiles, run some calculations on them and save them to sql server. I've figured out how to do a select on textfile using a schema.ini file (my textfile is delimeted by a | ) But I've got on problem remaining, below you can so two example...more >>

Hi newsgroup I am looking for a plug-in which looks like the side navigation from outlook... Do someone has a link or a tip how to do? Thanks alot Nijazi Halimaji ...more >>

Hi: I'm new on regular expression, i need a regular express to mask the data input through text box (DevExpress TextEdit control), i want to limit the user so that only a digit or a group of digit separated by comma can be enter eg 1 or 1,2,3 or 1,2,3,4,5 I only able to produce the ...more >>

Hello, When I copy a VB web app from my workstation to my laptop (which has the exact same software as the workstation) or to a different virtual directory on the same workstation and then try to open the vbProj at this new location, I get the error message that it can't open the app becaus...more >>

I am creating a plugin system and each plug-in has a class called "Connect", which is what I created as the entry point for the plug-in. The problem is, I need to get the Full type name of this to create a instance of it. previously I was doing this a different name by using the same root na...more >>

I want to set up different user privileges on the sql server using groups. At the moment im a little stuck on which way to go with it. I'm making different forms for each user, depending on their privileges. If I set up a db with username and passwords, I can check the user against it and pull t...more >>

Hello, I must draw charts in a VB.NET application, I would like to know what is the the best choice et differences between : - Microsoft Office Chart 9.0 (Library : Microsoft Office Web Components 9.0) - Microsoft Chart Control 6.0. (SP4) (OLEDB) (Library : Microsoft Chart Control 6.0 ...more >>

I need to communicate with a service that listens on a specific TCP/IP port. I need to send an XML document using POST commands. I know I need to use System.Net.HttpWebRequest and System.Net.HttpWebResponse, but I am not sure how to use them....more >>

Good morning experts, Here is what I'm trying to accomplish: I have a form that has 8 panels spaced out so that they look like rows. Inside each panel is a series of labels and when a user clicks any label in the panel I am trying to have a thick border around the panel to indicate that ro...more >>

I have compiled some shared function in a lybrary, which I use in various application from asp pages, web services to winforms and windows services. some of the functionality in my libarary is dependent on where it is called from. I would like to do one things if it is called from asp applica...more >>

How to make a treeview with columns in vb.net? Thanks ...more >>

I'm running the following code on asp.net form Dim objExcel As Excel.Application Dim objWrkBk As excel.Workbook objExcel = New excel.Application objWrkBk = objExcel.Workbooks.Open("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ret\ret.xls") objWrkBk.Close(SaveChanges:=True) objWrkBk = Nothing objExcel.Quit() objExce...more >>

Can anyone help with a sub to reverse the order of a string. What I want is something that will do the following Initial string value - "This is a string" Reversed value - "string a is This" What is the best way to do this? Should I read all of the substrings into an array then read the...more >>

Dear all, How can I add something to the VB arrays after the initialization. dim _points() as System.Drawing.points If it is not possible how can I pass into function, with VB array as an argument the .NET array. I.e. sub func(byval _points() as System.Drawing.points) .... end sub sub Main...more >>

I don't understand how I update the table underlying the dataseet Heres what I have at the moment. In this simple example, it works fine until I try adapSimple.Update(dsSimple, "Customers") What should I be doing instead? Thanks Diarmuid Dim stSQL As String = "SELECT * FROM Customers" ...more >>

Hello there, I simply need to import a text file into a sql table. Text file is fixed width and i know the column widths. Will anyone give me the exact coding in vb.net by using DTS please. Your help is highly appreciated. Regards, Anusha...more >>

Hi, Is there any other way to determine new day other than setting timer to a really high value? Thanks Jared ...more >>

In my form, i got around 20 textbox and buttons, Now,i need to move them into the group box. I use 'copy & paste' after doing that, I found that the handles "button.clicked, checkbox.checked'.. All handlers are removed. Can I disable this behavior in Visial Studio ??, in the coming days, I ne...more >>

Dear All: I am not sure this is the right place to ask this question, but I hope someone can help me out of that. I have a set of data which is in dbf format and need to import into my SQL2000 server. The langage in the dbf files is Protuguese, and after I finish my import into SQL server...more >>

hi i have Simple Paradox Database, contains Data With Arabic CodePage (i think Dos Code page) and i want convert it to SQL or Access DB, i make import DB, and Working good but Arabic Data Changed to Loke this Character (?????) i try to make Small VB Application to Read this Code Page and ...more >>