An friend insider told me that VB is to be killled off within 18 months. I guess this makes sence now that C# is here. I believe it and am actualy surprised they ever even included it in VS 2003 in the first place. Anyone else heard about this development? The Master ...more >>

Is it reasonable practice to use a control to hold a variable value? There's a (Boolean) flag that I want to allow the user to set or not as they wish. This will be set either simply by a checkbox on the main form of by a pair of radio buttons within a small groupbox. (These two approaches ar...more >>

Hello All I have a simple problem with name space concept I have created an Add-in using a class library (let say the name of it is "ClassLibrary1") Then I added one form (say "Form1") and one class (say "Class1") Class1 is under the name space of "ifs.cadIntegeration:) But when I imp...more >>

I need to store information in a 2 dimensional array. I understand ArrayList only works for a single dimensional array, is that correct ? So, I use the 2 dimensional array like in VB6. I pass the array into a subroutine, and inside it I "Redim Preserve" the array to increase the number of ite...more >>

Hi all, Can anyone recommend any books for User Interface Engineer for Windows Forms application? At the company I work at, we've gone GUI component happy. Basically GUI tools (i.e. Infragistics) are placed into the product for the sake of a pretty GUI. In the end, I find the application...more >>

How can I calculate date-number of days? Example: Dim FirstDate as Date Dim SecondDate as Date FirstDate="01.12.2006" SecondDate=FirstDate+2 '1 is number of days and I must get "03.12.2006" or SecondDate=FirstDate-5 ' and I will get "26.11.2006" But it's not work! How can I calcul...more >>

What I want to do is delete the last line in a RichTextBox. The RichTextBox has a ReadOnly property called lines that seems like it might help but I cant figure out how to use it. Well, the question is what is the easiest way to remove the last line in a RichTextBox? Thanks ...more >>

Posting this here as MS has informed me that microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb.data is not a supported group, but this one is. (seems odd since it's on their server and is a sub of this group, but I do need an answer) My application deploys with MSDE (2000). Currently it's strictly sin...more >>

Hi, i created a custom attribute that accepts an argument in the constructor = to fill a property. The constructor is supposed to be called when then = attribute is set but that doesn't seem to happen. Sample code: <System.AttributeUsage(System.AttributeTargets.All, = AllowMultiple:=3DTr...more >>

I am using ClickOnce to distribute a program. It works well except for one detail. When a new version is installed, the program does not initialize properly immediately after the update. The sequence is the user starts the program, is informed a new version is ready, installs it, when it is...more >>

VB.NET Windows Forms VS 2005 I would like to give the user the option of changing the background color of the textbox to anything they want. Can someone provide code how to save the textbox1.BackColor to a string and then convert it back to a color that I can assign to the textbox? I hav...more >>

First off, I'm a hardware/OS guy. I just write code on the side and I'm completely self taught - so bear in mind my total lack of expertise. I have a program originally written in VB2003 using the dotnet 1.1 framework. The program makes extensive use of Win32 API calls to help manage and tr...more >>

Can a Decimal variable be set to "Not a Number" I've been looking in the help and can't find any reference to that. Thanks in advance ...more >>

Hi Everyone, I have the project below where I'm pulling out information from 1 table "Subjects", pulling the Subjects, and SubjectCode. The Subjects are displaying in the Combo Box just fine, but I can not get the corresponding Subject Code to display in the Label. I have 2 Data adapters/da...more >>

I have a process that I want to speed up. It first was written in Microsoft Access then converted to VB.NET. I would like to hear some suggestions on how to speed it up. The process is to match names using a Soundex function. It reads through a table of about 20,000 records and matches it wi...more >>

Hello all, I have a string for example : strTest = "a lineof text (60) witha number in it" I need to extract the number from between the brackets, the postion of the number in brackets is never the same... So in the above example i need to extract 60 Anyone help on how to do this the...more >>

Hi, I have worked with VB.NET for half a year (semi-newbie). Currently I am looking around for some books for those that crossed the starting hurdle. There are too many books out there-make choosing, a bit of a gamble. If you have experience of good VB.NET books on general and office autom...more >>

Hi, How can I adjust the row height in a grid with multiple lines in a row? Thank you Christian....more >>

Hi, I have made a class like class MyClass public declare _AVariable as string ......... Public MySubClass as new SubClass end class class MySubClass ..............'some declaration end class how can I access the class with all its subclasses so that the subclass can...more >>

Hi All, I am looking for fastest search alogrithm in vb.net or vb2005. I write a code in vb2005 to find a string in given text file. The text file contains about 120,000 lines and search string is contain in another text file which is abt 4000 lines. My code takes nearly 15 mins to scan th...more >>

Hello, ich would like to be connected to a PLC. I need an OPC Server to do it. but i don't know how i can communicate with OPC Server in vb.net(2005) thanks!!! ...more >>