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Find Window Question
Posted by Newbie Coder at 11/30/2006 11:33:47 PM
Hello Group I am trying to find a window using the known classname, which I got through Spy++ The classname is'AfxWnd80s' & when I use FindWindow API to return the INT32 with the window handle it returns 0 (zero) Example: Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "Find...more >>


Access and SQL server update
Posted by Bonzol at 11/30/2006 8:24:42 PM
Hey there,, I know when updating,, Access can be differnt from SQL server this works in access from a vb.net 1.1 prog SQL = "Update Clients SET UnameID= '" + updatevalue + "' WHERE ID = " + checkValue + "" Can anyone just quickly tell me what i have to change for it to work in SQ...more >>

Calculate inside a form and use the same form as Insert record form
Posted by reidarT at 11/30/2006 7:49:41 PM
I have 3 fields in an aspx page. The 3. field should be the sum of field A and field B I use OnTextChanged to calculate the sum in field3. At the same time I want to insert the content of theese 3 fields into a row in a table. The problem is that I need 'postback is true' on the textfields to...more >>

Fastest String search
Posted by beersa at 11/30/2006 7:36:26 PM
Hi All, I have to query the database with the string from text file. Here are the details: OS: WinXP Home Pro DB: Oracle 9.x The table in DB has 20,000 rows. The text file has 15,000 rows. I wrote a program and read the string from text file and run SELECT query in DB to look for the s...more >>

vbc : Command line (0,0) : error BC2006: option 'r' requires':<file_list>'
Posted by Franky at 11/30/2006 7:17:46 PM
using Dim VBCodeProvider As New VBCodeProvider the first time my code is run, to compile and run the sample code it works OK the second time my code is run, to compile and run the same sample code I get the following: vbc : Command line (0,0) : error BC2006: option 'r' requires':<fil...more >>

Cross-thread operation not valid.
Posted by TClancey at 11/30/2006 5:34:02 PM
I'm confused! Probably becuase I know little about threads, and really should. But... I have a serial port control, when it reads data I want to update several things, database fields and tables, also a text box. Everything works fine apart from updating the text box where I get this err...more >>

Email Socket Question
Posted by googlegroups NO[at]SPAM theindianmaiden.com at 11/30/2006 3:16:57 PM
I am learning vb.net and trying to create a simple program to watch port 25 and receive email. I do not need any advanced features. I just need to connect, watch and grab the emails as they come. This seems like it should be a pretty simple but I can not seem to find any examples in vb.net 8....more >>

Best way to get a Junior Programmer up to speed
Posted by BK at 11/30/2006 2:13:41 PM
Our .Net team has just inherited a junior programmer that we need to get up to speed as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, his skill set is largely Access with some VB6 and ASP classic experience. We employ some parts of XP such as pair programming, and this should help. Other than books, do...more >>



End Processing in Multithreaded App
Posted by Jay at 11/30/2006 1:08:58 PM
How do I stop execution of remaining sub procesures in a multithreaded app? For example: sub form_load dim i as integer for i = 1 to 5 '5 threads dim ts as threadstart(addressof classname.procwhatever) dim wthread as thread(ts) classname.currentthread=wthread whread.setapartmentstate(apar...more >>

Best way to communicate from Desktop to SQL DB
Posted by Anil Gupte at 11/30/2006 1:06:10 PM
Hi All: I am looking for general directions on "the right way" to do something, which is very critical to my application. I want to communicate with a SQL server database on a Windows Server (in the future it could be a Linux MYSQL server, but I don't know for sure). My application is a...more >>

NNTP Question
Posted by Bishop at 11/30/2006 1:00:06 PM
I'm using VB.NET with Sockets to read newsgroup content. I seem to have everything working good but when I read the messages in the newsgroup I don't seem to get the most recent messages. I issue the "Group" command which gives me the oldes and newest message number and I'm able to loop th...more >>

how to display data in a crystal report in vb.net 2005 windows based application?
Posted by Gurunadh at 11/30/2006 11:30:55 AM
Hi friends, we have developed a windows desktop application in vb.net 2005 with MS-Access as backend ,our problem is we have to display data from a datagridview to a crystal report,we have written the code to display in crystal reports it is working in the system in which w...more >>

deployment of project migrating MSDE to SQLExpress
Posted by Matt Fielder at 11/30/2006 11:00:49 AM
First off, if this is better posted in another group that qualifies as a manged group, please let me know. I currently have an application written in VB.Net using MSDE as the database. Current install is via InstallShield. As I've just found out that MSDE is not supported under Vista, I n...more >>

Hiding dialog causes ShowDialog to return
Posted by NickP at 11/30/2006 10:24:38 AM
Hi there, I was wondering if there was any way to stop the hiding of a dialog from returning from the ShowDialog function? i.e. If you create your own dialog and put some code in that hides it temporarily during it's use, the ShowDialog function will return the second it is hidde...more >>

catching close button
Posted by lord.zoltar NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 11/30/2006 8:18:14 AM
How can I prevent the big close button in the top of the window from closing the window? I want to have and "are you sure?" confirmation so the user must press "Yes" before the program ends. Right now, I've tried catching the FormClosing and FormClosed events. The message box appears at the righ...more >>

Great VB GUI Code
Posted by Scott at 11/30/2006 7:18:58 AM
VB GUI source code for developing please see below web site. GUI Ver. 1.0 Is a very fancy pull down menu, toolbar multi tabbed GUI menu interface for any version of Visual Basic should run and compile from versions VB 1 to V6 (VB 1, VB2, VB3, VB4, VB5, VB6), Has pull down menus, toolbar, tabb...more >>

String to Byte & Vice Versa
Posted by Hugh Janus at 11/30/2006 4:35:14 AM
Hi all, I am using the below functions in order to convert strings to bytes and vice versa. I totally ans shamefully stole these functions from this group btw! Anyway, they work great but as sooooo slow. Anyone know how I can speed this functions up? I basically need to convert a byte to ...more >>

Serialization problem
Posted by Norman Chong at 11/30/2006 4:34:01 AM
Hiddeldi ho, I want to save an object so that I can use its content after I restart my program. I tried to solve this with serialization because someone told me that this is the correct way for this. So I wrote the following code to serialize\deserialize the object, but now I have the problem...more >>

Transparent text box.
Posted by zebik NO[at]SPAM op.pl at 11/30/2006 4:27:17 AM
Hi. Does anyone know how to create one effect. When I choose a text in combobox, a richtextbox gets a new text loaded to it. But it is not transparent. VB.NET 2005 desn't allow me to do it. Is any other way to have transparent textbox? Thnks. ...more >>

Dropping folder on desk top icon
Posted by al jones at 11/30/2006 3:27:09 AM
Normally I have some idea of where in the MSDN to start looking but on this one I have absolutely no idea. A fellow who uses my 'toy' asked if would be possible to drop a folder of files / folders to be processed onto the desktop icon ( well, of course it would ;) ) My question is how do I det...more >>

Create Property on the fly
Posted by Marc Robitaille at 11/30/2006 12:22:02 AM
Hello, Is it possible to add a property to a class on the fly? If yes, How can I do this or where can I find an exemple? Thank you Marc R. ...more >>


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