Hi I am looking for ways to reduce memory consumption by the VB.NET program. I use a spell checker that consume too much memory and when it doesn't work I set it to Nothing, I then call the Garbage Collector GC.Collect but it doesn't seem to help Any suggestions? Thank you, Shmuel Sh...more >>

Ok, I've got a program I am working on that is supposed to save all changes to the dataset to the actual database, but this doesn't seem to be working. I used the DataAdapter.Update(DataSet) method, but that doesn't save the changes to my actual database. How can I go about updating the actual...more >>

I have been reading the digital manual to find out how I can see the "main" procedure and I find this line under "Main Procedure" in the documentation: "Windows Forms applications run on their own. However, the Visual Basic compiler automatically generates a Main procedure in such an application,...more >>

Hi Guys, I need a quick reference to Windows Application Development in dotNet. I'm fairly good at the Web Development using asp.net though i'm new to the Windows Desktop Application environment. For question would be how do you "Redirect" back and forth, from one Windows Desktop Form to an...more >>

Hi Is there a ny function in VB that returns a minus figure? Receives 150 and returns -150 Thank you, Shmuel ...more >>

Using Vs2003. Program runs in IDE mode, but when I run it from windows explorer double clicking on the .exe file to launch, it launches OK, but running a sub that tests exception handling gives me JIT debugging error, JIT failed with following error - Class not registered. Can't find any spe...more >>

Hello all! I created a successful program that reads data from a reliable tab-delimited file - or so I thought. After getting everything to work with small files, I changed the input to a larger file that was created by the same program with the same format so hopefully there shouldnt be any ...more >>

I want to create a program that can iterate through active processes and shut down certain applications that are running on a system. I need to ensure that these processes are not left running overnight and I can't trust users to do that. As long as I'm in there, I would also like to close a...more >>

I'm pulling a value from the db that is an integer, ie 6421504. I then want to use these value to change the color of the text. How can I convert this integer value to a color in vb.net? Thanks,...more >>

Hello, I want to copy files from one directory to another, but the files in the first directory are occasionally accessed by a process outside my control. Can I can open files for reading in a way that will not interfere with the other process? My process will never change files. I don't care ...more >>

Hello, in VB6, I could pass a parameter from VB Script to the program and retrieve the argument using Command(). Please let me know if there is an equivalent method in .NET. Thank you in advance for any assistance. ...more >>

hey all, i have a windows service that uses the WebClient class to download a file. i guess by default, for someone unknown reason to me, it downloads it to System32 folder. Does anyone know how i can change this? thanks, rodchar...more >>

Hi I'm using VS 2003 to create a database application connecting to an Access database through OleDb. I've used the OleDbDataReader many times to populate comboboxes or treeviews but only accessed one table at a time into the result set. No problem. To be more efficient with the connectio...more >>

Hi, I just downloaded vb Express Edition, and I am having some trouble. I have my class file, and I have this line: Imports System.Web.Services But I get a warning: "Warning 1 Namespace or type specified in the Imports 'System.Web.Services' doesn't contain any public member or cannot be ...more >>

Hello. We still use Studio 2003 and I have VBCommenter 1.2.6 beta. I want to custmize the template but can't figure out how to do it. The GotDotNet website is not very helpful on this subject. I thought there should be a file called default-autoinsert.xslt somewhere. But where? There's none...more >>

My questions are often answered by one person who has a working fix I don't really understand. Before I do understand it someone else gives a very different fix. Both work and both are different from the approach I was taking, which, in some cases only has a minor flaw I find days later th...more >>

I am trying to allow a user to drag a Picturebox control around the form and drop it in a new location. Currently, I was trying to use the following: Private Sub PictureBox1_MouseMove(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles PictureBox1.MouseMove ...more >>

Public Structure MyDataType dim LName as string dim FName as string 'other procedures/methods/property statements End Structure please look at the codes above... is there any way to iterate thru the variables by using for... each statement like for example for ea...more >>

I have a Web Service developed using C# and the .NET framework v1.1. When I access the DLL on the localhost, using the URL http://localhost/Folder/bin/MyService.dll it works fine. However, when I x-copy deploy the DLL and its web.config (authorization allow *) to a remote server and set al...more >>

Hi there, Can anyone recommend a good reference (book, website, etc.) about writing multithreaded apps for VB.NET? I have inherited some server applications that I think might benefit from thread pooling or multithreading in some fashion, but would like to get more information on the p...more >>

I have crysatl report that uses two parameters that can accept multiple values. Bur any time more than one value is passed to the parameter it only stores the last one inputed below is the code it self please advise. Dim tbCurrent As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.Table Dim tliCurre...more >>

Hello, I have a question about a Regex I'm trying to write. I'm trying to strip out the DOCTYPE declaration from a XML document I'm receiving. I've noticed that the files are delivered with different DOCTYPEs though. Some look like this: <!DOCTYPE nitf SYSTEM "nitf.dtd"> which I can stri...more >>

Hi guys I am puzzed (???) with a probably stupid problem (VB2003). I must be doing something dumb ... I want to open a owned form (must *not* be mdi child) over an Mdi Container, when the Mdi container starts. I have a small demo program made of: Form1, Form2 (empty) and a "StartProgram" cl...more >>

To detect if .net framework is installed or not on client's computer, and if yes, what is its version, I found an article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;315291 But it can be done in a Setup and Deployment project, my program doesn't needs setup and deployment, it r...more >>

I have a list of items in a list box and have used the Select Case decision structure to add names to a label when a selection is made. How do I use an If Then decision structure to concatenate two selections in different listboxes. ie. If listbox1.selectedindex = case 0 And listbox2...more >>

Is it possible to perform obfuscation on code automatically as part of a build in Visual Studio 2003? For example, instead of building code in release mode, is it possible to create a custom build configuration that will build the code in release mode and then call an obfuscation program to...more >>

hello, i have a datagrid, i've set the "header" row to have a white background with <HeaderStyle BackColor="#ffffff"></HeaderStyle> and want the color of the data rows to alternate between a color and white. so i have added <AlternatingItemStyle BackColor="Gainsboro"></AlternatingItemStyle> ...more >>

i have a simple (1 form) Winforms VB.net 2003 app and am migrating it to vb2005 testing both on the same box... if i run the 2003 version it works correctly, but the 2005 version fails when attempting to connect to a SQL Server database. looking at the connection object after the attempt...more >>

It's said on many pages that you cannot delete the index.dat files on the computer manually in Windows XP and that you shoudl then buy and use programs that they also provide liks too... how ever.. since these programs you can download can preform this task of either deleting or altering the ...more >>

I am having conflicting results with two pieces of identical code. One is an insert, the other is an update to a db. The first code, which works, is this: Sub Add3_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Dim imgStream as Stream = Add3Image.PostedFile.InputStream Dim imgLen as Integer...more >>

Dear all, I am trying to get the Process UserName by using System.Enviorment.Username, I have no problem by normal "run" and by "runas". I can get the process Username with correct value. However, I try to use "runas /netonly" to execute the program I developed, I found out that it is returnin...more >>

Hi There Can anyone help to write permutation function for following formula.. nPr = n!/(n-r)! where n is length of given string and r is lengh of subset.. for example..if given string is "abcd" and r = 2 then out put shuld be ab ac ad ba bc bd..and so on... and if r = 3 then output shu...more >>