Hi Guys, I need to be able to perform cop/cut/paste in any textbox of the application i have focus on USING a button (not key combination). how can I invoke the ^C, ^X and ^V programatically? I tried something like: Private Sub btnPaste_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As _ ...more >>

Hi , how can i get the current memory usage of my program (like the memory usage of the task manager ) greetings ...more >>

Hi, I have 2 radio buttons on my Windows form control. The radio button's CheckedChanged event disables or enables other controls on the form based on the value of the Checked property. When the form loads, I want to check off one of the radio buttons. So I put the code to check off m...more >>

Hi Im trying to get the value from a listbox, i have the below code to get the text: txtEntity.Text = ListBox1.Text But do not seem to be able to retrieve the data that i set as the value member. Thanks B ...more >>

Whats the best way for me to put the current date into the registry when a form app is being installed? Can I do this via the registry editor in the setup project, or do I need to create a small .exe as a custom action? TIA JJ ...more >>

Hi all, I am using StreamWriter class to save string var into html file but somehow when I open the html file all formats are lost. I want to keep all formats(spaces, newline and so on)For example, I have sFunc in below format(newline, spaces ...) ----------sFunc ---------------- Function AB...more >>

With the option strict On set..... Dim fs As FileStream = File.OpenRead(strFile) With fs Dim buffer(fs.Length) As Byte ' <--- Option Strict On disallows implicit conversions from 'Long' to 'Integer'. ' other stuff.. End With been a while i did VB code... can somebody help me what I a...more >>

I've got to be missing something very simple here, but I'm stumped. I have a DataGrid control on a form. The form allows search of a database and display of resulting rows in the DataGrid. My problem is, when the user does a second search, the results of the first search remain in the D...more >>

Is it possible to block a mouse event on an Hyperlink with a general script event? This is quite troublesome for me. I am trying to find a way to block the windows shortcut SHIFT + MOUSE LEFT BUTTON that open the Hyperlink in a new window for a Web application. I just want to capture the Shift...more >>

I asked once before and got a good response, but it was not quite what we needed. I am reposting clarifying my requirements. I want to develop a shell program that requires the user to login. When they login, I will retrieve all the programs they can load. When they click on a program to ...more >>

In programs like Hyena, you can use AD to view programs installed on systems. How could I do something like this in .NET? I know there is a directory control, but im not sure how to query AD to get the installed software list on a remote system that is turned on. I posted this to .NET groups...more >>

In the below snippet of code how can I write the line, else if (c.ContainsFocus) in vb? Thanks. foreach (Control c in controls) { if (c.Focused) { // Return the focused control return c; } else if (c.ContainsFocus) { //...more >>

Issue is that I really do not know diddly. Copying and trying to learn as much as I can about VB and ASP2.0. Now the question I have is I created an E-Mail form the sendmail properties in the VB side are Imports System.Net.Mail Partial Class _Default Inherits System.Web.UI.Page ...more >>

I'm trying to create a sales ticket (on a vb form in Excel) and fetching results from an Access database. When I try to get the results from the recordset, it doesn't look right. I've re-imported the data with "trim(<fieldname>)" to make sure that I'm not picking up extra characters. First, ...more >>

I'm attempting to close EXCEL from within my VB.NET application. Using the excel object library to write data to my spreadsheet is working fine but when I try to quit application object it does not work. I know this because I can still see the Excel application running in Task Manager. How ...more >>

I am new to the ASP and VB thing so be kind. Question I have is that I have created an ASPX web site to use as an E-Mail page. But I want to use this for a lot of users. Can I create the link on the WEB site to mail to passing a variable from the WEB site to the ASPX web site to E-Mail to? ...more >>

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I have the following VBScript: Const cComputerName = "SC-Mail" Const cWMINameSpace = "root/cimv2/applications/exchange" Const cWMIInstance = "ExchangeServerState" Dim ExchangeServerList Dim ExchangeServer Set ExchangeServerList = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!//"...more >>

Hi, Can anyone shed some light on which of the two is more efficient (if at all) and why? Scenario A: I have setup the Select, Insert, Update & Delete commands of a DataAdapter, using Stored Procs (against SQL server). Then I call the Update method. Scenario B: I loop through each dataro...more >>

I have an ASP.NET (VB) routine that imports a lot of data from an Excel spreadsheet into a OleDbDataAdapter, and then into a database table. The import has been working fine until now, but my latest spreadsheet has a column that can be either completely numeric or alphanumeric. As long as t...more >>

I am looking for patterns for a distributed .Net application for a small retail chain. The owner wants the stores to have access to all data (no matter which store it comes from) in real time. In the case of an internet outage, the store owner would like for the individual stores to still ...more >>

Hello Friends I am a new bee to the world of vb. I have an appication in the MS Access and now i have to convert it to the Vb. I am having problem creating multicolumn Listbox in the vb form. I have dont it quite simply with ease in Access but here i am blank. 1.I want to show Three ...more >>

Hi, With my VB.NET 2003 application I want to generate reports in Word 2003. I should be able to: - use eventually some template (with the header of the company etc) and ad my info to the document - be able to add an image - be able to add and fill tables But all of this should have a fl...more >>

Hi, I am getting into printing with VB.NET 2005 and want to implement the usual capability that a user can select a selection of pages. I have a report that is generated by my application that if the user wants all pages will produce 3 pages. I want to offer the user the ability to select v...more >>

Hi I've created a Class library (myClasses.dll), and added a settings.settings to it using designer. However when I use this class library, it doesn't seem to read the settings myClasses.dll.config file, instead I just get then initial values I used when creating the settings.settings se...more >>

Hi How is the settings.settings supposed to be used??? If I add it to a class library, I get a app.config file with a <applicationSettings> section, containing my settings. However if I include this class library in a web-project, it seems like I have to copy this <applicationSettings> s...more >>

Hi, I'm working with VB 2005.net and have managed to get my head around passing values between forms by creating properties of the relevant form classes. However, say that I have a number of values which I wish to exchange (for example, an employee record, name, position, etc). At the minu...more >>

Hi, I need to call a DLL. During development, I have had no problems using "Declare" statements, but in production, I don't want to hard-code the path. I would like to read the path fron an ini file and then load the DLL. Is there a VB.NET equivalent of LoadLibrary? Thanks, ...more >>

Hi Can anybody help me with setting the allowable Max and Min date for a DatePicker? I would like to restrict the possible date selections to a given month. So for example, if I were to specify Jan 06 the datepicker could not display days Feb 06 i.e. the arrows for next month and earlier...more >>

Hi I am busy trying to create a VB.NET program. I want to give the program an argument in the shortcut I created for that program (for example: program.exe argument). Now I just can't find how I can read that argument in my VB.NET program. Can anyone help me? Thanks Joris ...more >>

Hi, I need to to get the caption of all open windows. Not only for my application, but for all running programs. I know it has something to do with Win32 EnumWindows, but I've tried some examples, but can't make it work. I need the sample code .... please! :o) Thank you in advance! ...more >>

Hi, I have a Panel with the AutoScroll property set to True and many TextBoxes into it, with only some of them positioned in the visible portion of the panel. Is there a Panel event that I can handle when I tab from textbox to textbox and the panel has to scroll *automatically* from the cu...more >>

Whether all VB.NET applications are implemented using layered approach e.g. GUI,Business layer, Data Access layer and Back-end. I come to know that at professional level, some projects are implemented by using more than four layers, in that case how application are written and what type of OO ...more >>

When object are serialized they are stored physically in a file(e.g. XML). But if I want to deal with remote computers I have to provide details about file where object is serialized or send that file physically. Instead of serializing an object to a file I want alternative and I have followi...more >>

In VB 5 I could have a form named frmTest and open it with frmTest.Show Now in VB.net I have to Dim frm as New frmTest frm.show The problem is I only want one instance of frmTest open, not a new one each time. Is there a way to prevent this, or test for the form being open already? T...more >>

Can anyone point me to articles that detail how to correct deployment problems to Windows 98? For example, how do I know what is supported and what is not. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated!! Dave ...more >>

Hi all, is it possible to send raw packet in vb.net like the following: 00 50 DA B8 A2 E4 00 08 75 00 00 54 88 64 11 00 00 19 00 12 C0 21 05 07 00 10 6F ED 58 BA 00 3C CD 74 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 It's not a TCP/IP packet, it'...more >>

I want to built a web page which is gonna have multiple languages. Which one is the best way ? Using a Xml file to store languages and their corresponding fields or Using a MS-SQL Database ? What do you recommend me to have best performance about multilanguage web-sites? ...more >>

Hi, I'm moving from VB6 to VB 2005. Two questions: 1. One book I'm using has syntax like Dim testConnection as SqlConnection = New SqlConnection(connectionString) However, the Help for the Dim statement says, "If you use New, you do not use an initializer expression. Instead, you ...more >>

Hi, I have a folder with many different document types ( .doc, .xls, .pdf, .jpg, ..etc ) how do I print them all? I need to do this loop print next document endloop what are the ways of programmatically telling, M.S. Word for example, to open the document and print it. I can op...more >>

Hi I need to check that a mapped drive is connected before continuing some code. How can i do this? Many thanks B ...more >>

Hi! I have a general error logging routine that takes a parameter of type Exception. But if I send in a SqlException, I loose all the Sql-specific information as the variable is casted to an ordinary Exception. How do I recast it to its original type without having to hard-code all differen...more >>

I'm hoping there is a TWAIN expert lurking here somewhere :) I'm writing a very customized application. The software will be set up in multiple location and will always have two types of scanners attached to the computer. The scanners are microfilm/fiche and a flatbed. So I've created a sc...more >>

I need sample code to insert binary file (mappoint map file) into a varbinary column using VB.NET. Please help! Thanks Bill ...more >>

I'm looking to output text to a rich text box. The number of characters and lines will always be different. I need the output to fill the whole rich text box everytime. How can I do this? Thanks Dan ...more >>

Hi, While for the various NET types: Boolean, Decimal, ... , String, Char, BYTE [] , I have seen them sometines appear as a result of a SELECT from a Database, I would like to ask, given a generical OLEDB connection to a database, is it ever *possible* that the data would be rendered in one o...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to retrieve and set the sort order for a DataGrid control on a WinForm? I had a user request this functionality, and I can't seem to find a place to set and retrieve it from. Am I missing something, or is this something that is more difficult to do than is worth the ti...more >>

hi all i have the following class: <Serializable()> _ Public Class MVR_Inputs Public FirstName As String Public MiddleName As String Public LastName As String Public Suffix As String Public Dob As String Public Ssn As String Public Gender As String Publ...more >>

First of all i am pretty new to VB .NET as a whole so my answer may be silly as may my questions. Here is what i would like to do. I would like to open potentially multiple word documents for viewing only in a tab control. Each Word document should open in its own tab. Sometimes there may be ...more >>

The place I'm working for has a need to sort an excel spread sheet the contains data from bill of materials. The spreadsheets can be up to 60,000 records. We had a process that did it in a macro but didn't do it correctly. Another developer wrote a program in VB.net and did a recursive hieart...more >>