Hi, I want to know how to hide a column of listview. Thanks in advance...more >>

I am writing a stored procedure to handle Order and OrderDetail tables. I created a tempTable physically on the database, and insert the OrderDetails into the tempTable first, then I try to use the tempTable in a select statement to insert the all the records to the OrderDetails. If there is a...more >>

Hi! I m using combobox in vb.net form, and i would like to know if there is a way that when the user types the first letter, only items that starts with this letter will only be displayed. any solution? ...more >>

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Hi, I have just searched MSDN and Google and can't find a tutorial about how to add icons to menus in a VB.NET or C#.NET Windows Forms application. Does anyone know how it's done or can point me at a tutorial that is easy to follow. In anticipation, thanks. Graham Sivill Martley, Near W...more >>

I'm not entirely sure if this is the best place to post this; if it is not, kindly redirect me to the proper posting area. I'm deploying a Windows Forms application using VB 2005 on top of SQL Server 2005, and I was trying to figure out the best possible way to secure the system such that o...more >>

Hi everyone, i have a vb.net program ive converted most of the code but i know events dont translate well, the original vb.net code uses withevents and .handles and i can't get the events in c# to work 100% they seem to hook up ok but when the eventhandler is called from the method its n...more >>

Hi I have written an entire module in .NET printing using a PrintDocument but now the users complain that they want something like .lay files that will allow them to change the layout of the printed document. Is there any tool that can be attached to .NET which has a similar function? Tha...more >>

I think I am using the proper terminology here ... I am using VB 2003 and have a DataGrid to which I then attach a TableStyle ... then I set the properties of the TableStyle (BackColor, HeaderBackColor, etc.) ... then I create several DataGridTextBoxColumns and set their properties (MappingNam...more >>

FrameWork 2 Hi. Can anyone say how I prevent the error: "'Function' is not a member of 'System.Windows.Forms.Form'". I have a form where I have many public functions created for me. The user will can open 'x' forms(the same form.) and I'm accessing this forms with the new function "Op...more >>

Hi all, I want to write a .Net solution that I would like to run as a scheduled task in windows. I am not going to need any user interface. What I don't understand is what kind of project I need to create in Visual Studio for this solution. Is it Console App, Windows App, Class Library or...more >>

Is it possible to convert from a BitArray to its Base 10 counterpart? So if you have Dim x As New BitArray(New Integer() {1, 0, 1}) Then how can you get to 5 from x being 101?...more >>

hi, im making an AIM application using the AIM sdk, and i was wondering how i would be able to chanmge the back color of certain parts of the control...like in aim with when one user sends his or her message, the back color is what they choose and so on. ive tried to find a control that does ...more >>

I couldn't decide which newsgroup to post this in so I thought I would start here. I can create an "OLE Object" field manually in Microsoft Access and insert an Excel spreadsheet or a Word document, etc. into the field. I would like to be able to programmatically do the same thing. Basica...more >>

Hello guys, I'm writing a little application and I need to copy something into the clipboard and then close the application. When I terminate the app with END or Me.Close the clipboard gets cleared and I get nothing out of it. I'm sorry if this is too easy for you guys but I'm not a progra...more >>

Hello, I was wondering what the best practices are as far as how many connections one should use for a data-driven app. Here's my situation: I have a business object that I load data into, this object also has 3 collections which I also load data into (via their own method). Right now each...more >>

I have a VS 2005 project that has some pages that still use ADO and need to stay that way for the time being. I've added the reference to ADODB and it shows on the references list as ADODB GAC 7.0.3300.0. The problem is that none of the code references to ADODB work and they all error out. Even ...more >>

Using Visual Basic 2005 how do I cancel edits on a databound control. I want the user to be able to cancel all edits on a form. My main databound control is a DataGridView which is bound to a BindingSource, which in turn is bound to a SQL Server data source. I tried ResetBindings, but nothing ap...more >>

Are there any good free C# to VB converters? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I'm writing a console application that will be running as a scheduled application, that basically sends out nag email messages to users of a web application on a daily basis. It's going great so far, but I ran into a problem that I can't figure out. I need to use the UrlEncode method...more >>

Hello. I have a VB.Net program that copies a file from one server to another server. This program has been working without any problems for about a year. A couple of weeks ago the "server from" crashed and had to be rebuilt. Now, when the File.Copy method in the VB.Net program is executed an e...more >>

Just wondering if there is a good way to do this that won't take me forever and a day. My form has many textboxes and comboboxes and radio buttons and checkboxes on it. I want to know if a user changes a value on any of those things...and if so, when they close the form, if they haven't save...more >>

This is what I have - Form1 is an MDI Container, form2 is an MDI Child of form1, Form3 is a model form. What I want to be able to do is activte form2 as a child of form1 from form3. The problem is that form3 is not a child of form1 so I have no way of setting the mdiParent property from form2....more >>

I have a program that processes a large number of records & would like to display the remaining time, in days:hours:minutes. I'm looking to do something like: Dim tsTimeRemaining as System.Timespan Dim tsElapsedTime as System.Timespan dtTimeRemaining = intRemainingRecords * (tsElapsedTime ...more >>

Hi All, I'm a VB6er who's recently started using VB2005; I have a general question about variable declaration. In VB, I've always tried to avoid using the "As New" construct when declaring a variable preferring instead to instantiate in the class' or form's initialize event or as needed. ...more >>

Hi All, After creating an end-point with batches enabled using SQL Server 2005, I can easily query a database and have xml returned from within javascript using something like Pablo's code (below). But, if I try the same code from VB6 or VB.NET (a straight forward port - swap ActiveXObject ...more >>

I am struggling to get the keydown event for checkboxes to work when pressing down arrow and enter. The so-called help talks about overriding the IsInputKey method for the controls, but doesn't give an example. How do I override a control's method? TIA -- Helen...more >>

The following code just displays the current month, is it possble to generate a full year view? An example would be nice. <html> <head> <script language="VB" runat="server"> Sub Date_Selected(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Label1.Text = "Selected date is: " + Cal...more >>

Can someone please point me in the right direction as to how to play system sounds and/or WAV files from a VS.Net 2003 application. I can find plenty of info about how easy it is with VS2005, but from VS.Net 2003 I can only find the Windows Multimedia article about the Statement: PlaySound("M...more >>

3rd question! vb2005 I have been looking at the Membership Class and it looks very intersting. However it seems to be aimed at ASP.NET applications. is it practical to use it in a winforms app? this would provide consistency as our app will have both a winforms and a webforms interface ch...more >>

has anyone any good links to articles on using BindingSource (other than the MSDN2 stuff) cheers...more >>

i have a datagridview and i am attempting to bind a bindingList to it. if autoGenerate columns is true the grid corectly displays all columns in the list. if AutoGenerateColumns is false i still get all the rows however the data is not displayed. the columns are generated and appear to be corr...more >>

good day pros, i would like to make a sample program that will act as a report service... if someone sends a request via email the system will receive the mail and sends back a respond with an attached pdf report file from a report server depending on the parameter given on the subject line ...more >>

hi, I am developing an application in vb.net windows,in this application i am using a datagrid control, how can i add label to a coloumn in the datagrid at runtime , send me the code for this requirement,, warm regards, jaffar ...more >>