How do you sort a generic collection derived from System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection? Thanks in advance, - Arthur Dent ...more >>

Is there a method to ensure that a form will be on top of all other forms in the and applications ShowDialog doesn't have this effect in this case Thank you, Samuel ...more >>

Having problems converting Murach's Beginning Visual Basic.net (Prince) and Microsoft Press' Programming Visual Basic.net (Balena) examples for use in VB.net 2005 Express. The VS conversion wizard has not been able to convert any of them. These are just two example sources of many. What should...more >>

Hi How can i set image(image what i can see on toolbox panel) from UserControl? Meelis ...more >>

Now got more errors. I have both VS 2003 and VS 2005 installed in my machine. What should I do solve thsi problem? Thanks Bill --------------- Error: The dependency 'Interop.ADODB, Version=2.8.0.0, Culture=neutral' in project 'Dispatch_Advisor' cannot be copied to the run directory...more >>

Microsoft is no longer selling Visual Basic.net Standard Edition as a stand alone? Is that correct, or what is happening with new versions of the stand alone product? Dennis D., http://www.dennisys.com/ ...more >>

Question: During the execution of code, which one is looked at first; the=20 Page_Load, or the Submit_Click? My problem arises when I specify a literal in the Page_Load, and attach=20 it to the page dynamically. When I assign it content in the Submit_Click = (say, a =E2=80=9Cupdate succes...more >>

I'm using vb2005. I wrote a simple app to view and print all the fonts on my pc.To see how the printout will look without wasting lots of paper, I use PrintPreviewDialog. The first time I run PrintPreviewDialog, it correctly shows five pages of printout. If I run it a second time, it only...more >>

Hai All Can anybody please tell me what are the standard registry locations that are affected by Virus's , Spyware and Adware Programs. Thanks in advance Regards Vighneswar ...more >>

Hi All I have a VB.NET application which runs on all client machines except one, where on startup, it gives the message system.enterpriseservices.thunk.dll, or one of its dependencies, were not found I do not have a reference to this file, and I do not use enterprise services anywhere i...more >>

In my VS2003 under the Tools Menu Item is an item : "C# to VB Converter" I don't know where it came from and want to move it to VB2005. I've searched Program Files for file with # in its name an none of them seems to be the source of that item. Is it possible to retrieve the file that ad...more >>

I have a parent form which contains a toolbar. The toolbar controls the loading and switching to of MDI child forms. The code for the toolbar click event and one of the subroutines that loads and shows a child form is: Private Sub tbMenu_ButtonClick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e ...more >>

I have 2 containers with objects. The veterans container contains unique objects. Each of those objects can have 1 or more corresponding card objects in the cards container. VeteranCN is formatted (SSN-LastName) CardsCN is formatted (SSN-LastName-# OR SSN-LastName-#CNFblahblahblah) (the # is ...more >>

I'm using label1.text = finishtime.Subtract(starttime).TotalSeconds.ToString() courtesy of Marina to display how long a piece of code has taken. It's been less than a second so far but might go over. The only down side is I'd like this rounded to a max of say 4 decimal places. It gives ...more >>

I am working on a VB.NET (2003) application and I am confused about object lifetimes. I have a class of objects that are created in a manager class and added to a collection in that class. I am not sure how to destroy an object once it is no longer required as a part of the collection. In VB 6...more >>

I'm going nuts here trying to figure this out. In a winform, I have a datagrid bound to a dataset. I want to perform some database updates when the user edits certain fields of data. Consider the following code: If Me.DsEventLineItemsView.Tables(0).Rows(Me.LastCell.RowNumber).RowState = D...more >>

Hi Still cant resolve problem, how to get datatype and properties for field. If if fill DataSet from SQL Database how can i a) Get DataType for specified field b) Get Allow null (if i read AllowDBNull this returns always True) Regards; Meelis ...more >>

I am trying to deal with an image in code-behind. I consistently get the = following error: Server Error in '/' Application. Object variable or With block variable not set. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the = current web request. Please review the st...more >>

Hello there, How do I set up a listbox with three values in date format 2/24/06, 2/27/06, and 2/28/06 where the user selects one and populates a combo box using a directory list? For example, user clicks on 2/27/06 in the listbox, code goes to a folder in a directory (not access or sql) ...more >>

hi everbody i am using visual basic 2005. i am write a modem control program and get callerID value. i am send a AT command to modem. Dim mscomm1 As New MSCommLib.MSComm mscomm1.CommPort = 3 mscomm1.PortOpen = True mscomm1.Output = "AT#CID=1" mscomm1.Output = "AT%CCID=1" mscomm1.Out...more >>

I have three really small tables, which gave me a lot of headache. They reside in a MS Access database and a I am accessing them through ADO.NET(VB). Can't figure out how to make a "Select" query on them. These are the tables: 1St - "Transactions" TransactionID - primary key, autogen Transact...more >>

Hi. I have an application with several menus, see last post, still not resolved. I have another problem.... The menus have been created using the menu editor, I can't find a way to add icons to the menu items. I can find examples of creating the menus is code and assigning icons, but n...more >>

Greetings. I have a file upload form. I have a file upload input, with its ID set=20 as ImageUpLoad. When I try to submit the form, I get Name 'ImageUpLoad' is not declared This is the line causing the problem: Dim imgStream As Stream =3D ImageUpLoad.PostedFile.InputStream In every e...more >>

Hi all, im just curious if anyone knows..... With .NET 2, VB didnt happen to get a true ternary operator, did it? Stuck away in a corner somewhere? By ternary, i mean something like C's a?b:c syntax. IIf works in most cases, but in some instances you want to use expressions which may fail if...more >>

Hello, I need to open an Excel workbook from my vb.net app. I made a reference to the Excel com object model (Office 2003) - Excel library 11.0 But when I try to write code - I don't see Excel in the intellisense dropdown. Do I need to include an import statement? Dim xl As ???Excel...more >>

Hello, I finally figured out how to get my form to its database and have an email come my way. However I am now trying to set up the body of the email to include the form details. However the body of the email that is sent only includes the last line of the "body" tag and has no details next ...more >>

I should mention that this is for VB2003. I need to make sure that only one instance of my application is running at a time. I already have some code that does this and it does work but I ran into a problem. Here is the code. It returns true if the application is already running. If ...more >>

I have a sql table that hold binary files as blobs. Our customers store attachments for their work orders in them, anything from xml files to zip files. Normally, these files first exist on the hard drive and are converted to a byte array and saved to the database in an image type field. Fo...more >>

Is there a listing out there anywhere that lists what is new in .NET 2.0 mainly in VB? I've seen simple lists like oh we have all these new controls, but I want a class list and such also. thanks! ...more >>

Is that true you can't have a static method in VB.NET? Public Static Sub Initialize() -- ??? thanks Mark...more >>

I've been following some tutorials and reading books and have a basic grasp of the fundamental ADO.NET commands. But all the books I've read use a database with only 1 table. My database has many, so: 1. I know there is 1 OleDbConnectino object variable per database file, but is there one dat...more >>

hi all, 255 and 1 = 1 255 and 2 = 2 256 and 1 = 0 how can i get the coorect result for values greater than 256 i hope you understand what i'm getting at. thanks in advance diego ...more >>

Hi I'm soooo sorry but I've had to re-post this message again. I have no idea what has been happening but for some reason I couldn't seem to be able to see messages that I'd posted earlier. My question is this - how can I determine if a user clicked the cross in the top right of the form...more >>