How to use VB.Net user controls with in VB.6 is it posible??????????????? www.shamirza.cjb.net ...more >>

win forms - xp pro - vb 2005 Shouldn't this code look at all textboxes on my form and make it lightblue and say "OK"? It seems to be evaluating a button I have on the form and giving me this error "A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in Math.exe" ...more >>

I am using vb.2005. i had set some break point. however, when i run the application . I found such wording " The breakpoint will be not current be bit, no symbol loaded" ? what's happend ?? thanks ...more >>

Hi all, I have a simple application which polls a DB every couple of seconds to retrieve some status information. The app also updates the database from time to time. I would say 85% polling, 15% updates. In SQL Server's Management Screen (Locks/ProcessID) I see ~3 SPIDs related to my ap...more >>

Hi All, I wrote a VB.NET control in Visual Studio 2003 IDE, I am trying to re-compile it with command line compiler vbc.exe like this: vbc /t:library /out:my_control.dll my_control.vb However vbc doesn't work with error "type 'Int32' is not defined" Your help would be greatly appreciat...more >>

This is probably a silly question, but I've gotten myself confused. My app has two forms, form1 and form2. form1 is the start up object in the propers. An event in form1 instantiates form2. Dim myForm as HardwareStore myForm = New HardwareStore myForm.Show() I understand that my form2 c...more >>

Dear Newsgroup, I'm an old VB6.0 developper who switched some time ago to VB.NET 2005. I really like that new Visual Studio. However, something is going wrong now and I can't figure out, what it is... I was playing around with UserControls which are inherited from standard .NET controls to make...more >>

Hi, I use Adobe Acrobat to read tekst from PDF files. After that the file has been read, I move the file in a folder (using the date I got from the text I got from Acrobat). Now here is my problem. When I want to move the file, I get an error stating: System.IO.IOException: The process can...more >>

Maybe a dumb question (if those exist), but how do you... Private m_Stuff As New System.Collections.ArrayList Public ReadOnly Property Stuff() As System.Collections.ArrayList Get Return m_Stuff End Get End Property disable the Add and AddRange met...more >>

Hi, I recently installed that programing environment, and I'm wondering how to do some of the things I created a program that renames, moves, and copies file, most of the routine are located in a DLL file that I created along with the main program, everything work fine, but I can not get t...more >>

Hi folks, I'm trying to get the actual content of a datagridview into Excel. It seems to me that the most easy way is to use the WriteXML property of a dataset. So that's what I'm trying, but I'm getting it wrong when trying to get the grids datasource into the dataset. Firstly, is using...more >>

I have this form where I am trying to place items from checked boxes into a text box. An image of what this form looks like is at http://www.stelth2000inc.com/images/screen.png Here is some code I have done for the first 2 check boxes, name and world, they do what I want them to do, but for t...more >>

I have an installer project for my VB.net application which as a custom action runs a silent installation of a third party software product. This however, generates an error if the application is already installed. I therefore want to check if the application is already installed before la...more >>

I have a vb5 form i need converted to vb.net frmApplicant.frm frmApplicant.frx I have Visual Studio Pro 2005 and the vb conversion wizard starts when i try to open the vb5 app.vbp files It errors out because the app uses an Oracle oledb data source I don't have installed or need. All ...more >>

Hi All: I have this page where a rows / cells are programmatically added to to table by pushing a button. The rows contain a textbox and a associated button. What I want to is to be able to add the content of any textbox to a global variable (and a related session variable) when pushing the...more >>

Hi, How do I make a textbox remember previously entered data? You know, like the "Address" field in the Internet Explorer browser. This remembers previously entered URLs and drops them down... How do you code this? Any suggestions/comments/code-samples much appreciated. With tha...more >>

Hi every one I am working on a vb.net, windows application and i am not able to figure out how to change the deployment project settings so that i can change the installation and un-installation behavior. Mainly i want uninstall the complete folder, which is copied while installation. Ca...more >>

In my opinion, one of the worst failures of Net (VB2005 Pro) was not providing an XOR line draw feature, as in VB6. A major feature of my app is allowing the user to draw Markers (vertical lines) on a trace so they can measure the time difference between markers. Once they click on a desir...more >>

This one baffles me. I'm using VS.Net 2005 and write desktop apps that need built in help. So logically, I figure maybe VS has a help system component built in so I search the help. Hey! Apparently, all I have to do is create a "Help Project"! There's my starting point. So the VS help says...more >>

I've been given a project to maintain but it's in 2003 and might be hard to update to 2005 - I tried converting and got a fairly large number of errors. I'm in the process of wiping a machine and opening the app there with just a clean 2003 so I can see what errors are not due to conversion, but...more >>

I'm creating a wizard and I've got multiple paths a user can go through and multiple forms depending on the options they choose on each form. Is it possible to have a form return a value, much like a function? For example: Dim Step1 As New frmStep1 FileType = Step1.ShowDialog .... or ...more >>

I am new in VB.net , Can anybody help, which control can be use for feeding date type data.I coudlnt find any date property in textbox. -- Thanks...more >>

I'm trying to use Request & Request objects in my VB.NET class, but unable to do so. Tried to find references in what classes I should be importing or referencing to get that working but with no luck Any solution? ...more >>

Hello, I have a Solution with several Projects. One Project is is a driver to test code in a Module file in the main Project. The Module file is contained in the main Project and contained as a link in the driver Project. Things are OK until I start editing the Module file in either project. Af...more >>

I have a .NET project named FormattedOuput with output type set to Class Library. In it, I have a source file named ExcelOutput.Vb. This class produces an Excel object and manipulates it based on some input I provide. It works fine and has been fully tested. Meanwhile, another programmer wa...more >>

Hi, Hope that you can help me here. What the regualr expression for: any amount of non-digit characters follwed by some digits (and perhaps a letter or 2 after this) - that is strings found in address numbers especially in apartment numbers like, for example: #23 apt. 34 No.21A ...more >>

Hello All, Although, I have read all the advantages of using Try Catch Block instead of "On error goto", I am still confused what is alternative for classic "Resume" statement. "Resume" was one of the crucial line in debugging which let VB programmers go to exact line where error was thrown. ...more >>

Hello! I have huge unperformant "where like" querys to a mysql DB. So there are some performance issues. To resolve my performance problem I thougt to split the query into threads. I hold 10 connections to my database and each connection queries in its own thread as the following: conn1: se...more >>

I would like to embed a file in my EXE and extract it at runtime. Is this possible? If so how? the file is a MS Access Database. Would like to check if the file doesn't exists in the application directory to extract it from the exe and place it there. ...more >>

Does anybody have any experience with samples to point me to. I am developing a little list, which renders the text using GDI which all works ok, however I then need to be able to make the form/user control scroll the text that is off the form client area into view, which I am not sure how ...more >>

I'm following a sql/vb tutorial which contains the following code which is meant to resize the datagrid view so that the columns take the correct width for the content within them. It doesn't work the syntax seems to be nonsense according to VS2005 so can someone suggest what I need to replace...more >>

Hello: Creating Windows Forms Applications with VB.net: What are my options for creating properly formatted printable business reports using 2005 Express Edition? Particularly, would like to use XML data generated by the applications. Thank you, Dennis D., http://www.dennisys.com/ ...more >>

Hi All, How do I query based on a value in a text box? eg: "select username, tel, email from users where user_id = userid.text" something like that.. thanx in advance.. ...more >>

Hi All, How do I open a report made in Access in VB.Net? Im using .net 1.1. Thanx in advance.. ...more >>

Yo, I have a problem inserting into my database. When i try the following: "INSERT INTO TBL_Bestanden_Zoeken (Id,docnr,klnr,klnaam,datum,bedrag,type) VALUES ('12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789123','VF-1234567','12345','Frederik','15-01-2006','125','VF')" it works. But I get my values f...more >>

Hi I am trying to run winrar from VB.NET. I do this: Dim commando As String commando = " E -y " + getbackupmap() + naam + " " + gettempmap() commando = """" + getwinrar() + """" + commando Dim p As Process = Process.Start(commando) p.WaitForExit() Now I get this error: An unhandled excep...more >>

Hello, I writed some classes(but not a class) in a ClassLibrary and builded a test.dll file, but how to invoke the test.dll? 'test.dll////////////////////// Moudle MyTest Public class A ... End Class Public class B ... End Class Public class C .....more >>