It's possible a button with image and style xp in vb.net 2003? Thanks a lot ...more >>

Accidently posted this to the wrong group so I am reposting. This is probably a newbie question but I am a little confused about how to go next with my code. I think I want to use a factory pattern in this situation but I am having trouble getting access to properties at the presentation lev...more >>

hello. how do I get the file's parent directory name out of a path like this? c:\test\myDirectory\file.txt Im looking to extract the "Directory" from the path so I can create myDirectory in another directory and copy the files. what I am really trying to accomplish is to move the pare...more >>

VB2003. I need a large positive integer. Which is larger int64 or double? I see int64 also apparently is known as long and will hold -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 through 9,223,372,036,854,775,807. But I'm not good with the E+??? notation so when I'm told double holds -1.79769313486231570E+3...more >>

I created a windows application, added a Grid Control and connected to the Pubs.mdb Access database locally with no trouble. Next I copied Pubs to a WebServer, changed the connection string by providing the IP address of the web server but the error below occurs. I tried the domain name ( li...more >>

I just want the name of the file selected - I have no use for opening it up in a stream. Is there a built-in dialogue I can use to select a file, or do I need to write my own? If so, are there any simple examples out there? TIA, Paul ...more >>

I would like to include a module from another project. When I added existing item, VS copied the module to the current project's folder so that whatever I did to this module doesn't reflect in the original module. this is NOT what I expected. Is there a way to share a module (.vb) among mu...more >>

I currently know very little about VB code and want to learn for use in MS office applications such as Access and Excel, while also learning how to write some login scripts using VBS. The only option as far as company paid training that I have locally is an introduction class to VB .Net programm...more >>

Hi there, Im experiencing an unhandled exception that seems to be impossible for me to catch. I am launching an assembly of mine from within another assembly using the Process object. Once the process finishes it causes an unhandled exception, even though both host and child process h...more >>

hi i have the following xml document <root> <item> <key> <scode></scode> </key> <scode></scode> <desc></desc> <pc></pc> </item> <item> <key> <scode></scode> </key> <scode></scode> <desc></desc> <pc></pc> </item> <item> <key> <scode></scode> ...more >>

OK I haven't ever done this before... I'm going to need to create "project" files to which my application can save and retreive data. Rather than worrying about the details fo the format too much, I'd like to just have everything saved as a serialized collection so whatever I chose to store in...more >>

Hi all, I have a custom made list (MyList) that inherits from CollectionBase. Is = it possible to prohibit the casting of that list into other objects? I = would like to get an error at design-time. For example, Dim myList As New MyList Dim yourList As New IList =3D CType(MyList, IList) <...more >>

How do I, in my (2005) application, cause a file with a certain extention to be associated with my application? Paul ...more >>

Anyone seen this type of error? Program c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'C:\Program': No such file or directory Microsoft c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'Files\Microsoft': No such file or directory Visual c1xx : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source f...more >>

How do I make my VB.Net form callable from an Excel application? It's a utility independent from Excel, but I want to be able to call it from Excel. I know a lot about VBA but don't know how to get a handle on the .net form and make it visible. thx ...more >>

What is the correct way to set the exit code from within a console application? Currently we do: Public Function Main() As Integer ... Environment.ExitCode = ... Return Environment.ExitCode End Function Should we use Environment.ExitCode And/Or return the exit code? Thank...more >>

How add a reference in my project vb.net 2003 windows form. Please step by step. I am new in .net Thanks a lot ...more >>

I have the following statements TextBox19.Text &= "ID" & ControlChars.Tab TextBox19.Text &= "Requirement Name" & ControlChars.Tab TextBox19.Text &= "Status" & ControlChars.Tab TextBox19.Text &= "Owner" & ControlChars.NewLine I want to Bold and Underline only the above text and not the informa...more >>

Hi I am trying to work out how to move controls contained within a user controls at design time using the mouse in the IDE. Consider the following: Project A contains usercontrol1 with several panels. Project B contains a form with usercontrol1 I would like to be able to click on a pane...more >>

hello all, i have 2 datatables and am trying to transfer rows from datatable a to datatable b i use the datatable.importrow method. the importrow method fails (but does not throw an exception) when importing a datarow that has numeric columns. columns of type string are imported fine. e...more >>

For some reason my application is not writing to Standard Input. Here is my code: Dim pInfo As ProcessStartInfo Dim errors As String = "" Dim errorEntry As ThreadStart pInfo = New ProcessStartInfo("C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe", "-r rzaleski@airsep.co...more >>

I would like to display tooltip for the currenCell (selected). For example Col1 = storeID Col2 = Store name. Since Col2's width is 20 characters, some of the tore names are truncated. The tooltip should help showing the full store name when user hover the the mouse over the currencell. ...more >>

If I create a form and add add a bunch of controls and code, etc to it, I can see that Visual Studio adds all of the requisite "creation" code behind the form. If I wanted to create a 2nd copy of the exact form, how would I go about that? Could I just copy the code from the first form, includi...more >>

Hi, Forgive me for posting this message in 2 groups -- it appears that the Data Access group isn't very active, so I'm posting again here: I have a DataTable that I want to fill using a DataGridView. I've set the DataSource of the DataGridView to my DataTable. My problem is that I want som...more >>

When I configure the dataAdaptor i get "Could not determine which columns uniquely identify the rows for TableName" and so the update and delete statements are not built....more >>

Hey, I have never used a datagrid/dataset/adaptor/table method for updating data, I have always used direct updates to the database so ADO is quite new to me. I have a datagrid and I change a value in one of the fields. I hit save and the following code runs... Dim da As SqlClient.SqlData...more >>

Hi all, Is there any inherent basic encryption available in the string namespace in .NET 2.0??? Thanks, Adam ...more >>

In an off-line Vb.net 2003 application, is there any reason why the following would happen. 1) Minimize button doesn't function. 2) Button and DataGrid widen beyond Design time settings. Thanks ...more >>

Hi all using MSCHART object in VB.NET requires to register at client node for plotting graphs in VB 2005. Using Drawing namespace of Framework 2.0 provides rich functionality for plotting but still great work needs to be done for plotting graphs. Any shortcut to plot graphs using framework 2.0...more >>

Hi All, How do i send an email from a vb.net form? I have a text box with the email address, another with the email body, and I want to use standard text for the subject. Is there a way for me to automatically open a "new mail form" from outlook, and automatically put these values in? Thank...more >>

I tried to do some 'DLLImport' on a DLL. The actual source code was written in Visual C++. Unfortunately I can't get the VB.NET syntax right for this function call. Can someone provide me with the correct VB.NET syntax? ---------------------------------------- #define S00X_ANTICOLL_A...more >>

I am importing data from an EXCEL XLS-File via OLEDB-Provider The command is SELECT * from [sheet1] Everything works fine if the first sheet is named sheet1 How can a create a new sheet inside the XLS-File What command I must program ?? ...more >>

I am importing data from an EXCEL XLS-File via OLEDB-Provider The command is SELECT * from [sheet1] Everything works fine if the first sheet is named sheet1 But sometimes the name is not known by my application and the import = failes. Is it possible to import always the FIRST ava...more >>

I'm using the below code but having little luck even though it looks right to me: Dim aForm As Form For Each aForm In Application.OpenForms aForm .Close() Next Where should this be? I put it in form_deactivated() and nothing, same for form_finalize(). In VB6 I believe it was...more >>