I have several CustomControls that I have written for my project. However, when I try to compile I recieve the following warning & errors: Warning 32 Could not resolve this reference. Could not locate the assembly "nathansokalski_com_test, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, processorArchitec...more >>

In a few moments from now my wife is draging me out of my "computer room" to visit some family and wait for the new year 2008 to arrive So from me an my 4 best friends Dimension 9400 , HP NCW series , Self built AMD XP , and X-Box 360 premium (new in the family since christmas ) 01101101 0...more >>

hello gents, i have a similar thing to do. i am not much into .net yet. i am currently working on asp website which generates doc file on a fly. i now want to convert this doc to docx file. i am not sure this can be doable in asp vbscript. any help or advice on this is much appreciable. thanks ib...more >>

I have a class which represents an HTTPListener (call this "aMessage"). The class accepts http requests, and responds to those requests accordingly using simple code copied from the MSDN. What I need to do however, is something that I can't seem to find in the documentation. My ProcessReque...more >>

Hi, I have 2 applications running, one Windows application project and the other windows services project. I want to call my Windows application in my windows services. I want to run them as seperate process. If my windows application starts running,only if it completes fully, then my windo...more >>

Hi... We've got one vb project in our solution (most of our code is written in C#). It references 5 other assemblies. For some reason, when we try to Clean Solution, the VB project throws 43 errors and 1 spurrious warning. The 43 errors all center around the other referenced assemblies (...more >>

This is my first remoting projct, and the documentation and samples I have found don't do much to make clear how to approach this structure. Everything I have found shows only a small piece of the concept. Could someone please show me an example of how to remotely instantiate an activex obj...more >>

I've been installing VS2008 and getting all the updates. Microsoft's update site says I need "Update for .NET Framework 3.0: x86 (KB932471)" but I've tried 4 times now to get it and it always end with an error "Error Code: 0x66A". I've googled this and it seems I don't need this update if ...more >>

When I run below sample code I get the error message "attempted to read write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt" if the records reteived from the DB exceeds 300 or 400 records: 'VB libraries Imports EX_MaDll 'System libraries Imports System.IO I...more >>

Hi VS2008. I have a table in an access database. How can I fill a list box with a column from the table? Thanks Regards ...more >>

Hi, I'd asked similiar question before but couldn't get help. I have a listbox and and items (eg: 10 items, or more or less,depends). I want to create a shuffle (random) list with NO "repeat". I mean, think about media player's playlists, like them, i want my playlist item to be selected for ...more >>

Hi all In vb6 I could "break on all errors" - meaning the row that caused the problem was marked and the error was presented. How can I do that in vb.net 2005 ? Currently I see abort/retry/ignore... TIA Guy...more >>

Hi all gurus, I've seen that VS2005 has a nice new feature (string refactoring) for C#, namely a tool to generate resources from string. Since it's not available in VS2003, I started creating a new macro, to be used for localizing strings embedded in .vb files, by creating resources in a resx...more >>

I need to convert an Access 2002 application to VB. Does any know of a good converter that would save me time? Not necesseraly that it would be a perfect converter, but one that would save me hours of coding. Thanks....more >>

Hi, I am using VS2005 and am attempting to create a Setup project to install my VB.NET application onto the customer's target computer. I am having difficulty setting the Target property for the Desktop shortcut. It only allows me to select the Application folder. I cannot...more >>

Hi, I'm a C/C++/C# programmer going over VB and trying to learn it. The one thing I love about VS is intellisense, but it is very hard to get used to the VB way, especially after I select an item in the popdown list and press Enter to put it in. VB in VS seems to go to the next line. At any r...more >>

Hi I am trying to write to a sql database, but the Update method is not writing the data to the database. I can view the data coming into the dataset grid ok and no errors are generated. I'm really stuck now :/ Private Sub addrow_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Ev...more >>

In code I have set the back color of my forms to one of the System.Drawing.Color options. Anyway, I would like to make these colors available to my users and let them chooose one for themselves. I know how to show the color dialog, but I'd like to make these colors available to my user's ins...more >>

Hi, I need to catch the domainname/username as additional information when the Filesystemwatcher throws en event ? If someone is creating, deleting or changing perms of a file I would need to know who it was. Could some give me a hint how to accomplish this ? thnx, Hugo...more >>

Hi. Can we masked the value of a string in registry as '*' or any other character that the original value of a string cannot be seen but still avialable in vb.net Regards Muahmmad Bilal...more >>

Hi, I use vb2003 on sbs2003 with SQL2000. I have a form with IEWebControls. Under the MultiPage I have some aspx-files, which are selected in an iFrame. In the codebehind I want to dispose not only this MultiPage-aspx, but the "Parent" too? How can I accomplish this? Any help is appreci...more >>

Hi, The question is exactly the same with thread subject. It would be great if there's a free M3U library which provides loading M3U / PLS playlist items' paths into a listbox for VB.NET 2005. Vice versa (saving capability) also would be nice Thanks!...more >>

First of all a great thanks to all people, no one mentioned, no one forgotten, that devote their time to give answers to people like me, having been stuck up with a small problem. There is a Chinese proverb, " The one that ask's questions seems to be stupid, but the one never asking questions re...more >>

Hi, I can read from a text file and insert text file's contents into a listbox whose format is line by line using this code: Dim reader As String reader = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("c: \bookmarks.txt") Dim strs() As String strs = Split(reader, Environment....more >>

I have a number of files that I need to zip up and upload to a web site. Can anyone tell me how to create a .zip file and add files to the .zip file. You can assume that the PC on which this program will be run will have XPPro or Vista. Thanks for your help Fred ...more >>

Hi, I developed a VB.NET Windows program that gets its data from an MS Access database and displays information via the ReportViewer component. This is using VS2005 with .NET 2.0. I sent it to my customer who loaded it on his target machine and received this error messa...more >>

Hello, I'm an amateur in VB6, and I just switched to VB.Net (2003) . However, I've never used graphicals functions in neither those language... (Last time I drew something was in VB6). I just tried the following code and it is not working properly: Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender ...more >>

I want to make backups of a project and email it to myself via email. Even though I have unlimited email storage I don't want to waste any more space than I have to. And I also want to know what files I absolutely need and what files I should keep just to make things easier. Right now I have...more >>

Hi How items can be added in a combobox at run time using values from a table. But I want to do it only through code i.e making own connection string, binding, datasource, displaymember etc. ...more >>

Hi. How Input language and Keyboard layout/IME can be changed at runtime. ...more >>

question: how do we safely remove a USB device in vb.net? for example, in the vb.net application, we open some files from a usb device, and after that, we want to "safely remove" it without doing it manually from the taskbar. how do we do it? can anyone help me? -- Message posted via ...more >>

i just wanna know how to convert .doc(ms word 2003)/.docx(ms word 2007) and . txt(notepad) into PDF files within vb.net. can anyone help me how to do this? -- Message posted via DotNetMonster.com http://www.dotnetmonster.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/dotnet-vb-net/200712/1 ...more >>

In a thread about wrapping .Net applications using Thinstall and Xenocode, it was pointed out that there may be better programming languages/IDEs to use for the purpose of creating standalone, single executable apps. My goal is to create desktop applications for use on Windows XP+ OSs that ...more >>

Hi all, In Visual Basic 2005, i added "textToSpeech Class" from COM Components and i dragged it onto my form as a ActiveX control with no problem. The problem is that it doesn't do what it claims. For example: If you do a very simple code to speak something using: AxTextToSpeech1.Speak("He...more >>

Hi all, I am developing OPC Client in VB.net. I have developed the code and reading OPC Items on Sampling as well as event based (OnDataChange). When I am working with local machine then my code works fine with both Sampling as well as OnDataChange, but when I am trying to read data from Remo...more >>

i have googled this question but cannot find an answer. i'm running windows vista and i'm using Visual Basic Express 2008. i know the build event button SHOULD be in under the compile tag but i can't find it. i'm used to Visual Basic 2005, so some help would be appriciated. i need to find the ...more >>

Hello, I have an unbound DataGridView on a VBForm, and I would like to display an icon or image in the first column of a record to indicate what type of record it is. For example, error (display an error icon), warning (display a warning icon), information (display an information icon). I h...more >>

What is the best method for driving a word mail merge from data obtained from a vb form? Is it Word version specific? That is, will we need to rebuild the app after upgrading to Word 07? thx. ...more >>

I have a table I am getting from an outside program that I am trying to read to build some Sql Tables and insert data from. The problem is that the following table puts all the tags together, instead of separting them by the different forms. **************************************************...more >>

Can the web response and web request objects work with HTTPS? Never tried it and think I ran into a situation where I need secure responses.. thanks! ...more >>

I trying to use a named pipe but can't figure out how to get the callback to work: Module Module1 Private ps As System.IO.Pipes.NamedPipeServerStream Public Sub main() Application.EnableVisualStyles() Try ps = New System.IO.Pipes.NamedPipeServerStream("Test") ps.Beg...more >>

I have a solution that has both c# and vb.net projects. Visual Studio 2005 sp1. One of the lower level asseblies "Utils.csproj" is a c# project that references a 3rd party dll "Framework.dll". Other c# projects reference Utils.csproj (Utils.dll) just fine. However when referencing the ...more >>

I am looking for an application that will wrap my .Net application (and any needed .Net parts) into a single exe. I know of Thinstall ($4,000 for application and per copy fees for your exes) and of Xenocode (~$1,500 plus ~ $12 per copy of your exe). But, I'd like something that is actually...more >>

Dear friends, I have used datagrid in asp.net for almost every possible use. But in windows forms it comes in a different manner. Can someone please suggest me what to use to show data from multiple columns (as in general... order id, sales id, order name, person name..)? Is datagrid is the onl...more >>

Hello people: First of all forgiveness for my English. I am working with Linq to SQL, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2000. When you delete a record and then go back to Insert (ie, insert a record with the same primary key) and I run SubmitChange it generates an key duplicate exception. I...more >>

Regex class has the option ECMAScript which can set. I searched the Internet and got about a million hits that reference ECMAScript but none that defined it. Can you tell me what it is used for. I let the user of my text editor search using regular expressions and do not know if I shoul...more >>

Hi all I googled some and found that I can no longer - dim withevents myclassname() I also understand that I can use addhandler... But... what if I do not know the amount of classes that will be created ?.... What am I trying to do: I have a process that scans a directory for files tranxxx...more >>

I can not seem to figure this out, please help. This program worked perfectly in Visual Studio 2003. The program gets the information from an Access Database. I am using OleDbSelectCommand to select certain records. When I run the program and click Button1 the test works OK. The problem is w...more >>

what is different Dim pic as Byte() and Dim pic() as Byte me no understand. much thanks lvp ...more >>

I am using VB code to create a Console application that is started on a Windows 2003 Server via a Scheduled Task. Files are moved to and/or from a Network Resource that I want to be setup as a Mapped Network Drive. Currently, the application is being started with a user id based on the Sche...more >>