Hi, Does anyone know any good plugin, activex, dll, sdk,... for creating pdf-files from within VB.NET ? I would like to create a multipage PDF-file with on each page some WMF pictures and some text. Is there a free, opensource solution or does anyone know any other good product ? Tha...more >>

I am building my first program in VB 2005 Express Edition and considering I'm a BBC quite chuffed with my progress. All the data entries work off the TAB Key in run mode, how do I get the ENTER or RETURN Key to do the same. It is totaly disabled. ...more >>

i just wanted to hide visio stencil blocks from my parent form. in child form i used thie following code to hide. DrawingControl.Window.Windows.ItemFromID(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Visio.VisWinTypes.visWinIDShapeSearch).Visible = False if i run visio document form seperately visio stencil bloc...more >>

Hey gang, I have two needs: 1) Enforce password policy by forcing a change to the password twice per year on specific dates. Currently AD does not enforce by date. It allows me to set an expiration date but its a best effort sort of thing to hope it lands on the specific dates of my prefere...more >>

I am going to make an application in monitor and do something on time. A part of it is an Notify icon(System Tray Icon), Which project type can I be used for Just showing the notify icon without any form? What I mean is something like When you minimize the MSN Messager as a tray icon. I ha...more >>

Hi, Anyone know how I can insert the text captured in a textbox into directly into an Access Dtabase using this connection? New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection("provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _ "data source=C:\temp.MDB") Thanks for any help, ...more >>

I have two machines. Both have Windows xp Pro. Both have Visual Studio 6.0. These two versions differ only in Forms3 version. Machine 1 (M1) has version 11.0.6254, Machine 2 (M2) has version 11.0.6550...other than that, I'm hardpressed to find anything significient that's different. The q...more >>

Looking for recommendations on a programming language for a web application. I am soliciting recommendations on a programming language for a web application described below. Actually, it is not real, just an example of what the real application would do. I do not want to stimulate any debat...more >>

Hello, I am starting to use Master pages. I understand the concept that these pages should remain passive. So, I need a little assistance. Scenario: 1. Master page with a search box & submit button 2. several pages that use this master page 3. based on the value placed in the search b...more >>

Hi, Can I Late binding to object in .NET ( not COM objects, Objects was created vb.net Dll ) !!! <<< CreateObject("MyDLLName.dll","MyClassName") or CreateActiveX("MyDLLName.dll","MyClassName") >>> When I running this codes I have a error "ActiveX can not create" ! Thanks for help... Haka...more >>

The situation: * I have a ButtonColumn in a DataGridView. * When the user preses one of the buttons, a dialog appears. * Based on what the user selects in the dialog, data is entered programmatically into the the underlying cell (i.e., I'm setting Value property of the cell based on user inpu...more >>

I have an instance of a Dataset on one form that I want to copy all records of a particular Datatable to another forms Datatable (same Dataset/table, etc). Any way to do this? I've been looking at the Load and Merge functions but haven't got them to work yet. Thanks, Ryan ...more >>

Create a new Windows forms app and you can type Imports System.Runtime.Remoting and start working away. How come I didn't need to add a reference to System.Runtime.Remoting? Thanks, Ron ...more >>

First you install Visual Studio. Then you install one or more Service Packs on top of it. Unless you have a stupidly fast machine this takes a long time and when you've got a department of near eighty Developers all needing to do this (say, when their PC's are upgraded), that can add up to a...more >>

Is there a way to display 4 quarter circles (half a semi circle) in different colors? Is there a way to make quarter circle radiobutton?...more >>

1. How do I pass a subroutine a reference of an object? For example I have variable datef type datetime. I want to pass to pass datef the variable, not it's value to the sub? 2. In ADO.NET, how can I see what the parsed value of of a SQL command is after @parameters have been passed in...more >>

I want to write a program that will accept a number in a textbox for example 23578 and then in a label will display the sum of the odd and even number like this... the textbox containsthe number 23578 the label would say: Sumof odd number is: 15 Sum of even number is: 10 any ideas? thank...more >>

I have made a service which picks up records from a table which has following columns :From,to,subject,body,status The service, after picking up the records, loops through all the records and sends the email for each record and updates the status as 1. The problem is that my service fails w...more >>

Hi, I have the following records stored in the database : TableName: Folder { FolderID, FolderName, TopLevel} TableName: FolderRelationship { ParentID, ChildID} This describes a folder tree structure. Note that only one record has TopLevel set to 1, this is the top folder in the structu...more >>