I'm trying to learn WPF and do it in VB instead of C#. (God forbid I should do *anything* the easy way. ;-) Here's something weird. On p162-3 of this book by Petzold (in C# of course) in an example about using Routed Events, he has a loop that assigns an eventhandler to the PreviewKeyUp, ...more >>

I would like to fill a listbox with a 2 column valuelist and hide the value in the first column as available in VBA. I have tried .items.add and item.addrange but cannot seem to get the desired result. I am using the form Load event to fill the listbox. Regards ...more >>

Hi, I would like to have my users register their name and organization name and submit them through email so that we can generate a product key for them. But we have no idea how to generate a product key something look like Microsoft's product key. In addition, I would like to have the key ...more >>

I have write the following command in visual studion visual basic 2005. shell("runas /user:admin diskpart") to set the hard disk partition. it will prompt user to type a password in dos prompt, is there anywhere I can integrate the password in this program so that user will not see the pro...more >>

Hi All, I write a dll use vb.net 2005 to read data from a serial port and use this dll in a C# 2005 application. It works well except when I close the port. After I close the port, sometimes the dll stopped at the readline statement in data_received function. But the port closed already, wh...more >>

I'd like to modularize the application: MDI form is in the main project, and children forms are in DLLs created in separate projects. I have no problem with creating DLL, containing the form and create an object from that DLL in a separate project. But how to make the form from DLL be the c...more >>

Can someone point me to an example of a VB.Net client that reads an XML Document from a web service? I have a web service that successfully creates an XML document, saves it on the server and returns it to the calling client. Maybe I don't understand all I know about this but for some reason...more >>

Hello, I've spent the better part of the day going over code and thinking and have come up with the following docking method that works perfectly. At this point, my brain is about to explode and I was wondering if someone can help me figure out the calculations for right and bottom docking:...more >>

I read many examples with NetworkCredential and WebClient, but no one with a real http address. They all work in theory, but I wasn't able to use them in the real world. The following code should access an ebay page. There is no redirection involved in TestPage. If you have an ebay account yo...more >>

I have written an Office Add-in for Excel using VB.NET and the .NET 1.1 Framework (I have Visual Studio 2003 .NET ). All works great. I want to add a User Settings/Prefereneces dialog and allow the user to specify some settings and I need to persist these settings between runs. I made a seria...more >>

Hello, i want to select all contains in a maskedtextbox with a hour mask, when i enter in the control. i used the function: MyMaskedTextBox.selectall but nothing happened is the right way or maskedtextbox have a bug ? thank you. ps: excuse for the english, i am french ...more >>

I am attempting to write a DLL to maintain an XML file. It creates its own XSD as an XmlSchema (or even a compiled member of an XmlSchemaSet, if necessary). I don't want to write an XSD to disk. The XML file, on the other hand, will be disk resident. System.Data.DataSet wants to read its sc...more >>

I've done this a few times. In a solution I have a project, Say P1, and need another project that will contain much code that is similar to that of P1. I hope no one gets hung up on why I don't somehow share the code. So, I copy the folder P1 is in, change the new folder name, and is VS2...more >>

I am creating my first control and have a few basic questions How do i trigger the control to repaint when I change a attribute programtically...refresh does not seem to work Do I have to dispose of componets when the program closes or does VB dispose of the automatically?...more >>

Hi I have a vs2003 database app that use non-bound infragistics controls and all the plumbing is done in code. This works fine in vs2005. After importing to vs2005 via the built-in conversion wizard the application doe snot show any data instead all fields display the test 'System.Data....more >>