Hi, I'm having a problem with my app. All its supposed to do is put the word "Check" in a listbox every 2 seconds! I'm getting a System.InvalidOperationException error, more specifically, "Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'ListBox1' accessed from a thread other than the thread it w...more >>

Hi all I'm beginning my foray from VBA into VB 2005 Express, and enjoying some of the efficiencies it provides! I'm stuck with some dataset handling however that I _think_ can be automated but I can probably code what I want to do the hard way. I've searching around online but can't find an...more >>

Hello World, I made a Windowsform that reads data from a CSV file. It works fine, but when I have read the data of a record I have to re-Debug the form to read another record. So when I put a new seek item in the textbox after I searched for an item and click the seek button.. it seems it i...more >>

Hello all, I had my code working using a number userid, then I chganged it to string and thought I did everything right, well now this function does not work. Anyone know what I am doing wrong? And how can I fix it? So I am having a problem with struserid and my array looks like this: ...more >>

Can someone please tell me how I can get the last file added to a directory ( I am assuming it is a file attribute). I have built a text parsing application. Right now I have to manually get the file to load it up. What I want to be able to do is have the application (on load) check a direc...more >>

Hi Folks Greetings to you all. I am dealing with a project ( windows application ) in which I have to read the REG_BINARY value from the Registry and get its string equalent ( the ASCII text value ). Can anyone please suggest me how can I achieve that in VB/C#.NET. Thanking you in advanc...more >>

I have a data entry application. Due to ease and location, the users utilizie the enter key to move from field to field, rather than the tab key. Depending on the data they enter into a field, they may skip fields in the "tab order" so I do not simply use process tab key. Application works ...more >>

Dear developers, I've been working on a Word automator application for some weeks. Now, I formatted my hard drive and reinstalled Visual Studio. When I compiled my project for the first time since I've formatted my HDD, I saw that something was different: three DLLs were created into the ou...more >>

I stumbled upon the vbc compiler, but have had little success finding any supporting information. Neither VB Express help, internet searches nor books on Amazon.com contained any significant information. Is vbc useful? Jim ...more >>

I use multi-line text boxes with vertical scroll bars in several of my programs to display log information as the programs run. Once the text more than fills the visible portion of the textbox I would like the text box to show the bottom of the text in it. Right now even if I scroll down i...more >>

I am adding a new record to a table via a dataset/adapter. I have got the following to work for me but I am wondering if there is a better way to do this. I am having to have something in my DS before I can add records, since DS does not exist. I'd rather not have a SELECT since I really do...more >>

I got a stream from a file, could be any document type like doc or txt. I want to convert it to a string variable so that I can replace some custom tag contents in it's text with text values generated from a database. Then I need to save the stream as another document file. so far I got ...more >>

Hello, Suppose I have defined a structure.... Structure RenameDocs Public Facility As String Public Document As String Public Subtitle As String Public Page As String End Structure And then declared an array of this structure... Public stRenameDocs() ...more >>

I must be totally missing something. I am trying to use DirectX to play an AVI file that is stored as a Manifest Resource. Apperently the Video class only takes a string path as a parameter, so I wanted to write the avi to a file from the manifest. I thought I would just be able to read it in ...more >>

Hello everyone, I've created a functioning ATM program, a bank machine. Now I want to implement usernames and Pins into it. So I have a text file with this info. BILL, 1111 TOM, 2222 CHRIS, 3333 How do I go about reading those values from a text file into arrays and then access those ...more >>

Greetings, I am deploying vb2005 apps using Click Once deployment. This works fine. The problem is that the user needs to be able to launch a 2nd app from the 1st app, but the application startup paths are different for each user. However, the shortcuts for these apps are created in the...more >>

Hi there, I created deployment project that installs my windows application. it also should create icons in Start->programs and on the Desktop. But Visual studio allows only to create icons in USER'S Desktop and Programs folder. How to do it for ALL Users? The application is going to be insta...more >>

Hi, I create buttons dynamically at runtime in my application. I want to open a messgae box when the user hovers over a button.how can i do this? i need something like the below(which doesnt work!) Private Sub test (ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)Handles m...more >>

I have a DGV (vb.net 2005). The user has the option to search by City, State, Name...etc. I can't get the DGV to clear between searches. The first search (city for example) works fine. But if I change it to State...the results are correct...but the City column still exists and the State ...more >>

I'm at home for a few days and using my wifes laptop. I'm reading a few books and want to follow the code examples, but her laptop doesn't have VS. However, some of the examples are in C# and some are in VB. Can I load both Express versions on one machine? I know I won't be able to have a s...more >>

I am trying to monitor the process of a file being copied, but I cannot find a function that will return the actual file size, not the total file size, as reported by fileinfo.length. Has anyone ever done something like this before? I would rather do this instead of trying to open the file exc...more >>

I want to count the number of clickings on CapsLock when I press on it How can I do this in vb2005? My.Computer.Keyboard.CapsLock ...more >>

Hello everybody! Currently I use VS 2003 and VSS 6.0. However, I'm planning to move to VB.NET 2005 and I'm looking for a free version control system which integrates with VB.NET 2005. I'm grateful for any suggestions. Best regards, Martin...more >>

A friend of mine is having this problem on his machine - it works fine on my machine. The above message appears when he tries to inset the "Microsoft Internet Transfer Control" (Inet) into a Windows form. It was enabled in the "Add item to Toolbox..." in Visual Studio.Net 2003 (tried both VB...more >>

Hi there, I am trying to do a reflection only load of an assembly, within a new appdomain, within a macro. i.e. create new app domain instantiate class run class class does reflection only load of assembly process info obtained from assembly di...more >>

Hi is there an array that can be looped through Instead of putting my own list in the program or file instead of Dim RG As New RegionInfo("US") such as get reginional(country).count for x = 0 to etc............... or something of this sort to list what MS list to later get curre...more >>