Hello, I must confess I am now very confused. I am simply trying to write a program that uses data from various XML files to populate a sea of controls, and uses them in turn to make changes to the XML files. Sounds easy, right? I'm used to programming in VB, but this is my first foray into...more >>

This page is opened by an idea from the Visual FoxPro Spanish community, this page is opened for doing a campaign asking to Microsoft to continue with the Visual FoxPro development, release the full source code as Open Source or make an agreement with a 3rd party for continued development of fut...more >>

Hi All, If a datagridview only has a few records the grid looks very untidy because there is is lot of blank space in the grid. Is there anyway to tell a datagridview to fill the entire viewable area with blank rows? cheers, Tim ...more >>

Hello, In all my VB.NET 2005 routines, I already inserted a Try...Catch routine in order to handle my errors. Is it possible - despite the presence of the Try...Catch routine, to let the program break on every error thus giving me the opportunity to adapt my code? Many thanks and greetings...more >>

From an executable that I have running, I would like to start a different executable, and if possible, pass it the key of the row in a table to display upon launch. Assume that I have written both executables in VB.NET. What would be required in the way of startup code in the called executabl...more >>

Asking again, I've just built my first Setup-Installable VB 2005 package. I have the full Profession Edition VS 2005, not the Express edition, and am patched to the current SP. It installs on the development machine (Win 2K) and runs just as well as it does in the VS IDE. I used the Walkthrou...more >>

Hi All. I've been trying to think of a way to pass datasets, or tables from one PC to another. This would be the scenario. Client PC sends an SQL query to a 'server'. The 'server' would make a connection to a back end database. The 'server' would retrieve data and send it back to the cl...more >>

Public mLength As Integer Public mChannels As Short Public mSampleRate As Integer Public mDataLength As Integer Public mBitsPerSample As Short Public Sub CreateWaveHeader(ByRef sPath As String) Dim fileNumber As Integer Try fileNumber = FreeFile() ...more >>

How would you suggest I test that my network drive is still up and running. Right now I'm going to write to a file at the root of the drive and then read it back in. If either the write or read fail I figure the network is down. Any better ideas?...more >>

I'm new to event processing in vs 2005 - what I'm trying to achieve is broadly a network simulation of two workstations sending packets to each other . I have defined a class 'Workstation' and I was hoping to define events where in instance A (or workstation) I could raise an event 'Send' ...more >>

Hi, Sorry... for all these newbie questions but MSDN sucks nowaday... ;( I have 5 groups of RadioButtons and each group has 10 buttons. There is no control array. So, am I understanding this correctly that I need to have 5 x 10 = 50 If-Then-Else statements to check which RadioButtons are...more >>

Hi all. I can't find any information on the best way to include the current Framework in my deployment, or automatically set it off if it isn't already installed. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Cheers, Tull. ...more >>

How convert a number for the string equivalent? For example: I have the number "16448", I would like take this number in a two bytes strings, the number represent the "@@". Thanks in advance. Freddy Coal ...more >>

Hi I want to make a project in which only the controls will be seen. I want the form to be transperant (include the blue title of the form and the borders) but the buttons,TextBox,etc to be seen vy the user (It should look like thers a "floating" buttons\textBox on the screen...) How can I...more >>

In a new WindowsForm project with default settings I wrote a loop: For Each frm In My.Application.OpenForms If frm.Name <> "MDIMain" Then frm.Close() End If Next Everything was fine until I decided to use Sub Main as Startup object. In order to have it in the list of startu...more >>

Hi, I fill out a CheckListBox from the IDE with 10 items. I am trying to mark the checkboxes in a CheckListBox at runtime. But... I have absolutely no idea how to do that. (e.g.) I want to mark the 5th and the 6th items at Form_Load. <g> be using VB6 for 10 years and have no idea what t...more >>

I have: Public Class test Private displayValue As String Private dbType As Integer Property Display() As String Get Return displayValue End Get Set(ByVal value As String) displayValue = value End Set End Property Property DataTy...more >>

I've got a Soap web client written in VB. I'm wondering if it would be ok to run this same program multiple times on the same pc. Would they get confused with which of them requested what information? I'm guessing it would be ok but......more >>

Hello, I have a VB.NET application with a Windows form that have several textboxes fields where I have dates entered. I would like to do a date validation check after the the field is updated, so I' using the leave event. Right now I am creating a 'leave' sub for each of the fields. However,...more >>

VS.2005 I have several lookup combo boxes in my windows project and would like to do a "lighter weight" binding. Currently I am using a strongly typed dataset with a binding source as the DisplayMember and ValueMember. This seems like overkill since I don't use much of the datatable funct...more >>

I've written code that uses a thread to read a 70K line CSV file one line at a time, however, after about 9 to 10 thousand lines into the file I get a StackOverflowException while the thread tries to update a counter. I'm sure I'm doing this correctly but if anyone can tell me different I'd ...more >>

Hi, How does the this work? Can you use a valid smtp-server to send mail from 'whatever you choose' to 'whatever you choose'? Without checking? I Don't need to gife a username and paswoord of my account. Thx ...more >>

Sometimes, I need to do some time-consuming operations based on whether a specific keyword was contained in a lengthy string. Then, for a better performance, I wrapped that lengthy string into a StringBuilder. But after doing that, it seems there's no proper methods defined in StringBuilder f...more >>