Hi I want to show certain toolbar buttons only when a one type of MDI Child form is active What method can be used to achieve that and what events need to be used? Samuel Shulman SBS Technologies Ltd 07917 447730 ...more >>

Hi, I'm using a HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse to get plain html code off a website. This is the code: (...) Dim Resp As HttpWebResponse Try Resp = CType(request.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse) Catch ex As Exception MsgBox(ex.ToString) Return False End Try Dim resp1, resp2 As ...more >>

Is it possible to add a column header to the ListBox control that comes in VB.NET 2003 and how if possible at all? Thanks...more >>

Hello i'm looking for how to decode binaries files from newsgroups (yDec) in vb.net i've search around and found only vb6 code http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=5782 i tried to convert it to vb.net but it dosen't work dose any1 know such code for vb.net? thanks ...more >>

I have a panel control with buttons and labels I want to loop through only the buttons so I do this Dim btn As Button For Each btn In FlowPanelBottom.Controls Next I get an error that the control is a label control. Why is that when I am only looping through button types? Unable to...more >>

Hi, I'd appreciae any advice on how to do this in VB 2005. I have a simple array;e..g, a list of States, e.g., CA, WA, ID, AL, and etc... I like to determine how many unqiue "States" are in this array...ie., duplicate entires, are igorned... If this list has this sample: CA WA ...more >>

What am I doing wrong/Missing. I have set up a new database using the EXACT intructions on the Help page of VB Express. The Tutorial initially starts with a data grid, but deletes it and replaces this with some text and input boxes. But I want to keep the grid for my project. Sadly th...more >>

Ok say I have a person class, a user class and a subuser class... the person class is the base class, which implements the IPerson inerface... which contains methods Update, create and remove.. now say the user class inherits the person class but also implements the IUser interface... whic...more >>

Hi group, Which source code control program would you guys advice when working a lot with linked files in .net For example, I've got project A with its own frmA, frmB (linked from project B) and frmC (linked from project C) Now when I change frmC from inside project A I woul also like to see...more >>

VS2005: can someone explain why this code doesn't cause endless recursion? It just returns False. However, if you replace "Return TestProp" with "Return Me.TestProp", the compiler warns for recursion (a warning, not an error), and it fails with a stack overflow at runtime -- as expected. ...more >>

Hi, I have written a webbrowser application in VB .net Framework 1.1. I would like to suppress javascript error messages. However, the silent property of the webbrowser control suppresses the Javascript messages, but it also blocks any other dialog box, such as Login dialog, i can't use the s...more >>

I want to ensure that the Insert Key state is 'Insert' rather than 'Overwrite' in a particular textbox (or possibly for the whole form). How can I go about this? -- John Austin...more >>

Is there a class wizard like in VB6 to create a collection class? I have class1 and want a class collection of class1's -Lou ...more >>

How come the cells collection is out of order from my designed gridview? I have a gridview with four columns. The first three are textbox columns and the fourth is a checkbox column. While viewing the cells collection of the DataGridViewRow, the checkbox column is in the 0 index even though it'...more >>

How, after dynamically creating a new button control, set it's parent to a panel control This doesn't seem to work: NewButton.Parent-MyPanelControl -Lou ...more >>

How can I get the size and location into 1 struct Why is there a "size" variable but not a "loaction" variable I dynamically create a button and want to store the location into a rectangle variable Is there a button property that stores both the size and location? ...more >>

Hi. I have a class with an collection property. The collection property is sometimes equal to nothing. The class has a function named 'Exists' which returns TRUE if the specified string exists in the collection, and FALSE if it does not. This is illustrated below. My co-worker and I are...more >>

I want to dynamically create an unknown amount of buttons into a panel. I want each button to respond to the same click event. In VB6 I would just create an array of buttons. I do know how to have multiple buttons respond to the same click event in ..NET but not if the number of buttons are ...more >>

I am trying to call some API functions written in C++ from my VB .NET 2003 application and am running into some difficulty in passing structures to a function. It is probably due to the types I'm declaring for the structure members not lining up properly, but I don't know how to declare them ...more >>

I run two instances of an application on a pc at one time. I want them to assume app A and app B identities. If I check for a previous instance of the app running when the app starts I can determine if the app is the first to start or not. If it's the first it become app A if not app B. ...more >>

Hi, I have a webbrowser control embedded in a winform (vs2005) and use it for previewing documents. The form works perfectly in XP with office 2003 When using the same form in Vista with office 2007 the document opens Word/excel etc and doesn=B4t allow the preview within the webbrowser c...more >>

Can you store "public" variables that may be accessed from anywhere and still have a Form (not SubMain) as the designated startup object ? For example.... let's say I want all the form's Text property equal to "Program Name and Version" In a public class I tried.... Public Class SomeVar...more >>

Hi All, I have VB & SQL 2005 Express but i'm afraid i am a newbie, my background is in MS Access so please if you can give me any advice, please take my inexperience into consideration. I have two tables, i won't detail all the fields but just those that are relevant. Table 1 ...more >>

Hi, All, I create 3 buttons in for loop in code like below: For i= 0 to 2 Dim button as new button Next button will flash if button value is 1 using timer, my question is I need to create 3 timers or 3 button can share one timer? Thanks, Martin ...more >>

I am not sure if this group is the right place for this question but what I need is as follows. There is a piece of html. Throughout the html there are a lot of <br> tags. The task is to replace all these <br> tags with \n\r. The replacement must be performed only within <pre> blocks. I can do t...more >>

This is kind of hard for me to explain so I hope you understand. I have declared an object based on a class of a form I have designed. This is declared at Class level within the frmMain class of my project. Dim frmErrors as New frmErrors I have a method that shows the form Sub frmEr...more >>

Hi, Is there button mouse over event in .net? What I want to do is instead let user click button to pop up message, I let user put mouse over button and then auto-pop up message? Thanks, Martin ...more >>

How does one publish easily? From what I gather, you have to save locally and then manually ftp the requisite files to the web server. Is there not an automated way to do this? Is there some sort of FTP application built into VS? Thanx, -- Anil Gupte www.wizo.tv www.keeninc.net www...more >>

I'm struggling to get started on this subject as I can find out so little information about DirectX I have some IP Cameras and I am trying to display the video and also save the file, and I am hearing that DirectShow may have the answer. However, after downloading the latest DirectX SDK it ...more >>

I have gone over allot of the samples and documentation on the internet on strings. I am not seeing a good example of a function or sub to remove all characters to right or left of a given character. The ones I see I don't know how to implement. I want to take the following c:\temp\other...more >>

Its easyb to change user leve settings but how do you change application level settings in code. Apparently it seems it can't be done. Duhhh. Anybody manage a workaround? Thanks for any help. Bob ...more >>

< Category("Appearance"), DefaultValue(GetType(Double), "0.1"), Description("Gets or Sets the opacity level of the panel.") > I see these xml "Things" in other peoples code and they seem powerful. For example I know this one will allow you to add a property of a component the the properti...more >>

Hi everyone, I've got a bit of a strange problem and I can't figure out how to fix it. I've got an ASP.net 2.0 site with a homepage in /Default.aspx and a members homepage in /members/Default.aspx. I created a local resource file in /App_LocalResources/Default.aspx.resx and it works great ...more >>

Hi All, If I have a procedure that obtains a sync lock: Public Sub A SyncLock Myobject B() End SyncLock And another procedure which obtains the same synclock: Public Sub B SyncLock Myobject ... Do Stuff End SyncLock Will this cause a deadlock? Since A calls B - will th...more >>

Something very simple that I can't spot how to do: I wand to display a msgbox showing some current configuration parameters when my VB2005 program starts up. However, I want the main form to paint before the msgbox appears so that the main form appears as the background to the msgbox. At prese...more >>

I've done a lot of reading on AOP lately and have come to the conclusion that for any elegant and simple AOP design pattern to be possible, the Framework and compiler themselves need to be enhanced. Everything currently available is either too clumsy (proxies) or downright dangerous (unmanaged...more >>

We have several applications that use the ".exe.config" .xml file to get the connection string to our SQL server db. Each user of the application has their own .xml file because we have some user specific settings in there... My question is this... We are looking at setting up a backup SQL ...more >>

I have a directory of tiff files. I need to loop thru the files and count the number of pages in each file. Can someone point me to where this info is stored? GW...more >>

In the below code exact line If _graphicScreenShots(intloop) = "Summary" Then....... I get an error message Overload resolution failed because no Public '=' can be called with these arguments: 'Public Shared Operator =(a As String, b As String) As Boolean': Argument matching param...more >>

hi, i have a app which has a help file, *.hlp, which the user can launch within the program. i want the help file if it is open to close when the program exists. the way i did it till now is by running the following code when the program closes Dim proc, procs() As Process procs = Pr...more >>

I have some crappy Intuit sample code that I'm trying to clean up and turn into something useful. They reference a non-CLS compliant Interop class. Do I have any options besides marking the entire VB.Net assembly non-compliant? ...more >>

Hey all, I have a quick question, I want to have my application startup when the user logs into their machine and I am not sure how to do it. Is it a registry setting? ...more >>

Ok, I have a vb.net application that connects to a network file share. The vb.net application bases certain functions (whether or not the user can or can't update for example) by polling the system.username variable and checking that against a table in the database. When I or any other domai...more >>

I have created a form using single Table which has customerId and companyName field, using Typed Dataset. Now, if I click on Delete Button of Binding Navigator, the Customer Record is deleted from Dataset, however when I click on Save Button of Binding Navigator, Oracle raises Constraint viola...more >>

Hi, I want to simultaneously SyncLock multiple objects, something like: SyncLock objA, objB ' do stuff with objA and objB End SyncLock but so that a lock is only obtained if BOTH objects can be locked obtained simultaneously. I want to prevent possible deadlocks when ...more >>

Hi What can next problem: 'Code For Each oNode in oParent.ChildNodes oParent.RemoveChild(oNode) Next Problem: Only first child node is removed! Best regadrs; Mex ...more >>

I have a form on a .aspx web page which contains payment information. I need to send this as an xml file to our online payment service and then parse a reply back from them as to wether the payment was acceped or not. Being fairly new to .net and xml I have no idea how to go about this. Any help...more >>

This should be simple..... The default BackColor of a button (if you look at its property) is "Control" its a gray color, but apparently not a color. During a process I set the BackColor of a button to another color by using.... Me.Button.BackColor = Color.Yellow At a later point I w...more >>

My application is written in VB.NET 2005 to display a table of a SQL 2005 in a datagrid. I want to be notified or capture events when table data changed (inserted, deleted, updated by another user) to update the datagrid. Is there any way to do this Thanks Doan Nguyen...more >>

hi, I would like to add $ symbol in numeric amount. For that I have used Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.Format(strAmount, "$0.00"). But it seems to me that I am using VisualBasic name space and my manager wants to use .Net name space function instead of VisualBasic. Is there is any functi...more >>