Hi all, How can I replace an inherited member name? I've built a class that inherits from KeyedCollection(Of ..., ...). I would like to replace base class Items property with Fields property. Is this possible? TIA, DC ...more >>

I need to know if a laptop is connected to the Bellsouth network or the Sprint wireless network. How can this be done with VB.Net 2005? ...more >>

I can find code that shows how to connect and send messages to an SMTP server in VB.Net 2005, but none of them show how to use an SMTP server that requires a user login and password. Does anyone know how to use an SMTP server, with a username and password, from VB.Net 2005? Thanks for yo...more >>

Apoligies, as I most likely have the wrong group here, but.... We're implementing a new web-based app for donor relationship tracking, and the vendor is telling us that they do not see a way to allow PDF attachments under .NET 1.x, which we find a bit dubious. PDF attachments are a huge need ...more >>

If I create a UserControl that inherits from, say, Panel, and I do not want my UserControl to have a property that it inherits from Panel. How can I remove it. For example, I might not want by control to have a BackColor property even though it inherited that property from Panel. Tha...more >>

I wrote a C++ function which has 2 integer parameters and returns an integer. Is it possible to implement this function in vb.net? ...more >>

Hello I use the webbrowser control to navigate to some webpages. If the page is not found I like to display some other controls. I can't find the html source text in the webbrowser control (documenttext is empty even there is some text diplayed). Is it possible to retrieve this text and se...more >>

vb.net 2005 express I havnt posted in a while but I have been busy doing the tutorials on the SQL Express and the first VB.net videos. ( Basically started from scratch and gave up the idea of mdb tables and moving to SQL Express ). One thing I cant seem to find / figure out is this. I ...more >>

Hello, I am having a class that is used to spawn new threads off. In each of them, I have a shared function that will generate an unique id off a shared class variable. My question is whether using a shared object as a synclock candidate will generate any race conditions. Thanks. Co...more >>

Hi I am trying to render a wave file in a dotnet application but the component I am using only supports 16 bit wave files with two channels. How can I convert the wave file within .net to a different bit rate? Carl ...more >>

VB Dotnet printing is such a chore. My print code is copied from MSDN and uses PrintDocument, with a PrintPage handler. I need to force a page break at specific points in my document and can't figure out how to do that. I've been fussing around with different fonts and margin settings and b...more >>

Hello all, I need a way to read a previously saved list of customers and programatically "Select" these items in an existing listbox. Something to the effect of ListBox.SelectedItems = myCollection. Of course SelectedItems is readonly. I'm reading in from an XML file and I have that portion...more >>

I like the "properties window" control in SQL 2005 and I want to know if this or something close to it exists for use in my VB.NET app I'm building? You know the 2 column grids that are colapsable. Can someone point e in the right direction? ...more >>

hello all, how does one go about subtracting seconds from a DateTime object? for example I have a date time of "06/04/2007 10:31" and I need to subtract 12 seconds from that. all help is greatly appreciated. ...more >>

Hi everyone, This is weird, please help. Its probably very simple but I'm stuck! I have populated a dataset with some data from a session variable: Dim dsTables As DataSet = Session("soLookupTables") And now I am trying to display it to a DataGrid widget using the following code: D...more >>

I've noticed that child forms always seem to show their title bar when they are first shown in an MdiClient. This is a problem for me because I am implementing a custom look which requires me to hide the system's title bar in order to draw my own. I've created a sample that demonstrates the ...more >>

I've been getting this error message recently with every project I try to run in the IDE: Error While trying to run project: unable to start debugging. No such interface supported. I've tried reinstalling and it doesn't help. Please, what can I do to fix this? I've had to make a change t...more >>

So back in the vista beta we were told start using Segoe UI as our GUI font... well what happens when we backport the app to XP? I don't want to change the font just for a different windows version, if we get it looking right in one place, why spend the time trying to get it to look right in a...more >>

hi i can't seem to place a commondialog on a form its not in the toolbox ive creted a new proj and i can place it on the toolbox but a existing project i get Name Confilcts with Existing Module , project or object libray any help tia MJ ...more >>

Hi, I have a problem when I am trying to compile the .vb assembly to dll in VB studio 2005 Express Edition. I have my onw dll, which looks like: Public Class CL1 Public Shared Function FN1(...) As String ... End Function End Class (in .vb format) and I have another assembly,...more >>

Hi I am using Tahoma 8 size for my text boxes which is changed to Tahoma, 8.25pt by the system. The height of my text boxes is 21 with this font size. Is there a way to reduce the height to 20 without much effecting the font size? Thanks Regards ...more >>

I have a user that uses a built-in wireless ethernet card to connect to our wireless router and surf the internet from behind our router and uses a wireless Sprint card to connect to the internet when not in the office. I need to be able to detect when he is connected from the office and when...more >>

Hi all, I need to open a video player from vb.net and play on it a movie that is stored in a network folder. I'm trying with Process class but the movie file is on a protected folder and I need to specify user and password for accessing it. The problem is that Process class provides User ...more >>

Hi, I need as a parameter for a control the names of my properties as a string. How can I get the name of the property as a string during runtime Example: Private _MyVar As Double Public ReadOnly Property MyVar As Double Get Return _MyVar End Get End Property ..... Ms...more >>

When you highlight a selection of text represented in an object on a form, somewhere in the Framework or alternatively in the Windows API there exists an array of variables that either contain as a string the portion of text before the highlight, in the highlight and after the highlight, or as an...more >>

It would be much appreciated... Im not familiar enough with C in order to convert it myself... thanks using System; using System.Windows.Forms; public class HourGlass : IDisposable { public HourGlass() { Enabled = true; } public void Dispose() { Enabled = false; } ...more >>

Hi All... I Came across this error while populating a combobox from a datatable (I'm working in VB.NET): Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name: '-1' is not a valid value for 'index' code[VB] Private Sub PopulatePrManagerCombo() ' This procedure pop...more >>

I have a DLL "myLib.dll" that has the following function. The DLL is = compiled in VC++. LPCGUID AAAPI aaApi_GetItemGuid ( LONG lIndex /* i Index of selected item */ ); Note: The output type is LPCGUID, not LPGUID I declare the function like this in myModule Public Declar...more >>

Hi, I need as parameter for a control the names of my properties as a string. How can I get the name of the property as a string during runtime Example: Private _MyVar As Double Public ReadOnly Property MyVar As Double Get Return _MyVar End Get End Property MsgBox ( ...more >>

Hi all I wanna run my application directly from a Flash Disk. I want it AUTORUN once the device is attached. I have seen some virus script-programs which create their own autoruns on a specific Flash Disk device. It would be very thankful If anyone could tell me about it. Thanks in adv...more >>

I have an ASP.Net 1.1 (VB) application where I have several usercontrols, one is called DetailLine. Dim ucLine As DetailLine ' this code works fine In converting this application to ASP.Net 2.0 I run into this problem. Now this line of code wont compile: Dim ucLine As DetailLine And...more >>

Hi, I've decided that it's time I picked up VB.net having programmed in VB6 for the past 5 years and was wondering if there was a book that was designed for the VB6 user as opposed to going through all the basics all over again "This is a variable" etc? Failing is there a particular book...more >>

I am trying to determine what the current cast of an object is. Essentially, if I use GetType, it always returns the original type of the object created but I want to know what the current cast of the object is (i.e.: is it still cast as a Derived class, or is it cast as a Base class?) Here is s...more >>

Hi I have noticed when I close my vb.net app, it is still visible under processes in task manager? Why is that and how can I ensure complete closure of app? Thanks Regards ...more >>

I have a situation where I need to display a form in a panel. Everything works great except if the form is maximized and the panel's size changes. In this case the maximized form's bounds do not change. I tried updating the form's Bounds property in the panel's SizeChanged event but this do...more >>

I'm having an absolute nightmare with regular diff tools which is making it really hard to manage changes etc in CVS. Tools such as WinMerge and ViewCVS really have really poor matching results which is making it difficult to rollback, compare changes and don't even get me starting on merging ...more >>

Hi all, I have to generate and send to a printer many 6 digit alphanumeric strings. they have to be unique but I cannot check in a database or something like that if it have already been printed. the string has also to seem a random one and it cannot have an apparence of a sequence. ...more >>

I'm new to Visual Studio 2005. I'm creating a windows application using Visual Basic. After I added a control to a form and added some codings to the control, I want to rename the control. However, I notice that after I rename the control, the codings inside it are still using the old name...more >>

Hi Do you know if the vb 2003 compiler implements lazy compilation? For e.g: IF test1 OR test2 THEN do something END If test1 is evaluated to be TRUE then the compiler should not bother evaluating test2 and go into the IF block. How can this be activated? Thanks Shahil ...more >>

I have a x509Certificate that I exported and I am using for testing called wsTest.cer.pfx. I want to use this cert to send a public key to anyone who requests it, and then use the private key to decrypt any incoming messages. In the code below you can see I can grab the publickey string from ...more >>

I have seen the terms Visual Basic 2005 and VB.NET. It seems that sometimes they seem to be referring to the same thing but sometimes they are not. I also run into terms like VB9 and VB10. ...more >>

I always learned when you have a constant name it in all upper case like this PASSWORD_MAXIMUM_LENGTH but FxCop is saying this isn't correct, but doesnt tell me the correct "accepted" way in .net to name a constant... what is it? ...more >>

If TimeValue(Now) > TimeValue(ShutdownTime) Then Dim WMIService, Computer As Object WMIService = GetObject("Winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate,(Debug,Shutdown)}") For Each Computer In WMIService.InstancesOf("Win32_OperatingSystem") Computer.Win32Shutdown(8 + 4, 0) 'shutdown...more >>

I would like to put a dll and a project in the same solution. So I created a project (of type exe) and then I chose 'new project' (of type class library) and picked the option 'same solution'. So it looks like I created 2 projects in the same solution, which is what I wanted to do. However, I...more >>

I used to use WebBrowser in VB6, and now I want to learn how to use WebRequest in vb.net, but I'm having 2 problems. 1) Is it normal that the automatic redirection doesn't work when the page contains this? <body onLoad="location='http://www.SiteName.com/index.jsp'"></body> If I use WebB...more >>

Hi All, Is it possible to drag a control and move to a desired location on the form. I have developed an user control and would like to give the user to arrange the user controls according to his wish during run time. I can find code where data is dragged and dropped to a target. But in this ...more >>

I want to get outlook express (not microsoft outlook express) address book address's in visual basic application. Please tell how I can get. ...more >>

Hello I run into problems on how to create array instances. I'm playing around for hours now and can't find a solution for this. How can I assign an instance of the Mysegment class to the rendition segments property? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks magriii Public Class Form1 ...more >>

Hi We need to update machine.config for .net 2.0 on multiple pcs on a network. Most machines would potentially have other versions of .net installed too. Is there an easy/quick way to do this specially one that a non-technical person can do too such as running a bat file or some such like? ...more >>

I have a client that wants to process PDF files that have embedded barcode separator pages. I want to programmattically open the PDF, search for a separator page, get a value off the page (document type) and extract the pages between separator pages and write them to a new PDF. Keep in mind I wa...more >>