Does anybody know if VS 2005 contains an enum of the datatypes available in an SQL Server database? Cheers Johnny J. ...more >>

I have a spreadsheet that imports data from the net. Currently, user must click Enable Auto Refresh. What VBA scripting can I use so that the spreadsheet is refreshed automatically without a need to click this box? I am stumped. ...more >>

I am using VB.NET 2005. My program receives messages, and for every message I create a thread. Say I received Message 1, spawn the thread, then receive Message 2, spawn the thread. Even though I spawn the Message1 thread before Message2 thread, sometimes Message 2 thread is executed before M...more >>

My form has a listview control, set to show detail view. It has 2 columns: workbooks and worksheets I run the following code, trying to get each Excel workbook name as a main item and each worksheet as a new subordinate item. Some open workbooks have 1 worksheet, but one has 11 worksheets...more >>

If I have a class with a public variable, isn't this the same as a private variable with a property? ie, isn't this: Public Class MyTest Public MyVar as String End Class the same as this: Public Class MyTest Private _MyVar as String Property MyVar Get Return _MyVar End Get...more >>

We have an application in use at several dozen of our customers. At one customer site, it behaves strangely. The same application runs three times with three different config files passed to it on the command line. I have a BAT file that runs the application thussly. I then have the BAT file sch...more >>

Hi All, I've discovered a strange behaviour with Object parameters passed ByVal via remoting and I'm wondering if anybody could shed some light on this. In a non remoting function call, when a object (as opposed to a value type like Integer, Boolean, etc) is passed as a ByVal parameter, it'...more >>

I am having a problem getting a service to stay on and I cannot debug it. I installed it on a computer using installutil.exe In the Services list, it appears just fine, and I can hit start. However, I get a message saying "The MediaEncoder Service on Local Computer started and then stopped....more >>

Ok, I don't normally post (I would rather rummage around in the thoughts and frustrations of others) but this one has got me stumped. I am using MS VB 2005 Express and I am using a COM object reference that will not allow me to read back an array of System.int32 through a byref parameter. I...more >>

Sorry for the (slightly) off topic post but I know this is where all the clever people hang out :) What's the collective term for Variables, Constants, Parameters etc... ie anything which has a value even if, like the constant, the value cannot be altered. So I would exclude methods from...more >>

Public Value As Integer = 4096 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim bytes As Byte() = BitConverter.GetBytes(Value) End Sub This code will create a aan array of 4 bytes {lenght=4} (0) = 0 (1) =16 ...more >>

Hello everyone, I have a very simple question about arrays I have an array of Processes objects (retrieved using Process.GetProcesses()). I want to sort them descending on the WorkingSet size. Is this code correct? Dim temp as Process Dim mProcessi() as Process Dim i...more >>

Doesn't run properly. I made one dll which monitor file and send back an event for status on changes. I use the IO.FileSystemWatcher From the window form I want to check 5 txt file in particular (fi_1.txt,fi_2.txt,fi_3.txt,fi_4.txt,fi_5.txt) of course not residing on the same directory or com...more >>

I have the string "15" which I need represented as a hex number - ie &H15 Simple I would have thought but I can't find the answer. -Jerry ...more >>

I have a method which has a large numbers of arguments (of integers) say 30. When one of the arguments are wrong (null or the argument is not an integer), vb.net (2005) reports that there is an error. The problem is that in debug mode vb.net does not say which argument is wrong, it only gives...more >>

In VB6 one could use 'Resume Next' to have program execution resume at the statement following where an error occurred. Is there something comparable in VB .NET? Try i = 0 / 0 DoEvenMore Catch ex As Exception End Try If the eval of i creates an error how do I have t...more >>

Dim x As String x = Format$("50", "00000000") in vb6 x returns "00000050" in vb.net 2005 x returns "0000000" How do I get the vb6 result in vb.net 2005? ...more >>

Hello, I'm creating a program to parse a directory and all files within that directory (including subdirectories), but 'directoryinfo' only parses the current directory. Is it possible to have it process all files within subdirectories as well? Thanks -- Alex ...more >>

Why oh why can I not edit and continue??? VS 2005 Pro. Multi project solution. All solutions set to debug. But I cannot edit the source when debugging. Any ideas?? Thanks Lloyd Sheen...more >>

Hi EveryBody: Is there some one can Tell me how can I sniff the IP address for any remote computer ? any help or redirection for any artical will be appecated regard's husam...more >>

Hello, I'm wroting a console utility in VB 2005, and I need the ability to pass parameters to the application when the program runs. For example, if my program is called testing.exe, I need to be able to run this: c:\testing.exe c:\test ....and have 'c:\test' passed to the program as a...more >>

I have a VB application with one main form. I also have a second form that has the ShowInTaskbar property set to False. If i click another application in the taskbar (for example:- Outlook) then that application now has focus and covers up my application. If I then click my application withi...more >>

I'm trying to gather info on whether VB.NET would be right for my application needs. I need to create basic charts, such as line charts, bar charts, pie charts, etc., with maybe regression lines included too, but really nothing heavy. But I do want the charts to look very good. Are there an...more >>

Hello, I have to write an application that scans textfiles for certain words. I'm talking about approximately 5000 words. The only way I can think of to do this is to scan each textfile for each word. This takes a lot of time and a lot of capacity of my pc. Is there another way to do this t...more >>

Hello, i would like to create a setup file for my VB.net application. my application contain a DataSocket from National Instrument. so I must install the NI Software befor using the DataSocket. what should i do to install all required Software and also my application in one Setup file (with VS...more >>

Hi, I know nothing about VB.NET and was considering whether to try to write some application in it. I have some limited programming experience, but with Python. I was hoping this forum might help me to decide if this is worth pursuing/possible. I hope I've posted to the appropriate group. ...more >>

I wrote my Windows Service first as a regular Windows Exe because it is easier to debug. In that I used AppDir = Application.ExecutablePath.Substring(0, Application.ExecutablePath.LastIndexOf("\")) ' Where this application Excutable sits Now, when I am converting it to a Service, what p...more >>

I searched online and went through the forums as well, but i could not find a way to capture the database primary key violation exception. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks, Hetal ...more >>

Is there a way to make a GridBox behave like the list box of old? I am populating the Gridbox with results from a database query, so I need multiple columns. The listbox in VB.net doesn't seem to do this. I want to be able to select a row, and use a value from that row to open another form, ...more >>

I have a 'variable not declared' error occurring when in fact the var is declared --its just nested in a If Then statement. Like so: If bPortrait Then 'then its in portrait mode ' Make a bitmap for the result. Dim bm_dest As New...more >>

Hi Is there any intelligent way to similate windows function to show a map of the entire network visible to an application?? My job is this...: Picture a LAN/WLAN with 5 computers connected through a router. I need to run an application which as its first task needs to map out which oth...more >>

I have a routine that updates a PictureBox image every x seconds. I do this by first loading an array with the path to all of the images. I then generate a random number to use as the index of the array. A timer is set to update the PictureBox. This works great the first time through but fails...more >>

Hi, I have a problem with uploading files to a webserver. Here it's the code Dim strPath As String = MapPath(fileName).ToLower strPath = strPath.Replace("\usercntrls", "\uploads") fileUpload.PostedFile.SaveAs(strPath) usercntrls is where the control resides on...more >>

Hi, Is there anyway to calculate a checksum (MD5, CRC32, etc) of files using VB2005? What we need is a simple program that can go through a directory and store the path and file name, checksum, and date. Thanks --- Alex ...more >>

Hi all, I have two lists of textboxes: 'Create list of all textboxes on error log data tab el_textboxes = New List(Of Windows.Forms.TextBox)(New Windows.Forms.TextBox() {addr_x100, addr_x101, _ addr_x102, addr_x103, addr_x104, addr_x105, addr_x106, addr_x107, addr_x108, addr_x109, ...more >>

I found out how to change the color of cell(s) however when I change the color I lose the grid line(s) around cell(s). ...more >>

I have a stream of XML that I need to read one line at a time. Rather than writing it out to disk and then reading it back in with LineInput, I was wondering if there's a similar way of doing this with a stream....more >>

I need to translate the line below to vb.net SendMessage(this.Handle, (uint)WM_HSCROLL, (System.UIntPtr)param, (System.IntPtr)0); Now do I do the third parameter? -- Arne Garvander Certified Geek Professional Data Dude...more >>

Hello, Can anyone provide me some code snippets, or a class that would allow me to extract icons from an executable file? thank you Learner. ...more >>

Folks, Has anyone ever come across this exception before: This constraint cannot be enabled as not all values have corresponding parent values. I have not changed any of my code, sql or databases and my system suddenly started bouncing back this error. Any ideas? Cheers, Simon ...more >>

I use a PictureBox to allow users to draw fixed size rectangles. User click the mouse inside PictureBox and the program read where mouse is and collect infomations in an array. Dim Rcs() as Integer 'Rectangles array Then I call a function who draw rectangles inside PIctureBox1 using a...more >>

I have a form containing an HTML editor to permit users to create templates similar to Word's templates. I'm having to do it this way as we need to save the template layout in SQL Server. Anyway ... Based on the user's work area and the process they've selected to create the template for...more >>

Hi can anyone help? Im currently using the system.net.mail to send emails. If the emails are internal then it works fine if i try to send to a external email then nothing goes. Any ideas? Shawrie ...more >>

i have a problem on placing an image inside a picturebox. My problem is that i have a picturebox with the SizeMode property as "Zoom", which i must have, but when i insert the image in the picturebox, the image is aligned to the center of the picturebox, not the left. Does someone knows how ...more >>

Can anyone assist a newb with troubleshooting the code below? I can not seem to create new database records. I do not get any error messages, just no new records. Editing and deleting works fine. I am using VS 2005. If anyone can suggest a different, more active group or web site I may be a...more >>

Hi All I am using VB.net 2005 professional I set the background color of a datagridview cell to different colors depending on many reasons I set them in the cellformatting event and all works great, i.e the colors appear as requested e.g e.CellStyle.BackColor = Color.Red When I try to...more >>

Does .net have support for this. I wrote some code to drive a model train under vb6 (I think I used a third party control) but cannot find anything under .net (or at least anything that makes sense to me!) Thanks jack Russell...more >>

I'm a newbie to .NET from VB6. I have a Form with a Panel control on it. When the Form loads it maximizes and so does the Panel control. I then fill an array with the path to images at a specific folder. At that point a timer fires every x seconds which calls a routine that draws an image o...more >>

I'm trying to convert the following Perl code to VB.net ################################################################### # Calculates the checksum for the message # # In: The string # Out: The checksum sub _calcCheckSum { my ( $self, $str ) = @_; my @sum = (); ...more >>

Hello. I am using VB 2005 (Windows Forms). Microsoft proposes a start form that displays some program information at the start of the program, and then disappears. What drives the fact that this form disappears ? Elapsed time ? Some event ? Where is this logic explained ? Thanks for your help, ...more >>

Anyone able to figure whats wrong here? It is saying it cant convert from itself to itself? I am confused on this error that the designer is throwing... One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below. Some errors can be fixed by rebuilding your ...more >>

Hello folks Can anyone help me with sorting for binding? VS2005. VB.NET I have a datagrid view where I display two columns - name of employees with their positions like 'John' ,1 'Rebecca',2 'Justin',3 As far as good. I have a data table and I perform filter by using data view objec...more >>

I have a program whose main form has a picture box on which concrete column sections are drawn. Input to the drawing is achieved by filling in data in various dialog boxes (called by using Form.Showdialog). When a dialog box is closed the drawing on the picture box is updated. Everything ...more >>

Hi I have no real experience with VBA other than basic macro's, but I have created a list of usernames in Excel and now I wish to Query AD to see if the user's account is: 1. Active 2. Disabled 3. Does not exist. If you are a coding guru, could you please help me out by providing the...more >>

How can I set or create a registry key during the installation of our .net projects? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I have a Windows Application in which i am using Janus GRidEx for displying data. In this Janus Grid i have a check box column. i want a functionality if user selects checkbox for particula row(s) and then hit delete button, the dat should get deleted. For this i am using GetCheckedRows met...more >>

I *did* have Excel 2003 on my office PC and was fiddling with a little VB Express app that interacted with Excel - nothing complex, but it worked. Since then IT has upgraded me to Office 2007 and the only thing I can import is Microsoft.Office.Core, nothing with the Excel object at all. My e...more >>

I have searched Google with every possible combination of key words I can imagine and have not been able to find an answer to what I think is a very simple question and probably has a very simple solution. Keep in mind.....I am a NOVICE programmer, so you will have to spell it out for me. ...more >>

Hi, I have a Solution with two different Projects. In one project, can I import a class from another project? It's something like: Solution mySolution ProjectA Class A1 ProjectB Class B1 How can I create a ClassB1 object in ClassA1? Is it possible? Thanks. ...more >>

I'm developing an add-in for Visual Studio in VB.Net. With this add- in I'd like to insert source code to the the Visual Studio project that is hosting my add-in. How can I access the editor of the hosting project from VB? ...more >>

Hi All, I have a form (CFormMain) with a button. When I click the button, I call a remote server that performs some action and sometimes notifies back the client by displaying a custom message box (The custom message box is just another form displayed via a ShowDialog). I'd like to make my CF...more >>

I would like to draw some text which will be in front of any other controls, but without obscuring them completely. If I use DrawString in the form's Paint handler the text is always behind, not in front of the other controls. In VB6 I would have simply used a label control and set it to trans...more >>

I would like to add an extra property to the ListV iewColumns. Is that possible. First of all, It doesn't look like there is a "Column" object at all so what object would I inherit the Column items from? And is it possible to "substitute" the ColumnHeaderCollection's Column items with my in...more >>

Hello every one I designed game using visual basic program language through Visual studio 2005. The game works good on my computer. But when I did copy to all the files of this game and copied them on my brother's computer ( child) the program does not work because the VB program not...more >>

Here is another SQL 2005 statement converted to Access SQL that doesn't work. Error message is: Join Expression Not Supported. I don't know Access well enough to know what is not supported. (INNER JOIN)?? (LEFT OUTER JOIN)?? Any ideas?? *****************ORIGINAL SQL 2005 STATEMENT*****...more >>

Hi Guys, Does anybody know how to register a service with parameters? I developed an application in VB.NET with can also run as a service. Therefore the executable must be started with a -service option. So the exe path to be registered should look like C:\tool\tool.exe -service Now I ch...more >>

I've got an inherited control where I want the user to be able to specify a color property. Using that color, I'm drawing a line private m_UserDefinedColor as Color ..... Dim g as Graphics=this.CreateGraphics Dim myPen as Pen = new Pen(m_UserDefinedColor) g.DrawLine(myPen, X1, Y, X2 - 1...more >>

I am using VB.NET 2005 and SQL Server. I would like to test how many connections I can have open in the connection pooling. 1. In the connection string if I do not include "Max Pool Size=200", it can open around 146 connections before it gave me the error "Timeout expired. The timeout peri...more >>

George was able to help me out last week. Thanks George. I have some convert problems. RECAP: I'm converting SQL VIEWS into ACCESS Queries. Some problems I have use CONVERT in SQL but I don't know the appropriate syntax in Access. Here are the queries I have causing problems. The error ...more >>

Hello. I've been working w/ vb 6.0 for sometime now and have moved up to VS 2005 to create a application for a Windows CE 5.0 hand held device. I thought the transition would be easy, however the language is quite a bit different from vb6. So here's a snippet of code that I would use in vb6 t...more >>

Hello In my code I create a folder on the desktop or any other folder location. Unless I press F5 while the Desktop or the Explorer containing the created folder has the focus this new folder will not show up. Is there a solution to do a refresh programatically? I tried AppActiva...more >>

Where or what is the proper way to get a procedure to start after the form is shown on the screen? I figured out if you put it in Load it will start before the form is shown and the form will not show until the procedure is complete... so whats the best way to get something to start after the ...more >>

I have a number of image folders all with varying numbers of files in them and am trying to work out how to display the folders (poss using a tree view) and then to display a clickable thumbnail of each image in whichever folder is selected. Any help would be much appreciated. TIA -- ats@...more >>

Hi Gurus, How do I get the file version? I am able to get the write time using IO.File.GetLastWriteTime(FileName) But don't know how to get the version number. Please help me. I'll appreciate your help. Thanks, Rob. ...more >>

I have a data access layer that needs to handle multiple Database types. I have seen genecric references being made to a DBConnection, DBCommand etc. What namespace are they in? Ron ...more >>

I want to use the PropertyGrid component in a new application, but I've never used it before. Does anybody have a link for a simple sample :-) that shows how to use it? Is it only possible to bind the grid to properties on a class or can you even bind directly to a datatable? Cheers, Jo...more >>

Hi All, I've got 2 VB.NET applications in which I'd like to use strings declared in a VB.NET DLL. Is there a way to do that? Ideally I'd like to access it the same way as I access local resources i.e. do something like DLL.My.Resources.XXX where XXX is the name of the resource String. Than...more >>

Public Shared adc_value As word_byte Public Class byte_low_hi Public low_byte As Byte Public high_byte As Byte End Class pmsg(2) = CChar(adc_value.word16.high_byte) I get the following error "high_byte is not a member of Integer" How can i fix this ...more >>

Hello , Does someone knows a simple way of how to get the nr of fraction digits ? example : 1.23 would give a result of 2 1.234 would give a result of 3 Yes I know i could split the number on the decimal seperator and then count the characters in the second part of the ...more >>

Hi I want to enumerate all groups of an active directory. How do I do that? Thanks ...more >>

I have made my own custom control. It looks like a single line textbox with icons on the right hand side. It pretty much has the same functionality as Microsoft Outlooks "To" field, where you can Alt-K to complete things etc. Mine has a different purpose but is essentially the same style. Any...more >>

I have the following code to get data into the datagrid. Try sql_vac = "SELECT subject.sub_name AS [Subject Name], vacancy.vac_no_edu AS [No Educator Number], " & _ "vacancy.vac_no_qualified AS [Educator not Suitably Qualified], vacancy.vac_gr1 AS [Gra...more >>

Hello We use VS 2005. I fill a data table with simple data from database (one table) which has one column called 'flag' filtering by numbers as 1,2,3. Now that I have all data in data table I'd like to filter it by value in 'flag' column. I have three datagrid views on my form and would lik...more >>

Can anyone give me some ideas on how to convert the following program to vb 2003? I would like to jsut take this code and implement it in vb. def.h /* Global Type Definitions */ typedef unsigned char byte; // 'byte' is an 8-bit unsigned value typedef unsigned int ...more >>

Hi EveryBody: How can I see or detrmain If a specfiy MAC address OR its assigned IP is online ? Is there any way to do it by System.Net.NetworkInformation any help will be apprecaited regard's Husam...more >>

Hi all I posted this on vb.contols but the group does not seem to be as active as this one. Using VB2005 I have a Web page that I am trying to load images as thumbnails. At present I am using this code which is just loading a small view of the main image also I presume using the same am...more >>

Hi EveryBody: My question Is how can I control or track any Ip of computer and prevent it from entering web site either by domain name or ite IP address For example: If my computer IP is 10.0.0.117 and Domain name for site is www.yahoo.com and its relevent IP address id for example 84.3...more >>

I'm using VB 2005 and ASP.NET, and after a postback I want to update the page and return to a specific Anchor tag on that page. I've not been able to find out how to do this, and as you probably know, the MS VS 2005 documentation is virtually useless compared to, say, VS 6. Can someone tell m...more >>

Hi. I am a perl scripter doing things in a windows environment and a current thing Im working on requires me to change the volume. Perl has a Win32::Sound module which allows one to do this easily but Its messing things up like the balance and there seems to be no other way around it except to c...more >>

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Greetings to all! I have a question about events vs. timers. I want to know what you guys think and/or have experienced. Thank you in advance for reading this! I have an object that communicates back and forth with a web service. Now, this object is currently instantiated in all forms whe...more >>

Hi, I’m wondering if I can do this with ASP.NET? I have an ASP.NET application that runs a component that fires some events. When these events are fired, I will like to trap them at client level (that is the web browser session where the user is running the actual application...more >>

Hi, I have a tab control and several other controls into it. When I change either at design-time or at run-time the font property of the tab control, also the inner controls will be affected. How to change the font of a container without affect controls inside? Thanks Marco / iw2nzm...more >>

I support some legacy applications and use both VB6 and VB7 (.net) development environments on a Windows XP computer. The machine is due for replacement. The question is - can I install vb6 and vb.net on a Vista pc? Is it compatible or does the replacement computer need to have XP on it? Does ...more >>

Hi, i'm kinda new to vb.net 2005 I have a bunch of functions i would like to share with other vb.net apps i've created. i've managed to create a class library project and put all my functions in there and then built the project and now i have a dll file in the /bin/debug dir. How do i a...more >>

hi how can I create a contectmenu in the explorer. Like I have my datafile. I right clikc on it and I have a menu open, edit .... ex: on a folder a have open, explore and find. I now how to change/add 1 item but I want to have a submenu for about 8 diff commands Jan ...more >>

Hi all I have an application i wrote using msaccess and i want to convert it to vb.net any one know how can i do this. thanks in advance Wael ...more >>