Does anyone have code samples of how to drag and drop emails in Outlook onto a windows form??? I see that there are a number of threads that raise this issue but none have been finalised....more >>

OK, ListViews are really giving me a headache. Now it seems that I cannot set a ListView column (or 'cell') to a certain font or color. For instance, in my lv.DoubleClick event, I try to set a column to X and then bold it and color it red, as such: lv.Items(lngRow).SubItems(8).Text = "X" lv.I...more >>

Hi group, I accidently posted this is in the asp.net group, posting here because this is where i meant to go =) i have 2 questions i hope somebody can answer about a wincontrol being hosted in ie. 1. Is it possible to create a pop up that prompts for a user name and password when a but...more >>

Grreetings. I have a SQL Server 2000 database table with a column with the image data type. How do I load this image into a PictureBox control in vb.net? Am I supposed to use the System.Drawing.Bitmap methods, or maybe System.Drawing.Drawing2D? Or is there some native method in the control ...more >>

I want to convert text to speech on the PC's audio output. I have heard that XP has this ability. I have VB6.0. Can anyone tell me how to go about this? Thanks, Bob White ...more >>

How can I subclass a treeview control to add columns to it? Thanks, Alexis...more >>

Hi guies, In my application i have 2 forms. (1) Form1 - MDI Form (2) Form2 - Child Form My Form1 contains 1 Statusbar control. At Appliation Starting time i am displaying default text in statusbar. now the problem is from my child form - Form2 , i want to set / display some message in m...more >>

Hi, I have some buttons on my toolbar and its button style is set to Flat. This causes the text to show partially and the rest is just shown as three dots (...). The button's texts show perfectly on the design window though. If I setup the button style to be Normal, the text will resize and ...more >>

I am reading a serialized data file into a collection. I want to then display the data in the collection into a datagrid control. I know that I have to set name to the correctly to get my datadisplay to display only the columns I want. However, I can't seem to find out what the name is. I know i...more >>

Hi How can I get a WIA control into a VB app? I need to display video on screen from a webcam. What's the easiest way to do this? Anyone know of any good example code? TIA - David Angelovich ...more >>

Hi, i am trying to create a reusable function where i pass in a form name, and a control name, and reference them, but am having a little difficulties..any help appreciated!! Sub PopulateDatabaseTree(ByVal formName As Form, ByVal treeViewName As TreeView) formName.treeViewName.BeginUpdate...more >>

Hello. I've got one question. Could anybody advise me? I would like to make somethink such as MS outlook 2003 daily calendar.So I click on something hour and program add there task.When I click on the same hour, program detect if is there any other task, If yes, program make this task smaller a...more >>

I want to run a MenuItems click event. Obviously I can directly call the event Sub as MenuItem1_Click(...) but I can only do that if I know the menuitem at desin time. I want run it from within a sub where the menuitem is one of the arguments. I.E Sub myRoutine(ByRef aMenuitem as MenuItem) ...more >>

I have a project in which there are 2 Forms. Form2 is an intro to Form1 = and has a button on it that is coded as follows: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As = System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim frm As New Form1 frm.ShowDialog() 'Show main form M...more >>

Hiya I have created a custom control that comprises of 3 regular button controls in .NET. I have placed this custom control on the form. If I click on any one of the 3 buttons in my custom control, the form closes (it is a Dialog form, the buttons are not coded to return a dialog result). H...more >>

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Hi, I know of various ways to display list view items such as SmallIcon, LargeIcon, Details, ListView but none of them seam to be what I am looking for. I also know about the LabelWrap property but that one does not seam to be working for me neither. Right now, my list view has only one co...more >>

hi there, i've got a treeview on my form, which populates the parent nodes, all with different icons, and each have child nodes with their relating parent icon. On occasion when i run, the icons disappear from the treeview, and it happens randomly? Has anyone else seen this, or does someone ...more >>

Help! Does anyone know of a third party company selling a dotnet pivot table control. It must not be an activeX control. We previously used the Data Dynamics DynamiCube but they have not yet released a dotnet version :(...more >>

I think I want a combo box, but I am not really sure. What I would like is this: As I go through the lines of the database there is a piece of data that I would like to get from the user. This is the Group to which the item belongs. I would like a control that has a list of choices for G...more >>

Hi, I am new to VB.NET, and I am having a basic problem. If I place a Web Control Button and an HTML button on a grid layout, and hit "CTRL+F5" (with no error), I should see both buttons in IE, right? And, this is true even though the code behind page is not completed? What I get is only...more >>

Hi all, I do have a treenode control and when I select a node all the other are closed, how could keep them expanded? Thanks Fadoyo ...more >>

I am trying to build a class library of common user controls (example textbox, labels) with properties set (for example font="some font", backcolor=some color etc, and then reference the text box on a form. So all the textbox's on my form will be based on this class Is this possible to do this...more >>

I am using PrintPreview control in my VB.NET application. But when we display print preview, only the last document is shown, and I cannot see five or six documents there. Seems like as soon as the next opens, the earlier document gets overwritten. Please suggest. ...more >>

hi there, can anyone help out on this one? i have a datagrid control that has checkboxes, for my boolean fields, but it draws as the non-xp style checkboxes.. How can i get this control to draw in the XP style? thanks, Paul. ...more >>

Hi. I have some code (below) which cycles through each item in a date/time string showing each one, day-then month then year etc.... in turn in a text box, following the click event of a button(cmdYSelect). Is it possibbe to get each of these items to increase/decrease by 1 with a click of ...more >>

Hi, I am using borderless forms thrughout my project and becouse of that I have to manage on my own moving, closing etc of each borderless form. Since the forms don't have title bar anymore, I have to provide my own title and also application icon which I do. My quistion is how can I make...more >>

Hi, I'm able to set the Font in a Datagrid-Cell to Bold with g.DrawString(Me.GetColumnValueAtRow(source, rowNum).ToString, e.TextFont, e.ForeBrush, bounds.X, bounds.Y) and to Align the text to Right with MyBase.Paint(g, bounds, source, rowNum, e.BackBrush, e.ForeBrush, e.AlignRight) But...more >>

Hi We have been programming in MS-Access for years and have made extesnive us of the multi-column combo box control. We have begun moving our application over to vb.net but we cannot find any control which is similar to the multi-column combobox control. Is this correct ? If so how can...more >>

Can someone point me down the path to serial port connection? I would to read/write to a Comm port with VB.Net. Wasn't there a control in VB6 for this? I don't see an equivelent in VB.Net. TIA, Randy ...more >>

In vb, how do I find out what type of control an object is? In other words, I want to find out if the Object LastName is a textbox or an image object. ...more >>

Hello all. For some unknown reason, my ToolBar has stopped displaying images on it's Buttons. The ImageList contains images, is associated with the Toolbar and each button shows its correct image in the Property explorer and when viewing the Form in design view. When I run the app, eithe...more >>

Hi I had a project in VB6 which I upgraded to VB.NET recently. In the app, I am facing some issue with listview control. In the earlier app, I have set the Icons in listview through an imagelist. but i notice that while i execute the project in .net, the step that sets the icon prop. thro...more >>

Sorry for lack of Subject in previous post. "Al@n" <not@thisdomain.co.uk> wrote in message news:... > I have a text box populated by: > > Sub XYZ() > > Dim MyDateTime As Date = Now > > Dim MyStr As String > > MyStr = Format(MyDateTime, "dd/MM/yyyy") > > txtTime.Text = MyStr & " " & T...more >>

ExecuteReader: Connection property has not been initialized. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Invalid...more >>

HI, I would like to be able to add/substract colors the way so that if a control, let say a button overlaps another button, the overlapping area gets shaded darker than button so that the borders can be distinguished. I'd like to be able to overlap several buttons for example and get overl...more >>

Hi. I'm a newcomer to the discipline of programming, having done a little with VBA, and now trying to learn VB.net and create a stand alone application. I'm hoping that someone can help with the following issue which I'm sure is quite a basic one for more experienced developers. I have a pa...more >>

I have a routine that adds and removes buttons and controls to a form. I don't like the way they flicker on and off the screen. The TreeView control has a method, BeginUpdate, which disables any redrawing of the tree view. Is there a similar method for forms? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I created a toolbar control (vb.net) that I want to implement in my windows app. I was able drag/drop the control and onto my form. I am however unable to create the buttonclick event handler ... Private Sub ctlToolBar_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms...more >>

Hello, Using the following CommonDialog control code: CommonDialog1.CancelError = True On Error Resume Next CommonDialog1.ShowPrinter If Err.Number = 32755 Then Exit Sub ' user cancelled it would be expected that when the user clicks the cancel button on the Print dialog w...more >>