Hi, I was wondering whether there is a better way to program code than this: assume i need to create a lot of TabelCell with the same characterists (HorizontalAlign, BackColor etc ...). I can't use a loop (for/next) because the 'Text' is always different. What i did was: Dim c as Table...more >>

I am working on a project that uses associated icons....sort of like the windows explorer would do. I can draw the icons no problem, but I need to create a selected icon. I am trying to convert the icon to bitmap, but the alpha gets all screwed up. I have tried a few fixes that I found, but...more >>

Is it easy to create a time edit control ? One that is structured hh:mm AM where each segment is editable using a NumericUpDown control ? ...more >>

I've discovered an odd behavior of the DateTimePicker which I frankly think is a bug in the control. I'm working in VB .NET 2003, but I've verified this happens in VB 2005 as well. If you enter a single digit for a day or month, and don't change anything else in the date, the ValueChanged even...more >>

I am making a custom treeview, but I want some some nodes to be disabled. So I want it to show the checkbox disabled and I want it to not be selectable. How can I do this? Thanks ...more >>

Anyone have code on how to get an Outlook Express new message dialog window to pop up? And how to set the fields, attachment, and send. Thanks ...more >>

I'm calling a dialog form from a parent form using showdialog. When I return to the parent form, how can I validate which button was clicked on the showdialog form. Thanks ...more >>

How can I display a value in a textbox as a percentage while still using the value as a decimal. For instance, the user enters 33. When I leave the textbox, I was using Format.Percent(txtbox, 2) to format the value as a percentage. But it changes to 3300.00% instead of 33.00%. I tried set...more >>

This stuff drives me nuts. Checkbox's on a form inside a tabControl that I seem to have no control over. Checkstate=Checked and Checked=True, but the controls appear checked and dimmed. Same checkbox on a form with no tabControl works fine. Assigned a textbox.text on tabControl.tabpage2 ...more >>

When I send non-printable text Chr(248) to the control and it shows question marks (?) and doesn't recognize the chr(248) I have tried setting the controls "Encoding" to ASCII, UTF7,UTF8 but the Buffer does not accept the characters above 128? Private Shared Sub SerialPort_DataReceived(ByVa...more >>

I've populated a DataGridView manually using a query. I'd like to know how to programatically move to various rows in this DataGridView from other procedures, by supplying a key value. I guess I don't know how to reference and manipulate the DataGridView's source outside the procedure. Th...more >>

I am a complete newbie to VB.net 2005 - and am fairly new to VB in general. I want to manually bind a datagridview control using code. In my code I create and set the DataSet and DataAdapter objects , set the BindingSource object and then attempt to set the datagridview's datasource property It...more >>

Hi, Can someone help me for next problem How to for using ENTER key to move to the right cell instead of the TAB key Many thanks in advance Marc. ...more >>

Hi! I would like to use Compression namespace for Array, i.e. use .NET native Compression for compress a String, or an Array of Integer whose elements are returned values of AscW for each char of the String. I tried with the code available @ http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.co...more >>

I am really baffled by this BindingNavigator thing, and hey I'm a newbie and trying to figure this stuff out. I drag a field from my dataset onto the form, and this bindingnavigator is created for me, ya know, with all the buttons to navigate, add, delete and such. So how come, if I delete...more >>

This becoming crazy. I have a panelgroup inside with an option. If I change the font to the panelgroup it also changes it to the secondary controls. And I don't want him to make it. I have proven with autosize=false, with the autoscalemode and all the options, but anything. I ha...more >>

Hi, I am adding DropDownLists, textboxes controls dynamically to my page and I need to and an event handler to a dropDownList which then populates another DropDownList. How can I add this Event Handler dynamically and can someone show me some example code? Thanks in advance. ...more >>

I need to set the background color of a tab control. Not the tab page backgrounds (that is pretty straightforward), but the background color of the physical tabs and even more importantly the border at the left, bottom, and right of the tabcontrol (which seems to take on the color of the tab's...more >>

I'm having a strange problem that I never had back in VB6 and can't figure out how to deal with it. I have a simple forms app with several navigation buttons on a form that show and hide an adjacent set of panels. These panels present several pages of the app's user interface. I created ...more >>

Has anyone else given up on the splitcontainer and moved back to the splitter control? I have found the splitcontainer control to be unpredictable and buggy. ...more >>

Hello All I have added the DataGridView and ContextmenuStrip to windows applicattion where I need to popup my context menu only in rowheader position. When I RMB the the mouse I get the context menu but the position is wrong. It appears in the top most left postion of the Grid control and not ...more >>

Hello all!! I am completely new to vb .net. I have a picturebox with an = image assigned to it via a project resource file. If in code I want to check what the image is and do something based on = that, I thought I could just do something like ... (where "logo_350x300" = is the actual name) ...more >>

Hello Everyone, I have a control library full of controls that I am attempting to host in IE using: <object ..... classid="[location of assembly]#[classname]"> ..... </object> This works wonderfully on my local machine (WinXP - IE7), after I set up the ..NET configuration to allow...more >>