Hi, I'm making a report with Crystal Reports and I use a TextObjet witch I assign a string, but I need to show the text in multiline. How I could do it? Thanks! ...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to create a dynamic menustrip, the toolstripitems are in the DataBase SQLSERVER, and I have this code: For Each dtrow In ds.Tables("Vis_Menu").Rows 'MsgBox(dtrow("id_Menu")) str = dtrow("fldOrden") If str.Contains(".") Then '...more >>

I have a control I built, for which I would like to add a tool bar icon, but for some reason, it's not working correctly. There is no default namespace (I removed it from the properies page of the project), and the icon file has been included in the project and it's build option is set to "...more >>

Hi all, I am using VB2005 and have an application with two list boxes on it. My question is how does one check to see if an item in a listbox is selected or not? In VB6 I could write something like If listbox.Item(3).Selected = True then ...... What happened to the Selected property for ...more >>

Hy! I've got the following question in VB.NET. How can I access to a particular topic of a CHM file generated by HTML Help Workshop? Some newsgroups/sites on web suggest to use CHM file for help-on-line and the HTML files for accessing a particular topic; but I want to use only the CHM file al...more >>

Hi all, I have a datagrid control in VB.Net populated from a datatable. However one of the cells will have to contain both superscript and subscript data within it. Does anyone have any idea of how to actually do this? Thanks in advance Dave. ...more >>

Can someone help on this. Why does this work: (cat4 is a true/false database field) IF DataTable.Rows(CurrRecord)("cat4") = True Then CkBox5.Checked = True Else CkBox5.Checked = False End IF ...... And this doesn't IIF (dataTable.Rows(CurrRecord) ("cat4") = True, ...more >>

Hello. Using VS.NET 2003(VB), .NET Framework 1.1.4322, ASP.NET 1.1.4322, WSE2.0 on a WinXP Pro Sp2 computer. How do i loop thru a combobox to extract each SelectedItem in the combobox from selecteditem 1 thru to the end of the combobox ? I want to ignore selecteditem 0 (Zero). I know i...more >>

Hi, How can I change the position of a menu button dynamically? Thanks in advance. ...more >>

Hi, when i create a report using the reportviewer component for local display in vb2005, the print preview always defaults to "letter" paper how do i set these sizes to A4 and set my margins i have set the report locale to united kingdom, i have set the report page sizes and margins in th...more >>

Using VB.Net 2005 I can display a contextmenu when I right-click on a node and even get the nodelevel of the node right clcked on. But, what I can't seem to do is make the contextmenu do anything once click. I just can't seem to find any reference to the correct event to use. Any hints, h...more >>

I've never created a class using collection, but would like to. I have a class called Contact. I'd like to create a ContactCol class that is a collection of Contact instances. In VB.Net, how do I do this? ...more >>

Dear All I would like to use a user control built in vb.net 2005 in vb6 sp 6. Is this possible ? if yes can you please show how it is done? Duncan Dimech ...more >>

Hi, I want to write a dynamic program to find ContextMenuStrip in the form, but I cannot find this control see the code below. How can I solve it? ------------------------------------------------ For i = 0 To Me.Controls.Count - 1 MessageBox.Show(CStr(Me.Controls(i).Name)) Next -----...more >>

Does anyone know of a good way to lock a ComboBox, or make it readOnly with out setting Enable=False? Thanks MATT...more >>

MS User this is the latest version of security update, the "June 2006, Cumulative Patch" update which fixes all known security vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express as well as three new vulnerabilities. Install now to protect your computer from th...more >>

I apreciate that this is probably a question that has been asked hundreds of times but i can't find a definitive answer. I would like to add a web browser control to a windows form. Now i know i can add one as a COM object but i also know i can add an 'interop' version. How do i go about cr...more >>

How do I update my datagridview with a record that, once added, is sorted into the datagridview, and then programmatically go to and give focus to the new item in the dgv? Basically, I just need to be able to Select a row, inside my code, that moves to the specific row I need and give that ...more >>

I am new to this so bear with me. I have a set of combo boxes. Lets call them ComboBox1 and ComboBox2. ComboBox1 items are pulled from a table. When a user selects a certain item I want to disable ComboBox2. i can make this work in Visual Web Developer, but have been unsuccessful in Visual B...more >>

Hi How to create "Wizard" for user control? For example i have usercontrol with properties. To make easier for seting those properties i wan't to create a wizrd, that helps user complete and set/change those properties at design time. Best regards; Meelis ...more >>

Hi I have a ListView. I am programatically selecting Items in the ListView and then setting the focus to a TextBox. I need to continue to show which Items have been Selected even after the focus moves to the TextBox. Can someone point me in the right direction to achieve this? Thanks ...more >>

Hi All,=20 =20 I want to create ComboBox and ListBox control with MAC style as this one = on .NET: =20 http://www.econtechvn.com/en/macuisuite_detail.htm=20 =20 However, it's really difficult with the scrollbar. =20 I don't know how to replace the scrollbar of the system with MAC style = scr...more >>

Hi, How do i expose all my forms and it controls to other form in the project? I want to be able to add a form and some control on it, this then be available to all other forms. form1 click event: 'this allow me to change the textbox on form2 from form1 Form2.text="" 'this al...more >>

Hello everyone: I am a VB 6.0 programmer, and I am slowly trying to convert to VB.NET. In VB 6, I was using quite a bit the MSHflexgrid control. This grid control was not attached to any database or anything. I simply used it to display information to the user, and get information from the ...more >>

I am seeing a strange behavior when a ComboBox on a Windows Form is bound to a class that inherits from ArrayList. This class (ColumnEntryList) has only one property; when this property is defined to take a single parameter, the CB shows nameSpace.listItemType for each item in the list. When t...more >>

I am using a BackgroundWorker and the thread it is creating is still freezing the UI if the thread is waiting on something. The sub it is running uses a COM component to collect information from an application on a remote server, and it sometimes takes several seconds for the data to be retur...more >>

I'm building a window form with VB.net. The purpose of this app is to show some legal terms in a text box and users will accept or deny the terms. Similar to the one when installing software. There is a feature I want to implement but still out of luck after a day of researching and testing. ...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know of a way to have AllowDrop on a NotifyIcon so that I can drop 'things' onto the notifyicon for my application and have then actioned upon? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, When the button is clicked, the server event in the code-behind must be executed if the user clicked on "OK" of the Confirm and not executed if clicked on "Cancel". I tried two ways: the first here below NEVER executes the server event and the second way ALWAYS execute the server event!! ...more >>

Hi, I defined a Html button but added the option 'runat="server" ' like this: <form id="form1" runat="server"> <input id="Button1" type="button" value="button" runat="server" onclick="hfd()" /> </form> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> function hfd() {alert("ok")} </s...more >>

Hi, When I use the IDE of vs2003 and drag (eg.) a label on a windowsform, then I set the (eg.) the property of the backcolor to blue. Then I run the app and see that the backcolor of the label is blue indeed. But when I modify in the IDE this property to (eg.) red and I run the app again...more >>

On the normal textbox control we have the [Readonly] property. when set to TRUE it automaticaly color the back colour and set the control to readonly. In the DateTimePicker the [Readonly] and the control.backcolour property does not exists. Is there a way to reproduce the same behaviour than th...more >>

Hi, when using a tabcontrol and (eg.) modify the backcolor with this statement: TabControl1.BackColor = Color.Blue the tabbody is blue indeed, but the tab-header and the background of the headers are still grey ? How can I modify this background and this tabheader into blue? So ...more >>

I ported a VB6 program to vb.net (VS2005) I have a TextBox control. I assign: textBoxCtrl.Text = "%DS_%PSNA%MU%PG" I get an exception System.BadImageFormatException "Field token out of range." Nevertheless the string are assigned. I put the assignment in a try ... catch end block ...more >>

Hi, I have a form with a Tab Control. Two of the Tabs have DataGrids in them and I have some code to populate the DataGrids (reading in some XML into a DataSet, creating a DataView and GridStyle). I have a problem in that neither DataGrid will populate unless the other Tab has been clicked. ...more >>

Hi all, Just a quick question. I was wondering if there are any free for commercial use temperature controls? All I want is a control that looks like a thermometer that I can pass a max and min to it and then set the temperature on the control so the image updates with the temperature. The...more >>