Hi everyboy I'm new to VB. NET, and I need to know what instruction can use instead "pictre box" control, I need to regenerate the picture in a window after that another window was superimposed or activate another application, or if the window was hidden, this feature in VB 6.0 was performed w...more >>

At work we are using a virtual desktop manager called AltDesk (http://www.astonshell.com/), and it is causing a weird and extremely annoying problem with the VB.NET application I am developing. If I start my app, open a test form using ShowDialog() (this is a menu choice on the main app), and ...more >>

Hi I have a timer on my form. The problem is no matter how large an interval I set, the timer_tick event always gets called very fast. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Regards ...more >>

Hi How can I highlight (select) via code an item in a list box that has the value "Current"? Thanks Regards ...more >>

Hi I am new to vs2005 and have two questions re: chekbox list. 1. How can I check in code what item was clicked? 2. How can I access an item's value in code? Thanks Regards ...more >>

Is there a function in my VB ocx that gets called when someone tries to register it? Lou ...more >>

Hi, I tried to solve this for a while, but there is always somewhere a problem. Here my story: The table contains two fields (field1, field2). I use a gridview for editing the table: field1 can be updated manually, but field2 must be updated with the selectedvalue of a dropdownlist. So I c...more >>

Hi, How to add a controlparameter in the code-behind that is the equivalent in the aspx file of: <UpdateParameters> <asp:ControlParameter ControlID="myID" Name="myname" PropertyName="SelectedValue" Type="String" /> </UpdateParameters> Thanks Cas ...more >>

Hi, I have a gridview with ShowSelectButton="True" and ShowEditButton="False". When clicking on the 'Select' button (SelectedIndexChanged event), i want to make it invisible and make the ShowEditButton visible. I tried this but it doesn't work (Select is still visible and Edit is still invisi...more >>

Hi I have a check list box.When user selects a specific value '(All)' I want to uncheck all other check boxes in the list. How can I achieve this in code? Thanks Regards ...more >>

Hi, I need to use the value of a variable generated in the 'SelectedIndexChanged' event of a gridview in the 'RowUpdating' event. I tried this below, but the variable generated in the 'SelectedIndexChanged' event loses its value when starting the RowUpdating' event. I think it has something...more >>

VS2005 and SQL2000 Have a column with Data Type "Float". Example, the value in the row could be 80025.36958 or 123.5 etc. Using a Gridview, I want to force this column to return as currency. 1) I've tried {0:c} This does absolutely nothing. Returns all the number as is. 2) I forced ...more >>

I have a few hundred forms in my application. All are based on a custom base form class. I decided that I wanted to globally change the look and feel of many of the controls in my application - including the tab control. I did this by writing a component that I attached to the form. The ...more >>

Hello, I need help with something that should be pretty trivial, but I can't seem to find an easy way to do it. I have a printing routine set up in a windows vb.net 2005 app. The routine has all the printing settings defined, so no PrintDialog is needed. However, when printing starts, th...more >>

Hi there, i have a richtext box in VB 2005 where i want to install a custom text selection scheme. Therefor i dont want the mouse to select/capture the text in this box when u move the mouse with the button pressed. I just want to have my own MouseDown, MouseMove and MouseUp events without ...more >>

Hi i have 2 forms form 1 and form2 in form 1 i have a button1 hide, the i pass to the form2, in this ia have another button2, if is pressed i want to close form2 and show the form1 with the button1 visible, how can i do???...more >>

How to create a horizontal rule in windows form, like in IE using 'hr' tag. I saw many forms with those rules but i can't guess how to do that...more >>

I want to create a combobox with its displaymember populated from a datatable. But once I get it run, the default display member in the combobox is always the first row of the displaymember list. even if I abitrarily set the combobox text to empty string, the value retrieved from the combobox t...more >>

Can someone please provide the code for adding an icon to the toolbox for a user-generated control? Thanks for your help John -- jffrenchjr@earthlink.net ...more >>

I am seeking to write code that will allow me to position OTHER forms besides my own. Is there any way of somehow writing: THATAPPLICATION.Location = New point(x, y) Currently I use a 3rd party program called Windows Manager. http://www.download.com/Windows-Manager/3000-2094_4-10493884.h...more >>

Hi, I am using Response object in vb.net to download an excel sheet with data. It worked well and I could download excel file with data. But suddenly It started downloading only blank excel sheet. even though the data exists. Do I need to do any refreshing? or do I need to re-start IIS? ...more >>

Hi. I have this problem. I create a user control with a constructor with several parameters. I also add the default constructor so I can add this control in desing time to a form. Why this isn't working? (default constructor was called in InitializeComponent()) private void Form1_Load(objec...more >>

Hi I am initialize combobox with data source,with 3 options (1,2,3 for example). i am doing it using this code: Combofromver.DataSource = ds2.Tables(0) Combofromver.DisplayMember = "customer_ver" then am using a select statment that bring me back 1 row from other table. the using the same cod...more >>