I have a project which is located on an AS400 server and when I open it in the IDE it states that it is not in a "not fully trusted by .NET runtime" and that security exceptions might be raised. Well sure enough when I attempt to run it an "Unhandled exception of type 'System.Security.Secu...more >>

Hi There - my computer locks when I am in VB.NET, standard edition. This seems to occur when I am scrolling left to right. I've also experienced this same scenario in Microsoft Publisher. I believe the problem to have something to do with my controls. (I'm not using anything advanced, j...more >>

I'm trying to upgrade a vb6 project to .net and I get the following error when the wizard tries to upgrade the files "Exception occurred: Invalid system configuration (unable to locate Microsoft.VisualBasic.UpgradeExtensions.dll). Please run setup again." I have reinstalled Visual Studio ....more >>

Does anyone know how can I find out when they plan to ship? I ordered on 10/15 and they still have it back-ordered with no indicated expected ship date. Many thanks for your help. ...more >>

Is anyone aware of a reasonable syntax or procedural substitute for the 'ByRef ParamArray' of VB6. It may seem a trivial change to 'ByVal ParamArray' in VB.NET, but if you have a very large number of parameters, that you wish to change....you are up a creek. My specific problem is emulating a...more >>

We purchased the CD set to update VS.Net to the latest version. Can I practically and legally apply that update to VB.Net Standard? ...more >>

VB.Net Standard Help, About states that the .Net Framework 1.0 is in use. I have downloaded and installed 1.1 SDK. How do I persuade VB.Net to utilize 1.1? ...more >>

I have VB.Net Standard (MS Development Environment 7.0.9466 in Help). When I click on Help, Check for Updates I get an error message the Visual Studio .Net setup encountered errors while attemping to download required files. Check your Web and brosers configuration.... Check for Updates does...more >>

I have an example for Listview from pages 518-531 of the Visual Basic 6 Black Book by Steven Holzner. The book was published by Coriolis. As far as I know, they are no longer in business. Any pointers to who may have taken over their titles? The sample code file in the listview directory was ...more >>

I just baught the VISUAL BASIC.NET Deluxe Learning Edition from a well known bookstore - strink wrapped and all and when I opened the box I found a set of MSDN cds and no Step by Step CD or the Visual Basic.Net CD. What's up with that! Is someone out there running around with my purchase! ...more >>

Hello, I am trying to upgrade a VP6 project to .NET. When I upgrade to .NET, the forms as not upgraded. ..NET says that it is a VB5 form. When I open the FRM file with notepad I see VB5 in the header. But I never had VB5 on my computer. I start a new VB6 project from scrach and it is stil...more >>

hi, i created a dataset in runtime. then inserted records into it in runtime too. then i saved dataset as xml files. then i use to display report using data from these xml files. reports are displayed on my comp correctly. but when i install application on another machin. while displaying r...more >>

I have a VB6 application that has run thru the conversion process to VB .net. All compile time and run time errors have been cleaned up and the application does run. One puzzle remains to be solved. The application uses an MDI form as well as 3 child forms which may or may not be all on s...more >>

hi there, i'm developing an aplication that uses 4 forms. Each form has about 2000 labels, when I try to open my third form, an error ocurrs, but no error mesage appears. I've realised that if I try to crate a form collection like: sub Test() Dim f as new Form1 f.show end sub and if...more >>

hi, In my solution, I want to display a black rect when mouse moves. the location of the rect is changed according the mouse position. following code process the mouse move event ------------------------------------------------------- Dim ptOrigin As New Point(e.X, e.Y) ...more >>

I'm trying to figure out a problem with event handling in VB .NET Standard (2002). As part of that, I figured I'd updated to the latest service pack. I downloaded the Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 5 software (I'm running VB .NET, not the full-blown Visual Studio .NET, if that makes any diff...more >>

I unstall IE 6.0 and Install IE 5.5.Now i try to open a .Net VS Editor.Its giving the error.Please help me out to work with IE5.5 with .Net VS editor Thanks ...more >>

hi, I want to keep the button control selected status after I clicked it. How? Thanks in advance! mynfred ...more >>

If a VB 6 module contains, say: strQuote = "H""K" strLogFile = "Write.txt" intFile = FreeFile Open strLogFile For Output As #intFile Write #intFile, strQuote The code excutes as expected. The Help for the VB 6 Write states "Note You should not write strings th...more >>

I upgraded a vb 6.0 demo that displays Business objects to a .NET project. However, the vb 6.0 project uses this: oleBODocument.CreateEmbed (frmMain.DefInstance.oleBODocument.sourcedoc) to actually display the report. This was not upgraded in the .NET project. How can i display the ...more >>

hi, I place a button on a form, and the function of click it is: ---------------------------- If (m_frmFrmObjProp.IsDisposed) Then m_frmFrmObjProp = New FrmProperties m_frmFrmObjProp.Owner = Me m_frmFrmObjProp.OwnerInstance(Me) Else ...more >>

hi folks, i have this Visual Basic 6.0 project that i am trying to convert to VB.NET. so i opened the VB 6.0 VBP file in Studio .NET and it took me straight to the Upgrade wizard. So i clicked Next on everything and it started doing it, but then it gave me an error and it just stopped. ...more >>

hi folks, here is the deal. i inherited this huge VB 6.0 application from a previous developer and my job is to make it work. i've been told it's almost finished, but i myself have not compiled it so i don't know. it's pretty big, my initial estimation would be about 20,000-25,000 lines ...more >>

Hello, How do I write this definition in the .NET environment: <%@ Page aspcompat=true %> Thanx, Sarit. ...more >>

hi, In VB.net, I want to call GetWindowLong, declare like this: ------------------------------------------------------- Private Declare Function GetWindowLong Lib "User" (ByVal hWnd As Integer, ByVal nIndex As Integer) As Long ----------------------------------------------------------- ...more >>

I used the following declaration to access a dll "drawlib" Declare Function DrawCircle Lib "drawlib" () as single The dll "drawlib" need to be copied into Windows system folder. I prefer the dll "drawlib" to be stroed on the working folder. How can I change the declaration in order to ac...more >>

Hi, Everybody, In my solution, I want to place a form in another form's fixed position and fixed size. On main form named formMain, a button exits, when click it, can use Show() Method to pop a form name form1 , but how to make form1 always above formMain, and it can minimized wh...more >>

hi, I construct a Form1 and another form2 , In Form2,I dim a object of form1,which name is m_frmForm2, 1)I show it by call m_frmForm2.Show() 2)m_frmForm2's form pop up. Then, I can hide this form by 1)m_frmForm2.Hide() 'this form2 still exists, but hiden 2)m_frmForm2.Close() 'this form...more >>

Hi, Everybody, I'm a beginner for vb.net. What I want to look for help is 1)how to create a control dynamicly, maybe a button ,a textbox or other control? 2)User can select it and can change it's size like VS.net Form designer in runtime. Look forward to you help. Thanks in advance...more >>

Hi All, Is there any way to create DLLs in VB.NET?. Regards, Bhaskar....more >>

According to a reference I'm working with, there is supposed to be a folder called "Graphics" inside of the folder "Common7", containing images to be used with various controls. My "Common7" folder contains no such folder - I believe I did a full install of the software. I tried loading th...more >>

Is there a good reason why the Drivelistbox, Dirlistbox and Filelistbox are not part of VBNet. Unless Im missing something they only seem to be part of the compatiblility VB namespace which suggests they wont be supported long term. Surely their usefulness justifies a place in the new product. ...more >>

I would like details about upload method of webclient object. My code is: Dim Client As WebClient = New WebClient Client.UploadFile("http://www.mysite.com/mytmpdir", "C:\tmp\myfile.txt") after this instruction occurred an error Code error 405: methods not allowed. Thanks in advance for y...more >>

Aplication want msvb32.dll. I don't have it in my WINDOWS 2000 PROF. What I need make for download. BRGDS...more >>

I have implemented a COM object in .NET, and I simply want to load an icon resource and pass back an IPictureDisp to clients. What is the esiest way to do this? I had used LoadResPicture in VB, but I havent been able to create/load an icon resource in VB .NET. I'm sure that this should ...more >>

Hello, I want to know if it's possible to set the backcolor or a TabControl (not the tabpage). Thank you. Anson ...more >>

I converted an App. from V 6.0 to .Net. I am runing into an issue with a simple IsDate function. Basically it comes up with an error that it can not convert a string to a date. This is the whole purpose of the function (to determine if a value is a date) if not then return False. This is ...more >>

Why wont my app run when I change the name of the Form. I change name property in the properties window from Form1 to frmMain and I get an error when I try to run. It says the exe is missing in the bin folder and I must build the project and retry. I try to build and it says "Sub Main was not fo...more >>

I am running Visual Studio.NET on Windows XP Pro. After a clean "Complete" install I try to open a VB 6.0 project and an error message pops up saying that "Visual Basic 6.0 Migration Tool is not installed on this computer". This PC was a clean build and never had Visual Studio 6 or Inter...more >>

Right now I am failing to get the Distinct NNTP and mime development kits to work on dot.net (they work on VB6) My VB.net client programs are ready to roll if I can just find an ActiveX library to CONNECT to a Newsreader site with a userid/password, download articles, and convert the base...more >>

Is OK to have VB6 and VB.net loaded on the same machine? I have to work on existing programs that are written in both versions. Thanks!...more >>

I am curious what people/companies who have gone through the change from VB6 to VB.Net think about it now that they have gone through. I am not as interested in porting applications, as I am porting the programmers ;-) We are currently a VB6 house, and are looking at moving towards .net, but ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to install visual studio net and i get following error message "Visual Basic .NET Standard - English: [2] ERROR: Error 1305.Error reading from file: d:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Msdn\1033\kbsql.hxs. Verify that the file exists and that you can access it. ...more >>

How do I upgrade VB6 jobs the used BitBlt to run on VB.net? What do I use for the device contexts arguments?...more >>

Hi, I have a vb6 app with about 150 reports, using subreports, charts, and most features of crystal 8.5. If I move my app to VS.NET (Not simple, I know), what will the upgrade process be regarding crystal. Thanks for any help. e ...more >>

Microsoft Partner this is the latest version of security update, the "October 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which resolves all known security vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express as well as three newly discovered vulnerabilities. Install now to m...more >>

Hello, VB6 Control (MyControl): 'Contains a Label called Label1 '******************************************************************** Public Property Let Caption(ByVal New_Caption As String) Label1.Caption() = New_Caption PropertyChanged "Caption" End Property '********************...more >>

I've been working on a Directx8 based game in vb for quite a while now, as a learning excercise and when I upgraded to .NET some of the DX funcitons changed. This is just one of them. The second paramater is asking for the first element of the vertex array, as Any. D3DDevice.DrawPrimitiveU...more >>

I give below the working VB 6 code, followed by the converted VB .NET code. I've added the error message to the beginning of the VB .NET code. What do I need to do to get this VB 6 code converted to VB .NET? ---------------------------------------------------- Option Explicit Private Sub...more >>

I'm new to vb.net and could not brag about my vb6 accomplishents either. I've updated a project and spent days fixing syntax and so forth. It builds without fail. When started in any mode I get: 'DefaultDomain': Loaded 'c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322 \mscorlib.dll', No symb...more >>