I have upgraded a project from vb6 to vb.net. I was thinking of using XML instead of the INI file. I have tried to make an XML class that do the same work as my INI class,,read/write/delete. But with not much success. - Is this a good approach or should I continue to use INI files? - Hav...more >>

Is there any way passing a password to crystal report 9.0 from Visual Basic 6.0. so that when loading the report in vb6.0., it can connect to the database access file and show the report? Thanks a lot. ...more >>

Hi all, Sorry if this has been asked and answered a zillion times already. I'm converting an app to .NET from VB6, and upon first look, it seems that the new listview is "missing" some pretty useful functionality, namely a ..Key property for each listitem contained in the listview, and the ....more >>

Hey there, Can anyone please help with this problem? The function below works fine in VB6. For VB .NET the constants vbFromUnicode and vbUnicode no longer exist. The problem is the DecryptString method takes an ANSI String byref. In VB .NET you only have Unicode strings. All the string ...more >>

What is the simplest, best recommended, upgrade process & or procedures to go from MS Quick Basic 4.5 (accounting applications, (nothing to fancy)) to a Windows platform, presumably Visual Basic? I could really use your help on this one! If you've got good advice &/or direction I'm listeni...more >>

hi, does anyone know how to make 2 rows of menubar? besides, i want to put image at the menubar's icon. does anyone know? pls help me. thx regards, kong...more >>

I have a problem... I don't know how my application can run (not open) any more application, for example I must programme a button. :-) thanks for your help. my E.Mail is : rumbro@libero.it bye bye ...more >>

Hi, I'm currently using VB6 and contemplating upgrading to Visual Basic .NET. My requirements are quite specific, what I want to do is write an application that is distributed over the web (I don't believe that this can be done via web pages). The application will run through the user...more >>

hi, I have a very large VB6 application that evolved during the last 20 years from Basic (DOS) via QBasic and Visual Basic (windows). I have a book regarding Upgrading VB6 to .NET but I don't have time to read it all. I am looking for the "bottom line" article (100% technical) that will g...more >>

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When I try to run, even the most simple simple app, via Start in the IDE, 50% of the time the build succeeds then nothing happens, and the rest of the time the exe. activates and it runs fine. Does anyone know why? Thankyou!...more >>

We recently converted an application from VB6 to VB.NET using the wizard that comes with VB.NET. The wizard causes all the controls to shift to the top left corner. I manually put them back to where they should be, but when I compile the program, they shift back to the top left corner. Has any...more >>

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I think the problem is that Access 97 has Jet 3.51, and Vb .Net 2003 needs Jet 4.0, but I'm not sure. Does anyone have this same problem, if so, how did you corect it? And is it correctable without having to upgrade to Office 2000? Thanks, Frank R....more >>

I am looking for some good documentation on using DirectX with VB.net. I have been programming in VB 6 for about 3 years now, and for the past year I have been developing a game designer's toolkit for VB 6/DirectX 7+. The toolkit is completed for the VB 6 platform, but before I was going to rel...more >>

If he's not joking, then how could a simple, effective VB6 code like this:: With Image1 If .Width > Screen.Width Then .Stretch = True Proportion! = Screen.Width / .Width .Width = .Width * Proportion! frmImage.Width = .Width .Height = Int(...more >>

We're finally starting to look at moving our application suite from VB6 to ..Net. I have my own opinions on the scale of the process, but I'd be interested to hear what people here think as well. To give you some background, we have one EXE, a container, that initialises services and dynamical...more >>

I created a vb .net dll that is a proxy class for a web service. I am trying to add a reference to this dll in a vb 6.0 project. I get the message "Can't add a reference to the specified file." I can add a reference to this dll in vb .net, but not vb 6. Does anyone know why I can not u...more >>

I would like to create a Visual Basic.NET windows data entry form which would print the data the user just entered in a full page (without displaying a cursor). The page should print on a letter size (8.5 * 11) page that sufficiently allows information to be displayed towards the bottom of the ...more >>

Hi, I am having one application which was developed in VB6, I am using CoolBar in that application. while upgrading this application in to vb.net ,I found ..net net created interop of coolbar. I dont want to use this AxCoolbar. is there any equivalent control in vb.net? Please Let me know its ...more >>

I just upgraded to the VB.Net standalone version and have tried to create a connection string string to an ODBC alias and a SQL Server database but keep getting an meesage saying I can only connect to the MSDE or an Access database. Is that all I'm able to connect to using VB.Net or could...more >>

I am interested in the new stand-alone version of vb.net 2003 Standard Edition that costs a mere $99.99. http://shop.microsoft.com/Referral/ProductInfo.asp?siteID=11491&typeID=1 I want to use it for CE Pocket PC development, which I know virtually nothing about. I have just purchaced a Sa...more >>

Hi I'm calling a VB6 ActiveX.dll from ASP.NET. The problem is that I set some properties, like FilePath="c:\myfile.txt" for example, and later the values are set to "". I think this may be because of the GC. I can set these properties again, so that means that the instance of the object is ...more >>

My company has Visual Studio.NET, and Visual Basic 5. I don't work in the products myself, which is why I am posting this question. 1. For developing VB.NET appilcations, what is better VB or VS. 2. Can you use VS.NET to create VB.NET appilcations. 3. What is the major difference between V...more >>

Hi. I am a newbie. I have a VB 6.0 application that is using a Kodak image edit control for Win 95 and need an equivalent or upgrade because the user would like to upgrade their machine to Win 2000 and some to Win XP. I have looked on Google but can't seem to find anything. Does anyone...more >>

i'm trying to upgrade my vb6 project to vb.net. And about 75% into the upgrade process, i get the following error: "The exception unknown software exception (0xc00000fd) occurred in the application at location 0x201baf6a. click ok to terminate click cancel to debug" I click ok, but the ...more >>

Hi, At my organisation we have various web based systems in place using ASP 3.0 for the front end but with VB6 ActiveX DLLs (installed within component services) for the business logic. I am aware that with VB.NET I can still create a dll and access it within the ASP.NET, but that it is not...more >>

I wrote a small application in VB.NET and my PC OS is Win XP Pro, how do I run my application on a PC running Win 98??...more >>

Hi I am calling .NET components from my Classical ASPs. For this I strong named my assemblies, then registered them in the resistry ( using RegAsm), and put them in GAC (using GacUtil) . Everything worked fine and my ASPs were able to call and use them. The problem comes when my ASP code as...more >>

As a lead developer at one of my clients I have a reccommendation to make for them - choose between VB 6 and VB.Net. The client is a small shop having Access 2000/ Sql Server 2000 databases and a few applications developed using Access Basic, VBA, etc. Personally I have considerable experience d...more >>

Hi Guys I'm upgrading a VB6 Application. Its having a number Control Arrays in each form. Although the Upgradation Wizard has upgrated these arrays referencing Ax...Array assemblies, should I change the logic such that the new VB.NET application doesn't use the control arrays ? This may l...more >>

Hi ALL, On my PC installed together Visual Studio 6 and Visual Studio .Net. I've created COM component in VB.Net and use it in project in VB6. On that PC project runs OK. I've created Installation package in Visual Studio Installer 1.1 The package is distibuted on another computer under Win2...more >>

i have a combo box and a datagrid. i want my datagrid to focus on the whole row of datagrid when my combobox selected the particular item. But, seems that the coding i've writen below can only focus on one cell of the selected item. can anybody pls help me?? thanks a lot. Private Sub c...more >>

HI! i am developing a project in vb.net. my project is on a hospital. so i made a module and its functionality is just to insert data in the Database(SQL SERVER). then i made a function insertdata in a INSERTION class. and in this function i call the insert function.now i want to acce...more >>

I developed an application which is using a file watcher class to moniter change in txt file it's working fine but problem is that it stops working by itself....I want this application to be work continously to monitor files but i dont know why it stops... Any body can help regarding that matter...more >>

How i can get the length of a string(in pixels) in vb.net In vb6 I used picture.textwidth("foo"). I tried to use API call to GetTextExtentPoint32() but failed getting hDc,using GetDC call. Where is a problem?? ...more >>

Does anybody know how to call the function embedded in the ActiveMDIChild form? Dim variable1 as integer variable1 = 1450 Me.ActiveMDIChild.function1(variable1) raises error. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. ...more >>

Hi all, do you know if there is a way to deploy a VBnet apps without instaling framework on all machines? Thanks Bib...more >>

Hi. The company I'm working for is about to migrate to .NET and I'm participating in the projectgroup responsible for this. One of the argumements for going .NET, we were told, is that MS is not supporting VB6 anymore within a couple of years. Does anyone now if this is a true ,and if - a lin...more >>

I need to be able to get the attributes of a file given the file path/name. There was an API that returned a value that represented all of the flags (archive, read- only, etc) that you could use to get each individual attribute. I've been trying to find ANYTHING that will return a given a...more >>

hi, I am upgrading from vb6 to .net. the prog, which opens an avi file by calling the avifil32.dll works ok in vb6 but not in .net. Anyone have any ideas? below are the code cutout from vb6 and .net the lngresult returns -2170023xxxx?? in vb.net. Something I missed out? ------vb6---- C...more >>