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all groups > vb.net upgrade > january 2005

Cross-form communication, responding to another form's closure
Posted by Joe Zapert at 1/28/2005 4:07:46 AM
Hi, I'm new to VB.net and am having some frustration with the limits it places on me. I'm trying to write an app that does the following: * Shows frmMain and collects strUsrText from user * Conditionally hides frmMain and shows frmOptional, passing strUsrTest to that form * Conditionally...more >>


An expression including function causes termination
Posted by galkas NO[at]SPAM mail.ru at 1/26/2005 3:58:40 AM
Hello I am very new to .NET (Professional 2003). I upgraded just now a VB 6.0 application to .NET. The upgrade was fine. I have made required corrections. The application starts OK. It executes through quite a complicate part including getting data from an Access database. The application stop...more >>

Please help me understand
Posted by josh via DotNetMonster.com at 1/25/2005 10:34:15 PM
when using a call statement to a movememory function: Call MoveMemory(x, y, 4) what is it doing? is it moving 4 bytes of the address of y to x? i'm not quite sure what it is doing. it works much different than VB 6.0. any help would be appreciated -- Message posted via http://www.dotnetm...more >>

ADODB Reference Required
Posted by Vic Spainhower at 1/20/2005 9:23:18 AM
Hello, OK - I'm trying to make the big jump from vb6 to vb.net. I took one of my vb6 programs and ran it through the converter and I'm getting some ADO errors that indicate a reference is required. I have a reference set to the 2.8 library. Here's some examples of the errors: Refere...more >>

VB6 Data Reports (DSR) to VB.NET RPT Files
Posted by Dan Warner at 1/19/2005 12:35:51 PM
I have to convert several hundred reports originally created in VB6 using the VB6 ActiveX Data Report designer. (not Crystal Reports) to VB.NET. The VB.NET upgrade wizard does not convert the DSRs. The help I've found on the MS site is minimal, and the help on the Business Objects site is incor...more >>

VB.Net / VBScript Integration
Posted by Jonathan Allen at 1/18/2005 1:44:39 PM
With VB6, I stored a lot of user-defined business rules in a database as VBScript. The VB application would load and run the script as needed. They were fairly simple, mainly field validation. Is there a way to do this in VB.Net? (I am willing to use VB.Net instead of VBScript, so long as I...more >>

Whom soever it concern
Posted by Tarun Bansal via DotNetMonster.com at 1/13/2005 7:18:17 AM
if anybody is interested do tell me, how it is possible to connect the sql or oracle database with the Asp.net Application. Incase, the source of security is changed to Form based rather than Window based. And also, the IIS security of the project is increased by reducing the rights of Annoymous u...more >>

Migrate from .VB to .VS for database?
Posted by John Howard at 1/12/2005 9:05:19 AM
I have written a VB.Net application using MSAccess, but find MSAccess very limiting and am considering changing to SQL Server. I understand that SQL Server is included in VisualStudio. If I make this change, can I purchase one copy of VisualStudio and one copy of Visual Basic for my other two ...more >>



visual basic version 4
Posted by Stephen TONG at 1/11/2005 2:07:01 AM
Could visual basic version 4 run on windows xp? If not, would upgrade be required? For upgrade, is it just recompiling the code?...more >>

Howto use VB6.0 UserControls in VB.NET App?
Posted by Thor Egil Leirtrø at 1/10/2005 2:52:54 PM
I am just about to start upgrading a VB6.0 App to VB.NET It contains a lot of UserControls which I - as a first step - want ot leave as VB6.0 There is however, one slight problem: some of them are created using the old interface inheritance model (I have one module defining just the interface, a...more >>

Replacement for Err.Raise(0)
Posted by Robert at 1/8/2005 2:28:52 PM
I need to remove the import of Microsoft.Visualbasic. Some older .Net code is littered with these. What is the best practice in this case? Thanks in advance. ...more >>

coversion help
Posted by josh eldredge via DotNetMonster.com at 1/7/2005 3:51:03 PM
i have the vb6 code as follows Private Declare Sub MoveMemory _ Lib "KERNEL32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" _ (hpvDest As Any, _ hpvSource As Any, _ ByVal cbCopy As Long) i need to convert this to .NET. I have changed the "As Any" to "As Object". It now is not doing what I need it t...more >>

movememory function
Posted by josh eldredge via DotNetMonster.com at 1/6/2005 4:18:28 PM
I used the upgrade wizard to upgrade from vb6 to vb.NET and I had to change the As Any to As Object. Private Declare Sub MoveMemory Lib "KERNEL32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" _ (ByRef hpvDest As Object, ByRef hpvSource As Object, _ ByVal cbCopy As Integer) Now it is not working co...more >>

VB.Net vs VS.Net
Posted by phil NO[at]SPAM triton-technology.co.uk at 1/6/2005 9:07:49 AM
Is there a good article anywhere discussing the differences between the version of VB.Net that you get with VB.Net 2003 Standard and the version you get with Visual Studio.Net professional? I have looked at the microsoft site, but it is not very clear. It seems that there are some differences be...more >>

q
Posted by Mahmoud Metwally at 1/2/2005 4:18:29 PM
Dear Sir, How to write acode in VB to display a message when I receive a file copied from a share in the network and to point to the location of it/ So thanx ...more >>

Dot Net Application setup
Posted by IMRAN SAROIA at 1/1/2005 11:08:05 PM
I want to distribute all the Dot Net Framework and related data components with my Dot Net Application. I tried to include the Dot Net Framework with setup wizard but it does not seem to work. I donot want thes users to wait to download the Dot Net Framework. Please adivse necessary steps!...more >>


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