Visual Basic .NET - Week 36, 2006

Close minimized form

reidarT - 9 Sep 2006 5:48 PM - 2 messages

Is it possible to close a form when the form is opened minimized by just clicking the icon in the taskbar? reidarT ...

Bit and boolean

reidarT - 9 Sep 2006 5:37 PM - 4 messages

I have an sql db with one field set as bit . I have a window form with a datagrid. The field is shown as a checkbox. My problem is that the value doesn't show in the field They are all blank even if there are both true and false in the table. ...

Refresh DataGrid

Gabriel - 9 Sep 2006 4:34 PM - 5 messages

Hello, I'd like to refresh a DataGrid in VB.NET (2003). I assigned to the datasource property an arraylist, when I add the first one, I can see it. But after, when I add more records in the arraylist, I see only the first ...

HEX char -- > its comlement

pamelafluente - 9 Sep 2006 1:06 PM - 4 messages

Hi what is the smartest function that maps the char on the left to the char on the right (I want to complement an hexadecimal string, like making a negative color). 0 -> f ...

Event Monitoring.

jay_kbvt - 9 Sep 2006 11:56 AM - 3 messages

Hi, Is there any way out that I can log copy/cut-paste events....? Thanks & Regards, Jaydeep. ...

getting logged on users using WMI

iwdu15 - 9 Sep 2006 12:48 AM - 4 messages

hi, im writing a program that will get all currently logged on users to my LAN. so far i can only egt all users, logged on or not, using the WMI Searcher object...ive looked on the MSDN website for help on WMI, but its a ...

Need vb.net 2003/2005 control for ftp client

adalton - 8 Sep 2006 11:01 PM - 3 messages

HI! (I originally posted this in the wrong group...) I have been looking for an easy to use control (or code) that works in VB2003 and VB2005 and will allow me to program an automated ftp process into my application. ...

WebBrowser Control

Lance - 8 Sep 2006 10:38 PM - 3 messages

Hi All, Given a collection of links, how can I send them to a WebBrowser Control so that I can manipulate it's document? Ok, that's way too simplified of a question. I know how to send a link to a WebBrowser: ...

can't create dll properly

graphicsxp - 8 Sep 2006 10:32 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I'm desperately trying to create a dll, register it and then use it as an ActiveX object. My vb.net windows class library : Namespace myMSN Public Class Msg Public Sub New() ...

Get all forms contained in another project

Roman - 8 Sep 2006 7:58 PM - 5 messages

By mistake I tried to ask this question in dotnet.framework.adonet but this one seems more appropriate. Is there a way to get a list of all forms contained in another solution/project? Thanks in advance, Roman ...

Try to delete a worksheet in Excel

Rene - 8 Sep 2006 6:45 PM - 5 messages

Hi Proggies, i try to delete an excel worksheet but nothing happens (work on vb.net 2005) ..... xlSheet = xlApp.Sheets("Master") xlSheet.select xlSheet.delete also try objWkb.Worksheets(sWksName).Delete Where is the mistake ? thx and nice weekend Rene ...

Check for Updates

H8ComputersSomeDays - 8 Sep 2006 6:30 PM - 4 messages

I want to have my program automatically check for a new version when it is run. My app is in VB.NET (VS 2003). Updates are posted on my website and I would like the app to go to the site and check for updates automatically. I ...

Uploading and renameing image

dfetrow410@hotmail.com - 8 Sep 2006 5:56 PM - 2 messages

It will upload the first image, but if their is an image named the same, it renames it and saves it, but when you look at the renamed image, it is an x. ' Read file into a data stream ...

Code Analyzers

darjonase - 8 Sep 2006 5:50 PM - 4 messages

I am looking for some way to analyze the timing of my code. I have placed some elapsed time functions in various methods, but my code is still running slow and I want to find the biggest culprits of this. ...

Best way to check things in background in MDI window

Tom - 8 Sep 2006 5:31 PM - 2 messages

I have an MDI application in VB.NET. The main MDI window has a status bar, and menu bar. Child MDI windows are opened via the menu on the main MDI window. Now, what I want to do is add code to the main MDI window so that, ...

Extending an Abstract class that uses a Generic Parameter

BBM - 8 Sep 2006 5:08 PM - 4 messages

Hi, I have a situation where I would like to extend an abstract (MustInherit) class that uses a Generic parameter. The class declaration looks like this... Public MustInherit Class BaseClass(Of T) There is an Overridable method in this class that I would like to override. ...

Selected Row ListView

samoore33 - 8 Sep 2006 4:34 PM - 2 messages

I have gotten my ListView populated, almost broke my arm patting myself on the back. Now I am not able to find out how to return information from a row that has been selected. I have searched and searched, this ...

File Not Accessed

Gabe Matteson - 8 Sep 2006 3:16 PM - 5 messages

I want to be able to find out the names of files that havn't been accessed in the past X days... so I want to do something like this.. date.today - txtlastdays.txt 9/08/2006 - 30 days = X ...

Restricting the resizing of forms

Jacob.Bruxer - 8 Sep 2006 2:58 PM - 5 messages

I've been unable to find a simple answer to what I initially thought was going to be a simple question. I want to be able to restrict the size of my forms in a VB.net project. I don't want users to be able to ...

Accessing _rowID or RowId datarow property

CGatto - 8 Sep 2006 2:27 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I am wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to access the (seemingly) private _rowID or RowId properties of a datarow. I am running a piece of code which loops thru the datarows of a datatable, I can see the _rowID ...

Adding row to data table in .net 2.0

DH - 8 Sep 2006 11:24 AM - 2 messages

I have an untyped dataset with a table. I am trying to programmatically add a row to this table. This was working in VS 2003 / .net 1.1 I am receiving an error "Object reference not set to an ...

Q: getting rid of exe's and obj

G .Net - 8 Sep 2006 11:08 AM - 4 messages

Hi I'm using VS2003. Is there a way to temporarily remove exe's and obj's so I can reduce the size of a project for email/backup? Thanks in advance ...

Writing a brute force program using SendKeys.Send

Senthilkumar - 8 Sep 2006 10:46 AM - 6 messages

Hi, I have been using my vb.net for 2 years now, basically for database application. I have a client who lost is password for the mimer database and nobody knows. So assuming if the password is less than 6 chars, i would like to ...

Hiding a Property

Dom - 8 Sep 2006 9:13 AM - 15 messages

Hi all I'm developing a control, and I need to hide some properties to the user. For example, suppose I need Text property to be completely inacessible (from a Form/Code that is into another project/assembly). I tried with attributes: ...

AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser events

GS - 8 Sep 2006 7:49 AM - 4 messages

the documentcomplete and NavigateComplete2 in AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser all seem to fire per frame. Is there a way to catch when the page is totally completed including frames.? in some other implementation there is something like navigatecomplete2. to catch only when everything is rendered and complete ...

Omar Abid

Omar Abid - 8 Sep 2006 7:23 AM - 2 messages

hi, I want to write EXEC files with VB for a small compiler made at VB6 , but i don't know the process will i use the Binary file mode and how to program it. Thanks ...

self-extracting files in .net

chad - 8 Sep 2006 2:18 AM - 10 messages

let's say I have a folder or folders with a lot of sequential image files. I want the .net prog to package it as, maybe, a cabinet file so that downloading or uploading will be easier. Ideally, zipping it would be good, but I would like my prog to do the job ...

identify when running as a service

Jeff Jarrell - 8 Sep 2006 1:19 AM - 3 messages

Is there a programmatic way to identify when code is running as a service? ...

LAN IP

eSolTec, Inc. 501(c)(3) - 8 Sep 2006 1:11 AM - 9 messages

Thank you in advance for any and all comments and help. I have an application that an Administrator might use. I'm trying to figure out how to programatically get the local Machine LAN IP addres. Using VB.NET 2005. ...

String quickie: Remove trailing space from each RichTextBox line?

Paul - 7 Sep 2006 11:43 PM - 4 messages

Hi, My RichTextBox has multiple lines of text. Most of the lines unfortunately end with a space. Is it possible to replace the space and NewLine/Line Feed with just the NewLine/LineFeed? So in essence just removing the trailing space from each line? ...

System Icons?

TyBreaker - 7 Sep 2006 8:14 PM - 3 messages

Is there a way to access icons within Windows XP for use in projects? ...

Visual Basic beginner question

MikeB - 7 Sep 2006 7:57 PM - 5 messages

I've been all over the net with this question, I hope I've finally found a group where I can ask about Visual Basic 2005. I'm at uni and we're working with Visual Basic 2005. I have some books, ...

how to open a form in C#

kk - 7 Sep 2006 7:06 PM - 6 messages

like we open a form in vb.net by writng code formname.show() what is the code for c#.net for his ...

VB2005: Error Using a Separate Search Form

Anne DeBlois - 7 Sep 2006 6:43 PM - 2 messages

I am working on a form (details) and I need my form to allow to search on some char fields. I have a button next to the field users can search. The button calls a pop-up form to enter the string to search. ...

How can I execute a simple command?

Jeffrey Grantz - 7 Sep 2006 6:21 PM - 6 messages

I have the following routine that I thought was streight forward (I should know better) Private Sub DOS_Command() Dim lRetVal As Long lRetVal = Shell("erase ""Z:\IDW2\XML Report Files\*.txt""") End Sub When the shell line gets executed, I get a diagnostic "Verify that the file ...

Date/Time Pickers/VB2005

Darhl Thomason - 7 Sep 2006 4:57 PM - 4 messages

I'm building a database application that has a number of date fields in it. When I add the date/time picker control to my form and run it, if the field is null in my db, then it shows the current date. How can I get this ...

Search for files in folders?

Joris De Groote - 7 Sep 2006 4:29 PM - 7 messages

Hi, I have a program that must look in in certain folder and take out every file (also the files in subfolders). Now it's no problem to do this with a few for's and if's. However, I don't know how many subfolders there will be, it ...

Repeated Warning: "There are Updated Custom Wrappers Available..."

TC - 7 Sep 2006 3:40 PM - 2 messages

Every time I open my project, I get a warning which says "There are updated custom wrappers available for the following referenced components: Office." When I double-click on the warning, I get a dialog box which says "One or more custom wrappers for COM components have been installed on your ...

app.config not copied to bin directory

Rob - 7 Sep 2006 3:25 PM - 5 messages

Any help with this is greatly appreciated... I have a solution where my startup project has an app.config file. But I need it to be copied to the bin directory as <application>.dll.config. This ...

Download tif from the web via a stream with progress indication

Lance - 7 Sep 2006 1:41 PM - 3 messages

Hi all, In VB6, I could use the API too query the size of a file on the web, then download that file showing a custom progress indicator. I realize that I can use the DownloadFile method and show a UI, but I would like to indicate ...

"Longest common substring" problem implementation

almurph@altavista.com - 7 Sep 2006 1:20 PM - 2 messages

Hi everyone, I'm trying to find an impementation of the "longest common substring" problem in VB.NET. I'm having no joy online though. Anyone with it or know where it is? Would you like to share? ...

Opening a space delimited textfile in Excel using VB.net

Jacob.Bruxer - 7 Sep 2006 12:44 PM - 3 messages

Hi everyone, I'm having trouble opening space delimited textfiles in Excel from Visual Basic.net. I'm able to control, open and modify Excel files from Visual Basic, so my Excel reference seems to be working ok. I ...

entlib UpdateDataSet how to update the database?

Eduardo Silva - 7 Sep 2006 11:40 AM - 2 messages

Hi every body i new in dot.net and i am tring to update a table with a data set using entlib i found the way to doit one by one but is any way to doit in one command? ...

Print out contents of a hashtable

Water Cooler v2 - 7 Sep 2006 11:21 AM - 5 messages

I can't believe I've stumbled on a simple problem such as this. After all these years, that too. Anyway, it goes that I just realized that I could not iterate through my hashtable and print out its contents. On further probing, I realized ...

Async socket connection ends up in Unable to read data from....

Arno - 7 Sep 2006 11:10 AM - 6 messages

reposted with the right microsoft managed newsgroup ID: Sorry for the inconvinience Hi, I've written a class for client-socket connection, but I get a lot of times the error message "Unable to read data from the transport connection" when ...

how to receive data from .NET socket into VB6 winsock ?

cadriansyah - 7 Sep 2006 10:09 AM - 3 messages

i have a socket apllication written in .NET (VB) that send data (microsoft sample) Public Sub SendData(ByVal Data As String) ' Synclock ensure that no other threads try to use the stream ...

Take an image of a hard disk

Jonathan Smith - 7 Sep 2006 9:49 AM - 2 messages

What classes / methods are available in VB .Net to allow an "image" of a hard disk to be taken? ...

embedded text file

Peter van der veen <> - 7 Sep 2006 9:45 AM - 3 messages

Hi I have a VB project and added a text file to it as an embedded resource. But i can'f find a way now how to read this file just as a normal text file with the streamreader command. ...

.NET Remoting & RTD

Nick - 7 Sep 2006 9:17 AM - 6 messages

Hi there, Can anyone tell me what RTD is? And can it be used for simple interprocess communication? I am just interested in sending strings to a previous instance. I am currently using .NET Remoting via the "Windows Application ...

PopMenu vs ContextMenu

Dennis - 7 Sep 2006 8:42 AM - 5 messages

A dumb question but what is the difference between the two properties; ContextMenu and PopMenu? ...

Fill in textboxes programatically in ASPX

eSolTec, Inc. 501(c)(3) - 7 Sep 2006 4:48 AM - 4 messages

Thank you in advance for any and all assistance, it is GREATLY appreciated. I'm trying to programatically fill in textboxes in an aspx page from vb.net 2005 using the Shell command to call the webpage. I would like to know if ...

RRAS API and .net Framework

Frédéric ESNOUF (ISA MVP) - 6 Sep 2006 11:55 PM - 3 messages

Hi guys, I used to work VB6 to automate a few processes through the RRAS API such as launch a VPN connection, get the current login name used to connect via this VPN connection, ... most of these functions are in the rasapi32.dll. ...

Treeview

Jerry - 6 Sep 2006 8:31 PM - 5 messages

Hi, I created a treeview. I filled it with all the nodes I need. Now I would like to deaktivate some nodes and activate them upon a given input. "isvisible" is readonly. Isn't there any "enabled" property like the ...

Versions

P.Rodriguez.G - 6 Sep 2006 8:28 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I wanna learn how to correctly use the Version numbers, there are Assembly Version and something else... all this comes because I need to release an "Application 1.0.0 RC1" ... the thing is... am I allowed to do that??? How do I set it up? ...

drawing a rectangle in a form

reidarT - 6 Sep 2006 8:13 PM - 4 messages

I try to draw a rectangle in a form on a buttons click event, The code is Dim bitmap As New Bitmap("lysblaa.jpg") Dim tBrush As New TextureBrush(bitmap) Dim texturedPen As New Pen(tBrush, 30) e.Graphics.DrawImage(bitmap, 0, 0, bitmap.Width, bitmap.Height) ...

VB.NET Progress Bar - Recursive Search

Gabe Matteson - 6 Sep 2006 7:58 PM - 4 messages

I am trying to set the maximum value of the progress bar so that when a user searches through the specified directory they can see their status. the progress bar name is on form2 and is named progstatus. Does anyone know how ...

DataGridView visible columns

Ryan - 6 Sep 2006 7:37 PM - 4 messages

I've had troubles with my DataGridView objects in that it is often difficult to make columns such as key columns invisible. These DataGridViews always have a datasource of an external SQL database. Setting the columns Visible property to False does not always work. After fiddling around with it for ...

WebRequest.Create

eSolTec, Inc. 501(c)(3) - 6 Sep 2006 6:07 PM - 4 messages

Thank you in advance for any and all assistance. I'm trying to create a call to a web page to validate and register software. The code I'm using is: Private Sub OK_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As ...

Access of shared member, constant member, enum member or nested type through an instance

Jeffrey Grantz - 6 Sep 2006 6:01 PM - 4 messages

I took the code below from an example of FolderBrowserDialog but I keep getting the subject diagnostic on DialogResult.OK and I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. Any Help? ADVthanksANCE Private Sub BTN_Browse_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As ...

Two threads are accessing my Synclocked code

Joel Moore - 6 Sep 2006 5:51 PM - 3 messages

I'm looking at my debugger right now and can clearly see that two threads have their execution pointer residing within the same Synclock block. One thread is executing a Monitor.Wait(). I know this suspends the thread but I didn't think this would open the gate for other threads to enter the ...

Naming guidelines for VB.NET

Smokey Grindle - 6 Sep 2006 5:42 PM - 3 messages

I know I saw a document on this before, does anyone have a link to the nameing guidelines and conventions for VB.NET? ...

Exporting a vb.net datagrid to excel

Coleen - 6 Sep 2006 5:00 PM - 7 messages

Hi All :-) I'm using .Net Framework 1.1, VB and need to be able to download the data from a datagrid into an Excel 2000 spreadsheet for our accounting users. Can anyone please point me to a good link on how to do this or give me some ...

Formatting text w/VB.NET

Mark Brown - 6 Sep 2006 4:29 PM - 6 messages

How do you format text in VB.NET? In VB6, I'd use something like: format(foo,"!@@@@@@@@") to get a string to fill 8 places even if it was only 3 (for example). This simple convention apparently doesn't exist in VB.NET. ...

Abstraction question

Eric Cathell - 6 Sep 2006 2:56 PM - 3 messages

I am using dOOdads as my persistence layer. I have a business object Person that sits in a Project called DOMAIN I have 2 dOOdads in a project called BLL. one is _Person and is declared MustInherit the other is Person and is my concrete class. ...

SQL parameter: what is wrong here?

pamelafluente - 6 Sep 2006 2:01 PM - 12 messages

Hi I am executing some simple sample code: Using OleDbCommand As New OleDbCommand(Me.DBQuery.Text, Me.OleDbConnection) Dim OleDbParameter As OleDbParameter = OleDbCommand.Parameters.Add("@Pinco", OleDbType.VarWChar) OleDbParameter.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input ...

Calling a VB.NET-DLL FROM VB6

Peter Piry - 6 Sep 2006 11:48 AM - 5 messages

hi, I've writte a DLL in VB.NET which is called from VB6. When I try to call some methods of the DLL in a sub Procedure I get the following error: "Object reference not set to an instance of ...

Iterating through the records in a dataset

mark blackall - 6 Sep 2006 10:47 AM - 4 messages

Hi all, I am new to vb.net and I am trying to use the vb.net components, rather than relying on the VB6 compatibility stuff with which I am more familiar. However, I seem to have fallen at the first hurdle. I have created a ...

Save Radio Button setting

trevor.niemack@za.syspro.com - 6 Sep 2006 10:40 AM - 3 messages

I want to have 2 radio buttons and when I click save I want to store the current settings of the radio buttons and then when the form loads again I want to bring those settings through again. I have no clue ...

Book help

A - 6 Sep 2006 10:40 AM - 2 messages

Hi My apologies for posting this here, but I've spent several hours searching through variouse bookstores, and haven't found this. I'm looking for a Visual basic programming book. The title goes something along " Projects you'll never do in your work time" or something like that. ...

Send Mail Using SMTP

Max - 6 Sep 2006 7:49 AM - 3 messages

hi I am using System.Web.Mail.MailMessage with System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail to send mail. now the my question is, Is it compulsory to add fields smtpauthenticate, sendusername and sendpassword fields to MailMessage Object????. mm.Fields.Add("[link]", ...

how to get a file to display from relative filespec

GS - 6 Sep 2006 6:22 AM - 5 messages

I have in the project directory an html file that I want my solution to display. what how can I specify it in a hosted web browser? How would I specify the file spec for the html without absolute path? ...

Deleting a folder

BobRoyAce - 6 Sep 2006 12:17 AM - 4 messages

I am using Visual Studio .NET 2005 to create a Windows Forms application. I know that I can use My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteFile to delete a file. How do I delete an empty folder/directory though? How could I delete a folder that wasn't empty? ...

Crystal Reports in VB.NET

Stephen Plotnick - 5 Sep 2006 11:17 PM - 5 messages

I am able to create a Crystal report and get it to go to the screen., print, Excel, etc. What I want to do now is allow for my VB.NET (2003) program to dynamically build a "WHERE clause" For example; ...

Determining max number of characters in a TextBox

Usmaak - 5 Sep 2006 10:45 PM - 5 messages

Hi, I have a TextBox that is set to a certain width. From this, I need to figure out the max number of characters that can fit into the TextBox. I'm using Courier New font, size 8.25. ...

Registry Reading

fniles - 5 Sep 2006 8:51 PM - 8 messages

In my case, I have registry entries with multiple Key values, like the following [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MyApp\MySection\Data\A] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MyApp\MySection\Data\B] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program ...

SQL Server

Dennis - 5 Sep 2006 8:44 PM - 3 messages

I have SQL Express and would like to develop an application using SQL databases. Can I distribute the application on any computer that has the ..net framework 2.0 on it without including SQL express in the distribution package. With access, this was not a problem as almost all computers using ...

Remove certain characters from a string/RichTextBox?

Paul - 5 Sep 2006 8:23 PM - 9 messages

Hi, My VB is very rusty I'm afraid! What would be the most efficient way to remove the following ASCII characters from a string? à è ì ò ù À È Ì Ò Ù á é í ó ú ý Á É Í Ó Ú Ý ...

AddHandler p.MouseClick Confusing Problem

JimBob - 5 Sep 2006 8:06 PM - 2 messages

Ok so i added this line of code to a dynamic PictureBox. (i dim it p) AddHandler p.MouseClick, AddressOf Hand.Canvas_Click what it would do is change the pic on the picbox but every time you click the picturebox it raises the event several times? ...

Better way to process many conditions with If Then

Chris - 5 Sep 2006 7:27 PM - 6 messages

I'm writing an application that does a scan on all the files for a given drive letter. Ideally what I want is to have a list of keywords that my program will ignore and not scan. For example: For Each fileInfo As FileInfo In FilesArray ...

Intellisense XML Comments / Documentation

jarnie - 5 Sep 2006 4:53 PM - 2 messages

I have the VB 2005 Express Edition, and have been looking at how to add XML Documentation to my projects. After reading a few articles I have found, it appears that 2005 introduced native support for it to the VB ...

[Regular Expression] extraction when bounds are vbCr and vbLf

teo - 5 Sep 2006 4:52 PM - 8 messages

Hallo I need to extract a subtext from a text. The subtext must contain a given word. The subtext bounds are: vbCr (return) vbLf (new line) vbCrLf (return+new line) ...

xml

mmoreno - 5 Sep 2006 4:29 PM - 2 messages

Buenos días me gustaría una explicación más detallada de que es XML. Gracias, ...

datagridview.SelectedRows returns last row first?

Nickneem - 5 Sep 2006 3:23 PM - 3 messages

I'm trying to figure out the datagridview, but I'm having trouble stepping through the selectedrows because the first row I get is the last row selected (with the heighest index). For instance if I select 3 rows jan ...

Break up string, Comma Delimited

JoeW - 5 Sep 2006 2:57 PM - 3 messages

Just wondering as I'm sure someone's done something similar to this before, I need to break up a string, broken up everytime a comma is come across. In example: A, B, C, D, E This can either be broken up into newlines, like ...

Book Recommendations Request

Billy Biro - 5 Sep 2006 2:01 PM - 2 messages

Hi. I'm looking for some recommendations for Visual Basic 2005 books. Specifically, I'm NOT looking for books that detail the elements of the language, nor explain OOP, but rather present real-world scenarios for application development, and show how classes/components can be ...

User Control constructors taking arguments?

Kristian Frost - 5 Sep 2006 12:33 PM - 4 messages

Hi, me again, I'm trying to create a User Control in VS2003 that takes an object as an argument from its parent form and designs itself accordingly. At the moment, I'm having to create a default, empty constructor method ...

Is the difference intended?

doker0 - 5 Sep 2006 9:39 AM - 3 messages

Hi. Recently, when I was designing myown buttonbar and a designer serialization(typeconverter) for its button collection I've slipped on construction like this: If TypeOf value Is Field Then It occured that sometimes it is not even if in Else i msgboxed it ...

dot matrix printing

Ivica Muruzovic - 5 Sep 2006 9:31 AM - 4 messages

Is there any source code for printing text file directly to dot-matrix printer without involving windows (like in DOS mode) ...

How to input characters that are not present in a keyboard to a VB

TC - 5 Sep 2006 4:57 AM - 7 messages

Hi, I have developed a font, which has ~30 new characters in the Unicode Private Area (starting from U+E000). Now, since these characters are not present in the standard keyboard, can you suggest me a way of inputting them ? ...

UI Challenge: How to create a real outliner (like Ecco, Grandview, etc) - SampleDisplay.bmp (0/1)

Rex - 4 Sep 2006 11:50 PM - 4 messages

Hi - I have been looking for a solution to a particular User Interface challenge for a long time. I have not posted this question here previously - and I am now wondering if anyone can offer me some ideas. It is completely feasible for me to purchase 1 or more 3rd party ...

Help with Adding A Row

Miro - 4 Sep 2006 9:51 PM - 8 messages

Im a VB Newbie so I hope I'm going about this in the right direction. I have a simple DB that has 1 Table called DBVersion and in that table the column is CurVersion ( String ) Im trying to connect to the db, and then add a record to the DBVersion ...

Problem connecting to an Access db

Panos - 4 Sep 2006 8:45 PM - 3 messages

Hi all, I am using VB 2005 and I'm trying to connect to an Access db. I have created a couple of accounts and the secure.mdw file for my db. I want to connect to the db with a specific user ID and password. It is impossible for me to ...

source and multiple machines

Andy - 4 Sep 2006 5:36 PM - 4 messages

Hi I've just begun programming VB, attending a college course. The last weeks I've been using my workstation for projects, saving everything locally on this. But, now I would like to use my laptop for programming as well, but ...

Getting content from one column in a datagrid in a textbox

reidarT - 4 Sep 2006 4:10 PM - 4 messages

I have a datagrid with columns. One of the columns are a textbox. I want the text in this column shown in a textbox outside the datagrid. How can I do that when clicking the actual row in the datagrid? ...

newbe help please. paste disabled when i add a menubar in vb2005

fred.dixon@gmail.com - 4 Sep 2006 3:49 PM - 4 messages

i have a simple rtfbox with a couple text boxes, i want to paste some rtf text into the rtfbox. I added a rtf box to a blank form and tested that a rtf box handles a paste automatically. it does. ...

is an object destroyed/closed when an exception occurs

puginews - 4 Sep 2006 1:49 PM - 8 messages

I was wondering when you create a new xmltextreader (or any other object for that matter), is it destroyed/closed (memory/resources freed) when an exception occurs ? Dim xmlrdr As New XmlTextReader(Me.Server.MapPath("staff.xml")) ...

Windows form is getting crashed VB.Net 2005

sajin - 4 Sep 2006 12:59 PM - 4 messages

Hi All, I developed a windows form application which shows initial form which contain many labels , datagridview and List View etc . I show the thumbnail view of the word templates in the list view , when i double click in the thumbnail view ,the templates open in word , but when i ...

Commandline Arguments to the exe corresponding to a Windows Service

dmuralikumar - 4 Sep 2006 12:07 PM - 2 messages

Hi All, I am finding it difficult to send some parameters to the exe corresponding to a Windows Service that has been installed.Its the same case with the exe i.e., I dont where i have to make the exe accept ...

Registry access question

sgr - 4 Sep 2006 11:23 AM - 2 messages

Hello I need to change the access in some registry key, I find in .net framework 2.0 the RegistrySecurity class that is used to change permissions. Is there any similiar in framework 1.1? thanks in advance ...

Adding event (mouseclick) handlers to GDI+ shapes?

Kristian Frost - 4 Sep 2006 11:08 AM - 7 messages

Hi, I'm trying to add, as you might guess, mouseclick listeners to the shapes I am drawing using the GDI+ commands in a similar sort of way as could be done with the old VB "shapes". Problem is, I'm really not sure of the best way to go about it. ...

paramertised select query

Writting into MS Excel file

My.Application.Info.Version showing only 1.0.0.0

Multiple Select listbox and sql stored procedure -Help needed

processor time

Visual Basic.Net & DBF files

How can I convert a graphics object to image?

Problem installing vs 2003 sp1

list of objects vs Array of objects

sound capture (record audio input) in VB.NET????

Loop Question

Photoshop from vb

Q: Excel files

how to make vb.net application startup application