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Score How do I remove an embedded Double quotes
vvenk - 7 Oct 2006 9:34 PM - 3 messages
Hello: I am reading from a CSV file into a variable. The variable reads as ""My data"" since the file contains "My data" How do I get rid of the embedded double quotes? I tried          myString.Replace(chr(34), "") ...
Score mouseclick on a toostripstatuslabel
GS - 7 Oct 2006 8:15 PM - 3 messages
how can I tell if it is right mouse click from left mouseclick? I would also to test if a key like control is being held down at the same time. what I would really like to is to capture control right mouse click for ...
Score GDI+ textbox
Netter - 7 Oct 2006 7:41 PM - 4 messages
Are there any rumors around about a new GDI+ textbox? thanks ...
Score How do I replace unwanted characters from a string using Reg Exp?
vvenk - 7 Oct 2006 7:25 PM - 5 messages
Hello: I have a string, "Testing_!@#$%^&*()". It may have single and double quotations as well. I would like to strip all chararcters others than a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and the comma. I came across the following snippet in the online help but the output does ...
Score How to prevent Pasting into textbox?
HKSHK - 7 Oct 2006 3:40 PM - 7 messages
Hi, I'm developing an application with VB.NET 2003 and I want to forbid pasting into a textbox. The problem is not the context menu, but the Ctrl+V shortcut. How can I prevent that the user can paste anything into a textbox, even ...
Score Memory problem with vb.net + webServices + DLL
Jovo Mirkovic - 7 Oct 2006 3:32 PM - 5 messages
Hi, we made some application which load DLL files and call Web Services. That web services workong with MS Sql Server... So, we have problem with memory size :( when we starting app it take about 17MB in memory, and every few seconds ...
Score source control
Smokey Grindel - 7 Oct 2006 2:22 PM - 4 messages
what are good source control programs out there that integrate with visual studio 2005? we have source safe 2005 right now but are really starting to hate it... and dont want to spend $4k on Team server... any alternate solutions? money doesnt mater as long as its not over $500 a copy... thanks! ...
Score efficient routine to parse a text string
Bill nguyen - 7 Oct 2006 2:07 PM - 4 messages
I'm looking for a good routine to parse the following text pattern: a:18: {i:0;i:408;i:1;i:409;i:2;i:410;i:3;i:411;i:4;i:413;i:5;i:414;} a: = page_id ...
Score How to assign value to a dropdown box items?
Anil Gupte - 7 Oct 2006 9:46 AM - 6 messages
I am trying to use a dataset to assign a display name (one column from a table) and also associate a value (2nd column) to each item in a dropdown combobox.  I tried it this way: DropDownProfiles.DataSource = WizoProfilesDataSet ...
Score VB 6 developers and .Net
Newish - 7 Oct 2006 6:58 AM - 36 messages
Hi I was just wondering how widespread or otherwise is the conversion from VB 6 to .Net. Has VB 2005 made this conversion easier. If the conversion is not that widespread what is the reason. Newish ...
Score keydown event not working problem
GS - 7 Oct 2006 6:32 AM - 3 messages
on a control, keydown was never triggered Private Sub addressBar_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) .... end sub on the hand the following got executed Private Sub addressBar_textchanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ...
Score File to string and back again
Bonzol - 7 Oct 2006 4:06 AM - 2 messages
vb.net 1.1 Windows application Hey,, In a bit of a hurry,, does anyone know a way to turn a file in to a string,, such as a jpeg or pdf,, then turn that string back in to the ...
Score ADOX add bool field
Miro - 7 Oct 2006 1:50 AM - 3 messages
Something weird I have run into when trying to add a boolean field to an Access table by code. -Just wondering if anyone else has run into this.   ( vb.net 2005 express ) If I add any other field other than boolean the "command" version of adding ...
Score FindFirstFile/FindNextFile - fastest alternative?
technodwebe - 6 Oct 2006 10:19 PM - 4 messages
If you're trying to create a fast file find function that will work in both XP-32 and XP-64, what method would you use? ...
Score clicking on a DataGridView's DataSource property throws exception in designer
PJ6 - 6 Oct 2006 10:18 PM - 4 messages
If I have a DataGridView in my form, when I click on the DataSource property, I get a message box displaying the exception message, "Object reference not set to instance of an object." What's even more amusing is if I try to set the property using the little ...
Score Read legacy vb5 files with variant declare in vb.net
Tracks - 6 Oct 2006 9:48 PM - 8 messages
I have old legacy code from vb5 where data was written to a file with a variant declaration  (this was actually a coding error?)... in vb5 the code was:             Dim thisdata as integer ...
Score Running an Access macro from a VB.NETprogram
Shooter4Life8 - 6 Oct 2006 8:33 PM - 9 messages
I am trying to run a macro from my VB.NET program. Here is my code.         Dim myAccess As Access.Application         Dim allMacro As String = "ALL-Macros" ...
Score Component with thrid party control within
mattgcon - 6 Oct 2006 8:17 PM - 2 messages
Ok please bare with me as this is the first time I am trying to use this type of class. I have a compenent class with a third party control on the IDE, within the code I have shadows of properties and such. ...
Score Set Focus to textbox on tab control
Henry Jones - 6 Oct 2006 6:27 PM - 4 messages
VS 2005 On a form I have a tabcontrol with 5 tabs.  Each tab has three textboxes on it.  When I click on each tab, I would like to have the focus set to the first textbox. On the tabenter event for each tab, I put a textbox1.focus but the textbox ...
Score need help on optional arg
GS - 6 Oct 2006 5:57 PM - 4 messages
I have this:    Public Function CleanHtml(ByVal strHtml As String, Optional ByVal doc As HtmlDocument = WebBrowser1.Document) As String flagged by vb as Error 5 Reference to a non-shared member requires an object reference. c:\myproject\WebCtl.vb 73 93 myproject ...
Score Referencing parameters collection member by Name bombs?
John Kotuby - 6 Oct 2006 4:29 PM - 2 messages
Hi all, I am working on porting an application from VB6 to VB.NET 2003 and am running into some problems. When declaring and populating the parameters for a SQL Stored Procedure by using the SQLParameter() collection and trying to ...
Score Redrawing on GDI+
Lucas Napzchyr - 6 Oct 2006 4:22 PM - 5 messages
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, im testing around a little with system.drawing. I setup a Form to paint on it. The problem: Paintig on a form or else is ok, but if my form lose the handle by switching into an other app or showing an dialog on my form ...
Score Overlapping controls
Charlie Brown - 6 Oct 2006 3:41 PM - 5 messages
I have a form with 2 custom controls that can be dragged around by a user.  How can I check if they overlap each other without performing some kind of Collision detection on them?  Is there anything in GDI to ...
Score How to determen the object ?
John Devlon - 6 Oct 2006 2:21 PM - 3 messages
Hi, I've created a form and on the fly several pictureboxes are created... Dim x As Integer = 0 Dim myCollection As List(Of PictureBox) = New List(Of PictureBox) Dim Location As Integer = 50 For x = 0 To 5 Dim myBox As PictureBox = New PictureBox ...
Score WEB combobox won't fire event
JR - 6 Oct 2006 1:52 PM - 4 messages
I know this is probably dumb but I have a web combo box that will drop down and I can select an item but SelectedIndexChanged doesn't fire.  I tried to put the code in the ASP that says on the control: ...
Score NullReferenceException with shared members
Michael.Thomlinson - 6 Oct 2006 1:22 PM - 3 messages
Hello fellow coders, I have run into an issue that is otherwise painfull for my brain to think about at this point so i turn to you guys for input. Scenario. For my application i have chosen to make my own "Environment" ...
Score crash at closue msvbvm60.dll
mano - 6 Oct 2006 1:17 PM - 2 messages
i have an vb.net (migrated from vb to vb.net) application which refers vb6.0 control, while closing the application I got the error "unhandled exception at 0x660688 (msvbvm60.dll) in DBCenter.exe: 0xc0000005" please help me to resolve ...
Score crash at closue msvbvm60.dll
mano - 6 Oct 2006 1:17 PM - 3 messages
i have an vb.net (migrated from vb to vb.net) application which refers vb6.0 control, while closing the application I got the error "unhandled exception at 0x660688 (msvbvm60.dll) in DBCenter.exe: 0xc0000005" please help me to resolve ...
Score creating pictureboxes on the fly
John Devlon - 6 Oct 2006 12:14 PM - 5 messages
Hi, I'm trying to fill a form in visual basic .net with pictureboxes Unfortunately, it doesn't work... the boxes don't show Can anyone please help me ? Dim x As Integer = 0 Dim myCollection As List(Of PictureBox) = New List(Of PictureBox) ...
Score COM interop
Ade - 6 Oct 2006 11:43 AM - 2 messages
I have a .net class that displays a .net form (1), when the user clicks a button on the form (1) an event is fired that is captured by a wrapping COM dll. The COM DLL instantiates another COM Class that shows a form (2). The ...
Score SendKeys to another app don't work intentionally
Morten Snedker - 6 Oct 2006 10:24 AM - 3 messages
I have this piece of code that sets focus to the the windows calculator application (calc.exe). Efter focus I try simply to pass the number 5 to the application. The calculater gets focus and is shown, but the number 5 is not ...
Score Bring my FORM to front??
M O J O - 6 Oct 2006 9:12 AM - 4 messages
Hi, I have an application where I've implemented a global hotkey, so no matter what other application is in front (have focus), my app will react when the key combination is pressed. This works fine. My problem is now that the form I want to show, does not come to the front. ...
Score visio problem
Dominic - 6 Oct 2006 8:25 AM - 3 messages
I try to use Visio filter but it needs to install by using installation package from Microsoft. If I need to use only DLL for extract text from vsd with my application, how can I do? I need to create my application to extract text from visio and my ...
Score vb 6.0 naar vb.net 2005
klenne - 6 Oct 2006 8:03 AM - 8 messages
Hallo, Ik probeer een programma, gemaakt in vb 6.0 te openen in vb.net 2005. Bij het runnen zijn er enkele problemen opgetreden. Ik denk dat het probleem bij geheugens ligt, declaratie van variabelen die bij het omzetten naar .net zijn verandert of iets is fout gelopen. Kan het zijn ...
Score Dynamic mapping string to function
Vemund Halvorsen - 6 Oct 2006 7:54 AM - 5 messages
Hello, What is the best way of mapping a string to function/sub? See ex bellow - probably not the best way - especially when it comes to maintenance ;) Does anybody have a better way of doing this? Ex, class A   Private mA as Integer  ...
Score Access My.Settings from class library
kkarre - 6 Oct 2006 7:31 AM - 3 messages
Hi, I'm partitioning my app into several tiers. Is there a way to read/write My.Settings between tiers? My only seem to work locally in the exe or dll... Best regards, kk ...
Score Website local/remote login
Bonzol - 6 Oct 2006 4:53 AM - 3 messages
vb.net 1.1 web application Hello all, I am just making a website,, and what I'm trying to do is.. if a user trys to view the site remotely,, like in Japan or something they will get sent to a certain page,, but if a user views the site on ...
Score aa
Mihai - 6 Oct 2006 4:31 AM - 2 messages
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Score Need some array help.
James - 6 Oct 2006 3:23 AM - 14 messages
Is this possible? I want to pass an array into a function that contains txtBox.Text properties... I was thinking something like this, but I know it won't work Dim vendorFields(9) As String         vendorFields(0) = "txtVendorName.Text" ...
Score directory.getfiles
frogman7 - 6 Oct 2006 12:38 AM - 6 messages
directory.getfiles(path, "*.htm") finds .htm and .html files same if you are looking for .c it finds .css also is there a fuction that just gets the file extention specified? ...
Score Going in Circles
Wayne Wengert - 6 Oct 2006 12:32 AM - 4 messages
I have a VS2005/VB Project that uses a master page on all pages. Certain pages require that the user be logged in. In the login page, I set a session variable to "Y" if the user has logged in. In the master page (and others) ...
Score Webbrowser control question.
smerf - 5 Oct 2006 11:41 PM - 2 messages
Using the Webbrowser control in VB.Net 2005, how do you block behaviors like downloading files, images, flash, videos, etc.? Is there any way to intercept any file downloads (to scan for viruses before saving to system or allowing the user to open them)? ...
Score Using a WndProc override
Rob - 5 Oct 2006 8:26 PM - 5 messages
I've constructed a user control inherited from ListView so I can handle and respond to scrolling events (to keep 2 listviews scrolling in sync). My user control includes an Overrides of WndProc (I've attached the code at the end of this mail). Is it possible to 'disable' this override until I need ...
Score embed HTML table using VB
Ros_Au - 5 Oct 2006 7:56 PM - 2 messages
I am showing a table in a web page, I need help to email this table, please any sugestion ....? thanks!! ...
Score get HTML code of table created dynamically
Ros_Au - 5 Oct 2006 7:55 PM - 7 messages
I create a table dynamically using VB, How do I get HTML code for that table into a string variable ??? any sugestion, Thanks!!! ...
Score Access asp:SqlDataSource or asp:GridView directly
saturnius - 5 Oct 2006 7:39 PM - 5 messages
Hello, I have to save the data from a gridview as XML file. The code is shown below. Is there no easier way? I would like to access either asp:SqlDataSource (me.SqlDataSource1.something) or asp:GridView (me.GridView1.something) instead I have to create a new ...
Score Delete Row from DataTable
samoore33 - 5 Oct 2006 7:23 PM - 2 messages
Through searching on the web, I have learned how to delete a row from a DataTable. My problem is that I need to delete a certain row. I am writing an XML file into a DataSet, the file is below. ...
Score declaring a dataset as public
Opa Vito - 5 Oct 2006 7:03 PM - 5 messages
Hello, I can't find out if a DataSet (and/or datatable) can be declared public so the xml data can be read to the DataSet in the form load, and then can be acessed from whatever sub or function for writing to the xml file ...
Score Integer variable is shown &HA
Mike OKC - 5 Oct 2006 6:05 PM - 3 messages
VB.NET 2003 I'm new to VB.NET, so this should be an easy fix. My integer variable showing &HA when I hover the mouse pointer over the variable, and also shown in Locals, Name: intLoop Value: &HA It's like my ...
Score search user in active directory
sgr - 5 Oct 2006 5:31 PM - 3 messages
How do I search an user into the active directory from a vb.Net application? Thanks for all. ...
Score Tell XP to only run POS app
Hector M Banda - 5 Oct 2006 4:55 PM - 3 messages
Hi all, I have a POS app ready to go but I only want XP/2000 to run it disabling other functions of the PC. Basically, I want windows to start app at boot time and shutdown when app closes disabling all the other apps (Task bar, ...
Score Help with encrypted web pages?
smerf - 5 Oct 2006 4:45 PM - 9 messages
I am trying to write a personal spider to crawl through websites and create a highly specialized personal list of sites and pages that I may like to see based on preferences that I have supplied.  I have found some interesting ...
Score PrintPreviewDialog Control and HTML
dvdastor - 5 Oct 2006 4:26 PM - 4 messages
Hello, Is there a way that anyone knows of to preview an HTML string and have it formatted as HTML in a PrintPreviewDialog?  In other words, can the PrintDocument that is required for this render/understand HTML? Everything that I have seen looks like it will just print out the raw ...
Score Can I create controls with static ID's?
Terry Olsen - 5 Oct 2006 2:12 PM - 5 messages
I need to create an app that has static ID's for the buttons & other controls on the main form. Is there a way to accomplish this in VB? *** Sent via Developersdex [link] *** ...
Score ComponentOne Report Designer
David Cox - 5 Oct 2006 2:01 PM - 3 messages
I have version 1.1.20032.61 that was included in the VB Resource Kit. I created a simple report on a MS Access database. When I go to preview it nothing is shown. Even an example included with the Designer doesn't work. ...
Score Position of elements in an aspx-page
reidarT - 5 Oct 2006 2:01 PM - 2 messages
I want to drag elements from the toolbox to the page. Do I need to make Panels first to enter the elements inside the Panel, or can I as I hope drag them to a special position in the document. ...
Score drag and drop
John Devlon - 5 Oct 2006 12:07 PM - 2 messages
Hi, I would like to drag and drop software icons from my desktop into my custom application.... Does anyone have or know where to find any information of draging icons into a visual Studio application ? Thanx John ...
Score Can a custom object know it's owner
Usarian - 5 Oct 2006 11:34 AM - 5 messages
I am making some custom objects that operate "inside" each other, the way a datatable is available inside a dataset.  (VB.NET 1.1) I can't figure out how to make the child object know what object it's inside ...
Score Drag Bitmap tutorial/code anywhere?
Robinson - 5 Oct 2006 11:11 AM - 3 messages
Hi, Can anyone point me towards a good drag/drop tutorial that allows me to create/render my own drag-cursor (i.e. for instance, if I wish to drag a list item, I can render the list item at the cursor location as the user ...
Score Thread, UI update is this ok?
Peter Proost - 5 Oct 2006 9:06 AM - 13 messages
Hi group, I have been doing some reading on threading and updating the ui from a worker thread and I made this sample which works but I was wondering if it's the ok way to do it? Can I improve something? What's the best practise for ...
Score Encoding question
JJMM - 5 Oct 2006 8:58 AM - 2 messages
Hi, I have a string and I one to convert it to a different encoding, right now I first convert it to binary and then convert the binary to a string with the new encoding. That is: ' strText1: Original text ...
Score Importing DLLs during runtime
normanchong - 5 Oct 2006 8:02 AM - 4 messages
Hi, I'm currently developing an application for checking and doing some configurations for another application. During those checks, I have to access SQLServer to get configuration-info like MaxServerMemory, MaxDegreeOfParallelism, etc I added the references for - Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo and ...
Score Redim Multidimenional Arrays
Anil Gupte - 5 Oct 2006 7:50 AM - 10 messages
I am having a problem using Multidim arrays.  I want to create an array which as I understand it is dimensioned as: dim xyz (rows,columns) as String I want to populate it with rows from a table in a database.  I don't know ...
Score Problem with starting new project in VB 2005 express
lemes_m@yahoo.com - 5 Oct 2006 7:37 AM - 2 messages
Hello, When I try to start new project VB always freezes and I have to close it. Any help? ...
Score MS Word Chart filled with data - URGENT PLEASE
vbnetdev - 5 Oct 2006 4:03 AM - 8 messages
My boss wants this done in a day. I would be happy with a week! Anyway, I have a dataset filled with data and need to populate an MS word chart with it when writing a report. Any tutorials or suggestions would be ...
Score VB6 --> VB 2005 upgrade ...IDE now VERY slow!!!
holysmokes99 - 4 Oct 2006 9:09 PM - 15 messages
Yesterday I ran the Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard for a VB6 app. There were many errors and warnings, more or less what I was expecting, so I have been working through these. The problem is that the IDE is SO ...
Score How To create fixed column formatting
terry - 4 Oct 2006 8:44 PM - 3 messages
Dear Colleagues I am trying to create a field with a fixed column format. In VB6 I would: Dim Field1 as string * 2 Dim Field2 as string * 4 Dim Field3 as string * 2 for a field with fixed column, 8 chars in width. ...
Score using strongly typed dataset update problem
Scotty - 4 Oct 2006 8:39 PM - 3 messages
I get stuck to write an update, insert and delete command, i am looking for some help to start Whats the best way to update 2 tables toe the database (Access) below my code used to load my data.(2 tables) ...
Score Compiling .dll's into a stand-alone .exe
freeman.matt - 4 Oct 2006 7:51 PM - 5 messages
So I have this application which uses the MSComm control to interface with a GPS receiver.  I've developed it (using Vis Studio .NET 2003) to the point where I'm mostly happy with it and I want to transfer it to ...
Score FolderBrowserDialag?
Izzy - 4 Oct 2006 7:30 PM - 3 messages
The FolderBrowserDialog does not all you too browse for a network share. Is there another object that will allow this? I can't use the OpenFileDialog because I'm not looking for a file, just a network share. Any ideas? ...
Score Can't get the Internet Transfer Control to work
Franco - 4 Oct 2006 7:08 PM - 2 messages
I'm using VB 2005. I want to use the Inet control to get a file from a server via HTTP. The code to send the request is: AxInet1.Execute("[link]", "GET", "", "") And the code to handle the response event is: ...
Score Problems with shortcut files
tneufeld - 4 Oct 2006 6:17 PM - 4 messages
Hello everyone, I need away to find the actual file a shortcut points to, using VB.  I am not even sure where to start. You help is greatly appreciated. TIM ...
Score Microsoft.VisualBasic.Replace bug
Harry F. Harrison - 4 Oct 2006 5:56 PM - 2 messages
In VS 2003, If an empty string is passed into the 1st parameter, the Replace function returns Nothing. Example: Dim strResults As String = "" strResults = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Replace("", "AND", "And", , , CompareMethod.Binary) looking at strResults in the debugger shows it having a value of nothing ...
Score Q: GetChildRows
G .Net - 4 Oct 2006 4:53 PM - 3 messages
Hi A question has just occurred to me. I can get the child rows in a relationship using GetChildRows. Further, I can do something like: For Each child As DataRow In parent.GetChildRows("Relationship1") ...... Next What I'd like to know is how to return the same rows but sorted in some ...
Score for each on multiple collections
Kathy - 4 Oct 2006 3:15 PM - 8 messages
Is there a way to do a "for each" on multiple control collections? Something like the following which obviously doesn't work:     for each ctl as control in form1.controls, form1.tabpage1.controls, form2.tabpage2.controls     next ...
Score Creating Forms from a common routine
DaveG - 4 Oct 2006 1:57 PM - 2 messages
Hi All Vb 2003 I am working on a project which uses multiple forms (MDI). I am hoping to use a common routine to launch most of the forms. The problem I have is that I cannot get a BaseClass variable. ...
Score Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications
jeff - 4 Oct 2006 12:18 PM - 5 messages
We current a VS 2005 Professional license ... what does this Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Applications offer that VS 2005 does not? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks JEff. ...
Score Parse bookmarks in a word document
Mike Fellows - 4 Oct 2006 12:10 PM - 3 messages
Hi, I am trying to parse a word document to get a list of all the bookmarks that are setup within the document I need to be able to parse the bookmarks though without knowing the bookmark name Thanks in advance ...
Score Problem with access database, and VB .NET
amit - 4 Oct 2006 10:31 AM - 8 messages
Hi guys I am trying to use select Query with Like operator Select DrugName from Stock where (DrugName LIKE '*s*') This query works in MS-Access Query option and returns some records, but when I run it through VB .net programm it dosen't return any result ...
Score Office application object problem
sajin - 4 Oct 2006 10:22 AM - 6 messages
Hi all, I'am trying to create object of Excel and powerpoint through my VB.Net 2005 application. When user close the excel or powerpoint it's instance remains in the task manager. I used ReleaseComObject because of which excel instance now goes trough ...
Score Extracting icon from file: most efficient method?
Mark - 4 Oct 2006 9:52 AM - 4 messages
Hi I'm using vb.Net in VS2005 and want to extract the icon for file refence records. I saw an example a while back that searched the registry for the default icon etc. It was a little long winded. ...
Score You're good if you can answer this one.....
smerf - 4 Oct 2006 6:51 AM - 11 messages
Don't ask why (it'll just make your head hurt - I know mine does just thinking about the screwed up logic my manager has for this little project)......but I need to be able to tunnel a TCP connection through a UDP ...
Score Changing Printer's default paper
Panos - 4 Oct 2006 5:41 AM - 4 messages
Hi all, I am trying to print a report in A4 paper, but my printer's default paper is different (Letter 8.5 x 11 inches). So when i print, a significant part of the paper remains blank, because of the different margins. Does anyone know ...
Score XML into string var
xnakxx - 4 Oct 2006 5:20 AM - 2 messages
I have a real simple xml doc... <?xml version="1.0" ?> <parent> <child-a>value-a </child-a> <child-b>value-b </child-b> ..... </parent> I am having a heck of a time trying to read it into vars ...
Score Does a menu item lose dataset information?
Stephen Plotnick - 4 Oct 2006 3:21 AM - 3 messages
I have two events in the same program that executes the same sub rountine; one is from a menu item the other is from a button. THe button works perfectly and the menu item does not.  See the code here. ...
Score time constant
GS - 4 Oct 2006 3:18 AM - 3 messages
I understand  and can use time literals like #2:30:00 PM but what If I want to specify time zone -7? ...
Score combo boxes in datagrids
Ausclad - 4 Oct 2006 2:54 AM - 3 messages
How Would you implement this? I have an existing Access application that needs to be converted to .net I am restricted to use the existing database design. One of the areas is a timesheet data entry screen. The existing Access app writes to a table (tblTimesheetHours).  In the data ...
Score Crystal Reports line items
Aaron - 4 Oct 2006 12:58 AM - 2 messages
Hi, I am using VS 2003 and have some Crystal reports questions. 1. I am trying to do a shipper document.  How do I setup so that no two groups will share a page, each group may span 1 or many pages.  Or ...
Score How to convert code snipped from VB6 to Visual Studio 2005/VB (VB7?)
vb newbie - 4 Oct 2006 12:48 AM - 4 messages
I found some sample VB code which I'm trying to implement in Visual Studio 2005.  I think the code was VB6.  VS05 doesn't like the syntax. I've distilled things down to the part with the error: ...
Score Expanding column width in a Datagrid
Gordon - 3 Oct 2006 10:11 PM - 2 messages
Hi; What is the correct way to expand a column width to display data bound to it ? Is it merely setting the control.width property ? Thanks ...
Score test "file exists" on remote computer?
Pete - 3 Oct 2006 9:31 PM - 4 messages
I successfully use "My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile", including the authentication data, but I would appreciate learning how to first test whether the file exists on the remote computer.  Thanks. - Pete ...
Score Minimize to Tray Button
zakhirn - 3 Oct 2006 9:30 PM - 2 messages
Anyone have code that creates a button that will Minimize Excel to the system tray. I do not need anything complicated like changing the minimize button or the close button to a minimize to tray button. I have a Form that pops ...
Score .NET 2 recommended books?
tom - 3 Oct 2006 9:10 PM - 12 messages
I'm learning VB.NET 2 after years working with VB6 and finding it a challenge.  Are there any books/online training soures that you'd recommend for programmers making the transition to .NET and v2 in particular?  I'm ...
Score Datetimepicker - just getting the data part
Aussie Rules - 3 Oct 2006 8:56 PM - 6 messages
Hi, I have a date time picker on a form, and it returns the date, but inclused a time value as well. How can I just get the date part with the time being 00:00 Thanks ...
Score ComboBox.Items.Clear()
samoore33 - 3 Oct 2006 8:23 PM - 4 messages
I am populating a ComboBox at run time. I insert the first value of "Choose Value" cboTaxValue.Item.Insert(0, "Choose Value") Then I loop through the rest of the values to be added to the combobox. My problem is that when I try to clear the ComboBox it clears the items ...
Score Sending email with attachments
Mark - 3 Oct 2006 8:05 PM - 9 messages
Using VB.net 2005, I am trying to send an email with attachments in Outlook.  I have tried using this article from Microsoft, ([link]), but I can't even get the dim ...
Score Open folders to process files automatically
jonathandrott - 3 Oct 2006 7:10 PM - 8 messages
sorry newbie question probably.  i'm trying to open an specific folder. open each file with in the folder individually and process each one. all the processing code has been written.  i'm looking for sample code to open the folder and start grabbing files.  thanks. ...
Score Regular Expression
Mark - 3 Oct 2006 6:10 PM - 4 messages
I'm trying to verify that a string conforms to the standard: DomainName\Username Domain and User can be letters and numbers (nothing else).  I've played around with this, but my expression returns a match if there is more than one ...
Score How hard would this be?
cowznofsky - 3 Oct 2006 5:59 PM - 4 messages
We have some legacy apps with custom datepickers that display an eighth column for fiscal week. That's basically it.  The users want to know the week when they see a calendar. Now, if one were to try to recreate this control in vb.net, just how ...
Score Icon on statusbar
reidarT - 3 Oct 2006 5:55 PM - 3 messages
Is it possible to show icon on statusbar, when my application is opened. (Not on taskbar, but on the right side of the 'bottombar') reidarT ...
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