Visual Basic .NET - Week 49, 2006

How to detect if a program is working OK on another machine.

rdufour - 9 Dec 2006 11:02 PM - 2 messages

In a LAN, I want to have a small program on computer A, that must look to see if program myprogram.exe is working on computer B Basically start the program, piush a button which does the lookup and returns answer working or ...

Creating A Movie Player?

pbd22 - 9 Dec 2006 10:59 PM - 5 messages

Hi. I am playing with the idea of creating a embedded movie player for my site. The player must not be a downloadable software, but something that can stream videos. I know that there are a lot out there, so, that is why i ...

ERROR: The state information is invalid for this page and might be corrupted

Nathan Sokalski - 9 Dec 2006 10:42 PM - 4 messages

I am recieving the following error on the second postback of a page I have written: The state information is invalid for this page and might be corrupted Stack Trace: [FormatException: Invalid character in a Base-64 string.] System.Convert.FromBase64String(String s) +0 ...

VB.NET and MS Word Find and Replace Error

jordan.marton - 9 Dec 2006 9:33 PM - 2 messages

Hi. I am autoamtiacally creating a MS Word file through code. Most of my code works, but when I try to do a find and replace, I get a read/write memrory access error. Not sure what is going on. Any advice? ...

Dataset Encryption to File

BobF - 9 Dec 2006 9:07 PM - 2 messages

I am working with xml files for my program's database. I want to encrypt the xml file. I want to use the Dataset.WriteXml(Stream, XmlWriteMode.WriteSchema). How can I use a cryptostream with this to write an encrypted file to disk? The Stream parameter for WriteXML is limited to an IO ...

Commercial copy protection?

Paul Bromley - 9 Dec 2006 7:14 PM - 21 messages

Not sure if I can ask the question in this forum - please let me know if it is better elsewhere. Does anyone know of a reasonably priced good copy protection program that will protect software on either a machine only or ...

Merging Java and VB for alert box

Jeff - 9 Dec 2006 6:12 PM - 8 messages

I am new to VB.net 2005 in visual web developer, and even newer to Javascript. I need a java alert box that contains text that eventually will come from an sql table. The alert box should activate when the user clicks on text or a button (or ...

How to get the registry key permission using RegistryRight in NET2.0?

yxq - 9 Dec 2006 3:10 PM - 5 messages

Hello, I want to get the registry key permission information whether current user has the permission to delete the registry key using RegistryRights, how to do? thank you. ...

Retrieve Hard Disk Serial Number or othe unique PC identifier - XP & 2K

Paul Bromley - 9 Dec 2006 2:14 PM - 7 messages

Ok - I have given up on trying to find the active IP address for a given PC. For licensing purposes I need to retrive a unique identifier from the PC that the program is installed on. The Hard disk serial number would do fine, ...

i need help about .net installation problems

gonu - 9 Dec 2006 8:37 AM - 2 messages

i have .net installation problem i start the actual install with disk-1 and everything goes fine until a DLL named vdt70vcs.dll is being used/installed A message box pops up asking me to insert "Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 - English Disk 1". when i copy all dics to hard disk ...

Need some help...

Bruce W. Darby - 9 Dec 2006 7:34 AM - 47 messages

This will be my very first VB.Net application and it's pretty simple. But I've got a snag in my syntax somewhere. Was hoping that someone could point me in the right direction. The history: My work involves creating custom packages of our software product for golf ...

Why I am sick of .Net

aalbino - 9 Dec 2006 4:52 AM - 12 messages

If your gonna flame, shut up and read first: I have been programming in VB (5, 6), VB.NET (1.0,1.1, 2.0), VBA, etc.. since 2000. I really loved working with that RAD tool, Visual BASIC IDE, and Visual ...

one field on a winforms, validate not firing

Jeff Jarrell - 9 Dec 2006 3:42 AM - 4 messages

I have one textbox on a form. Nothing else. The validate event doesn't fire. Drop another textbox on the form and the validate event fires. Set tabstop = false on the 2nd text box and the validate event on textbox1 ...

Newbie: Assigning values to an array

Jack Doria - 9 Dec 2006 12:21 AM - 3 messages

We store some objects in a dictionary, but need to pass those to a web service that calls for an array of objects. I am getting an error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" after opening a page that ...

Graphics challenge

ole - 8 Dec 2006 10:12 PM - 3 messages

Hi! We are using VB 6. Is it possible to make a design like this: [link] on a form? This form must be resizeable when dragging a corner (as usual in Windows software). And ...

This code demonstrates a problem using a treeview twice

Franky - 8 Dec 2006 10:10 PM - 4 messages

Been having a problem using a treeview. Work great the first time the form containing it is entered but not the second time. Took a while to create a small sample that exhibits the problem, but here it is. Seems to have something to do with doing ShowDialog ...

slow form backimage load @ vb.net

Hazem - 8 Dec 2006 9:22 PM - 4 messages

Hi, I made a software but I face a problem with the back ground image as it takes time to show up completely @ the form load.. how can I fix this problem? Thanks Hazem ...

Looking for suggestions on how to do something

Bishop - 8 Dec 2006 8:54 PM - 5 messages

I have text files that I download daily from one of our vendors. They are in this format (and they won't change the way they do it) File1: ProductID, Description, Price, etc.... File2: ProductID, QTY Outside of loading them into a table in the DB and joining the data, does ...

destroying/releasing objects from memory?

Rich - 8 Dec 2006 8:41 PM - 21 messages

Greetings, In a button on a form I instantiate 4 class objects. Then, depending on some other selections (radio buttons) on the form, I call a procedure from one of the classes. Then I set all 4 classes equal to nothing to release them ...

Threading Delegate Question

BrianDH - 8 Dec 2006 7:12 PM - 8 messages

Hi I have a textbox that is created on my "main form thread". However I need to be able to change its background color, flashing, using a 2nd thread. I have this working BUT sometimes I get an error "object reference not set ...

Error: The transport failed to connect to the server

Nathan Sokalski - 8 Dec 2006 6:06 PM - 5 messages

I am attempting to send an email using ASP.NET 1.1's Mail.SmtpMail.Send() method. My code contains all of the following: Dim mailmsg As New Mail.MailMessage Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("smtpserver") mailmsg.BodyFormat = Mail.MailFormat.Text ...

How to Insert field and value into another grid

shookim - 8 Dec 2006 5:41 PM - 6 messages

I don't care how one suggests I do it, but I've been searching for days on how to implement this concept. I'm trying to use some kind of grid control (doesn't have to be a grid control, whatever works best) to ...

vbs to vb.net

DorkyGrin - 8 Dec 2006 5:20 PM - 5 messages

Hi, Couple of questions: 1. I need to rename a PDF based on some information inside a text file. Someone gave me some vbs code (see below) that I'd like to convert into VB.net. I want GUI and the vb.net app to watch a folder for a file to ...

how 2 approximate 0.1 to be 1

Hazem - 8 Dec 2006 4:48 PM - 4 messages

Hi, I want to make a calculation & need to appriximate any fraction after the point to be added as genuine like 4.1 = 5 what function or syntax can I use to accomplish that in VB.net ?? Thanks ...

Re: where is the new access 2007 newsgroup?

Homer J Simpson - 8 Dec 2006 4:28 PM - 3 messages

Don't repost the post - most everyone has plonked this idiot. ...

WebBrowser control in vb

AMercer - 8 Dec 2006 2:38 PM - 2 messages

Using .net 2003, fw 1.1, and vb, I'm trying to use the MS Web Browser control (which added a ref to AxSHDocVw). I tried this a few years ago, and couldn't figure out how to tell if a navigation had completed. I still can't figure ...

Reading int64 from file & converting to DateTime

clackmannan - 8 Dec 2006 1:33 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I have a binary file that I'm trying to process with VB.net 2003 The file includes a timestamp that was written to the file using the following code: With m_Writer ...

Interlocked.Add Not Thread Safe with Longs on a 32bit system

David - 8 Dec 2006 12:04 PM - 13 messages

Below are three classes for a console application. If put into three separate files, the sub main() will launch multiple threads adding and removing the same value. At the end we expect the value for all Balances to be 0. When using an Integer things work fine. LONGS do ...

Data Relations with DataTable Class

Anil Gupte - 8 Dec 2006 12:00 PM - 10 messages

After reading a tutorial and fiddling, I finally got this to work. I can now put two tables created with a DataTable class into a DataRelation. Phew! And it works! Dim tblSliceInfo As New DataTable("SliceInfo") Dim tblSliceRatings As New DataTable("SliceRatings") ...

Tray Icon

JuanDegorgio - 8 Dec 2006 11:04 AM - 3 messages

Is there a way to have a ballon pop up if you mouse over a tray icon? ...

vbQuestion error

vanderlej - 8 Dec 2006 9:30 AM - 6 messages

hello i need a solution for this: click on a button should raise "vbquestion" popup window, but all i get is "Activex component can't object". why?! thanks ...

Is it possible to display images on desktop (not as an icon)?

GH - 8 Dec 2006 6:20 AM - 6 messages

Is it possible to display images on the desktop itself, like the bacground but not as a background? And not as icons either. Anything you put in the \Desktop folder shows up as an icon on the desktop, but ...

Data access layer for SQL Server & MS Access

sanders_mike_newsgroups - 8 Dec 2006 6:00 AM - 8 messages

Hi I have a web app that needs to be able to use either SQL Server or MS Access - depending upon the installation. I want to avoid having unnessesary amounts of code (eg: dim x as sqlDataReader, dim y as ...

Re: Which do you prefer?

Tim Patrick - 8 Dec 2006 5:29 AM - 4 messages

I worked with a lady who wrote to Scott Adams the idea about "smaller font sizes taking up less disk space." She got a "thanks for the idea" letter back from Adams and a preview copy of the panels for that particular Dilbert ...

Inverse Text.

Blake - 8 Dec 2006 1:17 AM - 2 messages

How hard can this be? I need to draw textual information directly onto an image of which I know nothing about until runtime, so I figured a NOT style pen would be appropriate. But it seems that .NET cannot accomplish this in managed ...

vb.net "getting the base name of a file"

samadams_2006 - 8 Dec 2006 12:28 AM - 4 messages

Hello, Suppose in VB.NET I have a file at: c:\bitmaps\image1.bmp and I want to get the "basename" (ie: image1) and the "path" (ie: c:\bitmaps\) How do I go about it? It doesn't appear that io.file has these ...

Trigger a Help event.

lord.zoltar - 7 Dec 2006 10:08 PM - 4 messages

I've managed to get a nice little chm help system written. Now I need to display it! I added a HelpProvider to my MDIParent form and set the namespace of the HelpProvider to be the help file. So far so good - when I press F1, ...

Installing a windows service

BK - 7 Dec 2006 9:36 PM - 7 messages

I've created a windows service and tested it. It works the way I want it to. I added a ProjectInstaller and set the appropriate properties in my Windows Service project. To install it, I went to a Visual ...

simple question

Carly - 7 Dec 2006 9:20 PM - 6 messages

Hi there, I know that string is a reference type. I have the following code: Dim s As String Dim s2 As String s = "AAAAA" s2 = s ...

Re: Turn off deprecated warnings?

Barry - 7 Dec 2006 8:15 PM - 4 messages

I do not have the time nor the inclination to continue this pointless conversation. You repeat the same things over and over - it's becoming quite comical. It is clear that no-one shares your views and are taking no notice of ...

Re: Turn off deprecated warnings?

Barry - 7 Dec 2006 7:39 PM - 3 messages

If you had read Andrew's previous post he actually uses C# - which, in other posts, you have been praising and telling everyone and anyone that C# is better than VB .NET and *far* more people use C# than ever ...

DataTable FillSchema error - Pulling my hair out!

Henry Jones - 7 Dec 2006 6:51 PM - 9 messages

VB.NET VS 2005 When I try to fill the Dataset, I issue the following commands: Dim objDA As New SqlDataAdapter(query, objConn) objDA.SelectCommand.CommandTimeout = 0 Dim ds As New DataSet objDA.FillSchema(ds, SchemaType.Source) objDA.Fill(ds) ...

Re: Turn off deprecated warnings?

Barry - 7 Dec 2006 6:20 PM - 3 messages

Oh just give up will you. Your incessant ramblings are becoming quite irritating. You are in no way useful to these Groups what so ever - you are a hindrance. I have been reading your posts and I am quite frankly disappointed that ...

How to use log4net for a windows forms application using COM classes

chidam.chidam - 7 Dec 2006 6:19 PM - 2 messages

Hi all, I would like to implement log4net for logging my application. First let me describe in short about the application. I have a solution with two exe file outputs and several dll assemblies. And my application has ...

Where does stdole.dll come from?

samadams_2006 - 7 Dec 2006 5:14 PM - 2 messages

I'm trying to determine what loads stdole.dll Is it installed by windows? How about a specific office application (ie: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.?) Perhaps asp.net itself? How do I determine this? ...

Namespace for stdole?

samadams_2006 - 7 Dec 2006 5:12 PM - 9 messages

I'm trying to find the namespace for stdole.dll Is there a tool out there that will help me do this? ...

Drop shadow under image

Andrew - 7 Dec 2006 4:47 PM - 6 messages

I want to drop a shadow under an image that I have showing in a control that I made in vb.net 2005. would I redraw the image as a solid color and put it under the image i am ...

Shared textfile...threading

MobileBoy36 - 7 Dec 2006 4:39 PM - 7 messages

Hi All, I want to make a LogFile class that is thread safe. I use a Mutex for it. But the behavior of the class is not that normal. In a c# guide I read you can achieve it by simply using Mutex.Waitone and ...

Populating combox from dataset

Soddy - 7 Dec 2006 4:08 PM - 13 messages

Hello! I just know I'm missing something very simple here... I am trying to populate a combobox2 with row values from a dataset according to a value selected in another combobox1 (the dataset 'columns'). I can get the combobox1 populated okay and can select the 'column' I want okay. Just ...

Is this a bug I see before me, or an incomplete understanding of scope?

teddysnips - 7 Dec 2006 3:34 PM - 6 messages

Is this a bug? I open a DataReader dr from a SQL Server SPROC Do While dr.Read Dim ClubDay As New ChildrensClubDay With ClubDay Dim MPInfo As PaymentInformation ...

Richtextbox SaveFile Release

Morrigan - 7 Dec 2006 1:56 PM - 2 messages

Hello, I am using the following code to add text to a RichTextBox: rtfLog.AppendText("File not Found: " & MyPath & MySubPath & "\" & ArtikelTempStr & ".pdf" & Chr(10)): Next step is to save the Richtextbox.text as file with the following ...

Look at this debugging output about TreeViews

Franky - 7 Dec 2006 1:53 PM - 4 messages

I normally don't ask for help debugging but I've been looking at this for 4 days and am beginning to believe it may be caused by something I just don't know about. Below is a printout from a treeview debugging session. ...

crystal reports problem

KAMAL - 7 Dec 2006 10:01 AM - 2 messages

HI all, In my project i have used crystal reports (Vs 2003). When i am running my project in a system with only frame work it was giving error " Invalid code Keycodev2.dll". Its very urgent. Any body know about this. Any ...

How to prevent keydown events on toolbar

mart_nl - 7 Dec 2006 9:28 AM - 3 messages

Dear group, I am trying to move a panel (panel2) around which is inside another panel (panel1). I want the user to be able to use the arrow keys on the keyboard. However when I press either arrow key, focus is set to my toolbar ...

Apostrophe Problem - HELP

Mike Fellows - 7 Dec 2006 9:27 AM - 4 messages

I have a database with a vb.net frot end that I have used forever recently we upgraded our database server to SQL 2005 x64 in my code i run mystring= Replace(mystring, "'", "''") to replace any single apostrophes with 2 apostrophes ...

Visual Basic 2005 - ContextSwitchDeadLock was detected when debugging

Connie - 7 Dec 2006 4:21 AM - 3 messages

Dear All, If i step over my visual basic 2005 code, i got this error: The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x1a2008 to COM context 0x1a2178 for 60 seconds. The thread that owns the destination context/apartment is most likely either doing a non pumping wait or ...

In VB.NET what do I need to "import" to get stdole ?

samadams_2006 - 6 Dec 2006 10:12 PM - 3 messages

What "imports" command (ie: Imports System.Text ) do I need to add in order to get access to stdole in vb.net ? ...

Excel dll on computer whitout offices

Luc Seguin - 6 Dec 2006 9:53 PM - 4 messages

I made a EXE that do a verification after a installation of all DLL and their date and version. All this is done in a excel file for the output result. Problem is at time we install it on a server that do not have a Office suite ...

VB.NET Problem: Setting the Mask and Picture Properties on a CommadBar without "LoadPicture"???

samadams_2006 - 6 Dec 2006 9:09 PM - 2 messages

Hello, I'm using "Visual Studio 2005" and VB.NET to be more exact. I have the following article which shows me how to set the mask and picture properties for Office XP Commandbars: [link] ...

Drag and Drop from Listview to Textbox

Matthew - 6 Dec 2006 8:02 PM - 2 messages

Is it possible to drag and drop data from a listview into a text box and visa versa? If so how can it be done, I have a very hard time with drag and drop. Thank you in advanced. ...

task manager, app doesn't unload

ray well - 6 Dec 2006 7:45 PM - 5 messages

on my developing system, when my app exits, it always gets removed withing a second from the task manager. on my clients machine, the app exits but stays indefinitely in the task manager. i tried every which way to kill the process, i did all of the following to ...

Best way to handle interface and Forms

Michael - 6 Dec 2006 6:50 PM - 5 messages

Hi Everyone, I've created a project that uses a plugin interface. These plugings will hold data entry forms that will be printed in Word. I have a main mdi form that contains a combo that contains the clients. I need a way to send the ...

Add Datatable With New Name

Derek Hart - 6 Dec 2006 6:33 PM - 2 messages

I have a datatable that I pass into a function that removes duplicates, because I am in .Net 1.x. I have a clone of the datatable, but I cannot figure out how to give it a new name so it returns with a new datatable ...

Why does the the program not quit in this case?

Bob - 6 Dec 2006 6:26 PM - 5 messages

Hi, If the test is true, the message 'not available' must be shown and quit the program. But when the test is true and when table 'data2' is empty (so nrg=0), i get the error:"dividing by zero". Why? The program should quit, no? ...

convet date format

martin1 - 6 Dec 2006 6:21 PM - 8 messages

Hi, All, I want to convert Date mm/dd/yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd string, for example 05/29/2006 to 2006-05-29, can anyone help thi sout? Thanks. Martin ...

Embedding a newline in a vb.net string constant

Andrew Backer - 6 Dec 2006 6:08 PM - 22 messages

Is it possible to embed a newline constant in a string in the same way as c#? I really don't want to do something like this: ++ String.Format("Line 1 : {0} " & vbcrlf & " Line 2 : {1}", o, t) ...

Filecopy sourcefile

reidarT - 6 Dec 2006 5:44 PM - 2 messages

I have a project with an installfile-folder with files. I want to copy files from this folder to another location like Sorce = "InstallFiles\file.txt" Destination="c:\...\file.txt" FileCopy (Source,Destination) I seems like I need the whole source path to make this work. ...

Gzipstream - multiple files

MobileBoy36 - 6 Dec 2006 5:31 PM - 2 messages

Hi all, Is it possible to add multiple files to an archive using Gzipstream? How can it be done then? best regards, Mobileboy ...

Exe Size

Miro - 6 Dec 2006 5:23 PM - 4 messages

Just a thought - not to be a big discussion. Im still fiddling with vb.net 2k5 express.... but just ponderd the question of how big anyone's exe has gotten that actually has an application that is out there being used commercially. ...

MDI Parent Forms

henpat - 6 Dec 2006 4:32 PM - 5 messages

Hello all I have a MDI Parent Form with some childs. I need to know how can I setup a child form in order to disable access for other forms "in the back". I need that only the active form be available until the user closes it. ...

Setting Tab Index between Panels

Ben - 6 Dec 2006 4:16 PM - 2 messages

Hi We have a number of Panels on our windows form, we have controls inside and outside of the panels. I am having problems tabbing between controls, it appers to be when the controls are within panels: It will tab though the controls outside the ...

how pass Date vaiable to XPath query

martin1 - 6 Dec 2006 3:54 PM - 5 messages

Hi,All I want to pass Date varible value to XPATh query (see code below), it i snot work, can anyone help this out? Thanks. Martin Dim currentDate As Date = CDate("5/29/2006") adoCmd.CommandText = "<Root xmlns:sql=""urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-sql"" ...

DLL returns a variant data type - how to convert and use in VB .NET

darren.benn - 6 Dec 2006 3:22 PM - 2 messages

I need to convert this code to VB .NET (2003). Dim FaxMsg As IFaxMessage Set FaxMsg = gFC.NewMessage Dim Recip As Variant ' add a recipient to the fax recipients collection Set Recip = FaxMsg.Recipients.Add(0) ...

Re: Is VB.NET Popular???

pamelafluente - 6 Dec 2006 12:42 PM - 2 messages

RobinS ha scritto: Let's celebrate Msg N. 200 ! Everybody is invited tonight to my place Bring your laptops: Aaron will show us how to write good programs :) RobinS ha scritto: ...

XML File into a SQL table

AMP - 6 Dec 2006 12:17 PM - 4 messages

I have a XLM file that contains data, but no schema, How can I read this data into a SQL table (this has the correct colums etc ...

OLEDBCommand vs. SQLCommand

Anil Gupte - 6 Dec 2006 11:59 AM - 15 messages

When does one use one or the other? And why? I cannot imagine too many innstances where you would not want to use SQL statements when you communicating with a database - even on a read-only basis. Plus there is ...

Re: Which do you prefer?

Tom Shelton - 6 Dec 2006 8:39 AM - 3 messages

On 2006-12-05, Blake <bl***@zgeek.com> wrote: I think that is a little misleading... I mean your right, there is nothing really equivalent to handles in C# (thank goodness), it doesn't mean that the ...

cUpdate Custom attribut with reflection

Marc Robitaille - 6 Dec 2006 6:01 AM - 4 messages

Hello, I have this Field attribut class and a Client class that uses this Attribut Class <AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Property)> _ Public Class Field Inherits Attribute Private _FieldName As String Private _Changed As Boolean ...

How can I simulate an onclick event in IE?

melton9 - 6 Dec 2006 4:10 AM - 2 messages

I've been searching around and haven't really found anything. I've but an IE browser on my form and would like to simulate clicking the provided refresh button on a one minute interval. I can't use navigate ...

IE toolbar show/hide

I have created a custom IE tool bar in C# 2005 and I am using a setup and deployment package to install it. I need to know how I make the tool bar I just installed show up in IE. ...

Using XPath Against A Node

Derek Hart - 5 Dec 2006 10:54 PM - 7 messages

I bring in an xml file into vb.net by using xmlDoc.LoadXml(XMLString) - I run xpath statements against the xml file to grab data from it, so I use, as an example, //Vehicles/Vehicles/@make to get the make of the car. But then ...

how to use table in a dataset as data source for combobox?

Rich - 5 Dec 2006 10:16 PM - 7 messages

Hello, I want to use a column in a table that is contained in a dataset (populated by a dataAdapter) as the datasource for a combobox. I can get as far as populating the table with the dataAdapater. But have a problem adding this ...

HTML help files

lord.zoltar - 5 Dec 2006 9:26 PM - 8 messages

I have some Help documents for a program. For the help system, I'd like to have the user push a button and have a window pop up and display the HTML help files in a WebBrowser Control. This is pretty easy and ...

Insert key press in text box

jimmy - 5 Dec 2006 8:12 PM - 4 messages

Hi all I am making a program whereby when the insert key is pressed in a text box it opens up another form with the search parameters they entered in the text box and automatically searches for the data. I have the code ...

Close a form after x amount of time

mattgcon - 5 Dec 2006 6:58 PM - 9 messages

I have a popup form within my application that I want to show for only about 10 seconds. On this form by the way has an AVI that plays. I want the form to popup on click of a button and close after 10 seconds ...

Problem adding icons to imagelist

Manfred - 5 Dec 2006 6:51 PM - 2 messages

Hello I added some icons to an imagelist. I checked first the image size and image depth and adjusted the settings according in the imagelist before adding the icon. The icon still gets distorted when I use it in the ...

Reading a .DAT file with the Microsoft Text Driver

zacks - 5 Dec 2006 6:44 PM - 3 messages

I have an application that uses the Microsoft Text Driver to read ASCII delimited files. Most of the time these files are either CSV or TXT file extension. Recently I needed to read some that had a DAT file extension. When I tried to open it with the Microsoft Text Driver an ...

Confusing Arraylist BinarySearch problem

Justin - 5 Dec 2006 6:42 PM - 4 messages

Here's a quick rundown of what I'm doing. I'm filling an arraylist with data. Then I loop through a dataset and grab a field to perform a search on the arraylist. Every time I find a match I ...

Need some info about the Load event of Forms and Usercontrols

Franky - 5 Dec 2006 6:30 PM - 3 messages

Threre is a Form containing a usercontrol In the form's Load event it references a usercontrol property, say, zz The first showdialog(formx) causes 1 usercontrol_load event 2 form_load event which causes zz as expected the second showdialog(formx) causes ...

How to Step back to caller in break mode

pamelafluente - 5 Dec 2006 5:13 PM - 3 messages

When we break execution the compiler is very smart to highlight all the functions which have been called. Several times I have though that if I am for instance on Sub Anything() and this is highlighted, I would like step back to the code where ...

Max Pool Size question

fniles - 5 Dec 2006 4:12 PM - 5 messages

When using connection pooling, I understand the default Max Pool Size = 100. What happens when to the 101 or more connection ? I mean, if 101st tries to use the connection pooling, what happen to it ? Will it get an error ? ...

Re: Is VB.NET Popular???

Tim Patrick - 5 Dec 2006 3:42 PM - 6 messages

OK, I've decided to come clean. The truth is...I am actually Bill Gates. It had been a while since "The Road Ahead" came out, and sales just weren't doing that well anymore. So I decided to write Visual Basic books under a ...

Is there some way to tell the debugger not to stop at WndProc?

Franky - 5 Dec 2006 3:36 PM - 8 messages

when I'm debugging (single stepping) I keep getting to WndProc which I do not want to step through. Is there some way to tell the debugger not to stop at WndProc? Thanks ...

Mask and dates

path - 5 Dec 2006 1:58 PM - 6 messages

Hello all I'm programming in a Windows form (VB 2005). I use the MaskedTextBox control. I use the slash "/" as separator date. When I retrieve data from a database in another workstation the separator changes by depending the separator OS by defualt "-" or "." ...

set focus

nil - 5 Dec 2006 10:38 AM - 7 messages

hi..suppose there is only one textbox in the form and one command button... can anyone tell me how can i setfocus of textbox when page is load? should i do that by java script?please send me coding how to do that? ...

Re: Printing Example

Pace - 5 Dec 2006 9:19 AM - 3 messages

Hi, There is a great tutorial you may find useful here; [link] ...

Re: Is VB.NET Popular???

Robinson - 5 Dec 2006 8:10 AM - 2 messages

Well I'm going to give up on this thread. Arguing with Mr Kempf is like arguing with a Grapefruit. ...

Complete Newbie

encino1030 - 5 Dec 2006 3:55 AM - 5 messages

I have only slightly tried to learn VB, and have been trying to do something vith VB.net. I am sure it is simple to some (probably most), but please bear with me. I want to creat a form with various buttons. each button will load a ...

FSO equivalent in VB.net

Ben - 5 Dec 2006 3:48 AM - 8 messages

Hi all, I have been using the FSO object in in my Excel/ Access and VB 6 development from the ScriptingRuntime library. I am just starting to use a VS 2002 and VS 2005 Express. I am wondering if there is something equivalent in VS 2002 ...

Call Multithreaded Sub from Timer

msnews.microsoft.com - 4 Dec 2006 10:48 PM - 4 messages

Is it possible to have just a multithreaded sub procedure? What I need is a timer time_elapsed event (2 sec interval) send params to a sub that is multithreaded. I have a COM component used to send messages,faxes, etc.. ...

Re: Is VB.NET Popular???

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