Visual Basic .NET - Week 19, 2010

MS's Usenet evolution

Salad - 8 May 2010 11:39 AM - 2 messages

Looks like a text based Usenet group like this one will going away soon. [link] I guess code snippets will be color coded in your future. ...

Move controls at runtime

johnb - 7 May 2010 3:32 PM - 11 messages

Hi Guys I'm trying to get started on allowing the user move a button control around a Form. For example I have say 30 jobs to do. Each button is a job and clicking on it will reveal that job's details. The user wants not started ...

How to work with Access 2003 in VB.net

Ben - 7 May 2010 2:00 AM - 4 messages

Hi all, Is there a way to work with Access 2003 in VB.net, such as: 1. dynamically create a query from vb.net code and save it into Access? 2. cycle through the query definition as I would be able to using DAO? ...

how to draw irregular shape and calculate its surface?

Uwe Conradi - 6 May 2010 9:39 PM - 3 messages

Hello everybody, I load first some image in the picturebox. I would like to draw (with pressed mouse) a line in the picturebox making so an irregular shape and then to color this shape and finally to calculate how many pixel are there. So I could compare different shapes. ...

ms sql # temp table - invalid object name in data source

Keith G Hicks - 6 May 2010 4:12 PM - 5 messages

vb.net 2008 I have a MS SQL stored procedure that uses # temp tables in the following manner: create #counties (countyname varchar(20)) insert into #counties ...... select firstname, lastname, address from personlist pl inner join #counties c on pl.county = c.countyname ...

Threading question - ensure execution of a block of code

kpg - 6 May 2010 5:45 AM - 2 messages

Is there a way to protect a section of code so that all the statements in the protected block are executed without being interrupted by another thread? I have a worker thread that adds a value to an array (a circular buffer) ...

A few basic questions for a newb coming from VB6

Riffrafter - 5 May 2010 6:23 PM - 6 messages

Hi All, Been away from programming for a while and just d/l'd the trial version of VS10 Pro and am playing around in VB. I've noticed more than a few differences between VB6 and VB10. That's OK ...

Add image over other images

bourkeyo - 5 May 2010 3:51 AM - 2 messages

Hey guys, Basically I have two pictures: A map (quite a large picture) A symbol (quite small and to be placed over the map at specified points) Anyone have any idea how I could go about this? Thanks in advance for any help! ...

Registry Access

Charles A. Lackman - 4 May 2010 8:00 PM - 3 messages

Hello, I created an App that writes small amounts of data to the registry. This works in Windows XP with no problem, however, Windows 7 gives the following error: "Requested registry access is not allowed". I am not sure how to work around this. ...

Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities

nntp - 4 May 2010 7:34 PM - 27 messages

Date 5/4/2010 Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs. ...

Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities

nntp - 4 May 2010 7:14 PM - 10 messages

Date 5/4/2010 Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs. ...

Byte Array Question

mikebres - 4 May 2010 3:23 PM - 3 messages

I am looking for some help understanding this piece of code. byteArray(12) = CType((1 >> 16 and 255), Integer) I'm not a VB.Net programmer and I don't know what the double greater than symbol means ( >> ) and why the original person is using the And operator ...

How to stop a form being 'non maximised'

AussieRules - 4 May 2010 2:57 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I have a form that is set to being maximised. I have disabled the min/max buttons and set the formborderstyle to be fixedtoolwindow. Once the application has started it maximise just fine, but the user can then dbl click the window title bar and it is no longer maximised. ...

Getting environment varibles from cmd file

BrianB - 4 May 2010 4:27 AM - 5 messages

I have a VB.NET application that needs to extract the environment variables (EV) set by a bat file named SetVars.cmd. I would think the easiest way would be to have my VB run the cmd file and then just read the environment ...

BindingSource

Vasco - 3 May 2010 11:23 PM - 3 messages

You cannot vote on your own post 0 Hello, I use a master/detail form, where records are shown. this form was created in VB 2010, using the design tools of VS. When i select add on BindingNavigator, the bound controls clear, as expected. ...

ASP problem: is this a bug in VBScript?

JÐµns MÐ°rtin SchlÐ°ttÐµr - 3 May 2010 1:02 PM - 3 messages

I'm running a web server with vbscript 5.8 I have the following problem: I define a class, put the instances into an array, and write this array into the Session instance. When getting back the array, there are still objects in it, but ...

What's the alternative to XmlDataDocument?

Marc Hillman - 3 May 2010 11:28 AM - 5 messages

I just discovered XmlDataDocument today, which is the perfect solution to my problem, but I've just realised that it is obsolete. So what's its replacement? I wish to access an XML file both via XPath and DataSets. What ...

copy my vb project... is it as easy as copying the directory..

AussieRules - 3 May 2010 8:41 AM - 2 messages

Hi, I want to take a copy of a project so I have two projects the same.. the idea is i can play around with one, and not effect the original.. is it as easy as just using file explorer to copy the directory from say ...