Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls?

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    - about email GUI? using vbee2005 There are actually a few Microsoft controls that you could find in the toolbox of the designer... You may want to use a RichTextBox for the text portion, (which has built in features like cut, paste and so on...) For the tools, look into a ToolStrip control. I'm not sure if the RichTextBox has font and color changes, but you could try it out and see. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Wrong Progresspercentage ? Hi, I don't know if this is the cause of the problem but.... These two lines of code.... wc.UploadFileAsync(uri, file); //doesn't block wc.Dispose(); Your disposing the WebClient object while the asynchronous upload is still happening. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - A few questions 1: Me.textbox1.Paste() 2: My.Computer.Registry.GetValue 3. Yes 4.,5. shell("adress of the file") Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Object Null Reference does this work any different Code Block Mainform.Playlist1.removeItem(Mainform.Playlist1.Item(0)) oh wait sorry in your example playlist1 is a listview Maybe this is what you need Code Block Mainform.Playlist1.items(0).remove Are you creating a media player playlist such as this Code Block Dim Playlist As IWMPPlaylist = Nothing Playlist = player.newPlaylist( "vegas" , "" ) Playlist.appendItem(player.newMedia( My .Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.MyMusic & "\Elvis 2nd To None\19 - Viva Las Vegas.mp3" )) ' single song Dim song As String () = Directory.GetFiles( My .Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.MyMusic & "\Elvis 2nd To None" , "*.mp3" ) For Each s As String In song Playlist.appendItem(player.newMedia(s)) Next player.currentPlaylist = Playlist player.Ctlcontrols.play() Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - form transparent sometimes What is the form's TransparencyKey property set to Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - How could I read 300 characters from a text file? This is quiet cool, i asked the question but before any help was given to me I fiqured out a solution for it! To read a certain length of characters in any file I could do the following: Code Snippet ' This creats an array from the specified file, in this case "C:\Text.Txt". Dim buffering() = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("C:\Text.Txt").ToArray Dim i as integer While i <= 250 value = value & buffering(i).ToString i += 1 End while ' The variable `value` would contain the first 250 characters ' of the file which in this case is "C:\Text.Txt". Then every time the next 250 or any other integer value of characters are required you could add the above While loop statment to obtain the next block of code. (The block of code could vary in this example it was 250, but it could be any thing you like, at every while loop statment) But insure that you don't change the value of ' i '. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - web browser stuff.. I will address questions 2 and 3 for you: To show the page title in the form’s title bar: Hook up a Document_Completed event handler for the webBrowser and put this code into it: this .Text = webBrowser1.DocumentTitle; (To create a Document_Completed event handler, go to the Design view and select the webBrowser control. Then in the properties window, click on the lightning bolt icon which should show a list of events for the browser. Find the one labeled ‘DocumentCompleted’ and double-click it. This should take you back to code view and the event handler will be added. Put the code listed above into the handler.) To prevent IE from opening a new window you need to intercept the NewWindow event. I presume you want to open a new window with another instance of your webBrowser form. And you want to be able to do the same by right-clicking a link. Hook up a NewWindow event handler using the same technique above and add the following code: Form1 f1 = new Form1 (lastUrl); f1.Show(); e.Cancel = true ; This creates a new Form1 (I am assuming that this is the form that your browser control is on), passes a string called ‘lastUrl’ (more on this later). Launches the form and cancels the event. So, whenever the browser needs to create a new window, this routine will make a new browser for you and stop the event from launching a window in IE. Now, we need to make Form1 display the web page that we just passed to it. Make the constructor of Form1 look like this: public Form1( string url) { InitializeComponent(); webBrowser1.StatusTextChanged += new EventHandler (webBrowser1_StatusTextChanged); webBrowser1.Navigate(url); } This makes Form1 receive a string url and uses it to navigate the webBrowser whenever it is created. The webBrowser1.StatusTextChanged … line hooks up an event handler that is not in the list of handlers that you can choose from in the properties window. So you will have to add this event handler like this: string lastUrl; void webBrowser1_StatusTextChanged( object sender, EventArgs e) { string s0 = webBrowser1.StatusText; if (s0.Contains( "http" )) { lastUrl = s0; } toolStripStatusLabel1.Text = s0; //optional } The status text is what is displayed on the status strip at the bottom of most browsers. When you hover your mouse over a url, you will see this change. This bit of code looks for changes in this status and remembers the last bit of status that shows a url in the string variable ‘lastUrl’. This is the variable that we use to launch any new window either automatically or by right-clicking and selecting the ‘open in new window” option from the context menu. Optionally, you can add a toolstrip wit a toolStripStatusLabel to the bottom of your form and display the status like most browsers. Finally, one more bit of housekeeping. Assuming Form1 is the first form your program launches (it may not be since you have a splash screen), you will need to make the call to Form1 in the Program.cs file match your constructor. Change the Application.Run(new Form1()); line to: Application .Run( new Form1 ( "" )); This will provide the string to Form1 that the constructor is expecting. I hope this explanation was clear. Here is the complete listing of my Form1 which has a webBrowser, textbox, button, and toolStripStatusLabel: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace WindowsApplication1 { public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1( string url) { InitializeComponent(); webBrowser1.StatusTextChanged += new EventHandler (webBrowser1_StatusTextChanged); webBrowser1.Navigate(url); } string lastUrl; void webBrowser1_StatusTextChanged( object sender, EventArgs e) { string s0 = webBrowser1.StatusText; if (s0.Contains( "http" )) { lastUrl = s0; } toolStripStatusLabel1.Text = s0; } private void button1_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { webBrowser1.Navigate(textBox1.Text); } private void webBrowser1_DocumentCompleted( object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e) { this .Text = webBrowser1.DocumentTitle; } private void webBrowser1_NewWindow( object sender, CancelEventArgs e) { Form1 f1 = new Form1 (lastUrl); f1.Show(); e.Cancel = true ; } } } Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Need help sorting this out databases, arrays, for loops, etc well basically you got it right, you need to loop through each row from 1 table within the other...if that makes sense. you need to know however that the current column of data is an integer type otherwise you would get errors. question is, which column are these values stored in basically itll be something like this.. for each outerrow in table1 for each innerrow in table2 add to array, outterrow(column) - innerrow(column) next next Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - How to get stringbuilder to assign values to custom textboxes on a New e-mail window Can you explain what you are attempting to do in a little more detail When you say " I use the following code to assign values to already defined fileds" I am not sure what you are talking about. the code you provide assigns some text to a variable. Do you then want to assign the variable to form fields or specifically a textbox TextBox1.Text = theStringBuilder.ToString() If this is not what you are looking for then I think more explaination is needed. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Hide Password Characters? Just set the PasswordChar to what you want to display, e.g. TextBox1.PasswordChar = "*"c will display asterisks instead of the actual characters you enter. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Help!!! This code is killing my Computer. Not everyone here is a guy. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - About Uninstall directory in Registry Are you installing this as a privileged user I've seen some mentions about this issue in relation to installing with limited access. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - SendKeys Help... SendKeys.SendWait(" ") Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Mp3 Coding ' Do a 'project' ' add reference' for the Imports Imports Microsoft.DirectX Imports Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback Public Class Form1 Friend WithEvents m_Audio As Audio Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, _ ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click m_Audio = New Audio( "c:\song.mp3" , False ) Dim SongLen As Double = m_Audio.Duration Dim SongMins As Double = SongLen / 60 MsgBox(SongMins.ToString( "00.00" ) & " Minutes duration" ) End Sub End Class Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Of Pictureboxes, Transparency, Movement and Backgrounds Alright, I have found a partial solution to my problem. I have put the red arrows into the background of the form, and so the green arrows don't have that "boxy" problem anymore. HOWEVER, the program now moves really, really slowly. Is there some sort of solution for this Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - problem with msdn killer_instinct wrote: i had downloaded the last msdn from msdn website my problem is that msdn is compatible with my visual c++ 6.0 dated since 1998 i can't update to the last version because our teacher want us to work with visual c++ 6.0 If you are not going to be making Windows applications, you do not need anything that does not come with the Visual C++ 6.0 compiler. What do you expect to find in the MSDN Library that will matter for your class You can use the MSDN that is part of Visual Studio 6.0 and should be included with Visual C++ 6.0, depending on the version. MSDN On-line also has an archive of older material: http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp Later MSDN Libraries on DVD / CD-ROM do not include this material. They also link to MSDN on-line for access to "legacy material." The last MSDN that integrated in Visual Studio 6.0 was produced in 2003. The earliest version available for download is the MSDN Library May 2006 Edition (August 2006 is the most-recent available for download). It is true that recent versions of the MSDN Library (and Platform SDK) on CD-ROM and DVD are not compatible with Visual Studio (and Visual C++) 6.0. However, you should be able to install the latest MSDN Library. It will simply not integrate with Visual C++ 6.0. You can use it outside of Visual C++ 6.0. I am not sure it will be very useful to you. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Bug?: Unwanted C4819 Well, you know, it is a warning. I don't think VC++ 2005 Express Edition has any way to tell that you are using Latin1. I think that is why it checks the default code page you are running under. There's probably a #pragma clause that you could add to your #if material to suppress that particular warning. I think we are seeing the difficulties of moving to Unicode while our systems don't support Unicode at the codepage and console application level and it is not possible to tell which non-Unicode format is being used on a computer except by checking the default code page setting. Sometimes, the programmer has to guess wrong in attempting to have a behavior that works most of the time. - Dennis MORE ANALYSIS: Because the Forum web page is in UTF-8, I was able to paste your program into a blank C Language file using VC++ 2005 Express Edition on my code-page 437 configuration. I see the pound-Sterling symbol without any trouble, and I don't see any warning when I compile. But the program shows me a single "u" symbol when I compile it and run it in a console window. This is exactly what I deserve for character code 0xA3, of course, because that's what code-page 437 has to offer (its code for the pound-Sterling symbol being 0x9C). So what do you see in your program's output when you compile and run it with VC++ under default codepage 936 Surely not '￡' This article digs into some of the same problems you are reporting: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=306497&SiteID=1 I think one of the reasons for the warning is that the character literal '￡' (with 0xA3 followed by 0x27) is not a valid code-page 936 sequence and creating '￡' == 0xA1EA is apparently too over the edge (and won't produce the desired result anyhow), so it creates 0xFFFFFFA3 instead and then printf uses only the low-order byte. I don't think the ' ' comes from the compiler. It comes from the run-time system when it doesn't recognize a code for the code-page you have installed. (I ran into all of this fussing with codepage 932 recently.) The message is misleading. The advice about saving the file (that is, your test.c file) in Unicode format (UTF-8) is fine, but not so easy to do. You can use notepad to do it, and if the file is pasted into a blank page the way I did with your sample, it appears that the file is indeed saved in UTF-8 (the pound-Sterling symbol saves and restores just fine). The compiler can't tell you are using Latin1 because there are no markers that indicate the intended code as there are for UTF-8 and UTF-16 files on Windows. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Example of tabbed webbrowsing Tom, Your links are really broken. :( Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - radio button listbox See this article. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - How to set up Status Label for Browser If your web browser is named webbrowser1 and the label is named toolstripstatuslabel1 and you had a progress bar named toolstripprogressbar1 then you would take these steps: Make a timer, make sure it is enabled and put this code in the elapsed or tick event handler: toolstripstatuslabel1.text = webbrowser1.statustext For the progress bar put this code in the web browser's progress changed event handler: toolstripprogressbar1.maximum = e.maximumprogress toolstripprogress1.value = e.currentprogress That code should display the status text and the current progress of the browser. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Running a program in conjunction with a batch file So you wan't to run a .exe from a batch file whats the purpose of that I can get how to do that if you tell me thats what you want to do Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - How Can I delete a read only folder You can try setting it as normal first My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFileInfo("filename").Attributes = FileAttributes.Normal Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - problems to use WMI classes with VB 2005 express. Hello everybody. I'm working on a project and I need to use WMI classes for some system informations It works very well for differents classes but I have a problem with one of the class I need: Win32_NetworkConnection I can't obtain the different informations in this class ( ConnectionType, ConnectionState, Status, ....) I created a WMI class with only the informations I need: Code Snippet Imports System.Management Public Class clsWMI Private objOS As ManagementObjectSearcher Private objCS As ManagementObjectSearcher Private objNw As ManagementObjectSearcher Private objMgmt As ManagementObject Private m_strComputerName As String Private m_strManufacturer As String Private m_StrModel As String Private m_strOSName As String Private m_strOSVersion As String Private m_strSystemType As String Private m_strTPM As String Private m_strWindowsDir As String Private m_ConnectionState As String Private m_ConnectionType As String Private m_Status As String Public Sub New () objOS = New ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem" ) objCS = New ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem" ) objNw = New ManagementObjectSearcher( "SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkConnection" ) For Each objMgmt In objOS.Get m_strOSName = objMgmt( "name" ).ToString() m_strOSVersion = objMgmt( "version" ).ToString() m_strComputerName = objMgmt( "csname" ).ToString() m_strWindowsDir = objMgmt( "windowsdirectory" ).ToString() Next For Each objMgmt In objCS.Get m_strManufacturer = objMgmt( "manufacturer" ).ToString() m_StrModel = objMgmt( "model" ).ToString() m_strSystemType = objMgmt( "systemtype" ).ToString m_strTPM = objMgmt( "totalphysicalmemory" ).ToString() Next For Each objMgmt In objNw.Get m_ConnectionState = objMgmt( "connectionState" ).ToString() m_ConnectionType = objMgmt( "connectionType" ).ToString() m_Status = objMgmt( "status" ).ToString Next End Sub Public ReadOnly Property ComputerName() Get ComputerName = m_strComputerName End Get End Property Public ReadOnly Property Manufacturer() Get Manufacturer = m_strManufacturer End Get End Property Public ReadOnly Property Model() Get Model = m_StrModel End Get End Property Public ReadOnly Property OsName() Get OsName = m_strOSName End Get End Property Public ReadOnly Property OSVersion() Get OSVersion = m_strOSVersion End Get End Property Public ReadOnly Property SystemType() Get SystemType = m_strSystemType End Get End Property Public ReadOnly Property TotalPhysicalMemory() Get TotalPhysicalMemory = m_strTPM End Get End Property Public ReadOnly Property WindowsDirectory() Get WindowsDirectory = m_strWindowsDir End Get End Property Public ReadOnly Property ConnectionState() Get ConnectionState = m_ConnectionState End Get End Property Public ReadOnly Property ConnectionType() Get ConnectionType = m_ConnectionType End Get End Property Public ReadOnly Property Status() Get Status = m_Status End Get End Property End Class And I use my class with this code: Code Snippet Dim objWMI As New clsWMI() With objWMI txtResultSearch.Text = "Computer Name = " & .ComputerName & Chr(13) & Chr(10) txtResultSearch.Text += "Computer Manufacturer = " & .Manufacturer & Chr(13) & Chr(10) txtResultSearch.Text += "Computer Model = " & .Model & Chr(13) & Chr(10) txtResultSearch.Text += "OS Name = " & .OsName & Chr(13) & Chr(10) txtResultSearch.Text += "OS Version = " & .OSVersion & Chr(13) & Chr(10) txtResultSearch.Text += "System Type = " & .SystemType & Chr(13) & Chr(10) txtResultSearch.Text += "Total Physical Memory = " & .TotalPhysicalMemory & Chr(13) & Chr(10) txtResultSearch.Text += "Windows Directory = " & .WindowsDirectory & Chr(13) & Chr(10) txtResultSearch.Text += "ConnectionType = " & .ConnectionType & Chr(13) & Chr(10) txtResultSearch.Text += "ConnectionState = " & .ConnectionState & Chr(13) & Chr(10) txtResultSearch.Text += "Status = " & .Status End With The 8 first parameters work very well ( Win32_OperatingSystem and Win32_ComputerSystem WMI classes) But the 3 last parameters doesn't work and I don't know why Can we use tle WMI class Win32_NetworkConnection Thank you very much for your help. Best regards. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Virtual Hardware AmazingAnt, Please take a look at the Buggin's blog on the topic: http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2006/08/09/693499.aspx Virtual PC and Visual Basic Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Adding Number in VB use: Code Snippet txtTotalQ.Text = (txtQuantity1.Text + txtQuantity2.Text + txtQuantity3.Text + txtQuantity4.Text + txtQuantity5.Text + txtQuantity6.Text) Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - show desktop Use PrintScreen to capture it. Save it as a file and display the file on your form. I somehow just know that isn't what you wanted Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - so gentle You why it's hard Probably because it's not a good Gui design. If you said more about your application and what you need, it may be helpful. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Quotes in a string string foo = "a \"quoted\" string"; /johan/ http://idstam.com/en Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Add DBNull to date field in database? I have had some issues with this also. It took this happening to me twice and then i got rid of the datetime types. I set all my fields to either varchar or nvarchar and then i handle the formatting myself in my entry forms. by setting to variable characters (varchar) then you can have anything you want in the field and that includes "" (null) I guess the issue on the datetime type is that an empty string can never be a date but an empty string is still a string in a string field. For my dates i use a datetimepicker to enter the date and format it how i want it. This takes out the guess work for the user. And for times i use a combobox that is populated with times for them to choose from. I even place the datetimepicker under the textbox for the datetime field and then hide it. I have a button next to the box that when clicked will show the picker and when they select a date it will hide again. All these preset formats get difficult to handle sometimes. I haven't played with it because i don't use a datagridview for entering data, i use only textboxes, but i would imagine you could handle the keypress events for the datagridview also when editing by determining what column index you are in and then control the keypresses. I like to stay away from a lot of the preset "stuff" By the way, did you see the code i gave you in the other thread about bindingsource with option strict on The code will give you what you need and still be option strict safe. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Reading/Writing .dat file Start out by taking a look at the textfieldparser class... public class TextFieldParser Member of Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO Summary: Provides methods and properties for parsing structured text files. Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Validate text box using code create a keypress event and use IsNumeric If the keypress is Enter in that event if all characters are numeric, convert the text in the tectbox using Cint and compare the results, rejecting number outside the range of 1 to 99 Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions
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    - Formulas like excel Please see this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1214164&SiteID=1 Tag: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls? Visual Studio Express Editions

AlexHayes

What I need to do is add an active x control to my project and use the methods from that active x control.

I know how to use the object browser, add a COM component (although the one I need is missing from the list) and see it's methods. How do I add it to a form There's no Object Container control in VB2005. The help file says the Web control can be substituted 'in some cases'. I can use that and point the URL to the active x file I want to use, but then I have no way accessing its methods.

Alex

Re: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls?

spotty

A general flow of adding a control to the toolbox

Open a form in the VB Express IDE
Right Click on the Toolbox and select Choose Items
Choose COM Components and Browse
Point to the appropriate file.
Click OK and it will now appear in the toolbox.
Now you can add the control to the form just like any other control.

Is the item an ActiveX control or just a COM DLL, If its a COM Class Library then once added as a reference, you should be able to use the classes and call the methods contained in the class library.

Re: Visual Basic Express Edition Visual Studio 2005 Express - how do i add and use active X controls?

stratoblue

May I jump in

My problem is different. I'm able to add the ActiveX into the toolbox, but it is disabled. How do I enable it