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    - Use of Microsoft Word in .Net 2.0 Hi, I have a VB.Net 2005 application. I need to open a Word Document in one form. I do not want the Word Application to be opened seperately but within the form. I have used Word.dll for this purpose, but I am not able to find a way to open the document within the form or any container within the form. I know WebBrowser control can be used to solve the problem, but I am looking if some other controls are available for the same. If some one has any ideas or suggesstions, please help. Regards Vineed Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Relationship between data in database and class constructors I have the following question, how to initialize class properties whose data comes from a database table Let me illustrate with an example. Let's say I have a Class in my Visual Basic.NET application, called Person: Public Class Person Private _PersonID As Integer Private _Name As String Public Property ProctorID() As Integer Get Return _ProctorID End Get Set ( ByVal value As Integer ) _ProctorID = value End Set End Property Public Property Name() As String Get Return _Name End Get Set ( ByVal value As String ) _Name = value End Set End Property Public Sub Delete(ByVal argsProctorID As Integer) 'Perform some code here. End Sub End Person And let's say I have a table in my database that stores information about Persons: Person ------------------------------------ | PersonID | Number | Primary key ------------------------------------ | Name | Varchar | ------------------------------------ So then, let's say I wanted to create a new instance of class Person and call its method Delete, like so Person.Delete(). I would then pull the data from database table Person based on a value for the primary key PersonID, i.e. something like this SELECT * FROM PERSON WHERE PersonID = 100; But how would I initialize the properties of the class in the constructor Would I do something like this Public Sub New(ByVal argsProctorID As Integer) _ProctorID = argsProctorID 'Perform database call to table PERSON. _Name = result from database call for field Name End Sub or maybe something like this: Public Sub New(ByVal argsProctorID As Integer) _ProctorID = argsProctorID Call Me.Initialize() End Sub Private Sub Initialize 'Perform database call _Name = result from database call for field Name End Sub Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - vb6 upgrade wizard error - OLE_E_CANT_BINDTOSOURCE When I run the VB6 upgrade wizard in Visual Studio 2005 I get an error. It is not related to the application I am upgrading, because I even get the error if I run it on a "blank" vb6 app. I've re-installed, and still no luck. The entire error reads: Unexpected exception occurred during upgrade engine operation: Not able to bind to the source (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8004000A (OLE_E_CANT_BINDTOSOURCE)) Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - WebBrowser will not work with Flash. ANYBODY HAVE A FIX I have created a web browser and after like 2 clicks on any flash enabled web page it disables and i cannot click any type of flash anything it doesnt work. Does anyone know a fix to this Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - .filter / .rowfilter Operators Hello, Can anyone point me in the direction of a list of all the operators I can use for .filter (ie. bindingsource.filter) and .rowfilter I only ask because I know the filters do not use all the operators that are available in SQL or access. For example the "Between" operator works for access but not .filters. (I know how to get around the between thing btw) Thanks for your help Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Buggiest world I ever lived in! I'm attaching a link to a video I made last night. I have been having trouble with components disappearing and then I figured it out. If I ctrl click more than 1 component at once the wonderful system we call Visual Studio randomly deletes other things that are not selected. Then today I had a control that was behind another one and clicked it, right clicked and told it to move to front. This was on a tab control. I then moved back to the first tab to review something there, and all my controls were gone from the tab. This was really cool though, They weren't deleted this time, they were somehow, behind the tab control itself. Still associated with it though... How do you guys use this pile of *** on a daily bases I've only been in it for a few weeks and already want to kill myself... NOTE: this video was made for someone else but shows an example of what is happening. His the clip: http://www.softeksoftware.com/videos/csharp/ideablade-help4/ideablade-help4.html any ideas glenn Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Office Interops. See this thread on EXCEL / VB.Net stuff too. Hi, not sure if this is the correct forum, but here goes: My VS2005 VB application uses excel interop 11.0 library to communicate with excel 2003. In the publish settings I have interop.dll as a required prerequisite (auto). The problem I'm having is that some users naturally have different versions of excel & I'm not sure how to get over this. The application will not run without the assemblies - it gives an error: "The application requires that assembly ...interop excel version 11.0.0.0 be installed in the GAC first". Where they have excel 2003 it's a simple matter of running O2003PIA.msi, but I now have users with 2002 & 2007. Can I change the publish settings to include the dlls Will this then install on the users machine Will it allow communication with excel Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - AutoRecover Not Working In VS05, we have autorecove set to every 7 minutes and save them for 7 days. The help says they are saved in \...\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Backup Files\< projectname >. However, the project name is there, but the folder is empty. The actual path of our project is C:\CS\CSolution_Telephony Any ideas on why autorecover is not working Bob Day Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Is the order in which you declare arrays significant? A question for those who know something about MSIL(microsoft intermediatry language) and CLR(common runtime language). Say I have three arrays Module Module1 Public qvs (0 To 30) As Integer 'intended to be high speed variables - frequently accessed Public mid (0 To 400) As Long ' variables intended to be occasionally accessed Public dta (0 To 2000000) As Byte ' data variables and I want to use my qvs () variables in complex number crunching routines - so I would want them at first place in the stack - at native code level the most quickly addressed. Question: If I declared them backwards as exampled below, would qvs () be placed way down at the end of the line - therefore taking longer to be addressed Public dta (0 To 2000000) As Byte Public mid (0 To 400) As Long Public qvs (0 To 30) As Integer or does the compiler deal with their placement according to other directives Edit: compiler probably not the right word Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Copy directory and show progress Can someone point me in the direction of how to do this How do you copy an existing dir to another dir and show the progress I know how to copy the directory but where I am having a problem is figuring out how to show the progress of the copying process Is this possible Thanks Davids Learning Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Transparent Colors Hello, How can i make a background of a picture transparent i read the thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=441811&SiteID=1 but i didn't understand a thing, could anyone explain How could i paint it in the way they r saying. Thx Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Repositioning Controls in a Scrolled View Hello, I'm running into a problem with repositioning controls that are scrolled out of view. I've found marginal information about the problem, but nothing about how to fix it. I have a set of controls (DGVs) on TabPages in a TabControl, and I am inserting new DGVs into the TPs, sometimes in the middle of the existing DGVs. So I want the position of all DGVs AFTER this position updated to accomodate for the new one added. It works well enough, except when there are DGVs scrolled off the screen. I keep encountering gaps of white space large enough to accomodate a DGV of the size I'm adding being added almost arbitrarily in the TP. From what I've read, it's an issue with repainting off-screen, but I can't find any solutions to the problem. My code to reposition all the controls is below, where dgvForLoc is the DGV to add after. Code Snippet Dim y As Integer = 4 Dim flagFound As Boolean = False For Each ctl As Control In tp.Controls If dgvForLoc Is Nothing Then y = Math.Max(y, ctl.Bottom + 4) Else If flagFound Then ctl.Location = New Point(ctl.Location.X, ctl.Location.Y + 229) ElseIf TypeOf ctl Is DataGridView AndAlso CType (ctl, DataGridView) Is dgvForLoc Then y = ctl.Bottom + 4 flagFound = True End If End If Next Any ideas Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - TreeView Question I know I can do this to populate a treeview Code Snippet Dim node1 As TreeNode = Me .TreeView1.Nodes.Add( Me .unitnumber.Text) Dim node1a As TreeNode = node1.Nodes.Add( "Gross Weight" ) If SRow.grossweight Is Nothing Then Dim node1aa As TreeNode = node1a.Nodes.Add( "Not Specified" ) node1aa.EnsureVisible() Else Dim node1aa As TreeNode = node1a.Nodes.Add(SRow.grossweight) node1aa.EnsureVisible() End If Dim node1b As TreeNode = node1.Nodes.Add( "Laden Weight" ) If SRow.ladenweight Is Nothing Then Dim node1bb As TreeNode = node1b.Nodes.Add( "Not Specified" ) node1bb.EnsureVisible() Else Dim node1bb As TreeNode = node1b.Nodes.Add(SRow.ladenweight) node1bb.EnsureVisible() End If But how do you go to a table and load a treeview by using columns and text combined I am wanting to show the following Unit1 'would be column "unitnumber" - Gross Weight 'would be a label - 1000 'would be column "grossweight" -Laden Weight 'would be a label - 700 'would be column "ladenweight" Unit2 'would be the next record - Gross Weight - 1820 -Laden Weight - 1100 Itenerating through the table is where I am losing it Any thoughts appreciated Davids Learning Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Horizontal Scroll Position Changes I have a user control with a Panel. At runtime I add some ListViews to Panel.Controls. (I have to add them in the reverse order that I want them to display. Is this normal ) I add a splitter between each of the ListViews, and all the controls are Dock.Left. After the controls are added, I change the width of the Panel so that it is about twice the width required to display the ListViews. This is so the user can change the width of individual ListViews. The problem I have is that when the form is first opened, the Panel is scrolled such that the last control -- actually the first added but the last in the sense that it is the right-most control -- is visible. If I scroll the panel so that the last control is no longer visible, then cause the form to lose focus, upon regaining focus the panel scrolls so that the last control is once again visible. What I would really like is for the Panel's Horizontal scrollbar to start at it's left-most position, and then stay whereever the user puts it thereafer, even after focus changes for the form. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks. Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Get print tray media We print most of our documents to plain paper, but have some that must print to perforated paper. We have the bins for the perforated paper set to a type of "pre-punched" to differentiate. (this setting is similar to setting one bin to letterhead). How do I get that media type setting for each tray on a printer so I can tell which tray to print each document to Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Data from access database to a String I am trying to make a status report so i can see amount of users in the database, but i can't really figure out how to get the data it returns into a string or int. This is the code i have made so far but got stuck and can't figure out how to get past this Any help will be appriciated Code Snippet Private Sub GetStatusFromDB() Try Dim strSQL As String = _ "Select COUNT(*) FROM [Person-table]" Dim commSelectStatus As New OleDbCommand(strSQL, dbConn) Dim daAudstyr As New OleDbDataAdapter(commSelectStatus) Dim dtAudstyr As New DataTable("") daAudstyr.Fill(dtAudstyr) lblBruger.Text = "Antal brugere: " Catch ex As Exception MessageBox.Show("Error: " & ex.Message, "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error) End Try End Sub Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - CliickOnce : Manifest may not be valid I've been using ClickOnce for about year now (and regretting it), here my latest problem. I've deployed my app on about 20 PCs, and they working fine apart from one, it won't update to the latest version, it gets to about 25% and then says it can't continue, the details suggest for one of the DLL files: The manifest may not be valid or the file could not be opened. Once again, this does not happen on the other PCs. Heres what I've done so far: uninstalled completely, deleted the cache (app folders in the users profile), ran mage.exe -cc to make sure, but still no change. It also says the xxxxxx.dll is not a valid portable Executable (PE) file...but it seems to be on the other PCs So, before I format the hard drive and re-install windows, is there another step I can take to resolve this problem Maybe a registry entry I can delete. Thanks in advance, Scott Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Reading from Doc file onto a Reader I have a VB.Net application wherein I process a word document. The problem I am facing is as follows I have a word document, I need to read the content of the word document and do some processing with the document. Then I need to create a new document and write the contents. I tried using a Stream objects found System.IO namespace but the format of the file i.e the characters in bold, the bullets, etc were not written to the new file. Is there something wrong in the way I am using the Stream object or should I use some other classes from System.IO The code that I have written in VB.Net is as follows: dim strText as String strText = File.ReadAllText( "Document.doc" ) ' Here I do the processing with the string File.CreateText("Document1.doc") File.WriteAllText("Document1.doc", strText) Please Help Vineed Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Write a program, which verifies that the procedure is properly written Write a procedure that takes an integer value and returns the number with its digit reversed. Write a program, which verifies that the procedure is properly written. Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - VB Active X DLL fail on 64 bit while we use through VB script Hi, I have created a VB ActiveX DLL inside which I kept a single function. which dll is used by the VB script, inside script I create a object using "CraeteObject", This script run correctly On win32 OS but on 64 bit OS gives the error "Can't create the object" (Similiar). Please help me to solve this problem. Anuj set obj = createobject("Project1.Class1") call obj.test On 64 bit OS fails on createobject api. While DLL is registered properly. Please suggest me. Anuj Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Setting Today's Date by Default in a Function I have a function that converts a date into a date "code" for my customer (i.e. January = "A", February = "B", etc). Ideally, I want the function to convert a passed date, but if no date was passed, just use today's date. I started with this: Public Function DateCode( Optional ByVal DateToCalc As Date = Nothing ) As String ...but the problem is that when I don't pass anything, the date is still set to "something", namely: " #12:00:00 AM#". I can't set the default value for the optional variable DateToCalc to "Now.Date", as it gives me an error "Constant expression is required". I tried to verify that this was not a valid date like this: If Not IsDate(DateToCalc) Then DateToCalc = Now ..but this is still "OK", because it is technically still a date/time. I realize that I am probably missing something simple [stupid] and I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you. Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - DateTimePicker and language Hi everybody first: thank for your help second: i have a DateTimePicker with a custom format like dd MMM yyyy. it display 13 dec. 2006. it's right my regional settings is fr, for all of my application, it' right too but for date, i want an english format: "dec" instead of "dec" how can i do it is there a method or value for define them thank's everybody for your help Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Get Default Printer In vb.net i want to get the name of the default printer. I have found the following c# code but dont understand c#. Can anyone help me out translating this to vb Many thanks DllImport("winspool.drv", CharSet=CharSet.Auto, SetLastError=true)] public static extern bool GetDefaultPrinter(StringBuilder pszBuffer, ref int size); StringBuilder dp = new StringBuilder(256); int size = dp.Capacity; if (GetDefaultPrinter(dp, ref size)) { Console.WriteLine(String.Format("Printer: {0}, name length {1}", dp.ToString().Trim(), size)); } else { int rc = GetLastError(); Console.WriteLine(String.Format("Failed. Size: {0}, error: {1:X}", size, rc)); } Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - baby lock Hi, i got a couple of questions according to how to disable things in win xp: I'd like to disable the net connection on xp - how can i do that how can i disable installing any program disabling themes disable running several programs disable access to several folders I'd like to write a baby-lock onto my computer because i'm not the only person who uses it, and i don't want to allow others to get full control on my pc. i am working with vb2005. Any feedback is appreciated, thnx Attila Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - TwipsToPixelsY, TwipsToPixelsX equivalent in VB.NET Hi all, Could any one please tell what is the equivanet function of the TwipsToPixelsY, TwipsToPixelsX functions in VB.NET. These are supported by vb6 namespace if we use in .NET but i should not use VB6 in my project So please guide me what are the equivalents to these functions Regards, Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - InnerCastExeption error. Hi! I wrote this code: Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventArgs) Handles Me.FormClosing If txtUserName.Text = "Test" & txtPassword.Text = "Test" Then Me.Close() Else Form2.Show() MsgBox("Wrong username or password." & vbCrLf & "Protection Continued") End If End Sub And when i try to run it (debug) i get InnerCastExeption error. How can i fix this //Greetings, Zeelia Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - How can I check the Internet connection speed via code? How can I check the connection speed by code. Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - bitmap to Picturebox throught network I have a System.Drawing.Bitmap and I want to display it to another program's picturebox throught a network (localy or internet). How can I do it Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions This is gettting rediculous. My application was working quite well until I ran into the database problem I ask about in a previous post. I tried to solve that problem by reformatting my hard disc and starting from scratch with a virgin copy of vb express. No joy. I solved the problem by getting rid of the databases and putting the data in the code. Before all this happened, I was able to use "click once: to publish my application to the web. The first time I tried to publish after the new copy of vb was installed I had trouble with signing the application, something I had not encountered before. I added a test certificate to the the project and tried again. Now I get the error message which is the title of this post. Since it is the compiler code that is trying to access the socket, I have no clue as to what is happening or how to fix it. I can find lots of stuff on the web about this error message but it all has to do with ASP, nothing about "click once". I am the adminastrator of this machine. I log on as the adminastrator and I work with it as the adminastrator, so I don't understand how I could have "permission" problems. Can anyone Help Thanks Dick Roose Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Sound How can I play a sound without the user seeing a media player Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - encrypting passwords in a database Hello, I am creating an application using vb windows applcation and using SQL 2005. I have a table of users, that contain there usernames and passwords. When a new user is added it stores all the passwords in clear text in the database. What is the best method to use to be able to crypt the passwords in the database. Also, when the user login, i have a sql statement that will compare the username and password that they enter in the login dialog box, to what is in the database. If the password is encryted, would I still be able to compare their password to see if they can still login. i.e. "Select * From Users Where LoginID=@LoginID And Password=@Password" Many thanks for any suggestions, Steve Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line
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    - Print Preview Error i have recently tried to develop a printing code in VB and whenever i click the button it throws an exception stating that the Value name can not be null . Private Sub PrintDocument1_PrintPage( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs) Handles myDocument.PrintPage e.Graphics.DrawImage(formImage, 200, 300) End Sub {"Value cannot be null. Parameter name: image"} PLS HELP !!!! Tag: Setup and Deployment from Command Line

Noctufaber

The .net framework lets me compile a project using vbc.exe from the command line. I was wondering if there is a similar utility that can create an MSI from a setup and deployment project using a command line application. Can this be done

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Re: Setup and Deployment from Command Line

Noctufaber

I did find MSBuild.exe but it doesn't like my vdproj file. Then I learned about DevEnv.exe, but I can't find it anywhere on my machine. I'm running VS 2005 on a Windows XP Pro machine. Where would I find the file DevEnv.exe

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Re: Setup and Deployment from Command Line

spotty

Usual Location would be

D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\Devenv.exe

If your running the express versions then you wont have devenv on the machine.

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