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  • desktop shortcut
    by srboyt
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    Last post by Windjammer
      • shortcut icon keep copying itself on to desktop and is over running it tryed to delete shortcut and tryed to find program to remove. ty
  • printing a report
    by miscal
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    Last post by miscal
      • hi, I created an application which processes some information and produces a report, textual report. In addition to the textual report - there is an image created with parameters (certain rectangles are being filled and paited according to a specific algorythm) - and I want to design a printed report. How can I design a report in memory\as HTML page and print it out
  • Logic error in Do While loop
    by BrandonPerry
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    Last post by Tall Dude
      • I am making a simple comic aggregator, and have gotten the basic parts down, but when I am getting the data from the site, I am only reading two lines of HTML, even if I am reading from a saved site on my hard drive. Any help is appreciated. Public Sub btnAggregate_Click(ByVal Sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _ Handles btnAggregate.Click Dim strComicDir A
  • Getting the latest date for each value in a datagrid into a specific textbox
    by Takato
    3 Replies
    Last post by Riquel Dong ¨C MSFT
      • Hi, I¡¯m a noob to VB; I¡¯m sorry if this has been posted somewhere else but I searched for this and came up with nothing. Just wanted to apologies in advance. Ok my problem is I am building a database that contains dog info. and for the vaccinations I have a one-to-many relationship and I am using a datagrid in my records form. The one problem I have with it is I need to search the vaccin
  • VB package and deployment wizard Path/File access error
    by Jim F. in Illinois
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    Last post by Navneet.Singh
      • The package and deployment wizard returned the following error: Unexpected error number 75 has occurred: Path/File access error. This occurs while writing the setup.lst file. I recently got a new PC (in a corporate setting) and suspect that there is a permissions issue in one of my directories. Any suggestions
  • Specific pattern checking/comparing for strings
    by Benwah424703
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    Last post by Bruno Yu - MSFT
      • I was just wondering if anyone knew a better/more efficient way to compare 2 strings to see if their format matches. Below is what I am currently using, just seems to be a little messy right now.....maybe I am wrong and I want something simpler....let me know, thanks! Function strFormatCheck(originalStr As String, patternStr As String) As Boolean ' This function just checks to make sure
  • WMP Playlist viewing & playing
    by Zooz
    12 Replies
    Last post by nogChoco
      • Hello, I have an mp3 player that could play mp3s and playlists(premade from windows media player(it only conatins mp3s)). When i launch a playlist i need to keep pressing (next) button to get to the song i want. So, when i launch a playlist(*.wpl) i want it to be shown in a listbox or a treenode... whatever, but in a way that i could play and view the songs i have already put in it.
  • Minimize form in different form
    by jcsam
    3 Replies
    Last post by Bruno Yu - MSFT
      • Hello All, What I'm trying to do is this. I'm opening multiple forms. I want to minizmize Form2 in the lower left cornor of Form1. How would I do this Thanks all.. jb
  • Check if file exist exist on the web
    by LJM89
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    Last post by Lifeng Lu - MSFT
      • how do i verify a file like a image or html exist on the web i have tried Code Snippet Dim temp As Net.HttpWebRequest temp = Net.WebRequest.Create(txtSite.Text) Dim ok As Net.HttpWebResponse = temp.GetResponse Dim ok2 As Boolean = temp.HaveResponse but got: System.Net.WebException was caught Message="The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a recei
  • listbox items
    by fishy_swa
    14 Replies
    Last post by fishy_swa
      • How can program a list box so that when a certain item is inputed the font color changes
  • Extra Row Added to Table
    by Ken9999
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    Last post by Bruno Yu - MSFT
      • Whenever I run this code, I get an extra row added to my table with a primary field text of "System.Object". This code is intended to simply add a single row to a single table based on the value in the tbOrd.text textbox. Anybody see why this is happening and what I need to do to stop the extra row Dim strNewOrder, strSQL As String Dim rowToInsert As DataRow Dim tbl As New
  • Check for an instance of a control
    by Davids Learning
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    Last post by Davids Learning
      • I am trying to check to see if a control is hiding or not I tried If My .Forms.Form1.TableLayoutPanel4.Controls( "Reg" ).IsDisposed = True Then Me .Dispose() Else My .Forms.Form1.TableLayoutPanel4.Controls( "Reg" ).Show() Me .Dispose() End If and if the control is dispose it faults to an error of referencing a dispose object. How
  • How to handle Windows Media Player events on a VB.net Form
    by Kanaida
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    Last post by Kanaida
      • I have my own playlist mechanism and right now I go to the next track by having a timer check the track postion every second or so and if it's Track Length is 2 seconds from Current position then i go to next track. I know this is ghetto but it works pretty good. I decided to go the real route and find the proper event and handle it. The problem is that Windows media player does NOT fire ANY even
  • current application directory
    by MyronCope
    6 Replies
    Last post by MyronCope
      • I have a vb.net 2005 console app where a user can open up a file and then later add and remove items from an xml document. My app is not working as i thought because when the user first opens a file it changes the directory and my code cannot find the xml doc when the user wants to later add and remove items from it. what I have now is: <CODE> Dim strPath As String = System.IO.Di
  • Splash Screen
    by juniorcatdog1234
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    Last post by Jayson Furr
      • I am trying to make a splash screen for a console app. I can't get the splash screen to go away an continue loading the app. It is even possible to have a splash screen for an console app. when "Me" is not valid
  • empty space in listbox
    by drinhuyzen
    7 Replies
    Last post by ~DigBoy~
      • Hello, This is a little quiz with 10 questions ,good & wrong answers are counted in a label and also percentage is displayed in a label Im looking for the solution empty space in a listbox .As you can see i listed 10 cases when clicked a inputbox with a question pops up.But when the empty space beneath question 10 is clicked then nothing should happen.I tried a case else followed wit
  • Set Value of a Combobox
    by Vineed
    5 Replies
    Last post by Vineed
      • Hi, I have an application in VB.Net 2005. I use a combobox control on a form. I am filling the combobox based on the value user selects from a datagrid. I do not use a datasource or any such thing for this purpose. I want to know how can I set the value property of the combobox. If anyone has any suggestions please help Regards Vineed
  • Dynamic Array - Easy Question
    by goodguy1974
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    Last post by goodguy1974
      • Hello Guys, I need to know in a simple code example how to insert data into a dynamic Array with only one dimension using a textbox1.text. It seems to me that this is easy to do...but can not find out how to do it. I do know how to add by index...but I want to know how to do something like: " Append textbox.text to the end of samplearr() " Help guys..
  • VB 2005 Forms/Data - No Datagrid - Need Form1 button to open Form2 with selected record on From1
    by wbwalsh
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    Last post by wbwalsh
      • Two Forms: frm_Offenders and frm_Vehicles. One Access database: CARDS_db. Two Data Tabels: tbl_Offenders and tbl_Vehicles. Ok... need button on frm_Offenders that opens frm_Vehicles to the record showing on frm_Offenders. Frm_Offenders is bound to tbl_Offenders. tbl_Offenders has a primary key field called CARDS_ID. frm_Offenders has a textbox called txt_cards_id. Txt_cards_id is b
  • error code 0X80004005
    by nadasherif
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    Last post by kleinma
      • when i try to register a dll i receive an error message "regserv error can't register this dll error code 0X80004005
  • Help converting some of my C# Generics syntaxt to VB.NET
    by NoEgo
    11 Replies
    Last post by Derek Smyth
      • I am not sure how to convert this generic list to VB.NET syntax. I'm a C# guy and just need some help with converting this to VB.NET for the first time with generics. List<FNames> FyNames = MyHypotheticalClass.RetrieveWhateverData Table(Some IDID, null, null); Also, how to convert this C# syntax as well for the nullable types shown here: private SortColumns _SortColumn; private SortDirect
  • click once application install
    by GrantStephen
    3 Replies
    Last post by Swammie
      • is it possible to have a click once app install for all users at the moment my click once app is only installed for the logged on user and is not available to the other users of the workstation. thanks in advance GS
  • Raising Control Events or Refresh
    by CoderD
    3 Replies
    Last post by Tall Dude
      • I am having an issue with the datagridview control. The situation is the grid loads I perform error checking then if errors appear I need the text to change color. The CellFormating event takes care of that for the initial load but I can't seem to get it to refresh without closing and reopening the form. I tried dgv.Refresh, form.refresh, Refreshedit, update and it still doesn't work. I am not sur
  • re-initialize winform datagridview
    by hazz
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    Last post by hazz
      • I am implementing a DataGridView so that depending on a certain 'Type' of value, a row will be added to this 'PropertyGrid' so that it contains either 1. DataGridViewTextBoxCell or 2. DataGridViewComboBoxCell. It is not known ahead of time which of several 'PropertyGrids' willl need to be created. either 1. 4 rows or 2. 8 rows PropertiesGrid.Columns.Add( "NameOne"
  • turn based battle
    by Asday
    14 Replies
    Last post by rkimble
      • In coding a battle, (playable) what would the theoretic code be for speed That didn't make too much sense. How about: I want to write some code for a turn-based battle, how would I go about implementing speed Say there are two sides (r, b) and r's speed is 50, while b's speed is 25, so the turn order would be: rrbrrbrrbrrb... In plain english (i.e., get the variable x, decrease it by 4...) what