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• McGanahan Skejellyfetti Declaring Sub's to gain access from Form to Form

  Hi! I'm a newbie in VB programming, and i'm using Visual Studio 2005 edition. I have a project with a main form that calls other forms depending on the option. How can i access Sub's declared on the main form on the other forms, like serial port handler or any other kind of routines i've tried declared the Sub as Public, but it still doesn't work. Thank you If the routines are common to a number of forms then y ...Show All

• Ralf Ellersiek I can't get my toolbox to open in VBExpress

  Somehow I closed the toolbox window in a form designer. Now using any of the options it will not open again. I don't get an error message, but if I do View -> Toolbox, click on the Toolbox icon, or ctrl - alt - X, hourglass flashes then disappears and nothing ever happens. Have tried re-installing multiple times, both from the disc I had ,then directly off the MS web site. Same result. Any suggestions ...Show All

• Sassie input string not in correct format

  this is my code........ For i = 0 To a - 1 SqlCmd = New SqlCommand("update_IRProfile", SqlCon) SqlCmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure viewstate("g") = Request.Form("txta" & i).ToString() viewstate("g1") = Request.Form("txtb" & i).ToString() SqlCmd.Parameters.Add("@AAttr", SqlDbType.Char, 4).Value = lookup.SelectedItem.Text.ToString() SqlCmd.Parameters.Add("@VValue", SqlDbType.Int).Value = CStr (viewstate("g")) ...Show All

• rockstar_Sam Relase the Fix for Visual Basic Compiler Error &H8013141e&

  Hi all i just want to know when is going to be released the fix for visual basic compiler error &H8013141e&   this is already reported in the microsoft productfeedback site. i think this is a very urgent patch that must be released asap and please do not repond that i should go back to vs.2003 because i have lots of code developed in VS 2005 to framework 2.0 ..   JSB PS: this error pisses me of, i need to res ...Show All

• Jagger_Mack VS 2005 IDE Unresponsive

  We had originally installed Beta 2 of the product which ran better than expected. After using the tool from MS to uninstall the beta software we then installed VS2005 Final which we downloaded through our msdn subscription. The IDE becomes just about unusable. Not only that but it pretty much renders the computer useless while it eats up CPU cycles. This occurs during the following conditions: 1.) We make a small change in code and the edi ...Show All

• Liet29 Old Question about Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture

  I think it's an old question and asked before. But I can't found any reference. Sorry if you need to re-answer again. Here is my problem: Right now my system is using English (United States) regional setting which the datetime format is MM/dd/yyyy. I want my application displayed in display in Indonesian format "dd/MM/yyyy" without changing user's regional setting. So I did the below programmatically: Thread.CurrentThread. ...Show All

• sk4130 Learning VB6

  Hi, Im wondering if anyone could help me out I have got Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Studio 2005 and want to know if there are any good sites with tutorials on using these packages (particularly VB6 for starting up) , Can I get learning Packages or Starter Kits , I dont know any code but understand how it works, I know HTML and tried some JAVAscript ... can anyone please advise.. Thanks Paul I dont kn ...Show All

• IT-Beratung Learning VB6

  Hi, Im wondering if anyone could help me out I have got Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Studio 2005 and want to know if there are any good sites with tutorials on using these packages (particularly VB6 for starting up) , Can I get learning Packages or Starter Kits , I dont know any code but understand how it works, I know HTML and tried some JAVAscript ... can anyone please advise.. Thanks Paul Hi ReneeC ...Show All

• Teera Tosukhowong Intergrating Flash files (.swf) into a Visual Baisc Application

  I have a 400x400 (px) Flash SWF document I would like to include with a form. I want to be able to run my application (.exe once compiled) and for it to display my SWF file in a window. A - Is this possible B - How can it be done (with some code if possible) Thank you for your time, ROBERT HOATH Woah, what a foolish question! I export to HTML file and link there! I then double click the new form and enter this ...Show All

• kvieceli delay or pause my VB code

  I am having trouble with an Access form which runs some VB code behind it. The form accepts lots of user inputs and these are then grabbed by my VB code to calculate a result. This all works fine but does take some time for the calculation to complete due to the size of the datasets. Rather than the user having to stare at the same screen and wonder what is happening, I have another form which pops up to tell the user the calculations are in ...Show All

• ian_drake help: WebBrowser Control

  hi, I want to Add a web browser control to my project , but i don't want it to open url or anything like that . i want to fill it programaticly from a database to display some text and links on it, when the user click a link the webBrowser control will open the url or even i can open it in the enternet explorer i know i can put links in RichTextBox control but i don't know how to format the paragraphs in it, anyway i prefer the WebBrowser instea ...Show All

• Henry Gabryjelski - MSFT Just need the last part....

  ok, people add programs to the menu with my app, they choose a program using the browser, they then choose a name for it and put it in textbox1, this is the code for the 'finish' button: Me .BoxNumber1ToolStripMenuItem.DropDownItems.Add(TextBox1.Text)   As you can see this adds an extra menuitem and calls it whatever was put in textbox1, but i also want it 2 start the program that they chose, how would i do this do i need to add ...Show All

• Dick Campbell Irritiated - can you help?

  Hi. I'm a newbie to VB2005 and I've 'built' the My Movie Collection database.  I can now access this from the start/programs menu, but dont know where the system has installed it on my computer.  Ive searched for 'MyMovieCollection' amongst other combinations but I cant find the .exe file. Where has VS2005 put my file Mat I assume you are speaking of it's post-publication location It has put the file in <systemdrive>:\doc ...Show All

• mortyqwerty Setting focus to control in next/previous tabpage?

  Hi, I use a TabControl several places in my project, and this is what I want to do: When the user presses tab in the last control on a tabpage, I want to set focus to the first control in the next tabpage. When the user presses Shift+Tab in the first control on a tabpage, I want to set focus to the last control in the previous tabpage. If there's no next or previous tabpage, I want to follow the "normal" taborder. Is there a pretty way to d ...Show All

• newkie Error Message

  I'm currently working for a engineering company and it is my first time using visual basic. This piece of code was written by another person and i must fix the problem within the code. If anybody can find it, it would be really thankful. Here's the code (This is one section of the whole code, one class): Sub CheckSummerWinter() 'Check to see if Summer/Winter selection changed 'Remove protection Passwrd = "ESGtrcCv" & Trim ...Show All