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• CzarOfKatmandu Reading the Propertys of an Word-doc in VB

  Hii :) I wanna list all Word Documents in a directory, with author, title and so on.. so how could i read this data out of word-documents in visual basic There is a COM component called Dsofile.dll that will enable you to read document properties from Office documents. ok, i will play around with this :) thank you! ...Show All

• misterEd need help???

  hi! i'm new to vb.net from vb6. i have two form ( form 1 & form2 ) both contains textbox1. for vb6 my code look like this; form2.textbox1.text = form1.textbox1.text but it didn't work with vb.net...any help thanks, mac Hello, i've tried this code and it works... Dim frm2 As New Form2 frm2.TextBox1.Text = Me .TextBox1.Text frm2.Show() Me .Hide() thanks, mac Hi, Yes ReneeC your definitely right. Class design must ...Show All

• danroot Multi-line Textbox

  I have a multi-line Textbox that is continually updated by a process. How do I have it display the last line entered rather than having the user scroll down to the last line entered I have tried the suggestion as such: Me .TextBoxDisplayRawData.Text &= [text] TextBoxDisplayRawData.SelectionStart = TextBoxDisplayRawData.TextLength TextBoxDisplayRawData.SelectionLength = 0 and: TextBoxDi ...Show All

• jchen ToolStrip & MenuStrip

  Does anyone have any idea of the best way to implement, those Copy, Cut, Paste, Select All, Redo, Undo function on the Edit menu bar Thanks, this was so helpful. Its really down to you what you want to do with these but here are some examples for simple cut/copy and pasting text from a number of selected controls. All these actions depend somewhat about what you want to support for your application. The system provides a clipbo ...Show All

• Danny NG Flat File Handling

  My basic application has been designed with cute drop down menus - now it is time for it to actually do something besides display a message box when you click a menu option. The basic facility data is contained in a flat text file.  Opening and reading the file is no problem - I am using the following code:    strFileName = "C:\PPM\pi.txt"    DIM objReader as StreamReader = New StreamReader(strFileName)  & ...Show All

• Carlos Fandango Disabling specific controls

  I used this code to disable all of the controls in a tab...Now I want it that only certain specific controls(e.g. textbox and datagridview) to be disabled...And one more thing, is there any way as how can I change the appearance of the disabled controls It seems that whatever color I use, nothing change..Plese enlighten me...thanks. For Each clsControl As Control In tabEditPatient.Controls clsControl.Enabled = False clsC ...Show All

• Stark77 System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800A03EC): Cannot access xls file

  Hello I am trying to retrieve the Worksheet name from an Excel spreadshet so I can load into a dataset for conversion to a .csv file. I am aware that Excel has that facility built in, but the users that use Excel are not familiar enough with Excel to use that feature, it is up to me to write an application that will do this for them. (Automate as much as possible, if you will.) Nevertheless, when I try to retrive the worksheet name, ...Show All

• NBarbosa Where is VS2005 beta2?

  Anyone know when the official Visual Studio 2005 beta2 will drop   I've been patiently waiting for it for a while.  I'm not sure how much longer I can wait. Anyone who knows is under NDA and can't tell you. According to rumors I've heard, you won't have to wait much longer. I'M STILL WAITING FOR MY DISC FROM MICROSOFT!!!!!!! THEY SAID IT WAS IN THE MAIL SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, AND NOW THEY CAN'T FIND MY ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...Show All

• ZeBobo5 extracting system icons..

  hi guyzz.. i am able to extract icons from any .dll file or .exe file.. but they are extracted as .bmp files n after i give them .ico extension they don't act as icon files. is there any way to extract these icons from files like shell32.dll or explorer.exe in their original .ico format.. ashtified_85 Did you already get this one answered. hi eisa, thanx for replying well i too did the same thing first displayed it on a picture ...Show All

• 2fastrunner SQL Express 2005 won't save any data

  Can someone please help me   I am so stuck. I've constructed the example in Help 5 times and the 16 part learning series (section 9) 9 or 10 times, and cannot get the Data Grid View or Details View drag and drop database to do anything other than display data.  They simply will not save any data at all. To answer your question, I have created the table, entered sample data and hooked up the data source. I followed directions ...Show All

• JHerington Need to call external DLL that takes structured parameter

  Hi, My application needs to call an external unmanaged DLL supplied by a third party. That DLL is written in C I suspect, it takes a struct parameter that holds some 30 fields, most of them of type char[x] where x varies for each field. What I did was a wrapper class, that has a declare statement like this Private Declare Ansi Sub ExternalSub Lib "ExternalDll.dll" (ByRef struct As strParam) The struct is defined like this & ...Show All

• Eric M. How to: Custom Implicit/Explicit conversion in VB.NET 2003

  Hai .....,          I would like to define some custom Implicit conversion function within my VB class. How can i do that. I have seen samples in C# but not in VB. Can anyone please help me on this No DMan1,             You missed me . For example, consider the conversion listing below in C#:    public static implicit ...Show All

• kathy79 How to Display Forms

  I have a second form (form2) that doesn't want to report to work... Form2.show()   Error... A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll Thanks. scratch that... it was a bug.  I restarted VBX and started a new program and it worked fine. ...Show All

• Gilles Noël Cild Process calling problems

  Ok I am trying to devlope a System Tray Control Panel for a Ventrilo Server. Now i am utilizing a program bad by the company to check the servers status and retrive information about the server. Now that program is a dos based program like ipconfig or the net command. Now I can get the program I am make to call the process and using OutputDataReceived member of the process class I can retrive it's output but I can not get it to retrive the infor ...Show All

• wazhoo Having trouble getting a correct value of textbox3

  Hi Im using VIsualbasic2005 Express (its .net of course ) Dim intText1 As Double Dim intText2 As Integer Dim intText3 As Double intText1 = Val(Frm3.TextBox1. Text) 'Here is says Conversion from string "" to type 'Long' is not valid. intText2 = Val(Frm3.TextBox2. Text) intText3 = CDbl(Val(Frm3.TextBox2. Text) * Val(Frm3.TextBox1. Text)) Frm3.TextBox3.Text = intText3 Textbox3 is still 0 When textbox ...Show All