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• Debra Open form inside of child...

  Thanks in advanced for anyone who can help me. I have a menubar of buttons to the left that is docked to the Parent. The Child is a blank form that is used to map out scripts visual. When I click on the button on the docked menu bar to the left, and click on a position inside of the blank child form, it will put a certain "module" box (another form inside of the child) based off of which button has been selected. A Child inside of a ch ...Show All

• AlanSweet HTML rendering in VB.Net

  Hello folks, I've got probably a simple and stupid question, just feeling tired tonight. I'm using the googleapi to add more flexibility to searching google from a vb.net app I'm writing. I get a stream of html data back from google that has a title such as "The <b>best</b> ..." then I get a URL, then a snippet of information about the topic which may or may not have html included. My problem is how to display this Is there no contro ...Show All

• KLTNET Word Automation

  Could you please explain how to use Word Automation, in Vis Studio 2005 beta - VB.net. All I want to do is Open a Word.doc, put some text (Like "Hello World") into it and then save the Word.doc I am aware that I need to put Word reference into the project, but after that everything I have tried simply doesnt work. Many thanks   Hi, Please go through the following HOWTO from Microsoft: HOW TO: Automate Word from Visual Basic .NET to C ...Show All

• Andrew S. DAta Sources Toolbox functionality reversed

  When I am looking at a code window all of my data sources are visible in the data sources toolbox. When I am looking at a form, the toolbox is empty and greyed out and no options can be accessed. This is exactly opposite from how it worked in beta 1, 2 and RC1. Anyone know what the deal is with this As of right now I cannot drag/drop a table onto a form because all the tables are hidden when I am looking at a form. Thanks, Josh ...Show All

• Himanshu Rastogi execute external program

  Is there anyway to use Visual Basic 6.0 to run external program For example, pressing a button I would open Word. Which OS are you using - it sounds as though thats something like an OS security configuration on your client which is preventing you from running any old exe - just in case its not nice !!!     You need to use API functions from shell32 ...Show All

• atimsa OleDbDataAdapter does not update

  Hi,  I am having a a problem geting a data adapter to update a recordset.  This is the steps.  I added a connection and an data adapter to a form.  The data source is a Access table.  The table has 8 columns.  I selected 2 of them and added a criteria to limit the number of rows selected.  I then generate a dataset.  In my code I call the .Fill method to populate the dataset.  I iterate through ...Show All

• BetsyTainer No text in MSGBOX

  The MSGBOX function presents a result that has no visible text in either the prompt or on the buttons. Is there some property that turns this off I wrote a simple test code and it fails on my machine by displaying a box without any visible text. It has just a button to force up a msgbox. Any suggestions Public Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form # Region " Windows Form Designer generated code " Public Sub New () MyBa ...Show All

• paulinmadison Buying Visual Basic 2005

  Am I able to buy just VB 2005 or do I have to buy the Visual Studio suite Thanks in advance! Most of this has been answered by others, but I thought I'd summarize some links for you. Technically, there is no VS Express.  There are the VS Express Editions which are standalone editions of each development environment. VB Express:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/ C# Express:ht ...Show All

• Saravanan.M156893 New to Vb 2005

  Hi friends, I am New to VB 2005, I have a professional subcription of MSDn..hw effectively can i use ,y subcriptionn...I developed a project in VB 6.0...but i am satisfied i need to convert my project to VB 2005..is there any simple way or I shud redevelop the entire project.. Also in VB 6.0 hw can code tro make my form Auto scroll and adjust with the screen resolution.. Please help..me Thanks, Bjorn I ...Show All

• zjvifszedjfkfjsdzkhfljfsGouranga how to insert greek characters and mathematical symbols into textes?

  Hello, Is it possible to insert greek characters (ex: rho,sigma, pi etc.) and mathematical symbols in a text Corollary: how to display an exponant These things can be done easily with the math editor in Words but I have not found the solution in VB editor. Thanks Chris The character table is the ASCII Character Codes Chart 2 in http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9hxt0028(VS.80).aspx ...Show All

• Martin Flores How do I change my Build so that it is release and not debug?

  How do I change my Build so that it is release and not debug I scoured help but apparently I'm missing something All that matza I ate during Pessach caused all my blood to head south to digest it and left none for my brain. dennist I changed it in project properties from debug to release.  However, when I built it, the application does not show up in /bin/release dennist ...Show All

• Steven .NET resx assembly error

  Hello I am trying to open a project given to me by a colleage which was developed in vb.net 2003 I'm using .net 2005 beta 2 I'm getting the following error: Warning 1 ResX file The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040) Line 279, position 4. cannot be parsed.  279 0  What does it mean   - how do I proceed - thanks ...Show All

• Divyajosephjohn Reading physical serial port (RS232)

  Hay everyone I have a device that connects with a computer using RS232 port and this device send data on this port. Now i have to read this data through VB.Net app Can somebody tell me how can i communicate with this device Thanks All detail how to use the serial Communications port. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=075318ca-e4f1-4846-912c-b4ed37a1578b&DisplayLang=en http://www.freevbcode.com/Sh ...Show All

• jhobrown class error's

  Hi all, I don't know if this is an error in .NET or an expected condition. My question regards creation of a class using a dynamic array. the array set works if you share the class but if you do not you get an error of refering an object to a null referance. here are the two classes below. TData will cause as error and T1Data will not. I would like for the class not to be shared so that multiple seperate instances of the can be c ...Show All

• kklasman when true isnt really true

  A feature I think would be the best way to describe this... or at least it doesnt behave how I would expect... Try the following: debug.print(true) I would expect a boolean value of -1 to be returned.... true being defined in the VB docs as being a boolean value of -1 with false being a boolean value of 0. What I actually get is a string value of "True" Ah well.... How did I discover this Well I was pre-populating a check ...Show All