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• EVH changing the shape of the textbox

  Good evening folks: As you probably know, I'm sort of a tinkerer-student developer, and I was working on creating a project where, if you select a radio button, the corresponding text box's background color will change to either red, yellow or green. Therefore, I was wondering if it was possible to change the shape of a textbox from rectangular to circular. Is it possible Thank you. IGFET909 Hello cgraus: Thank you for your ...Show All

• toodie44 VS 2005 seems unusable for large VB converted project. How do I turn off the background compiler.

  VS 2005 seems unusable for large VB converted project.  How do I turn off the background compiler. I have a fairly large project that I migrated from VB6 to VS2005.  This is the RTM version of VS2005.  There are many issues that I need to fix up in the code, but every time I change one line of code, my system runs 100% CPU for 30 seconds. This is not even close to usable.  You might think I have a slow machine, but I am runni ...Show All

• GTrz How to set the recordset of a classic ADODC (Data control) in .NET

  rst = goLists.Facilities 'function returns an open recordset Debug.Print( CStr (rst.Collect( "ID" ))) 'this ensure the recordset is really open! me.adoData.Recordset = rst 'error message occurs here Why does this give an error message saying that I need to initialize using the new keyword (or else check for Null before setting the object)  I have tried different variations of syntax, including putting this line first: Me . ...Show All

• laker_42 Desktop Icons Manipulation

  Is there a way I can have the user drag a desktop icon onto my app, and the app "grabs" to target path for the icon's program Sure. You just have to enable drag and drop, and then use code such as this to read the LNK file's target. http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/samples/dotnet_shelllink.asp ...Show All

• James Moore - Visionspring checking properties of folders

  Hi all, I am trying to run some processes to tidy up our SAN storage.  A couple of the things I am struggling with are : 1)   Checking the security of the folder properties to check who the owner is 2)   Checking the security of the folder to check if "Inherit" is ticked 3)   Search a text file for specific text I already have a process to run SETACL to fix ownership and permissions, however this ...Show All

• Gogula where should i place lookup query?

  Hi All In our project we have lookups in each form.I have created a Lookup conrol which require a query or sp. Now lookup is part of user interface then lookup query is also part of UI or not Should i place query in DAL and call it in UI through BLL OR i write query in UI iteself It is VB .Net windows application. Thanks Deepak Malviya Hi Deepak, I'm moving this to the Visual Basic General forum, where I think some ...Show All

• ggamble [VB2005]Q of Serialport ----> Need Help

          I jz start to learn the programing of vb2005, but there is a new plugin of serialport, i reali dun no how to use it, who can tell me how to write the code to achieve a simple network connection, like chating, transfer the text   form1 include: textbox1,button1 form2 ~~~~~: textbox2.button2   how to make tt when i click the button1, the content of textbox1 will be sent to te ...Show All

• Jwborc39963 1 context menu for several controls

  I am tring to use the same context menu for several textboxes on my form.(cut, paste, undo etc) How can I tell which textbox was active when the menu was clicked Do I have to use a seperate menu for each textbox I have only just checked my email. By strange coincidence I have already solved my own problem exactly how you suggested! I have used: if Me.ActiveControl.Name = "TextBox1" then 'copy, pas ...Show All

• 1nsane Tab ImageIndex problem

  I have created a ImageList1 and it has one (1) image in it. I then associate the image list with the TabControl1. For some reason, the image does not show on the tabpage1. What am I doing wrong Below is the code. Thanks in advance for your help. William Public Sub AddDWG() Dim AcadDocs As AcadDocuments Dim Document As AcadDocument AcadApp = StartCAD() Ac ...Show All

• mesanjeeb External protocol in IE:D (advanced registry edit?)

  In Internet explorer I have seen various programs being opened by using an external protocol here are some examples. steam:\\ (used to lauch internet games) mms:\\ (windows media) how can i make my own protocol link which opens my project when called for from IE like myprotocol:myparameters And how would i get the program to detect what paramaters it was started with. Ty John ...Show All

• Dave19 Combobox.SelectedValue

  dim cmb as combobox cmb.SelectedValue=1 This means that it will select item whose value member is 1. Am I right If yes then In my datatable, i have following data ID  NAme -1  None  1  India  2  USA Then I bind it to combobox and it works then if i do like this, cmb.SelectedValue=-1 then it should select None. but it gives error "Specified argument was out of the range of valid values." So let me know what ...Show All

• EDilks Publisher, Version, Control Panel - Net 2005

  Q1. When installing my app, I got this "warning" message: "Application Install - Security Warning, Publisher cannot be verified. Publisher: Unkown Publisher", with a default of "Don't install". How can this message be avoided Anybody care to describe "signing" easily Note, the Control Panel shows the app name for Publisher. In Net 2003, I sorta remember specifying publisher name in the deploym ...Show All

• wpfeffer Files, how to compare

  Hi @ll, I want to compare webfiles (html, zip, jpg, doc, txt, ....), but only the content which is shown in the Browserwindow (webbrowser control). How can I do it at best Tags, creationtime, TCP/IP-adress and such infos must not be compared! Tank You for help Jo Sounds like a good approach to address the web files - trying to address the actual content on so many diverse types of files would be a bit ...Show All

• Armine VB6 upgrade to VB 2005 failure, could not find project file it created

  Help me, oh wise one. I support applications in VB6 and VB2003, and I'm trying to upgrade the VB6 app to VB2005, so I have three versions of Visual Studio on my pc. I ran VS2005 and opened the VB6 app to launch the upgrade wizard. It seemed to run fine until it threw an error saying it could not find the project it just created. The project I'm trying to upgrade is called MGxFromSAP.vbp. The error said it could not find MGxFromSAP.vbproj. The ...Show All

• pogmothoin HOW do you make VS2005 Server Explorer Show Stored Procedure Columns

  VS2005 server explorer only shows stored procedure parameters, no columns. I've searched high and low for a place to turn this on, if that can be done. In VS2003 it was possible to view the columns that a stored procedure returned along with its parameters.  What's up Anybody know how to view the columns. That's a real help when making sure column names in code match their stored proc names. Yes, I have been informed by som ...Show All