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• Jay B. [Mobius Labs] [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

• Nicolas Mueggler how to integrate multiple forms and a module

  I am trying to create a pointless program where you can log in and then you can play a game or add a user. I am having trouble getting one variable to be the same on both forms...do i need to use a module if so how do i use a module Much appreciated, Hi, You can use a module to do that. Use menu Project | Add Module to add a new module. This article may help: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aaxss7da.aspx . Best regards, ...Show All

• GarthK Help with Images from XML content

  I have a form that submits an XML query to a server and recieves a response. The problem that I'm having is that in the response there is an <image> tag, which I can parse and get the data, but it's binary data. Now I need to convert that to an image for display in a picture box. I've found a ton of examples on how to make it work from a DB stream, but nothing on data from a webstream that I can store in memory and then display to the user ...Show All

• santaclause585 Built in functions

  Hi All Does VB 2005 Pro version have a way of listing all the build in functions. For instance where could I go to get the correct syntax for computing the first and last day of the current month Dim FirstdayOfMonth as Date = fday(thisMonth) Hope that makes sense VB newbie Andre or of course the help system or a web search ... the functions built into the language and the .net framework ar ...Show All

• ch1p Creating MS Word document without using automation

  Hi All, I need to create MS Word document (using the new native XML capabilities of Word 2003) without using automation. Can anybody provide some smaples/links to samples to achieve the same. Thanks & Regards, Prash Hi Jamie,          Thanks for the reply. I really appreciate your interest in the issue.          I have now ...Show All

• NeoHippo Detecting control load.

  I have a form with a tabcontrol. It has five tabs and each tab has about 20 - 30 controls. When I run the program, it takes a second or three to show the form (Because it loads all the controls before showing the form ). When I click a new tab, it pauses briefly then shows the controls WHILE it's still unloading the controls from the tab I was just on. So instead of a smooth transition it's very laggy, as I can see the controls on both tabs br ...Show All

• Greg D Unhandled Exception Help Needed

  HI all, I'm GRK, kid in this group. I'm getting an unhadled exception in my application. *** Coming to real problem,I'm calling form two by showdialog() method in the button click event in the first form,and hiding the first form.when closing the second form I'm again enabling the first form. by doing this for more than 3 times I found an exception which is not caught by the try catch block. Error Message is: An unhandled except ...Show All

• Johann Hex function and Byte type declaration problem

  I have a program that is supposed to format data into 4 hex bytes and sent thru the serial port. The declaration section contains the following: Dim Addr, MsData, LsData, CkSum as Byte Dim Cmd1, Cmd2, Cmd3, Cmd4 as Byte Data is input to the Addr, MsData and LsData bytes and ChkSum is computed as (MsData and LSData are parsed from a single text box input (0 to 4095 range): MsData = Int(InputData / 64) LsData = InputData Mod ...Show All

• Boywonder0337 How to use a Byref variable in Property

  I want to do soemthing like  Str = "ABCD"      ItemVal(2,Str) = "X"          which replaces the 2nd character in Str to X so that after this value of STR would be "AXCD" in VB 6 I could do this by  passing ByRef variable to a Property Property ItemVal(byval Index as integer, byref Str as string) Set(Value as string) End Set.......... Any ideas how can we do it in .ne ...Show All

• DaveGriffin VB.net

  Hi I want to display as amany lines in Messagebox i.e.,Nameis:sathishAgeis:20 shouldbe as Name is:sathish Age is :20 in asingle message box , how to do this     Msgbox "Name is:sathish" & vbcrlf & "Age is: 20" will do the trick. Toddap_MS   Sathish Kumar.R wrote: Hi I want to display as a many lines in Messagebox i.e.,Nameis:sathish ...Show All

• S.W. Lambert Intellisense Problem

  I have a problem with the autocomplete feature of Visual Studio 2005. When I use VS2005 for an extended period of time the code editor starts to behave very strange. When I'm writing code it starts to autocomplete my code when it should not. Example, if I want to write: Dim sName as String it can ends in: d(ims) nameas String Dim s(name) as string Dim sn(ameas) string etc. As it was loosing focus and it autocompletes while I'm writing (I write v ...Show All

• drv62 accessing a thread's (or process's) % CPU usage

  anyone know how to access a thread's (or process's) % CPU usage i know the the process class can give me the CPU time for a process as a timespan type. but i am only looking to access CPU % for my item in the process list.   thanks   You could use the PerformanceCounter class to get those values as well. You can even use the PerformanceCounter from the form designer itself. It appears under the 'Components' sectio ...Show All

• kasra007 Subclassing controls

  I have subclassed a text box like this Public Class RMText Inherits TextBox Public Sub New () MyBase .New() Font = New System.Drawing.Font( "Verdana" , 8.25!, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point, CType (0, Byte )) Text = "" Width = 200 BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.White ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Navy End Sub Public Sub EnterHandler( ByVal Sender As Object , ByVal ...Show All

• gigo318 Dynamic Menu

  I wanted to create a menu system that would load the names for the items from a text box. Could someone please help If you're using the VB Whidbey beta, you can create dynamic menu's in VB.Net using MenuStrips and adding menu items.   The menu strip can be assigned to many controls. Here's some good links: Changes from VB6 menu's:  ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.e ...Show All

• James Lye Reading Registry Key

  I am working on a VB.NET application that can take a computer name and connect to that computer over the server and check several of the local security policies and create a log of what policies are incorrectly set.  In a nutshell, it is an automated way of going through a security checklist rather than manually looking at each policy at each computer.  I am currently trying to read the "Audit Policies" such as "Audit Policy Chang ...Show All