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• Bernardo Heynemann How can I customize the Start page?

  In the VS 2005's Start page there is unuseful things like "Getting started", "VS headilines". I don't use them. And I want to place there something that I'll use, like other programming utilities. How can I do this Dear MSDN staff: I've been trying the news showing up on the Start Page of VS 2005 but when VS tries to connect it says that the channel news is unavailable or that I don't have internet connect ...Show All

• RGunther IsText

  What imports. do you have to call to get istext to work Thanks, Newbiana The Microsoft.VisualBasic.Information class has several "Is" methods of which "IsText" is not one of them...You could use IsNumeric and expect false for text... The only "IsText" methods that I could locate are found in: Microsoft . Office . Interop . Excel I also located ...Show All

• Ed Abshire stop watch using vb.net 2005

  how can i create a stop watch using vb.net 2005 i am performing a data extraction job using windows forms and want to display time elapsed on the form. how can i do it Thanks Are you sure you have the Enabled property and the Interval properties of the timer set Set a breakpoint on the tick event to see if you reach the tick event at all. I tried your code and it worked fine. Of course I don't know how you declare stopWatch, tmrM ...Show All

• butterfly7 Problem with Tab Groups in VS2005, programing in C#

  I have run into two problems when using tab groups in the VS editor. 1. If I have two tab groups organized vertially (never tried hz.) after navigating in a file in the second group, after clicking to edit a file in the first group I can not make any edits. I can use the arrow keys, and I can actually delete text, but I can not enter any new text. Simpy clicking on a different file in that tab group, then clicking back to the original file so ...Show All

• Desi29 writing in specific locations on screen

  I am updating vb6 code which displays mathematical formulae in a picturebox.  It uses currentX and currentY to keep track of positions for components of the expression on the screen.  This allows it to generate a formula based on user input and which involves superscripts and powers. In one section of the code I have      xco = Picture2.CurrentX             ...Show All

• Jean-Jean WebBrowser_FileDownload event

  I am working on a VB.Net webbrowser named: MicroSE Unite:  http://elfsander.cjb.cc/downloads/bestanden/setupUnite.zip Now I want to add my own FileDownload handler but the FileDownload event doesn't return an URL, so I can't use it... Can somebody please help me with this I've submitted a bug for this: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewFeedback.aspx feedbackId=FDBK27565 ...Show All

• hwg_Maarten Trying to use LOAD to create array of TextBox at run-time

  problem resolved....thx ...Show All

• hisham_abu Recursive Error

  I receive the following error when trying to run a recursive function. It happens when the recursion has reached its lowest level and is starting back up the tree. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Error: 61837 - Unable to write read-only property. Code: Public Sub RemoveUserFromUserClasses( ByRef objUserClass As Object , ByRef objUser As Object ) On Error GoTo Err_RemoveUserFromUserClasses 'Counter ...Show All

• xpach vb.net and updating database

  I've been doing a tutorial on http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/NET/vbNet.html and everything was fine until the part on databases and using dataAdapter.Update. I keep getting an error message. Here is the part that I have problems with Private Sub btn登 _Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btn登 .Click Dim cb As New OleDb.OleDbCommandBuilder(dadapt) dset.Tables("bihin").Rows(incr ...Show All

• siugwan Pointers In VB?

  Is there anyway of converting the following C# code to VB Vector3* myVector3 = (Vector3*)&someMatrix.M31; Thanks You must be working in an unsafe method or code block in C#. VB does not support unsafe code. If you're willing to deal with a managed reference, you can do the following in C#: Vector3 myVector3 = someMatrix.M31; Then in VB: Dim myVector3 As Vector 3 = someMatrix.M31 As I said ...Show All

• Pedro Remedios Detect Local IP Address in Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition (Beta 2)

  I'm trying to write a simple program in my newly downloaded copy of Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition (Beta 2). I want to display the IP address of the local machine (i.e. the machine the program is being run on). I would previously have used something like this: Imports System.Net Imports System.Net.Sockets Dim IPAddress As New IPAddress(Dns.GetHostByName (Dns.GetHostName).AddressList(0).Address) Dim strIPAddress As String ...Show All

• Md. Mamunur Rashid Problem changing columnwidth in DataGridView

  Hi, I want the width of the columns in a DataGridView automatically size to the contents of the columns. I do this by setting the DataGridView.AutoSizeMode to DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.AllCells. Once the program runs and the data are loaded into the datagrid, I want the posibility to manually change the width of one or more colomns, by using the mouse. This cannot be done, since the width is locked, due to the settings of the autosizemod ...Show All

• Anish George How to generate dynamic control names ?

  Hi, I'm trying to create some controls ( textbox - combobox) on the fly. Everything is working, except that I haven't figured out how to name them dynamically. For example, this is the line I need to replace : Dim TextBox2 As New TextBox In VB6, you could do something like controls.add("mycontrolname",mycontroltype), is there any equivalent in VB 2005 thanks, Sam for ...Show All

• MartijnB [OTP] Wheel Mouse Use in Visual Studio 6 Developer Environment

  Whilst some Visual Studio 6 panes respond to the mouse wheel, the code pane does not. Is there a way of activating this feature while these forums are for .Net development, I will answer your question. Yeah. . . VB6/VS6 is a total dog. lots of bugs. you got to get this add in thanks blair for that. so, was there a vb6 forum has it been removed No there wasnt a VB6 forum Places to find answers for older versions of ...Show All

• Matt Lambert I am new to this

  And I have built a calculator but I still don’t understand this publishing thing. Now I just want just make it so I can send the exe directly to people with out them having to install or anything but I don’t know anything about it. Can someone tell me or point me in the direction of a tutorial I can do. All help appreciated J Try: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ url=/library/en-us/dnwinforms/html/clickonce.asp or: ht ...Show All