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• Paul.Brown Issues with Express Registration and Activation

  Now that Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 has shipped the final release, we have a new home for setup and registration issues for VB Express. Please direct all setup, install/uninstall, and registration issues to this forum: Installing and Registering Visual Studio Express Editions   Thanks, Paul Is there any different way to register I mean not via dialog in Vi ...Show All

• Botond Baika Urgent!!!Finding Excel sheet names dynamically in VB.NET?

  The following code works fine if excel default sheet 1 name is "Sheet1". My question is If user changes this sheet 1 name to "ABC" and uploaded. how the following code works it goes to error handling. Please can you let me know how to track sheet names or how retreive data for this condition dynamically. Waiting for reply. Thanks in advance. Ram Public GetDataFromExcel() as DataSet      Dim sSheet as string = "Sheet1"     ...Show All

• vsphp ADO.NET Hell

  There was a time in my not too distant past that I could open a database with ADO, query out some data, work with it, and update it.  I have had VB.Net for a little over a week and I can insert data into a table.  I can clear out a table.  What I can't do is is iterate through the rows and update the table.  I am close but I am missing a piece. From what I have read I want to create a connection, adapter, and a dataSet.  ...Show All

• Altrix How can I access the audio equalizer level information?

  Anyone know of a way to access the levels for pitches of whatever if playing out of the speakers Every audio program seems to have those little bars bouncing up and down in realtime so it can't be too hard, right I actually need them in number form because I'm writing a program that uses basic pitch levels to identify non-dynamic sound files when they're played (don't ask, it's a long story but it will work, lol) ...Show All

• Richa Textbox Reading

  Hi All, i have a problem with a certain little textbox which i cant seem to get working again , i wish to read everything in a textbox before a certain character , in this case a space how would i get this done where a button is pressed and it will display only the characters before the space into another texbox eg text1 = "John Smith" where as i would like text2 = "John" since the next character wa ...Show All

• Bob Mack Visual Basic 2005 express edition beta

  after i download and installed Visual Basic 2005 express edition beta, i couldnt able to create new project to test it out, Is it the way it supposed to be . i cant see anything in the dialog box... i do not have any beta versions, i only have Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio .NET 6.0 in the same pc, my os windows 2000 pro. i have attached the screen shot too. is it possible if i un install and install again, will ...Show All

• sultan000 Save\Load values as text file

  Hello In VB6, I was able to save and load values as text file, it saves them like this form: "V1","V2","V3" I was using this code: Dim A As String, B As String, Op Op = FreeFile A = "Value1": B = "Value2" Open "D:\File.txt" For Output As Op Write #Op, A, B Close Op How can I do it in VB2005 Thanks & Regards OK I knew how t ...Show All

• M.Karimipour Convert script to VB.Net

  I have a simple script (.vbs) that reads an Access Database and writes records to a text file.  Trying to convert to VB, but having problems.  Can anyone provide help   What I really need is an example of a VB.Net program that reads the records in an Access database and writes them to a text file.  Got some of the code in VB, but cannot get it right. Thanks VBS Code: On Error Resume Next FileDirARC = WScript.Arguments.Item( ...Show All

• Andreas Andersson Counting Letters in a string

  Hello,  I am trying to get VB to count how many A's B's C's D's E's etc... that are in a  declared string, can someone tell me how to do this. thanks Ray RFeather[AT][NOSPAM]chstaffing.com Thanks Allot in the far superior c#:     public class CharCounter     {         public static Dicti ...Show All

• AnonymousMe83 How do you compare binary files with VB Express 2005

  I did this in VB6 with the Open for Binary file command and the Get command, but since VBE 2005 has been updated with new commands, does anyone know what code to use to compare files Thanks. Dim value As Byte () = My .Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllBytes( "c:\a.dat" ) Dim value2 As Byte () = My .Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllBytes( "c:\a.dat" ) Dim returnValue As Boolean returnValue = Byte .Refer ...Show All

• KennyT cntroled Exel Graph

  i need force excel in visual basic to import data from file and make graph if i know the parametrs. In file i have 9000 points firs 4500 is x axis and second is y axis can u help me with this please I think this may help. I should be easy to adapt. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=282034&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Shaul115 How to call a Cobol/db2 stored procedure from VB.NET

  Hi... I am working with a vb.net developement project. In one of the requirement I have to call a db2 stored procedure written in Cobol to retrive multiple rows from db2 table.(os390).I have to manipulate the returned rows in a dataset.Can any one help me by describing how can i call a Cobol/db2 stored procedure from VB.NET. whether the cobol stored procedure will return rows in an array or as a dataset Please help me. Thanking you Sr ...Show All

• Peter-j-c How to write 3-Tier Application using c# windows Application with MS SQL Server 2000?.

  Hi ,       I am new to .Net . Please help me .. How to do 3-Tier Application using  vb.net  windows Application with  MS SQL Server. Thanks.....   I cannot undertand your answer. I am also trying to find a way to write a 3-tier vb.net application. My question is with this is possible to do massive changes in a table like when I used a dataset And I mean w ...Show All

• HelpMePleaseeee String function

  Forgive me for this probably simple question, but is there a predefine function that will return part of a string. ex. If s is a string value of "basic" and I wanted to return just the first letter "b", is there a predefine function that will do that Spotty, The Mid$ functions, holdover from VB6 are 1 based instead of 0-based. That's important to know.... ...Show All

• Budchee In need of help

  ok, ive made my XML plugin, and the app reads it like this: Try   Dim sr As New System.IO.StreamReader( "settings.xml" ) Dim xr As New System.Xml.XmlTextReader(sr) Dim settingsxml As New System.Xml.XmlDocument settingsxml.Load(xr) Dim NumberofcatagorysXmlNode As System.Xml.XmlNodeList = settingsxml.SelectNodes( "settings/numberofcatagorys" ) Dim number As System.Xml.XmlNode = NumberofcatagorysXm ...Show All