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• alex2000 running apps (shell command)

  hi, just wondering what i have done wrong in visual basic 2005 (.net). i used to be able to (vb6) go shell("appnamehere.exe") and it would run if i had the app in the same dir. now i cant seem to work out where i should put the exe when you run the setup of the project i published its like it installs itself and runs in temp or sumthin how do i make it so it just runs from its folder and can run the apps via the shell command ...Show All

• Marcus J invalid parameter

  Can anyone tell me why this throws a system.argumentexception:Invalid parameter Imports System.Drawing Public Class form1   Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form # Region " Windows Form Designer generated code " Public Sub New () MyBase .New() 'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer. InitializeComponent() 'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call End Sub 'Form overrides dispose ...Show All

• Rubens Arandas No Openforms Property in My.Application

  I am working with VS 2005, VB on an XP machine. Application.OpenForms or Sstem.Windows.Forms.Application.OpenForms are OK But My.Application DOES NOT have an openforms property . Neither in Intellesense or when I enter it VS (Background compiler or compiler) Error 9 'openforms' is not a member of 'WindowsApplication1.My.MyApplication'. C:\Net20\ProjectsTest\WindowsApplication4\WindowsApplication4\Startup.vb 36 13 WindowsApplic ...Show All

• Rik Brooks Can vb.net and C# .net connect to remote SQL servers?

    Just previous to buying vb.net and C# .net standard editions I read this review http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000089GKW/qid=1123491868/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8__i1_xgl65/002-4787338-9060820 v=glance&s=software&n=1000 is this for real can Visual basic.net connect to remote sql servers or not if not why. If so where can I get more information on it I use SQL on a hosted machine, but if cant dev ...Show All

• Mark1974 Minimum Permission Requests?

  Using VS2005 RC1, every time I create a project and add a reference to a DLL or control that resides on a different drive I get the following error either when attemting to run the program or when I first attempt to add the reference: ... Could not load file or assembly ... Failed to grant minimum permission requests. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131417) I'm an administrator- equivalent user and have full create/modify/destroy on both my local ...Show All

• gdb problem with starting a COM server

  Hi, I'm trying to start a COM server using the following code (there is a form and button on it): Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim x As STATISTICA.Application = New STATISTICA.Application Dim a As STATISTICA.Analysis MsgBox("Press OK to launch Statistica Analysis") a = x.Analysis(STATISTICA.AnalysisIdentifier.scBasicStatistics, "C:\Program Files\StatSo ...Show All

• Azzmodan Win32 API WriteFile "Error Invalid Handle"

  Hello, i wrote a programm which can help to send packets to my USB device but when i try to use the method WriteFile (in sub sendpacket(startsessionpacket)) i get the win 32 error (Error Invalid Handle) howewer work hDevice=createFile (...) great! so what's wrong with my code please Help Me Option Strict On Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Public Module DeviceIo Dim theDevInfo As IntPtr Dim hDevice ...Show All

• achristov overwriting in a text file

  Hi! I have the following problem - I have a text file called Settings.txt in this form: some data... [path]c:\mypath\blahblah\ some more data... Now, I have to overwrite this text file so that it can contain another path. Simple, but complicated :) Of course, the path I need to insert is inserted from the application, and it's a string. Anyway, the result should be something like this: some data... [path]c:\new ...Show All

• Ian Picknell VB2005 Express b2: Where are the libraries?

  I'm doing some dabbling with VB, and I want to write a tiny windowless app that can intercept APM suspend events and deny them. This sounds like a very simple 50-line program, so I'm not too keen on dropping $800 for the full VB Studio to do it. :) I've download the VB 2005 Express b2 to see what can be done, and I'm not finding much of anything for libraries included with it (*.h or *.lib). My experience has so far been with the MSDOS ...Show All

• Arieth How to add items to the Right Click Menu on the Windows Desktop?

  HI, I am fairly new to programming in VS 2005 and would like to know how we can add items to the menu on the Windows Desktop and the IE. I mean like when we right click on a WinZIp file we have additional items which are application specific etc. Also when i right click in IE on a specific file e.g. flash file, I need a new item added. And how do we handle events raised from this new Item Just give me a hint as to where I can find th ...Show All

• Jerry Metcoff How do I load a picture from resource file into a picturebox?

  -Visual Basic Express 2005- I have a resource file and have included all my images into. I need to load hundred.jpg into a picurebox when a certain event occurs. I hope to get the simplest line of code possible to do this Can anyone please help Thanks in advance :) If you need to use it to store pictures you should just add a folder called images and put your images in it. Then you can drag and drop the image to anywhere on your ...Show All

• PC-Gram Instantiating Presentation Object without Powerpoint Opening

  How do I create a Presentation Object without opening Powerpoint I've the following code but it always opens powerpoint: Presentations.Open("c:\test.ppt", msoTrue) Thanks. ...Show All

• WiFi How to set TextBox not to accept input until enter pressed and Select Case not working.

  I trying to input a number between 0 and 36 into a Textbox but I don't want the number to be passed to my variable until enter has been pressed, but it currently sets the variable as soon as as number is typed into the box. Also why do my Select Case Case below not work Thanks for helping a neewbie again ! Private Sub TextBox1_TextChanged( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.TextC ...Show All

• Adrian Hains Icons in dialog boxes: How?

  How do I put system icons in my dialog boxes (i.e. question, information, warning, error)   What is the code for doing this Thanks for the help, man!  Who knew I was supposed to use "MessageBox.Show" instead of an ordinary "MsgBox" command Now I've just finished my first Visual Basic project, a program called "TryPing for Windows."  Remember the "ping" command for DOS   Well, "TryPing" is, in essentials, just a G ...Show All

• rezaA uint64 to date conversion

  I created a class that returns the system up time. However the number it returns is a uint64 as thats what its base class returns. When i run the program it returns a value like this System Uptime = 94118 What want to do is convert this to a time and have it say something like 1 Day 22 hours 5mins and 30 seconds. However I a not sure how to do this, what does this number represent the number of seconds mins and what is a uint64 is t ...Show All