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• pknudtson Radio Check Options in Menu Strip?

  First off, I'm completely new to the world of Visual Basic. I took a little break from programming for about 20 years :) What a change... and THANK GAWD! I'm trying to keep current in my studies and am using VB.NET 2005 beta 2 at the moment and training with App Dev's VB .NET course... I've got the basics down, nagivation, understanding of objects, properties, etc... but for the life of me, i can't find what i'm looking for... and what I THOUGH ...Show All

• KB996 How can i use lpParameters in Shellexecute()?

  Hello guys i am trying to write a program that executes a shell program like oracle Export, as you know for that kind of programs parameters is important, for example i have to do it with userid and Password also i want to change a password for example when a user typed my programs name in cmd and add userid and password and db_name, i want to change that password and send it to oracle i tried with shellexecute() but i couldnt use lpPa ...Show All

• Mortify GDI+ Question - Copy drawn image

  I've spent the last hour googling, searching this forum, and MSDN2 for what, I assumed, would be a simple process.  I have a picturebox that I've drawn in (via the Paint event).  I want to copy the information I've drawn on the picturebox (not the box's .Image property, which is nothing)  to the windows clipboard. Short of resorting to the API and BitBlt how can I get what's drawn on the picturebox into the clipboard ...Show All

• Graham Byrne VB application for Zipping/Unzipping Folder

  Can any one provide me .dll's or Function/Code which I can use to Zip or Unzip a folder in WinZip format (Visual Basic Code). Hi, Since C#, VB and J# could interoperate. Why not try using the J# dll's for zipping files. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/06/zipcompression/default.aspx   cheers, Paul June A. Domag Hi, There is a free open source library for zip. http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/D ...Show All

• Juergen Bayer DirectX Samples complaining

  A few days ago I've installed the directx9.0b sdk. I looked through the vb tutorials, and the first 4 seemed to work well. But the rest didn't work, the compiler complained alot about the directx library not containing stuff. Any idea what's going on here I hope I get some answers quickly, Michel EDIT Sorry, the tutorials work, but all the Samples don't. Seems to be nothing wrong with. the directx ...Show All

• Rhialto 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 Or you could simply use the form's ActiveControl property: Private Sub FooToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FooToolStripMenuItem.Clic ...Show All

• P__M playing mp3 and mpeg

    hello how i can play mp3 and mpeg with VB is there a free activex   is it possible : playing mp3 with "windows media player" OLE Object   Thanks   This should be a simple process of determining the file that you have selected from the open file dialog and using this to set the URL property of the media player OCX.   You may want to restrict the open file dialog to files that you know media playe ...Show All

• >rik< Changing font of an item in listbox

  Next question..Is there a way to make a particular item in a list box bold when adding it. Ex. Listbox1 is on form1. Listbox1.items.add(Team A vs TEam B) Listbox1.items.add(TeamC vs. Team D) Listbox1.items.add(TeamE vs TeamF) I want the (TeamC vs TeamD) to be bold but nothing else..I played some with the bold property but it wouldnt let me do anything with it. ANy ideas. How is that done GOt an exa ...Show All

• Gurpreet GIll Using virtual function in VB.NET from C++ DLL

  Hi, I'm running into a problem when trying to use class interfaces from this library called Audiere. The library was written in C++ as virtual functions that were COM compatible. To use the interface you call a function in the DLL that returns a pointer to the interface (Factory ). They are bindings for Purebasic and Delphi that use the interfaces directly. I made a binding for the D language using interfaces that inherited from the IUnknown int ...Show All

• Tim1 VisualBasic IDE Corrupts Form !

  Hello There ... I Was Working very smoothly and everything was Allright ... Suddenly I found that Something Corrupts the Code of my Forms ... I got arround 100 Errors (One for every Control i guess) the (Error 6 ) was Like ControlX is not a Member of BlaBla ... I then Went and had a Look at the Code behind the Form And Found that SOME Lines were Missing Like Friend WithEvents TmrTime As System.Windows.Forms.Timer Then I had to write t ...Show All

• AdmSteck DAta Sources Toolbox functionality reversed

  When I am looking at a code window all of my data sources are visible in the data sources toolbox. When I am looking at a form, the toolbox is empty and greyed out and no options can be accessed. This is exactly opposite from how it worked in beta 1, 2 and RC1. Anyone know what the deal is with this As of right now I cannot drag/drop a table onto a form because all the tables are hidden when I am looking at a form. Thanks, Josh ...Show All

• O.Tacke How to enchance text area in forum?

  I had build a very simple forum. May i know that how can i enchance my forum like gave some function in the Textbox For example , Bold, Italic,Underline, Color of Font and emotion icon . Can anyone gave me the example of code I need it so much. Thank you. Hi in VB2005 (and VB2003 I think) create a FontDialog and then go         ...Show All

• ecofriend deployment of vb.net application with MSSQL db

  I built my application using VB.NET 2003, MSSQL database which is hosted locally. How can i build the deployment file plz help in details, i am new (apparantly i can only build the msi file for simple applications following walkthrough) i built an msi file with the application inside. when i installed it in another pc which has vb.net2003, the framework and mssql enterprise installed, the program doesnt work, error: SQL server does not ex ...Show All

• tolyy Edit and Continue Linked Files

  Is there a flag somewhere that I need to change to allow me to Edit a linked module during a debugging run   Right now it is Read only which really makes it difficult to make changes on the fly.   Thanks   Larry Gatlin Hi Larry. This is an unfortunate bug that wasn't considered high enough priority to fix for our 2005 release.  You can report this bug at http:/ ...Show All

• GlennGraham Problem importing VB6 project in VB 2005 express.

  First, i was really happy to have a free copy of VB at home. Why Cause programming is a part time hobby that i can only do at work, where my boss give me access to the computer with Visual Studio installed on it. I saw VB2005 exp. and install it at home to work more on my project, but i cannot open it. What can i do to fix this, or it can be only done on VB6. Here is the message i got from the import wizard: Upgrade failed: Exception occur ...Show All