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• pubs Hiding MDI Maximize/Minimize Buttons

  I have an MDI app, where all child windows are opened maximized. I don't want the users to have the ability to minimize or maximize them etc. Can anyone tell me how to disable the mid maximize/minimize buttons on the command bar that are created when the childform is maximized I can't work it out of the life of me, but it cant be that hard! Cheers Mc why not try to change the controlbox property of ...Show All

• nga96 Java-like Object toString?

  Is it possible to create a toString method as in Java where all of the data for a specific class can be combined in one string and printed to a message box or other location If so, how Sure, All objects by default have a tostring method. If you want to override the default behaviour then you can simply override the tostring method and put whatever you want in there - in this case I will combine two string pr ...Show All

• Celios Why do the ODBC 3.5.1 and MySQL 3.1.8 drivers not work?

  Why do the ODBC 3.5.1 and MySQL 3.1.8 drivers not work Michael Im sorry, i thought you where asking for help, and i was trying.  It seems you are on your own now.   On a side note, I read some of your other forums posts, and it seems that if you don't get what you want, right away, the first time, you get quite rude. Check it out for yourself, read how you're talking to the other people who are helping you. http://foru ...Show All

• Sheynema Mysterious Message box

  For some strange reason whenever I use a messagebox.show command the said message box is blank. All windows updates are loaded on. VB.net 2003 has been uninstalled and reinstalled. Windows has been reimaged also. Weird I know. ANy Ideas I ran into the same issue and it ended up being a McAfee Virus Scan issue with version 8.0i. There is a patch (patch09) which fixed the issue. There are a few different ...Show All

• thadwald How can I know the cpu and Graphic card information from VB.NET 2005

  hallo every one   Iam making a programm in vb.net 2005 and I want to make a label.text = ( cpu information ) and another label shows my graphic card informatiion how can I do this   and thanks alot Dear Martiny I tried My. but it didnt word and thanks alot for you Daniel Rieck   for helping me i think its will work because I see this code in C# before and its work   I will try it   th ...Show All

• Daniel T Unicode question

  After I have compiled my application are there ANY possible ways that UNICODE can affect the running of the application in any way at all For example (run on these systems characters typed and entered into fields will they be 4 byte characters ) If there is any possibility of any problems at all then how do I know when this is happening and how do I resolve the problems Michael J. Dyrnaes The link was supposed to point to the ...Show All

• Rich Hopkins Dynamically populating a combo box .?

  I am trying to populate a combo box on a form based on the contents of a field within SQL. i.e. I read the data from the SQL field.  In this case I return the string "Select * From Transactions" I populate my dataset and set the dataset as the datasource of my combo box.  This works fine. However what I want to do is to use a where clause in my select statement such as "Select * From Transactions Where AccNo = '" & strAccNo & " ...Show All

• avenue How to use Crystal Report Controls?

  Can somebody help me on how I can use the Crystal report viewer control and Crystal report control pls posts some sample code that I can use...Tanx! Dominic. Hi, Quoting from this page http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms225566.aspx , if you have Visual Studio 2005 with Crystal Report installed, you can install the sample code using C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Crystal Reports\Samples\en\Code\TutorialSampleCodePro ...Show All

• iicDotnet Form Switching

  Hello all, I know this is a real n00b question, but I was wondering if someone could advise me as to a better way of doing my form switching without creating a new instance of a form each time. I know usually you can just go Dim F as new Form2 F.Show But that creates a new instance of Form2. What I'm trying to do is to have a permanently open version of Form2 that I can access at any time. The reason I want to do this is so that I can k ...Show All

• Matt Walter free up the memory allocated to a variable

  Dear All, Procedure ABCD() DIM xyz as string xyz="....." ---------- 'from here onwards, I don't need or I am not using the xyz variable, So I want to free up that memmory. How can I -------- ------ END SUB Please read the comment in the code., If possibel please give me an answer. regards citrus When the variable goes out of scope and is unreferencable i ...Show All

• Jon_Fisher ADO/Access Questions

    I've had a moderate amount of of experience with access databases in vb6. We'd declare a file system object and from that declare a workspace and from that a record set descriptor. One could picture and understand what was happening. VS2005 is different though. You could create and delete tables and define them dynamically. VS2005 seems to be different. It seems that things are done up front in the IDE Almost as if the relatio ...Show All

• DORANGE How to read a x.509 certificate from AD

  Hello all, I need to read from AD as users published certificate. I understand how create a LDAP query, but how can I read the certificate. I know that there is a X509Certificate class in VS2005, but I can't seem to figure it out. Thanks ...Show All

• DavidLee Object invoked has disconnected from its clients ERROR

  Hi everyone.. Im working on a VB6 migration to .Net and Im getting a very strange error. Heres part of the code im executing and where the error is thrown.. I got a form where a message is shown in screen for the user to track what operations the main applications is running.. the routine is in my VB99_loadingScreen. VB99_LoadingScreen.DefInstance.Message("Reading Tag Configuration for Smart Devices") My form has the next rout ...Show All

• japreja Visual Basic Templates disappeared from create project?

  Hi,   I am running Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and suddenly today I go to create a new project but the Visual Basics templates were gone (there was everything else but, i.e. C#,C++, Web forms). I can still open up a old Visual Basic Project and when I look at the "About" page it still shows its installed. I even went into the setting on the Start page and reset to Visual Basic initial setting but it didn't work What happened here ...Show All

• Abhinesh Jadhav Arranging Pictures On Win Forms a la Win Desktop

  All, I'm trying to create an app that uses a form like the Win desktop where you can arrange icons. Instead of icons I'll be using picture box controls. I understand how to use the drag and drop events, but can't figure out how to drop the picture box and make it stay exactly where it's dropped on the form. Do I need to use a different container control than the form itself I'll also need to figure out how to auto-arrange the picture boxes if ...Show All