Answer Questions

• tstdemo Help System

  For a vb.net03 windows application, can you give me some refernces to how to implement an internal application help system. Thanks, Fred There are all sorts of third-party Help System development tools available. Most of what Microsoft provides tends to be programmer focused. Below are a few I've either used or am aware of: HelpScribble WestWind HelpBreeze HTML Help Generator HelpNDoc Microsoft HTML Help SDK RoboHelp ...Show All

• Wheat Looking for multimedia function in VB.net

  Hi, Has any one written multimedia function in vb.net such as sound recording, stop, play, etc....such of function I have tried to write some in my program(record,stop & play). During compile stage, i didn't get any error message but when i run the executable file in other PC then i get an exception. The message show the Process id = 0x298, Thread id = 0x4b4. My friend have advise me to remove the multimed ...Show All

• Gombly Refreshing thing in a combo box with thing from a database...

  Hi, I'm pretty new to programming and I have a question about Visual Basic 2005 Express edition. I appreciate any input you can give me. I'm writing a program that uses a Microsoft Access database, and I'm linking that database to a combobox. I can fill up the combo box with the contents of my "Name" column of the database, but I want the combobox to refresh either automatically (I guess through a timer) or through the click of a button, either ...Show All

• Tom Laird-McConnell How to Get Optional Parameter Names automatically typed through Intellisense

  I'm having a method which accepts more then 10 Optional parameter. In calling code, i want to give facility to the person using my class to get optional parameter names directly through intellisense. is there any way to accomplish this   Optional parameters have full Intellisense support by default in both VS2003 and 2005. For example, if you define the following function: Public Function Tes ...Show All

• Vasundhara Intellisense Problem

  I have a problem with the autocomplete feature of Visual Studio 2005. When I use VS2005 for an extended period of time the code editor starts to behave very strange. When I'm writing code it starts to autocomplete my code when it should not. Example, if I want to write: Dim sName as String it can ends in: d(ims) nameas String Dim s(name) as string Dim sn(ameas) string etc. As it was loosing focus and it autocompletes while I'm writing (I write v ...Show All

• Willis777 Set Starting size for a child form

  Is there any way to set the starting size for a child window in a mdi form. Whenever I open the child form it sizes it based on the size of the parent form, instead of using the size I set for it in the designer. I use Form2.Size = New Size(640, 480) . Is there another way I think the problem was that it had fixed border. what it would do is when the form was shown it would resize it depending on the size of the parent form, so that it ...Show All

• Gautam_Neo Return the line number where an exception has occurred.

  I am looking for a method to return the line number of the code where an exception has occurred so I can include it in my alert message. Does anyone have an example that would help identify the location of the exception. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help. DWC I wrote this code to manage just that. It only works in debug mode though. Private void Somefunction() { try { int ...Show All

• Douglas Drury 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

• bderemer please help!

  EDITED: Sorry about the post Could you be more specific as to what you are looking for   I can point you in the right direction in regards to books/tutorials/etc... it sounds like you aren't just sure where to start.  Nobody's going to write your entire app for free though, even the nice folks on this board Josh I'm hesitant to write the code, because most of the time, you'll come back asking to write more code... The fo ...Show All

• Leonid-NSK Hidding NOT working

  Dir Team   i have a form include two tables master and detail  'textboxes & grid'   i want to hide a coulmn from the grid   i made tablestyle collection:,mapping table,collection,mapping coulmn   width=0 STILL NOT WORKING  Dear Ged    i am realy Thank you very much for you help...i will try this code today    and i will reply on you very soon    this is if you have som ...Show All

• Prime Digits msgbox on client browser problem

  am facing this problem hope some one can help.. I have developed web applications that uses msgbox, when I run the application from server side under the VS2005 it runs very well and msgbox pop very nice: The instruction I use to pop the msgbox is : MsgBox( "Password Has Changed, Please Click OK to Relogin with the new Password" , 4160, Omar.MsgTitle) When I run from vs2005 compiler it’s greate but when I publish to the ...Show All

• JerryMcR how to insert greek characters and mathematical symbols into textes?

  Hello, Is it possible to insert greek characters (ex: rho,sigma, pi etc.) and mathematical symbols in a text Corollary: how to display an exponant These things can be done easily with the math editor in Words but I have not found the solution in VB editor. Thanks Chris This should give you a good starting point. Start a new project and add a combobox, then paste the following code. For x = 1 To ...Show All

• mcpunjabi Using Visual Studio VB with Access 2003 -> General Questions

  So how is this done I have an access DB made up with the forms and stuff already in the .mdb file but trying to program vb in Access has it's draw backs and I'd like to be able to make the forms, etc, in visual studio vb and then have them connected to the Access Database. I have several tables that are connected to different forms, so it's not going to be just one table needs to be linked to the whole project. Can any one point me in the ...Show All

• ashish. Converting C stuctures to vb.net structures

  how do i do this in VB.NET const char *file; does uintptr_t *extra; mean Public extra As Reflection.Pointer how do i do this fixed length thing in VB.NET char name[GRF_NAMELEN]; for this pointer to the next one of the same structure struct _GrfFile *next; do i do this Public Gnext As Reflection.Pointer If you don't know C/C++, why are you doing this work The site is mostly C#, but converting between the ...Show All

• Ray Price the binding handle is invalid

  I recently installed the free VB2005 Express. However, no matter what i do in VB, it refuses to run because "the binding handle is invalid" Help! Hi, This is the post on the debugger forum about this issue, with some work-arounds http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=65188&SiteID=1 . Links to work-arounds: - http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/ViewWorkaround.aspx FeedbackID=FDBK ...Show All