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• ownagesbot A Pause with a Loop

  Okay...what I want to do seems simple but I've been at it off 'n on for a few days with this & finally decided to post my question. I have a Label I want to flash on & off a few times much like a warning sign. You would think something as easy as: For i as Integer = 0 to 20 Label1.Visible = True Thread.Sleep(500) Label1.Visible = False Next would do it. But it doesn't. I tried throwing a timer in there s ...Show All

• c o e s u r f How can I install a program I wrote on a USB device?

  I want to install a program I wrote in Visual Basic 2005.net on a USB device. I built the program and published it. When I run the set-up, it automatically installs the program on my hard drive. I want it on my removeable device so I can use it on several other computers, but I don't want to install it on other computers. What am I overlooking Help!! Dan The dot net framework supports what they call xcopy ...Show All

• rd2h How to get Printer Status in VB?

  Hi, I just type coding for retrieve printer status whether it’s out of paper, jammed, busy etc. But it cannot run properly. Anyone who has idea on how to retrieve status of network printer hopefully can help me find the solution. Thnx Thnx in advance. If you use Visual Basic the solution is the Api calls, a good explanation is in http://www.merrioncomputing.com/Programming/WatchPrinter.htm I need to make the code to work but I'm havi ...Show All

• Helder Magalhaes Local data base (.mdf) error

  While adding a local database (.mdf) file as data source, i am getting an error 'Shared Memory Provider: Parameter is incorrect', I couldn't find any solution for this. Can anyone help me Hi, AFAIK, VB Express and other Express products are just enabled to connect to SSE (Sql Server Express 2005) and (Access Databases)... It must be one of its limitations... Also, Express products can't connect to a datasource remotely... (though you cou ...Show All

• mrwillyfog when true isnt really true

  A feature I think would be the best way to describe this... or at least it doesnt behave how I would expect... Try the following: debug.print(true) I would expect a boolean value of -1 to be returned.... true being defined in the VB docs as being a boolean value of -1 with false being a boolean value of 0. What I actually get is a string value of "True" Ah well.... How did I discover this Well I was pre-populating a check ...Show All

• KFITZIE KeyASCII

  Can someone help me on how to declare the keyASCII in VB2005 My . Computer . Keyboard . SendKeys ( Keys . A ) "Keys" is a class in VB2005....hope that helps Hi, Would you please provide the VB6 statement you're trying to use in VB 2005 Best regards, If anyone is interested.. I have a snippet for this. Private Sub Textbox1_KeyPress( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArg ...Show All

• frazi How long a computer is on, and writing after some text

  Well this is a two Q topic. First i want to know if there is any code for getting the time for how long the computer has been on Comptime.. Second how can i input text after some text in textbox For instance button1.click inputs the text "you" into textbox1.text But if the textbox1.text already has some text like "how are" then when button1 is clicked text should be input after "how are" and the text should be "how are you"   ...Show All

• Dan_Seattle Problem with Exitprocess

  I have a batch VB 6 program and to send return code in Dos consol, i use the command ExitProcess. when i excute in DOS prompt, batch program stay in memory. If i delete it in my program, it finish without problem. I don't understand why Hi, Can you not use the keyword END in your program instead Regards, S_DS ...Show All

• JeanKap edit and continue

  I can't seem to enable edit and continue in my VB 2005 app. Everyone seems to be pointing to Tools--> Options--> Debugging, but I don't have a debugging menu in my Tools--> Options. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Danny The execution is definitely paused and it is definitely not in release mode. Any more ideas It was a good try because my "Enabl ...Show All

• aliramadan Microsoft Office Document Image

  I am trying to perform some pretty simple operations with MODI control.  Everything is pretty straightforward with the control but I am running into issues letting go of the reference to the control.  The basic concept of the application is that the user opens up a .tif file and views it with the control.  Once they get the info they need, they delete the .tif file.  This is the problem, I am using the file system object to d ...Show All

• iproetel To do with variables

  I'm relatively new to Visual Basic, and would greatly appreciate an answer to the following question: What (in your opinion) is the best method for creating, storing, accessing, and modifying the same variables from different forms I have tried Arrays, but they just gave me more trouble than help. Thanks in advance for answers, as all help is appreciated. Are you talking about global variables Thank you ...Show All

• Vampier How to Use MailMessage to Send MHTML?

  I'm attempting to send an MHMTL document out as an email and am having issues getting it to do so. What I've done is created a windows service to poll reporting services for a "Web Archive" report (read in as a string or byte array via System.Net.WebClient) that I then want to send out to a set of people via System.Net.Mail.MailMessage. I'm aware that reporting services has subscriptions built in, but the situation is a little more c ...Show All

• Chris Condrey Managed memory leak

  I am having a very strange memory leak that seems related to databinding. It is very hard to reproduce, so I won't post any code here to do so, but will just describe the problem. We have data entry forms which have controls which bind to custom business objects through a BindingSource object. On Dispose of the form, we call ClearBindings as described in: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnwinforms/html/databindi ...Show All

• Shapid DataTable and MDI form problems in VB.Net 2003

  Hi all, I will be really happy if someone could help me with a problem that has been causing me heartache for about a year. From an MDI parent I want to directly access the contents of a DataTable that is in an MDI child that is only singled out by its caption text. In the parent I figure out which MDI child I want by counting over Me.MdiChildren.Length while comparing its Text with the caption I am looking for. I then find the Ja ...Show All

• Ian Hopkins Btn nothing Event

  I have a WForm with a button, this button pulls up a word document when a letter is chosen...great......now if a letter is not chosen and i click extract i get an unhandled exception error...any ideas on how i can solve this...so that when a letter is not chosen and i click extract a message box will come up and say no letter chosen....... 'Creating Varibles for Word Application Dim wordApp As Word.Application Dim wordD ...Show All