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• Michael Leworthy How to Display a Tooltip at a Different Location than the Mouse Cursor?

  I was wondering if it's possible to display a tooltip at a different location than where the mouse currently is. I'm making a map program, and when I go to a desired intersection, I want the tooltip to popup on top of it to sort of annotate it. If this isn't possible, does anyone know any other way to draw a balloon type message at a specified point on the screen Thanks for any help. I was trying to sear ...Show All

• Nico Devriendt Replacing contents in a textbox using listboxes

  I have a textbox... I need ALL the contents from one listbox to be replaced by ALL the contents in the other listbox IN THE TEXTBOX I need them all replaced in one function, not one at a time. Thanks, Tanner Hi, OK, you seem to have edited the question to mean something else now. This is more of a calling the Replace on the Textbox like this: For intLoop As Integer = 0 To ListBox1.Items.Coun ...Show All

• alwz_nikhil Using a Global variable in a SQL statement?

  Hi all, Is this possible I am using the Query Builder in the Table Adapter Configuration Wizard. My purpose is to take the value of a field from one form and use it to load a specific record in a new form. I have tried several single quote and double quotes in the SQL statement, but to no avail. Perhaps the DataSet does not see Public variables Any help would be greatly appreciated! The most lik ...Show All

• Charlie Audritsh Getting the Control under a Context Menu

  Hi,  I have a context menu attached to several controls on the same form. How can I determine on whitch one of these controls the user right-clicked to get the context menu and select an option I gess it can be done in the menu option click event handler, but I do not know how. Thanks Patrick For some reason, the parent and sourcecontrol isn't passed along to the sub-items. I use this setup to do what yo ...Show All

• Cazz Database question....

  In my VB 6 app I used an access DB with 77 tables each representing a different company products. They are ALL the same format just different company names for each table. In VS2005 I would like to use just one table and have about 3000 records with the column MFG. Obvioulsy this makes for quick response from the program. Here's the problem.... In the old app I populated a combobox with each table so the user could quickly navigate to the ...Show All

• Sebrose Data Grid

  Hi! May i know how to bind data into data grid.. i'm sorry to ask such a simple question but i really duno how to bind it.. ok.. then i think shall not include picture box in datagrid.. thanks a lot.. i use data grid. currently i'm using VS2003. i'm using datagrid. i use VS 2003 to write program. Hi If it is Web Application you can do it. But if it is Windows Appllication then this is the Problem. D ...Show All

• Pachacutec Bitmap/Jpeg in Database

  I have been trying to figure out how to 1) place a Picturebox.image into an Access database then 2) retrieve the same and put into a Picturebox.  I am Using Vb2005 B2 (Until I get buy the Release).  I have the Access database set as OLE Object.  I use both ADO.net and ADO Classic in my programs, soon to Migrate all to ADO.net Thanks My VB6 routine worked just fine.  Does not work in .net, ev ...Show All

• khush How to let a listbox display a listitem Collection?

  Hi, I have a webparts control containing an Asp.net listbox and a label. There is this public property called 'ListItems' which will appear in the properties window when the control is selected on the design page in VS 2005. When the "ListItems" property is selected, the ListItemsCollection Editor window pops up and the user can enter the list items. However, when the ok button is clicked, the listbox doesnt display the list items. Be ...Show All

• LTelles8 WebBrowser Object - Saving Text

  I was wondering if someone could help me with coding a common dialog to save text from the web browser object I am new to coding in vb I only have vb98 for now but I do not think this should be much of a problem at my level. but if someone could give me some tips or code snippets on this it would be appreciated. Thanx. GreyWolf There is no such product as VB98 but I would suggest that you download the VB Ex ...Show All

• RandyC Process.start question

  When using a process.start command to start a media player and play a song at a file location, is there a way programatically to tell when the song or media has completed playing Fred This is a little bit of a tricky question because if a media player is in an executable file, chances are it's relying on an API at some level. When you have an application depending upon the API there are several ways to to tell if a song has ...Show All

• mikeyblee need program of motion detection and capturing live video from any device

  hi i need a program that capture live video from any divice like webcam ,tv card(AV) or any other and also detect motion mean it has motion detection functionlality thanks Vicon, Panasonic...to name a couple of mfgs that have video motion detection devices available on the market today!  They are not that expensive and can be added to a variety of sources  ie NTSC, PAL etc... Hi Zaman, I would start by developing an applica ...Show All

• Ferdynand Linklabel

  could some1 plz tell me how to make a linklabel open up a url in your default browser lol im only 12 i just wanted to build some programs for me and my friends. thanks again for all your help 1 more thing... could u tell me a code that allows my splash screen to last longer In the designer double click on the linklabel control and it will cr ...Show All

• Bugge how to get and set value of other SYSTEM & SOFTWARE ?

  thank you please show me how to get & set registry value of other Windows ...Show All

• Tareq Gamal mahmoud AssemblyInfo is not a member of MyObject.My.MyApplication

  I have been reading the Freebe book "Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 For Developers". I have been trying to make sense of the My.Application object "Walk through" on page 43. When trying to add a new row to the data grid using "DataGridView1.Rows.Add( "Description" , My .Application.assemblyinfo.Description)", I get the error message "AssemblyInfo is not a member of MyObject.My.MyApplic ...Show All

• michel oval Reading a fixed length random access text file in vb.net 2003

  I know this is old stuff but one of our systems outputs it's data in a fixed field length text file.  It's a very old system and they are not planning to upgrade if to several months.  The nice people from this forum helped me get the Structure right for vb.net 2003. Now what I'm having a problem with is opening the file to read the data.  I had it setup in VB6 but vb.net is a whole new monster and I'm still learning it.  Do ...Show All