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• Uriel55587 Having trouble with syntax

    Having trouble with syntax    What I'm trying to do here is get the value of the IDColumn.  I get a wobbly line under tbl at the bottom saying variable tbl is being used before it is assigned a value.  A NullReferenceException could result at runtime. Furthermore, I know ToString isn't going to do the trick, but I don't know what member will give me the value.  There isn't a value property, which seems a shortcom ...Show All

• Daniel Bogdan Function Module for Registry Programming

  Can somebody help on whats the code of the function module for Registry Programming for VB2005. In Visual Basic 6.0, The function can easily be seen in the API Viewer but where can I find it in VB2005 Daniel, Aren't there some security changes for the the Dot Net v2.0 framework I don't think that article includes new registry security features and without them, isn't the framework going to generate exceptions with those calls ...Show All

• Predator14567 Making a program perform tray icon + com tasks in background without service

  I am interested in porting my KeyStater ( http://keystater.berlios.de ) program to .NET (Originaly written in VB4). The main problem I will be getting is not getting the COM object to work but rather making the programs tray icon update even if the program is not in the foreground. The only viable way I could think about doing this is to make the program a service however VB.NET Express doesn't support making a service and since I am writing the ...Show All

• lp75 My Object not responding

  When attempting to use "my.", Intellisense only offers me my.resources and none of the other My Object areas. What am I missing   When creating a new project using the IdeaBlade DevForce framework, the tutorial starts you with a Blank Project template. I haven't asked them yet (but I will) if this is a requrement. I've also noticed that the XmlDoc Comment tags don't come in when I type a single quo ...Show All

• lucoosa setup.exe question

  I created windows app with vb 2005, ready to install on a user machine by running application’s setup.exe, I get application warning Application Install Security Warning – Publisher can not be verified. Don’t know any other way to get publisher name to appear. Was using solution’s property window – Publish/options to set up publisher name and product name, it takes product name, but not publisher name, anybody has an answer for that. ...Show All

• asalcedo 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

• Kevin Tough access to runtime created webbrowsers' events

  hello. im trying to make a multipaged webbrowser. the user can add page (tab) and in this case - if more pages there are - each page has an individual webbrowser. i navagite them from a combobox. when u select the first tab and key in an url into the combobox the currently active webbrowser (on the first tab) navigates to that url. and this works with all newly added tabs. my question is how can i access these runtime created tabs' runtime ...Show All

• lulaleila78 Any Amateur Radio Operators in here?

  any licensed amateur radio Operators in here Just wonderin' I wanna do some Ham Radio related programming... and could use some help. -Chuck K8CPA Try to keep the questions relevent to the Visual Basic. Perhaps reading the following will help decide on whether the question is really relevent in this forums. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=227781&SiteID=1 There ...Show All

• Nerbert Check the distance between two objects using vector

  Hi everyone,                      It's me again, Maria. I find this forum very good as I really get the neccessary information that I want, so once again, I came to write in and ask question :P                     I'm working on a game which n ...Show All

• fabal How do You Change the width of a Excel cell or columns in VB.Net

  I am having problems trying to change the width of a cell or even columns programatically in VB.Net. I have created an excel object and I can get data into excel, but I can't seem to find the right way to format the cells and columns. Here is what I have thus far. Dim xlApp As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application Dim xlBook As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook Dim xlSheet As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workshe ...Show All

• MNorbex Easy question: How to avoid stepping into DAAB when debugging

  Hi, I'm sure this is an easy question to answer for someone that has a better understanding about how debugging works in Visual Studio (2005). I've been trying to figure out how to avoid stepping into the DAAB (Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block) when debugging. I have "Just my code" enabled, and I am referencing the compiled versions of the DLLs (i.e. I don't have the DAAB source added to my solution), yet somehow it still s ...Show All

• GrijzePruik VB Express 2005

  Hi all, I just downloaded and installed VB Express 2005 Bata 2. When I ran it and select "New Project" and "Window" app, I get 5 dialog boxes that says: Title: Package Load Failure Package 'Visual Studio common IDE package' has failed to load properly (GUDI - {6E87CFAD-6C05-4ADF-9CD7-3B7943875B7C}). Please contact package vendor for assistance. Application restart recommended, due to possible enviroment corruption. Would you like to disable load ...Show All

• kayda Question about PrintDialog.AllowSelection

  This question is about printing. I have gotten printing up and running in the program and it is working great. No problems there. My problem is that I want my users to be able to print just what they have selected. The primary view for my app is a ListView with MultiSelect as False . I have already set the PrintDialog up such that PrintDialog.AllowSelection is True only when the user has selected a row in the ListView . My problem is that I c ...Show All

• jkrakowsky Programmatically Changing Screen Resolution

  I have an application that needs to run at a particular screen resolution. How do I detect current screen resolution and then change it if it needs to I know that switching the resolution programmatically isn't a generally accepted way of doing things, but in this situation, I know its ok to do so. How do I go about doing that User needs often trump abstract 'practices'. Si ...Show All

• gariche menustrip

  In my menustrip I have an item call "Bad Items" when I click "bad items" my dropdowns appear (i add the dropdown items programmaticaly) The question is, how can I assign to a variable the text in the dropdown when it's clicked. Been messing with this all day and cant find the method. Thx for any help! Carl Either I'm not getting it or you're not getting what I am trying to do. On my Form I just have 1 menuitem ...Show All