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• Kinduril Help with Timer

  I am developing a parenting educational course with specific requirenments regarding how much time the student needs to spend on each particular lesson. I am looking for a timer code that: 1. Track and display how much time they have spend on the current lesson. 2. Makes a button (or a link to a new form) available after 40 minutes has passed on the current lesson to jump to the next section 3. The hardest one ( I think) Stores time they have al ...Show All

• SHESHAGIRI Changing the Progress Bar Color

  Anyone know how to change the color of the progress bar Dont know what Im doing wrong... I selected the properties for the progress bar and chose a different color, but it does not change. I noticed a menu listing of various colors for the screens, but the green used for the progress bar was not listed- What am I doing wrong In the color picker you see ...Show All

• RJButler Passing a value from form to form

  What is the best way to pass a value from form to form Do I use a global variable or is there a parameter style way to do it Is there some other way Thanks for helping a newbie. I have a simple read-only program in VB 2005 that will be retrieving info from several different SQL Server views based on a single case number.  It will have 3 to 4 forms and each will be closing when the next or previous one is ope ...Show All

• Jack_Bauer_24 Comparing VB files i.e. keeping track of changes made to VB files

  I am after a program which will allow me to compare 'differences' between two VB files i.e. compare the difference between two .BAS files, two .frm's etc. Fot text files I used to use Visual Source Safe which had the capability to easily keep track of changes made to a file. As far as I know this doesn't work for VB files as they are 'binary' files. Can anyone help How do you guys all keep track of 'changes made' between different versions ...Show All

• Drummos Help - Data Source Configuration Wizard OLEDB ODBC CSV text files

  Hi All, I am running Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, I was trying to create a dataset where the datasource is a CSV File. When I run Data Source Configuration Wizard Using OLEDB and ODBC , the dataset is blank. "Error Text: An error occurred while retrieving the information from the database. Operation is not supported for this type of object." Does any one know whether this is a bug or incomplete function or not supported In Server Explorer, ...Show All

• Peter Artelt Providing application help

  I want to provide standard help for a complex application with, possibly a treeview structure and index facilities. How do I do this as simply as possible using VB2005 Thanks for the clues. What I was looking for (but did not know it) was the "Microsoft HTML Help Workshop" which is a substantial program which compiles all you HTML help files, indexes etc into a single standard help file. For anyon ...Show All

• Terry Montgomery Asp .net Menu Control - Line Seperator :(

  How can I make a line seperator without having to create an image If I do have to create an Image how can I adjust it without having to create different sizes for different menu items Your help is greatly appreciated... rich Hi, On future ASP.Net specific questions you could post in forums.asp.net . You will have a great chance of being answered there...     cheers, Paul June A. Domag No ...Show All

• Scotttt text formating

  Hi, i would like to ask whether can i format the text in textbox in such a way that whenever there is a bullet, it will display it in a newline. the textbox data is retrieve from a database in the same column. For multi-line textbox : Set TextBox.Multiline property to True To add a new line, use Environment.NewLine Try using a RichTextBox. You'll need to generate text in the RTF format if it is not already in that format i ...Show All

• M.L Hiding controls on the designer

  I have a bunch of controls on my form and am wondering if I can hide some so it doesn't look so cluttered. I only wnt to hide them on the designer though and not at runtime. Any way to do this Judcious use of groupboxes and send-to-back/send to front were something that my Momma taught me when I was a little girl. It works..... As you noticed, the parameter "Visible" refers to runtime. You can superpose the co ...Show All

• arrmgr Radio Check Options in Menu Strip?

  First off, I'm completely new to the world of Visual Basic. I took a little break from programming for about 20 years :) What a change... and THANK GAWD! I'm trying to keep current in my studies and am using VB.NET 2005 beta 2 at the moment and training with App Dev's VB .NET course... I've got the basics down, nagivation, understanding of objects, properties, etc... but for the life of me, i can't find what i'm looking for... and what I THOUGH ...Show All

• Dima S Community

  Hallo what i search is a AKTUAL news Community for the next genaration of Microsoft Coding Tools. example. I search for the release date of vb.net 2005 and sql server 2005. but the newest that i found was at 2004. i know it release in sommer or winter this jear. but thats it. It is not a pobroblem to find out what the new futrue are, but interesting teknikal information is a  thing of devel. I hope some one of you can help me. thx a lot ...Show All

• DonW Building a Data Base inside VB from Scratch

  I am trying to build a database inside VB from scratch...........usally i have used vb6 where i had the tools.How do i do this same thing in VB Express Edition Bata Version. Use the Database Explorer: View -> Database Explorer will open the window or tab for it from the menu at top. You can create the connection, and then build the entire database and populate it as needed as well. ...Show All

• Derek Newkirk Where can I download Visual Basic 6.0 ?

  Really dumb question, but I couldn't find any download link for Visual Basic 6.0. And I don't want to use Visual Basic 2005, because I got a lot of learning material for Visual Basic 6.0.   Is it a single file you can download and save   VB6 was not a free product. Also, VB6 will be seeing decreasing utilization and demand. It would be a great idea todownload VB express and use that. ...Show All

• zipwax Assigning to variables in a structure dynamically by using the field name in a string

  Hi, I have an issue where I need to be able to take value pairs i.e. fieldname and value - and assign them to the correct fields in a structure. e.g. structure X Field1 Field2 Field3 Field4 end structure Values "Field2", "xyx" "Field4","pqr1" So I need some method of assigning to the correct field in the structure - much like you can with recordsets i.e. rs.fields("< ...Show All

• KN_ Wondering if TV output if possible.

  I was wondering if 2nd output is possible from graphics card (I know by pc can do it, but I would like to know if it can be coded), and here is why... I'm thinking about writting a app/game in VB that is a questions and answers game, but I would like to be able to control the app from the pc, and have the game played on the tv using my graphics card with dual ouput. So other people can play, using joysticks to say.. "I know this&q ...Show All