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• Jeroen van Onzen Is there a way to make executable applications in VB .NET Express Edition?

  Please Respond. yes. Learn Visual Basic !!! This is the basic guidelines !! bicho TTT Hi. I am a civil Engineering student and got to make a project (civil engineering related) but am not that much sophisticated in VB to make one... any guidelines.... A rather blunt answer but the point is correct. Some learning resources include http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/eas ...Show All

• chris house ADO.net DataAccess time SLOW

  Unless I am doing something very wrong, it seems that the ADO.net dataaccess time,IE retrieving a record is extremly slow compared to Classic ADO. Now it takes between 1 and 2 seconds to retrieve the data from the Remote database (Access). Because of needing update data when I select a serial number, I presume and currently use direct access to the remote database. I load a combobox with all my serial Numbers, Currently 15,000 . Then when I c ...Show All

• Adria Grau Listview Listitems not drawing their backcolors ??????

  Hi, I have filled my listview with items, most of which have different backcolors, now this worked fine with .Net 1.1 with VS 2003 but now I have "upgraded" to VS 2005 and .Net 2.0 they are no longer being drawn with there backcolor at run time (both in debug and release)... However, I have a function that will export any listview into excel and this keeps the column widths, row colours and row fonts all in tact, and low and behold the colours ...Show All

• Blue The Dog register ocx files

  Hi, I try to register some ocx files and get the message "Loading in memory of library (filename.ocx) has failed. Illegal access to memory location." I checked the dependencies and they are all OK. What can be the cause of this error     Thanks in advance. Jan %windir% is an environment variable describing where the contents of the windows directory is which is usually c:\windows. You can subst ...Show All

• Brian Siler how to get the path for the Windows folder?

  i.e. "C:\WINDOWS", where WINDOWS is the folder where windows is installed I can get the enviroment variable "windir", but is there a smarter way I've looked at system.Environment.GetFolderPath(blah) but there aint an option for Windows folder, the closest is System, weird! Hi Anarchy, Im going ahead and marking the above reply from DMan as answer.If you feel that your post is still not ...Show All

• TinyDev Controls Flickering when drawed on the form

  Hello there :) This was a Problem in Visual Basic 2003 when having a Form with about 150 Controls the form simply consists of panels and those panels have Labels and controls beside hem the form itself has a background picture ,,, the Panels also have backimages the Problem is when the form is shown the controls are being drawn really slow ... (the form is 1024*768) that wasn't a Problem at all back in VB6 anyway I saw that Visual Basic 2005 has ...Show All

• Mark Jewett - MSFT Relase the Fix for Visual Basic Compiler Error &H8013141e&

  Hi all i just want to know when is going to be released the fix for visual basic compiler error &H8013141e&   this is already reported in the microsoft productfeedback site. i think this is a very urgent patch that must be released asap and please do not repond that i should go back to vs.2003 because i have lots of code developed in VS 2005 to framework 2.0 ..   JSB PS: this error pisses me of, i need to res ...Show All

• SimonTeW Single-character color codes

  Basically, i'm trying to achieve the following: I have an array containing a set of "tags", i.e "^7" is the color black, "^z" is the color grey,... So when a user types in the following: ^7YE^zS It should show the word YES, with 'YE' in black and 'S' in Grey. How can I achieve a fontcolor for individual characters in VB.NET I allready have a 2-dimensional array containg the tags(^x) and corresponding hexadecimal colorcode, so the input data isn' ...Show All

• jacobmross I need codes

  I've just started on the visual basic 2005 beta 2 and i can't get any thing apart from a msgbox and i already program games in darkbasic easily but i was hoping i would be able to in visual basic but i can't find any help sections on commands and that's what i need the codes please help ! You can find the docs for VS 2005 at msdn2.microsoft.com A good way to get started is to look at the projects at http://ms ...Show All

• DanteTheCoolOne How to use InternalsVisibleTo in VB?

  Hello! I tried to create friend assemblies by using the InternalsVisibleTo attribute, but the example in MSDN doesn't work. I tried to add < assembly : InternalsVisibleToAttribute("AssemblyA, PublicKeyToken=AssemblyA.snk")>   to AssemblyInfo.vb but IntelliSense didn't even accept the attribute name. I signed the other assembly that has to be the "friend" with a strong name key file "AssemblyA.snk". Could anybody give me a ...Show All

• ronks Updating database from textbox

  I am trying to update a database that I have in a dataview grid.   I can update a record in the Dataview grid but I want users to fill in textboxes then have use a button click to update the database. If your using a SQL DB then create a stored procedure with input parameters, it is then quite simple to call the stored procedure passing in the textbox values as parameters kev Or construct you sql ...Show All

• James Fuhr Form Switching

  Hello all, I know this is a real n00b question, but I was wondering if someone could advise me as to a better way of doing my form switching without creating a new instance of a form each time. I know usually you can just go Dim F as new Form2 F.Show But that creates a new instance of Form2. What I'm trying to do is to have a permanently open version of Form2 that I can access at any time. The reason I want to do this is so that I can k ...Show All

• Benwhit Programming a USB port

  Does anyone know how to program a USB port using Visual Basic.NET Read/Write etc Maybe this: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=8410&SiteID=1 will help. Best regards, Johan Stenberg ...Show All

• Henry Kravchenko Reading characters from a line

  I was wondering (DESPERATELY) how to read only certain characters from a line of text and how to define where the code will start reading and how far into the line the code will read.  and lastly - is it possible to store these specified characters in a variable   I've been messing around with "Mid()" but its not doing exactly what I need it to.  THANX A little detail in adition to the other ...Show All

• andplo Hidding a Datagrid Column

  Hi everyone... Im trying to hide a column displayed on a datagrid. Since Im using tablestyle, to hide the column I specifiy the gridcolumnstyles(i).widrh =0, the column does shrink, but part of the data in the cell x (column to hide) overlaps the data in x-1 (1 column before), and the data cant be read properly. Can anyone help me Thnks, JP Thanks Ken. For my grid I need to add all columns, and then, when clicking on a button, c ...Show All