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• Dale Movie, TV, DVD Info Program

  I'm trying to make a program that will allow the user to type in the name of a movie or TV show, and then have it show them when and where it's playing in theaters, when it's coming out on DVD, or what channel and what time's it playing, depending on what was entered. I need the program to retrieve this information from the Internet. Does anyone know a good way to do this As far as I can tell the most efficient way for the movies and DVDs would ...Show All

• gstring570 Use ViewState easier...

  I'm sure many of you have used ViewState in your controls. I see it all the time in walkthroughs and examples. The thing is that each time someone uses it they put in all the code nessesary to check if there is a value and set it to a default if there is not one... (There are a few variations of doing so) Public Property Text() As String Get If ViewState( "Text" ) Is Nothing Then ViewState( "Text ...Show All

• Derek Burnham Form Clicks etc

  Hi Everyone, I forgot to ask this question... is there a way to set clickable areas of the form without a picturebox or button If there is, how do you find out or determine where on the screen the pointer is when you set up the points I tried to turn the GRID feature on but it never works. I'm using a map as a FORM background, but the pix boxes are slow to load when the form is called. Thanks again, Elgee ...Show All

• Frustrated_in_Boulder Can reflection do this?

  I wasn't sure if this was the best place to post this question but I figured why not give it a try. What I want to do is write code that can look at the input parameter values that are passed to a method at runtime. I would suspect this is something we can do using reflection but I can't find any way to do it. I know I can look at a specific instance of a class and look at it's property names and values but what about the methods that are being ...Show All

• chapel21 sql delete statement to change two tables

  Hi im trying to delete data from one table if it exists in another i have this code but it deletes all data from server table please help DELETE FROM Server WHERE EXISTS (SELECT [Product 1], [Product 2], [Product 3], [Product 4], [Product 5], [Product 6], [Product 7], [Product 8], [Product 9], [Product 10], [Product 11], [Product 12], [Product 13], [Product 14], [Product 15], [Product 16], [Produ ...Show All

• Etienne Sammut COM visible?

  I am trying make classes in a VB.NET app available to other programs. I set Project Properties, Make assembly COM-Visible checked. The classes are have COM Class and COM Visible both set to true; but, no other programs are able to find it. What am I doing wrong I didn't want to make a separate dll, but could if necessary. I did compile the exe where the classes are located, 'Publish'ed it, then ran s ...Show All

• J.Bizzle open form at text box position

  All, Hopefully a simple question. I need to open a form 'but at the position of a control' e.g. a text box. Just to put this this into context if a user fails to enter information into a text box i want a warning form to appear next to the control that has not been inputted. Hope you can help Cheers You might also have to set the startPosition property of the form to manual instead of WindowsDefaultLocation ...Show All

• Artyom Inserting sounds for when a message box appears

  How do you insert a sound so that it plays when a message box is supposed to appear Like lets say I have a BIG button in my program that when clicked, says "Awesome!!!", and l have a audio file on my computer that says the exact same thing, and I want it to play when this message box comes up. How do I do that   Full_Metal wrote: How do you insert a sound so that it plays when a message box is supposed to appear Like lets say I ...Show All

• jb6494 compile questions, help needed

  How to fix the errors. Thank you. F:\>vbc upload.vb Microsoft (R) Visual Basic .NET Compiler version 7.10.6001.4 for Microsoft (R) .NET Framework version 1.1.4322.2032 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1987-2002. All rights reserved. F:\upload.vb(5) : error BC30002: Type 'Scripting.FileSystemObject' is not define d. Dim fsoSaveFile As New Scripting.FileSystemObject ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ F:\upload.vb(6) : error B ...Show All

• alivir Rename a Table in MS Access using VB or SQL statement

  Hi all, How can I rename an MS Access table in VB or thro' SQL statement I have 2 clues as given below, but I am not able to get to use these ideas. These statements does not seem to refer the ADO library and hence, I do not know how to arrive at framing a program for these statements. Please help me in using these clues by guiding me how to frame a program around the statements or please let me know if there are any alternative ways. Clue 1: T ...Show All

• Dung Le Anh Using a Variable inplace of a Textbox name...

  Im writing a piece of software with over 200 text box's in it, most of which are not displayed until certain criteria are met. What im trying todo is be able to use the name of a variable inplace of the text box title in conjunction with visible = true to save myself a heap of code. EG: Private Sub BoxShow() LabelValue.Visible = True <- which dosnt work ofcourse Count = +1 End Sub LabelValue is being set as the name of the text box, ...Show All

• fabes Things You Can Do in VB vs. C#

  I've been reading a lot about VB and C# and was wondering if anyone knows definitively what is available in each language that is not available in the other (after the release of VS 2005) Aside from syntax differences, the things that I found were the ability to handle unsafe code (in C#) and late binding (in VB.NET). Thanks in advance. Dianne Most functionality is available in both C# and VB as the cor ...Show All

• dustin1 ActiveX License problem

  Hello all, I recently purchased Visual Basic .net 2003 and installed it. I am working on a project where I need to use the serial port to communicate with a remote device. I added the 'Serial Communication' to the toolbox sucessfully. However when I try to add the 'serial communication icon' to my form I received an error message that I do not have a license for this application. Any ideas what my problem is I don't know if this is rele ...Show All

• JoeDeVirs Process.Start isn't accepting my arguments

  I have a program that works correctly when I open cmd.exe and use the following argument line: 7za x archive.7z -aoa -r However, when I use the following (in my code) it doesn't work. Process.Start(temp & "7za.exe", 7za x archive.7z -aoa -r) or Process.Start(temp & "7za.exe", x archive.7z -aoa -r) The program (7za.exe) pops up but exits immediately, as if the argument line was incorrect. Any ideas Tha ...Show All

• Yury Writing XML in Visual Basic

  Hi, Can i get some help, i need to write this... < xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " utf-8 " > < configuration > < appSettings > < add key = " Domain " value = " VARIABLE1 " /> < add key = " Dir_Pilot " value = " VARIABLE2 " /> < add key = " ModelName_1 " value = " GTZ Demonstration Model " /> < add key = " ModelDir_1 " value = " VARIABLE3 /> < add ...Show All