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• Brian Leach LastPosition feature

  Dose vs 2005 have 'LastPosition' (right click menu item). If no are there plans to add one. That was really handy feature in vb6 the functionality is still there via the shortcut - hold down ctrl and press the - key. Cathal ...Show All

• Sces Converting String to double?

  OK i have a plain text file in a rich text box. This plain text file contains for the most part just text, but it has several chunks of data which are apparently stored as doubles For Example this string here: 33333oH@33333oH@26/01/06 I happen to know that the date field is a date of payment, and apparently, the data before this is the amount paid. The original program i am trying to read was written in quickbasic 7. I don't k ...Show All

• xinzhang graph sin curve with following curve? Help

  I am using the following to graph a cardiod in polar coordinates but am trying to figure out how to graph a sin curve which is not in polar coordinates. How could I change the following code to make it graph in rectangular coordinates Private Sub DrawCardiod(ByVal g As Graphics) ' Drawing an Cardiod Dim x As Double Dim y As Double Dim old_x As Double Dim old_y As Double Dim r As Double Dim t As Double Dim dt As D ...Show All

• Pascal Deliot Crazy IDE

  Hi All, Just after started to add controls to this new Tabbed app, the IDE shows the move cursor (the crossed arrows) and just flashes the cursor until I go into the taskman and return...It's scary to think a whole nights work could be undone by a misbehaving IDE. Have any of you experienced this odd behavior This has also happened in other apps in W2K, and XP Pro as well. Thanks All! Elgee When this occurs ...Show All

• Lizet My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.CurrentUserApplicationData

  Does anyone know if there is a way to get to the current users application data folder I've tried: My .Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.CurrentUserApplicationData But it add's on what VB would call my program name, plus the version number. I need to be able to access a folder I created in a previous version of my program which is located in a folder off the current users application data folder. Defin ...Show All

• @nt VB.Net, Word Object Model

  I want to populate my Text box controls with data from a oledb database, i want to take the selected value of the text box controls and print them on a word document but its not working properly here is the code, any help would be great!! info is the name of the textbox oPara.Range.Text = Info.SelectionLength.ToString() ...Show All

• eegee233 How to update timestamp - Please help

  Hello All, I am new to VB.NET (was a VB 6 programmer for the last 8 years). In my database, I have a CreatedBy, CreatedTime field in my "Transaction" table. CreatedBy should be updated with the currently logged on UserID. CreatedTime field should be updated just before the user clicks on "Save". I simply dragged and dropped the "data table" on the form and VB.NET created the grid and also generated all the code for ...Show All

• MJSaims Crash Course in ToolTip

  Can someone give me a crash couse with tooltip I looked at one online and didn't get it. I have a tooltip added to the lower section and I want to specify tooltip text for button1 and button2. How and where do I add them Thanks. Crash Course..... To add tooltips to you form. Drop the tooltip control on the form. This extends the default properties for the controls on the form and you will ...Show All

• timwong Does calling a function from a dll created from VB class library spawn a new thread when run or it uses the thread that call it?

  Hi all Just to check, when i created a dll using the VB class library. Does the application spawn a new thread when i call function in the thread or it used the thread that call it   Regards Soon Lee Hi, Its the same thread but you can call the function on a separate thread if u wanted to. Regards, Vikram create a delegate to the function and use begininvoke is somet ...Show All

• rob_milton Streaming text from a view to a file.

  The following code is supposed to place data rows from a SQL Server 2000 view (vwExport) into a text file: G:\doc\Output.txt. The compile error I get is: 'Application.ApplicationDataSetTableAdapters.vwExportTableAdapter' cannot be converted to 'System.Data.DataTable'. Code: Dim strExport As String = "" Dim strExportFile As String = "" Dim x As DataView = New DataView(VwExportTableAdapter) Dim z As Integer Dim y As ...Show All

• C#Re_eYe Process.waitforexit(0

  Dim MyProcess as Process=Process.Start(FileName) MyProcess.WaitforExit I am confused about the best way to spawn new processes and work with them. I was thinking that the waitforExit event would halt operation of my application until the spawned application was closed.  What I find is that my application will still respond to events such as button clicks and continue operation.  Am I misunderstanding what 'waitforExit' is supposed to a ...Show All

• stu5601 alternative to SelectedIndex in ComboBox

  hi im having a slight problem ...  i have a combobox1 populated from database and has both displaymember & valuemembers ..  now when i select certain other list or combobox then i need it to select a certain display member in combobox1 by giving a certain value in the 'valuemembers' list .. i'm only familiar by changing SelectedIndex method ... how do i do this ... ...Show All

• Federico Masi New Line in Text File

  Hello Community I have a simple question. I created a new Text File like this: My .Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText( "C:\test.txt" , "test //now should come a new line// test2 " , False ) Now how can I insert a new Line into that text, so that the text File looks like the following: test test2 THX for help. Kyle Katarn  Sorry for my bad English:-) My .Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText( "test.txt" , ...Show All

• Alexander Groß Automate MS Word Doc with VB.Net

  I amtrying to pull info from a Sql Server to populate a word Doc using a VB.Net App any ideas Dim PolNum As Word.Field Your line of code above just declares a variable named 'PolNum' of type World.Field. I believe you need to do something with the variable to actually associate it with the PolNum field in your MS Word document. Please refer to the MSDN articles showing how to do this. You can debug through your application ...Show All

• Crashin Noob seeking help

  Sup, Im Ebiru (not reveling real name) and Im teaching myself VB cause my school wont teach me till i take 1 year of linear algbra, but a/w, im not a very good teacher to myself so i come here and im requesting help You sure do not need any linear algebra to learn VB, but it can't hurt you to do it, surely your post sounds like you're hoping for specific help, but I don't see you asking for any. As someone else said, you should ask s ...Show All