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• fletchdaf Using a dialog box as a shutdown message; how do I delay its closing?

  In my Visual Basic project, when the program is exited by invoking the appropriate "exit" command, I have a dialog box with no buttons that tells me that my application is shutting down.  I have the box invoked correctly in my code, but at runtime, when I exit the program, the box only appears and disappears immediately, too fast for the eye to see.  I would like to know how I can delay the closing of the dialog box long enough to, say ...Show All

• Erik ETS Setup & Deployment Need Help !

  I need to create a setup project, that need to first read the registry to get the application path of the other software, and use that path as my default installation path. Struggling with this, really need help. I have create a module that return the function to get the path from registry. I want my default installation path automatically changed to the one read from registry, instead of c:\Program files\app How am i suppose to pass this path v ...Show All

• P. RICHARDOT Problem with Socket?

  It is possible to create a client/server system with sockets without having that to define an IP to connect itself to the server I have a system in vb6 but I am not obtaining to translate into net 2005 Thanks up post! please help me for UDP use the address 255.255.255.255 every one on the local network will get the packet type broadcast into visual studio help I looked for in the aid ...Show All

• kele My.Computer.Registry.GetType

  I am messing around with the "My.Computer" stuff & would like to get the type of registry entry something is within a path. For example lets say I'm looking into "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\GlobalPowerPolicy" and the type for "Policies" is "REG_BINARY" . I would like to return that type. I can't seem to get "My.Computer.Registry.GetType" to function correctly. Any suggestions ...Show All

• AndrewRise form changes

  Hello, I made some changes to my form in vb.net but when I go to run my application, the old form come up and when I view in design mode it has my changes.  please tell me what's going on Make sure you are doing a build before running the app. As another post indicated, you may just be running a previous version of the application.  If you do a Rebuild All before running, you are sure to ge ...Show All

• Mhsn Entering Date Field

  What is the best way to enter (edit) a date field in a windows form I am trying to use maskededit for date field but its giving me problems in saving and retreiving from the table. BTW, masked edit is working fine for string fields like telephone number, NSSF number. The problem arises in the format of date storage in MSDE - US date format. For example, the 1st of March 2008 is being stored as 03/01/2008. Is there a way to change this to m ...Show All

• vwgolfman VB .NET Resource Kit License

  If this is not the appropriate place for this, please advise. I've looked around the MSDN site and did not come across an obvious alternative... I have inherited a VB.NET project that is built using some ComponentOne components that are provided on the now discontinued VB.NET Resource Kit CD. I do not have this CD, and clearly cannot now get it. Can I use the license issued to the original author of the app for maintenance work Many thanks... ...Show All

• saggimanoj Using the progressbar

  This is what I am trying to do: Copy a file from my resources to the temp directory. Get the size of the file in my resources in bytes. For every byte that is copied I want to step the progressbar by 1. The part I am having troubles with is getting the size of my file. I want to get the size so I can set the progressbar's maximum property to the same value. Also, would it be a good idea to use a background worker for this Thanks. ...Show All

• Jack McGee stop watch using vb.net 2005

  how can i create a stop watch using vb.net 2005 i am performing a data extraction job using windows forms and want to display time elapsed on the form. how can i do it Thanks Using Application.DoEvents doesn't help. Using Stopwatch class i am displaying the elapsed time in a label on the form. The problem is that time elapsed time is not getting updated in the label. It shows the elapsed time as soon as i click the button to star ...Show All

• 10kap Accessing a Database

  I am in the process of converting a VB6 program to Visual Basic 2005 Express. I have loaded an Access database into the program and created the DataSet - but I cannot see how to get the data out. Previously in VB6 I was using a Control on a Form (ie. I was not using the OpenRecordSet method) The data was accessed using typical code: frmData.Data2.Recordset.MoveLast() frmData.Data2.Recordset.AbsolutePosition = n - 1 value = frmData.D ...Show All

• engfellow Compile Error: Argument ByRef Type Mismatch

  Please, if someone experienced this captioned error, knows how to deal with it I'm writting VB6 n-tier DTC COM+ DLLs.  In one of the DLLs, I defined a few User Defined Types (UDT) to be shared amongst my DLLs. I also need to pass such UDT as a function argument in a public method of a DLL to save table data.    The initial compile was OK when all the DLLs were local in the VB6 IDE ...Show All

• papa99do DirectDraw and DrawLine

  first off is it possible in vb.net to harness the power of Direct Draw and Draw a line to surface and if it is can some1 give me an example     Hi Bio, I've used drawline in vb 2005. It works. Dustin and I are still working on a piece together. But are some pieces of what I've done: Imports System.Drawing Imports System.Drawing.Graphics Imports System.Windows.Forms Public Class Form1     <System ...Show All

• Bruno.MMonteiro Text file-most recent will be top of the textfile

  Hello all, I want to know how to append my data into text file(C:\). My problem is when I append a data into text file, The data are appended in bottom of the Notepad text file. I want most recent appened data will be added into top of the file. My code follows, Dim s As String s = RsP.Fields("birthday") & vbTab & RsP.Fields("SEX") & vbTab& RsP.Fields("Weddate") & vbTab & ...Show All

• Sathish.Nadarajan creating a vb code file to hold all functions

  Hi, I want to create a visual basic code file that I can place all my functions in so that all my programs can use this one file instead of including the function in each webpage, etc...similar to a #include file for C++.  How do you do that in Visual Basic .NET You cannot do that and you don't really need to. You need to make a class library project, put your code in there and add a reference to that ...Show All

• Priyanga Karunathilake oading folder in a treeview

  how do i browse my computers folders, and able to drag and drop into a nother treeview which moves the file. Also im using FTP for the the web browser and eveytime i open the folder it opens a window explorers window, so instead of having a new window come up it keeps veiwing in the web broswer on the form ...Show All