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• Enggtp DataTable and MDI form problems in VB.Net 2003

  Hi all, I will be really happy if someone could help me with a problem that has been causing me heartache for about a year. From an MDI parent I want to directly access the contents of a DataTable that is in an MDI child that is only singled out by its caption text. In the parent I figure out which MDI child I want by counting over Me.MdiChildren.Length while comparing its Text with the caption I am looking for. I then find the Ja ...Show All

• rany aof Icons in Menus

  Ok, I'm extremely new to VB 2005 but I ran into something I need a hand with. I was playing around with adding menu's to my forms (inserting the common ones etc) when I realized how much I dislike icons in the menus. So my question is, how do I turn these off in my projects Right click on the menu item that you want to disable icons for -> Select Set Image -> In the Select R ...Show All

• Ning reading text from a document and displaying it

  I have TextBox1 (to enter what you want to search), TextBox2 (to display the results), and Button1 (when you press it, it does the whole process thing). I was given this to go by: ================================================================== Theres a couple of steps in a possible approach here. One is to be able to read the contents of a file. If your using VB Express / 2 ...Show All

• Mark1974 Database error when running program on a different machine

  Hi I have just purchased a new computer instead of my old one, and i would of course like to continue working on my application on this machine.. So i installed vs2005 proffesional on this machine and put my program folder on the same harddrive. Theres no problem opening the program and it can easily run and show the forms and everything.. Except when it has to connect to the database. I use access and the oledb connector. When the prog ...Show All

• Anonymous1988 Creating Short cut keys in windows forms

  Hi, We are trying to migrate a project from VB to VB.NET. Lot of short cut keys have been used for buttons in Visual Basic. how do we implement the short cut keys in VB.NET windows forms Thanks, Kris Shortcut keys are really quite simple to implement in VB To provide save a short-cut keys on a button as an example, for the text property place a & character immediately prior to the character you w ...Show All

• Scoober Terminal Font

  Is there a way to use the font ' Terminal ' Or any other font on your system. I notice that the Font dialog box doesn't include all the fonts on my system. Would I have to include the font in my project I am trying to use this font for a label. So, there is no way to do this then. Sounds pretty unreasonable. Since programs like notepad can use the font. If anyone has found a way around this I would love to know. Thanks. Sorr ...Show All

• JWK Thread problem

  Hello I've created a UDP send and receive program. I've two diffrent forms for send and receive. UDP send is working good but my problem is UDP receive where i had to create a thread becouse GUI freezed when i used udpclient.receive. The problem is when i want to do this: textbox1.text = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes, 0, bytes.Length) ... it doesnt do nothing, So how can i put text on textbox1.text! I think it is problem in cross-thread but ...Show All

• VirtualHuck Dynamically Changing Button Properties

  I am writing an application where I have a 5x5 array of buttons that I want to dynamically update some of the properties. I have created all of the buttons in the editor and have given then names that reference their position in the matrix (i.e. btnGrid11, btnGrid12, etc.).  Based on the button that a user presses, I would like to update the image that is shown. I would like to do this in a loop and the problem that I am running into is tha ...Show All

• brigitte Display a value in Binary

  How would I display a number in binary format. I looked through the help files and only found how to display in hex format. I am making a small bitwise calculator for personal use and need to display value in binary format. Thanks. convert to string can do it: dim s as string = Convert.ToString(100, 2) output: 1100100 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;109260 Ok, thanks fo ...Show All

• AJ_Colorado thanx

  What I'm trying to do is have a text box for a user to enter a name into, then extract each letter from that box in order, turn letters into numbers, then screw with that to come up with an apparently random number for later verification (see if the name matches the number). My question is- how can I get each number into a seperate variable, then change it into a number (and all letters be pre-defined, so it's always the same number for each let ...Show All

• Mike Dimmick Cannot Build Setup for the 'Creating Office Managed COM Add-Ins' Sample

  I am trying to build the managed COM add-in sample from the MSDN library.  I can get it to build on my one machine which is set up with VS 2003 and .NET 1.1.  I cannot get this same code to build on my other machine which has VS 2005 Beta 2 and .NET 2.0.  The error message I get is as follows: Warning 1 The value of the 'PublicKey' attribute in '.NET Framework 2.0' does not match that of file 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft ...Show All

• Jezzrel Prevent controls from refreshing or painting (eliminate flicker)

  I am measuring code speed as part of an assignment project: For i = 1 To 10000 For Each ctl In Me .Controls ctl.Enabled = Not ctl.Enabled Next Next   I've noticed this code runs way faster if I minimize the form and then restore it during execution.  The reason seems to be that after I minimize and then restore, it eliminates the flicker from the controls as they toggle between enabled sta ...Show All

• Eugene Nalimov Using VB.NET to run External Applications

  Is there anyway to use Visual Basic 2005 Express to run external files For example, pressing a button would open Notepad. Hi I am using similar thing for visual 2003.But I have a problem. I need to load 2 files instead of 1. Dim filename As String filename = "C:\Oziexplorer\mtm10100.plt" Process.Start("C:\Oziexplorer\OziExp.exe", filename) I am trying to open files on a gps based software. To d ...Show All

• Mystikef Got it

  What I'm trying to do is have a text box for a user to enter a name into, then extract each letter from that box in order, turn letters into numbers, then screw with that to come up with an apparently random number for later verification (see if the name matches the number). My question is- how can I get each number into a seperate variable, then change it into a number (and all letters be pre-defined, so it's always the same number for each let ...Show All

• ftamminga Changing screen resolution with VB 2005

  I'm having a difficult time converting a Windows API call that works fine in VB6 to run in VB 2005 (Windows XP with SP2 in both cases). I reduced the problem code down to its core which is below. I'm trying to change the screen resolution with the ChangeDisplaySettingsEx call; the idea is that on entering the program it shifts to high resolution and at the end it restores the original settings. I left the restore part out because I get the same ...Show All