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• Boris Jabes Tab Control Problems in Beta 2

  It seems that the Alignment Property for the TabControl in Visual Basic in Beta 2 has problems. If you want the Tab Pages, tabs to be on the Left or Right side of a form, they will appear once set in the designer. But, any TEXT you put on the tabs is missing. With the Tabs set to TOP the text appears normally.  There is no errors raised or anything. Just no text. Have I missed something here I looked and tried several other settings an ...Show All

• brokolyx visual basic Label number as a variable

  Is there a way to assign a variable to a label number for i = 1 to 10 label(i).Text = Name next i or something like that Bruce First I like to say thanks for the help so far. Can you tell me why I keep getting this error Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Dim label As List( Of Label) = New List( Of Label) D ...Show All

• RicardoX ListView flickering

  Hello all I have a listview that I am adding image thumbnails to from a directory on disk. Because the directory has several hundred image files, I am using the .Refresh() method to show the thumbnails being added real-time (otherwise the application will take several seconds before it displays all the thumbs at once, not what I want) but the problem is there is way too much flicker everytime the listview is refreshed. Any suggestions Thanks. ...Show All

• Fola Enterprise Service Platform array variable

  How can we create an array variable in vb. The size of the array should be defined only during runtime. Please give the sample code. You may decide to use and arraylist and simply add items to the list.   This way you dont have to be concerned about Redim and use the following to add objects to the arraylist Dim strList As New ArrayList strList.Add( "Item1" ) strList.Add( "Item2" )   ...Show All

• Rajm .Net2003: "Opening media..." message with AXWindowsMediaPlayer, doesn't open

  Hi. I would appreciate any help. Imagine an AxWindowsMediaPlayer control on a VB.NET form along with a list box that contains URLs of sound files on the local machine. When bntPlay1 is pressed the player will grab the first item in the list box and play it, or if it's already playing, it will grab the next one in the list and stat playing that one instead. That part works fine. My issue is that I want it to automatically grab the n ...Show All

• pvitt65 Change one field in a table

  I've written a program that reads a comma delimited text file into an SQL Server table. I have more than two hundred such files with literally hundreds of thousands of rows of data. Unfortunately, the existing time data is in the wrong format (e.g. 0350 instead of 03:50. How can I read, each record, change that one field and move on to the next I know there are Datasets and BindingNavigators available. I have read the help files and online docs ...Show All

• Prabhu000 datasources window

  For some reason my datasources window disappeared.  None of the buttons on  the toolbar nor the additional windows are the datasource window.  I want to add a table to my dataset. I've done it before, but somehow the secret is lost. dennist You should be able to show the DataSources window from the top level menus; 'Data'->'Show DataSources'. Let me know if that doesn't work. Lorenzo Mino ...Show All

• knave Connecting to SQL - Newbee

  I am new to VB.NET and reading thorugh a textbook and trying varoius applications. I have made a connection to an SQL database on a server using VB. NET I have created a simple form and have included the SQLDataAdapter, SQL Connecition1 and Dataset11. The connections works fine. I also bound the dataset to a data grid and can preview the data adapter and see the requested data. I then attempted to fill the dataset in coded from the data ...Show All

• DotNetSteve VB IDE 2003: Setup Project Stops compiling with Message "Error: The operation could not be completed"

  I am using Visual Studio .Net 2003 IDE. I have build an application in VB.Net and am creating a setup project for this. After adding all the files and output of the VB project, I tried compiling the project. The setup project doesn't compile. The message in the output window is: Performing main compilation... Building satellite assemblies... Error: The operation could not be completed Does anyone have any idea about this i ...Show All

• FMorse Irritiated - can you help?

  Hi. I'm a newbie to VB2005 and I've 'built' the My Movie Collection database.  I can now access this from the start/programs menu, but dont know where the system has installed it on my computer.  Ive searched for 'MyMovieCollection' amongst other combinations but I cant find the .exe file. Where has VS2005 put my file Mat That does help, but the problem I have is in publishing and then installing the program I have built.  ...Show All

• Adeel Hussain find first word of text box

  How do you find the first word of textbox1 This has stumped some people on other forums. What i want to find is the text before the first space. Thanx in advance! why cant i put that in the declarations section How do i make it global Dim firstWord As String = System.Text. RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(textBox1.Text, "^\w+\b").Value;   You could add a ...Show All

• Benson Margulies May i know what happen here??

  Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click PictureBox1.Image = "1.JPEG" Label1.Text = "what text" End Sub when i clck this button, the text "what text" will appear. but the picture stil can;t be display. the error showed is " value of type string cannot be converted to 'System.Drawing.Image'" May i know what happen> Le ...Show All

• -me- IDE

  When I am in break mode, I cannot update code. I receive message "Cannot currently modify this text in the editor. It is read only." Can anyone explain why I get this message All the Best, Charlie OK, it's fixed. I had to go to Tools/ Import-Export settings and reset all of my VB settings. This corrected the problem. Thank you all for your help. All the Best, Charlie Are you using a 64 bit machine - as edit and continu ...Show All

• Alex Resnik Add Conection in VWD 2005 Express and VB2005 VB Express

  In VWD 2005 Express, if I try Add Conection from the Database Explorer, the window opened offers the option to introduce the Server Name, and the Change button offers Acces, Oracle, Microsoft SqlServer and Microsoft SqlServer DataBase File. In this way I can attach one SQL2000 database or one MDF database. In VB2005 VB Express the Add Conection only offers the Microsoft SqlServer DataBase File option, (and also the Access). So I can not attach o ...Show All

• Shus-MSFT QP [VBA] outlook/VB macro

  where do i get information on how to send outlook tasks to different computers in our office, i have written the code to get the tasks that are on my computer but since i am not a programmer i do not know how to send them. any suggestions where i can see code that performs similar functions These forums are for VB.NET questions. The VB within Outlook is Visual Basic for Application. VBA is a very di ...Show All