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• Bineon Console Applications and Event Handling?

  I am porting an existing VB .NET application into a console (no-gui) application so that it may be run without any user input other than command line parameters. In doing so I do not seem to get any Event handling mechanism. Is this framework only provided by the Form library For example, I am using a MSComm control for serial port access and I want to handle the OnComm event. When running my console application I do not see any events... Any h ...Show All

• Helan Coffee and Coffee2 examples

  I am trying to work on Coffee and Coffee2 examples. Coffee is discussed in MSDN document, Coffee2 is included in the MSDN samples. I can't get both examples working. Is there "updated" version of these examples from Microsoft In fact, I can't even compile them, so I believe there must be some typos. For example in Coffee2 example, the project CoffeeWatch2 has the following code: Private macfe(1 To 20) As Coffee And when I try to make an exe fil ...Show All

• andrew_ Questions?

     HELLO! I AM NITESH MENON AND I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS. I HAVE BEEN USING VB FOR 3 DAYS AND NEED HELP. QUESTION 1- When using a web browser is there a way to go back to the previous page in VB (like back in internet explorer) QUESTION 2- When using a web browser is there a way to go back to the next page in VB (like forward in internet explorer) QUESTION 3- How can I display another form other than the main one. QUESTION 4- How do ...Show All

• vbnm Tabbed Layout

  Well basically I need help with doing a tabbed layout on my app. I am making a form that if I succeed will, Show all of my other forms via clicking the appropriate tab button, and will start up in the main form filling it. What I need to know is how to show my forms within the tabbed form, and make it so they're not an extra window, but glued to the form and I also need to know how I could start up the tabbed form in my main form, and make ...Show All

• pmccombs Compiling

  Sorry for being noob with VB. I've only just started classes for it about 2 weeks ago. At my school we can't save our programs nor do we compile them. So... How do I compile it into just one .EXE file with an icon and everything In the projects properties window you will see the option for setting the icon for the exe. As for compiling it you will have to be able to save the project. When you run the program the exe will be made for you a ...Show All

• LizS How to retreive user who created a file from .NET?

  Hi, I have a VB.NET winform application which detects when a file is dropped into a shared drive, snatched up the file, parses it and does some other processing. At this point I need to grab the username of the user who created the file...... how is this possible in VB.NET I have googled and cannot find any help on this. If I am at a command prompt, I can do"dir FILENAME /q", and it will tell me the username as the third column in the ...Show All

• Blane Nelson Can't start appliction with sub main

  I tried to start my application off with module1, just as a test to see if modules worked the same.  Here is my module Module Module1     Sub main()         Dim frm As New Form1         frm.Show()     End Sub End Module Error 1 Protected types can only be declared inside of a class. C:\vs2005Projects\ModuleAttampt\ModuleAttam ...Show All

• AG_MD I wan't a sample code

  I am already used dao to add/update delete on simple supplier form,indentor form and buyer form. I wan't a simple souiltion as I have give above how rows are added deleted. Then how on the bases of added rows I could enter values in database. How to check new product selected in the combo box is not aready selected like all these stuff.If there is somebody knows simililar example stuff then please give me a link I REALLY, RE ...Show All

• Michael Goffioul my global variables not working

  hello thanks in advance i made a module declared public variables. when i login in one form and set a variable to user anem and want to display that user name on another form it never works. i try to write the variable to the label.text = strvariable kind of thing my module Module subMain 'Decleration of global variables Public strUserName As String Public strPassNumber As String Public strCurrentU ...Show All

• Richard Hafner Creation of a PDF file.

  Hello, I'm building a program, and I need ot convert a lot of word documents to one pdf file. Does anyone know about a class library or a code that can do it Even if the code can only make one word document to a pdf and then merge the PDF files. Thanks, Ofir. I don't know how to impliment it in code, but pdfFactory installs as a printer to pdf and works with all programs. If you don't close ...Show All

• cmenge $1 Million dollars to whoever can figure this one out....

  This problem's stumped me completely...take a look: I defined the following function to create a ComboBox and add it to an arraylist: Public Function addComboBox( ByVal Text As String , ByVal Ops As ArrayList, ByVal parent As Object , ByVal enabled As Boolean , ByVal x As Integer , ByVal y As Integer ) As ComboBox    Dim newCbo As New ComboBox    newCbo.Text = Text    newCbo.AutoSize = True ...Show All

• Kondori How to Open WinExplorer and select a file(focus on) with .VBS?

  Hello GUYS, I am developing an application in .NET with C#, I need to write a .VBS script which will open the Windows Explorer and will select a simple .txt file. Do you have any idea if this is possible with .VBS objects and if yes how On the other hand if this is not possible do you know how to implement it in .NET…or at least any good forum where could I find some help. I would appreciate your help. Thanks a lot. ...Show All

• Angel Palomino Web Query's In Visual Basic

  I need to be able to read information from a standard .html file, and import it into my program, much like a web query in excel, actually, I am trying to nearly duplicate the results because I have a table from a web page that updates daily, and i need to in some way, get that info into my program, I researched it a bit, and I dont even know where to get started... Basically, to give you a better idea, I am working to run a site that does ...Show All

• crillion converting datetimepicker value

  i had a datetimepicker named dtpBirthDate, and want to use this as a meduim for obtaining birthdate of a user, what i want to happen exactly is upon choosing the date, three(3) textboxes namely, tboxYears, tboxMonths,tboxDays would be fill up by the number of years,months,and days the user was. here's the code: Private Sub dtpBirthDate_ValueChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles dtpBirthDate.Va ...Show All

• Elena Kharitidi Mathcad DLL

  Can I write a Mathcad DLL using Visual Basic 2005 Maybe making one from a class The last VB program I wrote was in VB6 and I've never written a C program, so I am very new to this. I have to make a function available to Mathcad and I only have very old C examples. Agreed, NGEN will probably improve performance as it is not JIT compiled BUT is not absolutely required to create a DLL. All I was trying to get ...Show All