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• Muhammad Ali Inayat Why do the ODBC 3.5.1 and MySQL 3.1.8 drivers not work?

  Why do the ODBC 3.5.1 and MySQL 3.1.8 drivers not work Michael Im sorry, i thought you where asking for help, and i was trying.  It seems you are on your own now.   On a side note, I read some of your other forums posts, and it seems that if you don't get what you want, right away, the first time, you get quite rude. Check it out for yourself, read how you're talking to the other people who are helping you. http://foru ...Show All

• BarryMarc Scrolling Text

  Hi There, Unfortunately another vb beginner for you guys here. I am building a windows application and I was wondering if it it possible to display text in a scrolling fashion i.e. with a label scrolling text through it. Like in some news websites where the main headlines would be scrolling along Hope this isn't a silly question Thanks very much Colin Hi Christian Thanks very much for the reply...ony ...Show All

• Gary Ng Display an executable icon in a picture

  Hello everybody. I want to display the icon of an .EXE file in a picture box. How can I do it Can anybody tell, please Thanks PictureBox1.Image = Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon("C:\MyProgram.exe").ToBitmap will load it into the picturebox. If you actually want to draw it at a specific location then use this function in the Paint event for the desired picturebox. ...Show All

• Michael Pang shDocVw.dll in VB.Net 2003

  Hello in there... I'm having a small problem that's eluding attempts to resolve. I'm creating HTML in BuildCreateExportFilesResults(), which I'm writing to a file on the local hard drive. I want to display it in the shDocVw.webBrowser, but I can't make it work. Here's the code: Public Sub DisplayCreateFilesResults() Try m_strMsg = "" m_strMsg = BuildCreateExportFilesResults() '<-- creates a HTML page ...Show All

• Andriyko1 Date Time Picker

  Im using two datetimepicker's. I need to calculate the amount of weekdays and weekends. (that a car was rented) If (dtpPickUp.Value < dtpReturn.Value) Then 'make sure the calender dates are valid totalDays = ( CInt (dtpReturn.Value.Subtract(dtpPickUp.Value).TotalDays)) For i = 0 To totalDays 'add days to either weekend or weekday If (dtpPickUp.Value.AddDays(i).DayOfWeek = DayOfWeek.Saturday Or _ dtpPickUp.Va ...Show All

• geebee cursor in textbox control

  I need some help showing the cursor position in a text box on windows form. I’m using two buttons on a windows form to move a text insertion point to the left or right in a single line text box on the same form. The text insertion point does move left and right as commanded but I get no cursor in the text box to indicate where in the text box the insertion point is located. In VB 6 the cursor (flashing vertical bar) in the t ...Show All

• xxhax open file dialog box

  I am new to vb, and yes i am a student who has a major project due this wednesday Could anyone give me hand on how to properly code the open file dialog box.. the help files and this msdn site are not very helpful.... (I need to open txt files only in a certain location) Also need help on drawing on the form.... the help files explain how to get the pen to draw certain objects (rectangles, squares, circle shapes basically), I need to draw ...Show All

• Martin Klopp Jensen change published project dir

  hi, after finishing my project i would like to publish it so i can burn it to a cd and if a computer doesnt have .net framework 2.0 it will install it before running my project. I know how to do this and can publish it with all the right files through the publish wizard. The problem is when i publish it, the running directory is a temporary one which i found out with the help of a couple of people and the application.startuppath command, and the ...Show All

• yourself_20052006 set backcolors in textbox, save them in a file

  i have visual basic 2003.net i want to set backcolors in 16 different textbox i want to save the colors in a file so when i reopen another form i can assign these colors to other things thanks Public MyColors (15) As Color Public Sub SetColors () Dim StartColor As Color = Color . AliceBlue MyColors (0) = StartColor Dim ColorInteger As Integer = System . Drawin ...Show All

• Oliver66 How to create a plugin system

  I want to create an application that uses plugins, i want loand and unload plugins, in vb6 i was using activeX dll's, but here is not the same, it's a good thing, but i dont know how to implement this, maybe someone could help me ... Some examples in Code Project, using different implementations: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/PluginsInCSharp.asp http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/pluginmanager.asp http ...Show All

• epion What happened to F8?

  F8 doesn't step through my code. What do I use in VB.NET Hi. Right out of the box you can use F11. If you want to reassign this you can do so by selecting (from the menu) Tools-->Options, expand the Environment node in the treeview, select the Keyboard node, scroll down until you find "debug.stepinto" and reassign the key combination that fires that command. That's a good question. I w ...Show All

• Robuk Capturing data from one form and entering it in a second form

  hi guys, another dumb question :-) hate being new, but I'm getting better. I'll try to explain what I'm trying to do and hopefully one of you can help me. I have created two forms. (and a third coming) Both forms have a textbox which I want to have the  NameContractGiver. I only want the end user to type the Name in the textbox once and then have it appear in the I have to do this with a few boxes so I need to undestand how it works. than ...Show All

• arit Using TabPage and binding data

  I had a tab wherein there are two tabpages(tabList,tabEditList)...On the tabList there is a datagridview(dgvPatients) which displays all data of a certain coulumn(Name)..The table("PATIENT") where Name is a member had other columns(ID,LastName,FirstName...etc) I make this other columns hidden in the dgvPatients as what i only like to show here are the names...What i really trying to do is, all of other details of such certain name would be ...Show All

• theAntiELVIS Settings ConnectionString "ease of use"

  is there any way change applicationsettings ( Properties. Settings .Default.ConnectionString is readonly property) at runtime especially for the ConnectionString. It is common to write and test on one computer but deploy for other computers with other dbnames etc. ConnectionString as Application Setting (VS2005) is very practical but one has to be able to change the contents at run time. I have not discovered how. Of course one could just touch ...Show All

• Graham Lower VB6 to VB>Net Converts

  Are there any books that explain conversion between the two languages Microsoft has a host of references to assist in the transition from VB6 to VB.NET. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/Learning/Migrating/default.aspx There are a number of tools available to do this, however, I'm told by people who use VB ( I don't ), that none of them are overly reliable.  This is one reason that a number of MVPs are petitioning Microsoft ...Show All