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• JohnnyBoyWonder WMI Interrogation of WAN Connection?

  I’m writing an application that needs to know quickly whether I am connected to the Internet. I’m also running a network configuration that for me is atypical but probably is not atypical in the wider scope of things. This morning, no matter what I did, whether I was connected to the internet or not, all the traditional tests showed I was connected. Then I realized that I have a network printer connected to a router that’s on all the t ...Show All

• LVictor Accessing TextBox "TAG" property programmatically

  I'm trying to access the "TAG" property in each Textbox in my form using : For Each ctl As Control In frm.Controls if ctl.gettype="System.windows.forms.textbox" then dim Tag as string =ctl.DataBindings.Item("Tag").ToString end if ' -- the above code doesnt work .. it doesnt retrieve the Tag that i want from each TextBox Next Does anybody know how to do this correctly Please help.. Thank you hw ...Show All

• Mauricio Pires how to a write a cell's entire row to a file?

  How do you write a cell's entire row to a file, based on a cell location For example, this macro searches cells in a particular range for the number 5, once found I want it to write the entire row that the cell was in. Here is my feeble attempt... Sub Macro2() Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set a = fs.CreateTextFile("C:\testfile.txt", True) Range("A1:G60").Select For Each cel In ...Show All

• DetlevD Can I compile C# code and VB.NET code into the same DLL?

  We have 2 libraries of code that we want to combine into a single library so that they both have access to each other. One is in VB.NET and one is in C#. Both are .NET 2.0 in Visual Studio 2005. Thanks. John. No, but you can buy programs that convert between C# and VB.NET, in both directions. You can create a multi-module assembly where each module is created in a different language. Or y ...Show All

• newSB Combining Several Large Files Into 1 File

  I am new to .net programming and need some help getting pointed in the right direction. I am looking for the right commands to research for each of the tasks so I don't waste a bunch of time going down the wrong road. The Goal is to combine a varying number of .plt (plot) files that can be as large as 700mb each into a single file. Then send the resulting file to a plotter using TFTP. All of the files will reside on a network drive. Step ...Show All

• SivaRaja Code Ran When Form Is Activated???

  I'm trying to make some code run whenever the startup form first appears. It's name is "Form1", and whatever I do, it doesn't seem to work. I tried: Private Sub Me_Activate() 'Do some stuff... End Sub   Private Sub Form1_Activate() 'Do some stuff... End Sub   and I've tried   Private Sub Form_Activate() 'Do some stuff.... End Sub             ...Show All

• peter cli VB first time install

  I am a network administrator interested in program development. I installed VB 2005 Express Edition for the first time on a Win XP Pro SP2 Dell GX 260 Optiplex (1GB of RAM, 1.8 GHz processor). I log in and therefore install with admin rights. Upon writing a small program to view web pages, the IDE hangs when I start debugging to test the program. The vbexpress.exe CPU usage hits 99% and stays there. I have to use Task Manager to force the proces ...Show All

• Siv1 Identifier

  Public Sub () RaiseEvent Button2.Click(TextBox2.Text & TextBox3.Text) End Sub It says i need a identifier before () on Public Sub (), but im not sure wut i need to do. Can someone post the correct code What is you sub called. What its telling you is that you need to give your sub a name. You cant just leave it blank. How would you then be able to refer to this sub Example Public Sub XYZ() Raise ...Show All

• Akhila MSFT Parsing Question! :) help needed bigtime...

  I have an issue where data in cells could look like a few different ways: 14.83 140.83 1140.8 1140.83 1140.83(Session: 84848) Basically, I'm drawing a blank on how to parse the data.  Obviously the data string length is dynamic.  My main goal is to find IF the cell has the "(Session:  84848)" then delete that, but keep the 1140.83.  And it needs to be dynamic... Any thoughts   Would I use the InStr I'm stuck! TIA! -Scot ...Show All

• Raymundo Chapa94595 Help C++ and VB

  Im trying to integrate some C++ into a large VB project using .NET 2003 if someone can help me integrate this into the VB project that would be amazing. basicaly i want: =========C++========= public class CppClass{ public:     CppClass();     int go(ObjVB *oVB){        oVB->function1();        oVB->function2();        .....  &nb ...Show All

• forkart Command windows

  Hi how can I open the command window in Visual Basic Express Edition. I looked in the help content, and It guided me to View > Other Windows and Command Window, but there is no such option in there.  I think the Command Window is not available in Express Editions. Yes it is available in all editions. Where is it located   There are two places you can rig this up if your question is about the IDE. At le ...Show All

• GSK_phili Problem extracting URL from Favorites showdailog, used to work

  Revisiting older code that used to work, now in VS2003 Getting: “The process failed: System.ArgumentException: The path is not of a legal form”. In the following code below the user would click on a URL from a (show)dialogbox displayed. I would then take the selected URL’s path via FavoritesFolder.DirectoryPath really (FolderNameEditor.FolderBrowser .DirectoryPath) and parse the file to retrieve the http URL. Obviously th ...Show All

• Guard2002 Checkbox enables multiple fields

  I have several groups of combo boxes with a check box next to each group. I'd like to make it so that if the user check the checkbox, the combo boxes will become enabled (they default to enabled=false). That wouldn't be so difficult, but in an effort to create what I'd consider more efficient code, I'd like to find a way to use the same routine to enable all of my groups of combo boxes by sending the name of the checkbox that was turned on into ...Show All

• Lions winform in ie? possible?

  Hi... Can I have a winform and display it in IE I can assume users will have .net framework 2.0 installed. Alan, I was wondering if you could take a little time and read the How to get the optimal answer to your questions at the top of the screen. anything that allows me to have a designed winform displayed in IE would work.... Are you taking about Sma ...Show All

• KZoli converting a buffer value

  I am trying to add a 16bit value to my buffer. I have: b(132116) = Convert.ToUInt16(tbHP.Text) where: b is my buffer array tbHP.Text is the numeric value to add to the buffer. The error I get says an arithmetic overflow occured. I am guessing this is because it is trying to set a 16bit value to an sbyte. I don't know how to correct this. Any ideas   Troy, Is the buffer a byte buffer You didn't specify the datatyp ...Show All