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• Justo M How to download an update from your program

  I have a very brief understanding of updating from within a program... I take it you simply add the updated file at the specific location and when the program checks the location, if the file version doesn't match, it will download and install the updated file Thanks. Check out this great article on ClickOnce Deployment. Sounds like this is what you want. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/ ...Show All

• Craig Rairdin How to use a Process to run CMD and a DOS utility to send Commands

  Hello, I need some help. I want to write a program that will do the following: 1. Start a process that will run CMD.exe 2. Once in CMD window run the DOS utility (i.e., "C:\utility.exe Command) where Command is the command to send to a device. 3. There are about 5 or 6 commands that I need to send to configure a device using this utility. This utility exits with the "quit" command and returns to CMD window. Ca ...Show All

• Al Pira Opening a file and loading it in treeview

  Well i need to know how to open a file that uses tags and make it load into a treeview PJ, Your reply was not in VB, There is no magic bullet, you need to read your file, then you need to parse it and create Tree Items for your tree view, and add them.  Recursion is your friend here, you can recurse over your file, and also recursively pass the parent tree node to your self, to add items to. ...Show All

• R.T.M. ShowWithoutActivation does nothing???

  I have added Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property ShowWithoutActivation() As Boolean Get Return True End Get End Property to my "test form" and open it using a timer from my "Form 1" but if you keep typing into the text box on form 1 when test form opens the textbox on form 1 looses its focus... It may be me doing somthing stupid so i have uploaded a test project so you can se ...Show All

• Novacaine Is there a way?

  Is there a way to Populate a menu at runtime with Data from a Sql database I don't know of a way to do something like databind a menu to a database. However, since you can write code that will add/manipulate the menus, you can write your own code that will read from the database and setup the menu items.   It's definitly possible. I don't think you can databind, but you can most definitly do it through a loop. Use a For Eac ...Show All

• Ping Wang I love flat files, does VB8 ?

  Let me be honest, I'm in the middle of an emotional crisis with VB8. All my life I have made smart client applications based on flat tab- or comma-delimited files and with the main concept that data should reside in memory in an intelligent way making it possible to update and extract data fast and flexible. And frequently back up data by writing a flat file while the user is not active. Unbound grids have been one of the most important con ...Show All

• zorrro Get information from database

  Hello I was using Visual Basic 6 and when I want to get information from a database, I write: Dim Con As New ADODB.Connection Dim rst As New ADODB.Recordset Set Con = New ADODB.Connection Set rst = New ADODB.Recordset Con.Open "Provider=MSDataShape.1;Extended Properties='Jet OLEDB:Database Password=111';Persist Security Info=False;Data Source=D:\Programs.mdb;Data Provider=MICROSOFT.JET.OLEDB.4.0" rst.ActiveConnection = C ...Show All

• MartinThompson Wrong Processor Targeted

  Getting a weird warning. I have three projects in a solution. All three of them reference the same ChilkatDotNet.dll and use the same general features of that component. All three projects have the same setting regarding the processor they target. However one of the three projects gives me this warning that I cannot seem to get to go away: Warning 1 Referenced assembly 'C:\Program Files\Chilkat Software Inc\Chilkat.NET\Chil ...Show All

• DarrelC ListView sorting

  How to perform sorting of ListView but on any column not just first one There is ListView.ListViewItemSorter property but I don't know to use it.   Gosovic, The MSDN help collection for Visual Studio has a pretty good example demonstrating how to use the ListViewItemSorter property. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/06x6h06d Take a look at the example and let us know if you're still stuck. -Paul ...Show All

• Mauro Inzerillo loopinh and string problem

  I have a problem loading my data to my database. I am using mysql. I noticed the problem when i executed my code and it kept giving me a "Argument 'Prompt' cannot be converted to type 'String'" error. But when i checked the db it had some the information in there it would not have the last 3 or 4 data entries in the db. I went back to check the string that was providing the command and I saw that the program was running most of the com ...Show All

• EB78 Windows Media Player Customised Skins

  Hello all. This forum is probably not the right one for this question but maybe you could point me in the right direction. I have embedded Windows Media Player in an interface using one of the custom skins. I need to change the colour of the skin to silver. I can do this in full screen mode easily but this does not apply to the custom skins. Rather than try and re-create a new skin is there an easy fix to this or should I just ask easy skins ...Show All

• Lyric8 I can't see the images with shadown

  OK. Here is my question... I need to use a picture like an skin in some windows forms, the problem is... my pictures use a border with a little shadown, ok my windows form don't render this, how can I do my forms show this border correctly. Thanks... Fernando from Nicaragua. Excuse me, I have a question... My problem is: I need to show a picture in a windows form background, like a skin, but when I do it, the shadown of my picture don't s ...Show All

• VMP_PDX How do I load image into the picture box in VB2005

     I have a problem on loading image into the visual basic 2005 IDE picture box. If Visual Basic 6 code goes like this,    Me.PictureBox1.Picture = LoadPicture(sImagePath)   how  do i load  it in  Visual Basic 2005 No, there isn't a way to remove an open file from the computer while it's open, but you could instead copy it into the TEMP directory, del ...Show All

• Mathavan How do you open an embedded resource?

  I am trying to make a program that will will make it easier for me to access some of my smaller frequently used program. I am new to Visual Basic and just discovered how to embed a .exe file into the project. I just dont know how to open it now. Basically there is a button and when it is clicked it needs to open up a .exe file, lets just call it 1.exe. I have looked around everywhere on how to do this and all I found was some resourcemanager com ...Show All

• Discoman Web Service setup help needed

  Hi all, I'm in the process of learning how to create and consume web services. I understand how to create the service and how to access the service from vb.net but what I don't know is how to set something up that my web service runs on. I don't have a website to publish the service on so I've briefly looked into ways to set up some kind of desktop emulation or host service that I can use. I've seen references to IIS running on the desktop ...Show All