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• Deepak Sharma How do I use Excel from VB2005?

  I am currently attempting to port data from my VB2005 application into Excel but am unable to attain a connection from my program to Excel... I added the COM references "Microsoft Office 11.0 Object Library" and "Microsoft Excel 11.0 Object Library" and have declared the following under "Public Class frmMain" (for my program's main form): Dim Excel As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application I have tried declaring other namespaces ...Show All

• Danielsan Ichiban Trouble with IFonts

  I'm trying to change the default font that DirectDraw7 sets to my Back Buffer Surface (ddsB) to 18pt Tempus Sans, but the following code produces the error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object.". Can anyone help Dim myFont As IFont myFont.put_Name( "Tempus Sans MS" ) myFont.put_Size(18) ddsB.SetFont(myFont) That's a fairly simple issue, and nothing to do with DirectDraw: you ha ...Show All

• Chuck B VB 2005 API Call Problem

  I am trying to make the following API call that worked in VB 2003. In VB 2005 I am receiving the following error: PInvokeStackImbalance was detected Message: A call to PInvoke function 'GetWindowData!GetWindowData.GetWindowData::GetWindow' has unbalanced the stack. This is likely because the managed PInvoke signature does not match the unmanaged target signature. Check that the calling convention and parameters of the PInvoke signature match ...Show All

• teresal Using cabinet files

  I have a bunch of text files that I want to include in my project. Is there a way to store them in a cabinet file (or even a zip file) but in a way that I could access them without an external extraction program Thanks. You can go here to find a .NET class that can decompress a file stored in a ZIP archive. ...Show All

• Brian Rogers How do I get user name

  hi... tried searching the forums for this, but was unsuccessful... as the subject line suggests, i'm trying to find out how to get the userid for the current session... i copied code that i used from an access vba application, but it has not worked at all... ----------------- CODE FROM ACCESS VBA APPLICATION ----------------------- Option Compare Database Private Declare Function GetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" ...Show All

• Slade Gellin Appending lines to a text file

  Hi I got a program wich stores some values and every time it saves it ads another line in a txt file but I want that when there are 3 lines in it.   so how do I make that the next time you save it saves on the next line and when there are 3 lines it exports al the lines to a new file, but when i exports again it adds them to the previous 3 spotty wrote: Its as simple as Const FI ...Show All

• Kishan Sanji edit and continue

  I can't seem to enable edit and continue in my VB 2005 app. Everyone seems to be pointing to Tools--> Options--> Debugging, but I don't have a debugging menu in my Tools--> Options. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Danny We use sourcesafe and the files are checked out of sourcesafe. If they were readonly I wouldn't be able to edit them in development mode either. ...Show All

• Radha Mukkai Title Bar not required

  Hi, I am making a application in which I have custom Dialog box. i.e. My Application is Skinned application and hence I draw all required components of it my self. But I am facing problem in removing Titlebar from it. I remove the title bar by making Forms Text property to blank using this:- Me .Text =""   But It also make the Windows Task Bar Icon to have no text in it.. Now I want that Title bar got remove at runtime and Windows ...Show All

• pete_borg MCAD Certification Training

  Hello, My name is Davin Eastley and I'm 13 years old. I am aiming high as I'm heading towards the MCAD certification from Microsoft. I have learnt a lot about Visual Basic .NET lately and almost use it every day. I am currently reading a few good books on VB .NET and then will be starting to read some QUE Certification books alongside some of Microsoft's. I was interested to know who wants to support me during this process. If you want to suppor ...Show All

• IMstuck Migrating Application created in Visual Basic Express Beta 2

  The following is BACKGROUND history to my question: 1---I downloaded the Visual Basic 2005 Express Beta 2 development environment (referred to Beta 2 below)---IN OCTOBER 2004--- and created an application with it. 2---The downloaded Beta 2 just expired on 01JUL05F 3---I uninstalled the OLD beta 2 & then downloaded and installed the new Beta 2 4---The application I built AND THE PROJECT FILE of course do not run or load (resoectively) properl ...Show All

• Brutes Help.

  How do I create a grid of pictureboxes (25 x 25) on Visual Basic 2005 and auto-name them pbx(row)_(column) for the picture boxes It is to slow and hard to manually rename all 625 of them. Ok question answered, thanks. New question: OK, I ran into another problem. I want it be so that if I click the picture box with the person in it, you can move him by clicking on another tile. How do I do this (I tried (got from Dustin_H 's sample code) : ...Show All

• Kehama Can't run SnippetEditor.exe

  it says, "Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click....will close immediately. "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." Details: See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at SnippetEditor.Snippe ...Show All

• MarkZ Sending an Email containing a Hyperlink

  Can anyone help me with the following: I would like to automate sending an Email (via Outlook) containing a hyperlink to a predefined file on our server. I used the code below to send the Mail, which works fine, but I cannot get it to include the hyperlink in the body: Dim EMail As Object Dim Link As String Link = "G:\...." 'Filepath Set EMail = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") 'Assign Outlook application to ...Show All

• JustDave DataColumn.Caption property not displayed in DataGridView control

  My DataGridView control is bound to a DataTable. Columns and rows are added dynamically to the DataTable at run tine. I am setting Caption property of DataColumn to show descriptive names of the columns, but the Caption is not shown in the DataGridView control, it shows the ColumnName instead. Why ...Show All

• Jonathan Clark Error creating new datasource

  I have a SQL Express database that was created in SQL Server Express Management Studio Express. When I try to create a datasource in VB Express 2005 I get the following error: An error occurred while creating the new data source: Could not get type information for 'test.vp81dataset'. In VC# Express 2005, I can use this same database to create a datasource with no errors. Any ideas Sam I ha ...Show All