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• GarryB How to "Pop" a Windows App on Top of Other Windows Apps?

  I have a windows application that when I start it, I want to let it run and let me go off and work on another windows application such as MS Word. When my application has completed its task, I would like for it to "pop" in front of the MS Word application (or whatever app is running) so that I know that my application has completed its task and is ready for new input. How can I accomplish this Would it be easier to have my entire ...Show All

• K1.87 How can I hide the dialog print form

  Hi When I print documents there's a little dialog form showing up on top of everything else with the message Printing document bla bla... page 1... How can I hide this form in my application so that it does not show up but still prints my documents. /Andreas A quick search of the forums revealed: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=189158&SiteID=1 Can you be more specifc regarding this dialog A ...Show All

• Abrar Using each digit of a byte

  This one is kind of interesting. A byte consists of two digits, right Now, each digit of this byte holds data for a different object. Say the byte is 7F. The 7 would be the data for one object and the F would be the data for the other object. Or say the byte is 04. 0 would be the data for the first object and 4 would be the data for the second object. Get it How would I write the byte this way Say I have two textboxes, txt1 and txt2. txt ...Show All

• VarunSuri VS2005 and the Webbrowser - DOM Link URL extraction

  This is a domain I'm not very familiar with. There is a browser mode exposed by the DOM that generates a URL string for any link over which the mouse hovers. The old DHTMLED control was able to do this and there was a vb6 example for this control called VBDOM in the DHTML SDK. Essentially a mouseover event was created for DIVs in an HTML document. Any time the cursor was over a DIV in a link the DIV that the mouse was over was returned. This in ...Show All

• darksunz I want to get rid of "Output, Debug" window when I run the application

  Hi, When I run the application when I m developping, the window "Output, Debug" pops up at the buttom of my VS2003. When I go back to edit my code again, the window is still there and I have always to close it since I don t have enough space in my screen. How can I set up my development environment not to show that window for good. I m not even sure what the purpose of that debug, output window is. Thanks guys. thanks a lot, ...Show All

• Volker Gerdes filter a stirng

  hi !! i wish someone can help!!! i have string that i receive as returend value.....something like that ID: f002107a8af2b525e7765ece To: 447949606666 ID: 9e821d477915fe5d7a10c5c To: 447949606663 i want to filter this string so i do not need ID: and the To: because i need to save these values in database so basically .... each ID: followed by a number To:  belongs to one data entry ....... Can you help me please how to write this !!!! i a ...Show All

• intromicko Basestream.seek

  Hi, I need to read lines backwards in a TXT file with a fixed length for every line. I'm using Dim linetxt As String Dim counter as Integer = -56 'Which is the length of the lines Dim data_r As New StreamReader(data_path) 'data_path contains full path and name for the file data_r.BaseStream.Seek(counter, SeekOrigin.End) linetxt = data_r.ReadLine And this produces good results for a first reading. But last t ...Show All

• Steve Nunez Pasing a string to a textbox

  Hello All, I have a small issue with passing a string to a textbox.. the senario is as follow: Form1 is opened with textbox1 and button1 When pressing button1, form2 opens to allow searching in a database. Results of form2 search are listed in listview1. selecting the required reslt is by clicking the desired item in listview1. Now.. I need to pass the result to textbox1 in form1 that is already opened. How Hi, In your form1, you could ...Show All

• cgpl Button State "Hanging"

  I'm a newbie to VB 2005 converting from VB6 and I've run into a problem I don't understand! (I'm using VS2005). I'm using a "While" loop to detect when a Button has been clicked before the user can progress in the flow of the program. But when I call the code, the button whose event calls it seems to hang in the down state. To reproduce (slightly different but demonstrates the problem), set up a new project and add a button and a ...Show All

• BA08 Query Builder with Union statement

  I'm working on a DataSet in which the SQL statement contains the "UNION". The problem is that the Query Builder seems unable to parse SQL with UNION. As a result, the DataSet designer cannot generate the correct schema. Is there any solution to this problem Design your queries one at a time, ensuring that the output columns from your SELECT statement are the same. Then, combine your queries with the UNION statement, using the ...Show All

• AngeloSalaIT Variable Declare Error issue VB 2005

  I am having what I think might be a common problem. When upgrading my applications to VB 2005 from VB 2003, I have received a number of warnings regarding my declarations of local Strings without a default value assigned initially. Example of My earlier code: Dim tmpDriveType as Strin Warning treated as error : Variable 'tmpDriveType' is used before it has been assigned a value. A null reference exception could result at runtime. ...Show All

• ZACK2K6 Can't understand delegate function

  I'm reading Wrox's Professional VB 2005. I'm just at the beginning of delegates. It has us open a module1 and put in the following code: Public Delegate Function Compare(ByVal v1 As Object, ByVal v2 As Object) As Boolean Public Sub DoSort(ByVal theData() As Object, ByVal greaterThan As Compare) Dim outer As Integer Dim inner As Integer Dim temp As Object For outer = 0 To UBound(theData) - 1 For inner = outer + 1 To UBound ...Show All

• Ido F. Breakpoints in Visual Basic.Net Code

  Hi There, The Breakpoints that I set in my Visual Basic.Net application doesn't function(It doesn't break the running). It's as if I have not set any Breakpoints at all!!! Any help will be appreciated. Instead of running the code, try stepping into the code and see whats happening....breakpoints will not break if they are not reached. ...Show All

• ges Save and Load?

  What I want to do is save the input from four txt boxes Name.txt Tel.txt Mob.txt Mail.txt After the input is saved I want to add new data and save again etc,etc. Then I need to load the information back again in to the relevant Txt boxes Name to Name.txt Tel to Tel.txt etc etc and scroll through forward and back to search for a paticular name. I am thinking it will have to be done with arrays but how to do it is the question. If this is a lot to ...Show All

• Abhinay Agrawal WriteAllText Question

  Hi All, Why does My .Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText create a i at the start of a file And is there a way to stop it doing this The output of the program (created by WriteAllText) is dependant on a # starting the file, and not a i # Obviously, it's fairly easy to write the code to read the above, rather than just the # but it's a bit annoying. btw, this doesn't appear when viewed in textpad/notepad etc, only Excel. cheers in advance. Jam ...Show All