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• DBornack Problem Isolating COM Reference

  So I tried to Isolate the DLL (compiled as multithreaded), but... Warning 2 Problem isolating COM reference 'vfp9dll' : Registry key 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {6f539c09-98a8- 4538 -8a79-6d5e9b7eddc5}\ Foxruntime' was not imported C:\ WINDOWS \Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2. 0 . 50215 \Microsoft.Common.targets 0 0 Thanks for any insight as to why th error. G *VFP DEFINE CLASS hi as Custom OLEPUBLIC PROCEDURE hi RETURN "hi" ENDDEFINE ' ...Show All

• Joni Saving User Settings

  ok, so far my app allows people to choose a prog to add to the menu, however, closing an opening the prog resets everythin, how do i save Hi, to store your application settings in .net the app.config xml-file is used. The articles describe how to write and read data from that files. Of course you can use the windows regestry or other types of files, too. what about .data how do i use that Hi, use the app.config xml-file to ...Show All

• BrownMichaelJ Passing a value from form to form

  What is the best way to pass a value from form to form Do I use a global variable or is there a parameter style way to do it Is there some other way Thanks for helping a newbie. Wouldn't the OO way be to create a new class object that has getters/setters for the variables stored within it and pass it around from form to form Another manner of passing values from Form1 to Form2 is to Overload the New() Constructor of Form2. Th ...Show All

• Tapan Getting the machine name using VBA

  I am using VBA for Excel. I have a secondary spreadsheet that is opened at the workbook_open event of a primary spreadsheet.  This secondary spreadsheet is in a different location, dependent on whether I'm using my desktop machine or my laptop.  Currently, I have to adjust the secondary spreadsheet's pathway manually.  I want to do this automatically based on the machine name where the primary spreadsheet is being opened (or ...Show All

• Antao Almada System.ArgumentException was unhandled - WebBrowser object

  Hello, I got this message "System.ArgumentException was unhandled   Message="Navigation to a relative URL unsuccessful."   Source="System.Windows.Forms" Well, that's not the whold message but it's like fifty lines of code so.... Well, the question is for the WebBrowser object. I placed a WebBrowser object on my form then in properties, how do you put the URL in do you put in like: C:\myform\index.htm or something else What if yo ...Show All

• Alex Uninstalled VB Express causes problem with Outlook

  I recently uninstalled VB Express and now everytime I start Outlook, I get a popup window with the title "Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 - ENU". The message says: "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable." After clicking Cancel (because I don't know what it is and I don't really want it), I get a message box with an Error 1706. I don't want to reinstall VB Express&nbs ...Show All

• aHAB Convert class errors!

  Hi everyone, The problem I have is when I try to use Convert.ToBase64String() [or any other convert method for that matter], I geta design-time error, which is "Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'Convert' accepts this number of arguments". I don't have a clue why it's giving me that, since I'm passing a byte() to it without doubt. Thanks... Hi, OK, basically it's: Dim data As Byte() = ...... Di ...Show All

• lumbus VB Dummy

  I have inherited a vacation request form.  In the start and stop dates there is a macro.  Right now when somebody tabs onto the start or stop date a calendar comes up for the year 2000.  You can change it and select any other date you wish but I would like the calendar to pop up with the current date.  I am enclosing the macro below.  Is there any entry I can insert or deltete to make this happen   Thank y ...Show All

• Halidon Create Object by Name

  I'm upgrading an Application from VS 2003 to Vs 2005 and one part of the Application stops to working. In VS 2003 I have: Dim typ As Type = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly.GetType( "XPT." & nome_relat) cr = CType (Activator.CreateInstance(typ), ReportDocument) and everything goes ok. In Visual Studio 2005 it didn't work. Any idea of how to solve this The p ...Show All

• Jossef Goldberg Detecting installation Complete

  Hi Friends,              I am using the "ShellExecute API" to run a batch file that in turn installs MSDE.I need to determine when the installation that was initiated by the "ShellExecute" API has finished.Can anyone help me with this.Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. SK. Have you considered using the VS Bootstrapper instead to deploy MSDE The bootstrapper is a gene ...Show All

• Sleek1 Timer in a Panel

  Dear Team   How the timer can be displayed in a panel in a stausebar   Thank you very much You can use statusbar1.Panel(index).Text=timer1.value.ToString()   to set the text in a panel to the value of the timer. Where index is the index of the panel you want to change. Since it was not clear to me exactly what your problem was I refered you to the previous post. Good luck Hi, You can try this proj ...Show All

• Lata Transparency, again

  Hello, I searched on this forum but I did not find any easy solution. My problem: I have a stretched PictureBox on which I want to display a multi-line text with a Label. I want this label to be transparent and NOT have the Form's background, but the PictureBox's one. Is it possible to do that without writing any code (like it was possible on VB6). If yes or if not, please explain it with easy examples. Bonus question : can I make ...Show All

• Pavan Apuroop UserControl.Parent

  I have a VB6 ActiveX control that is hosted on a .NET form (obviously, the aximp util was first used). It works fine except that the control invokes a public property on the parent form:    UserControl.Parent.MyPublicProperty = True The app then dies with an error in the VB6 error handler, displaying the message:    Runtime error ' 5'    Invalid procedure call or argument   I assume I have an ...Show All

• George Jackson VS 2005 seems unusable for large VB converted project. How do I turn off the background compiler.

  VS 2005 seems unusable for large VB converted project.  How do I turn off the background compiler. I have a fairly large project that I migrated from VB6 to VS2005.  This is the RTM version of VS2005.  There are many issues that I need to fix up in the code, but every time I change one line of code, my system runs 100% CPU for 30 seconds. This is not even close to usable.  You might think I have a slow machine, but I am runni ...Show All

• Dominik Vogel vaildate email address

  Hi guys, again probably something simple, but I'm writing a form in which I need to control whether an email address is valid (contains @ symbol) any ideas how I can do that thanks, chris (sorry for asking really dumb questions - but I'm trying to unstupidify myself) That hack idea is cracking me up! I'll have to try it when I get to work on monday on our intranet. Carl ...Show All