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• Stephen Fisher - MS How to make subroutine calls from one form to another non-blocking?

  Not sure if this is possible, but I have 2 forms, F1, and F2.  I would like F1 to make a subroutine call to F2 and while F2 subroutine is running, i would like F1 to continue to execute it's code.  My understaning is that VB is single-threaded but i thought i had read somewhere that this is possible to do this. Any help would be appreciated. thanks bc Imports System.Threading   &nbs ...Show All

• nebiecoder Programming multi channel sound card

  Hi, I am trying to write an app that can play different sound on different channels of a sound card. For example.. when i click on a button1 it will play one.mp3 in channel1 of the sound card...and when i click on button2 it will play two.mp3 and so on....up to 8 channels... I have been searching the web for this...but there are no information on this. It was supposed to be a simple app but it seems not that easy to me...... ! Any ideas anyone t ...Show All

• Michal Januszczyk Add combox in Datagrid 2003???

  Dear Team   DO you have a simple code for adding a combobox in datagid   Thank you very much hi neo   Do you have an answer to this problem   thank you very much i am sory it isnot working andwritten from the begining specially With TableStyle.GridColumnStyles ' Set datagrid ColumnStyle for Car field .Add(New DataGridTextBoxColumn(tblCrrncMngr.GetItemProperties.Item("Car"))) Dear Slay   Thank ...Show All

• HansByte 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. John, Next to the question if you can do this, is the question what is your further plan for these two libraries: If in future you really want to merge the two into a single library and mainta ...Show All

• Ramirez3964 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

• BobK_MN WSE, Datasets, help needed asap!

  Ok here is my problem, I've been working with the WSE Quickstart examples, I was able to write my own code to do what I need.. however I need a dataset to be returned.. I've tried a couple methods here and can't figure it out, can someone help me with whats wrong 1. Obtained dataset from SQL server, converted dataset into xml, returned the class object which contained a 'xmlstring' and 'checksum'. This resulted in a 'Server unavailable' 2. Retu ...Show All

• ZeR_o Trigger Access Macro From VB.NET

  Hi, Is there a way to trigger or open a MS Access DB macro from a VB.NET application If so then HOW. Thanks Mike Yes there is a way.  I used to do it in VB6 all the time, but haven't tried it in .Net yet, so i'm not sure of the code. Try these forums, as you may get better restults. For VBA related items.  http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=74 For MS Office / .NET  relat ...Show All

• Mandys Status Strip - RTF Location

  Hi All, Would like to know, what is the code for status strip text location. I am developing an advanced notepad for some customizing text etc. and cannot find code or examples anywhere of how to put a text label in the status strip for the text "Column" & "Row" location. Its basically the same as the windows notepad feature. Can anyone please help me with this. Thank You. Di ...Show All

• Maf PROPERTY STATEMENTS WITH ARRAYS

  WHAT IS THE CORRECT SYNTAX FOR CREATING A PROPERTY WITH DIMENSIONED ARRAYS. I CAN'T FIND ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN DOCUMENTATION. Hello JMcilhinney I made some modifications to the code you wrote for me. I took out the "," delimeter in the expressions because I'm working with arrays of rank 1. I believe the single "," makes the rank 2. I added a local variable because documentation on get procedure recommended that. In the following code an ...Show All

• Claudio Mariconti Retrieve the ID of a new row

  I have two table: Category and Product. The second one has a column CategoryID referring to the Category ID. Now, I need to add a the same time a row on Category and a row on Product with Product.CategoryID =Category.ID If a create a new row on Category I don't know the ID value of this, because it's autonumber and I don't set it, it's automatically created. If I have to create just after that the row on Product, how can I set the CategoryI ...Show All

• Lora out(Val("&H378"), Val(255)) command in VB.NET 2005??

  out(Val("&H378"), Val(255)) This is used to send commands to the LPT Port. What is the alternative or replacement in VS.net 2005   Gr. This is a quick example. I disable my com ports and lpt ports, so for me the COM1 port doesn't exists, and i can't use this code.  I'm pretty sure it should work though, if not with some minor adjustments.         Dim sl As New System.IO.Ports.Se ...Show All

• Joey.Net Catch user mouse click events in window.

  Is there a way I can catch all the user mouse click events inside Window Thanks! "I want to collect user information about where he/she clicked inside the window" Oooooh. I read this as to whether they clicked in the window or not. The control mouse event with it's event argument is exactly what you want. You can poll the msgproc, and get all the windows events...  Or if it's just your application, you can setup on c ...Show All

• jonam VB5 Project to VB.NET

  I have a project written in Visual Basic 5.0. I need to convert it to Visual Basic .NET. I have Visual Basic 5.0 and Visual Studio 2003, but the project needs to be converted to Visual Basic 6.0 in order for Visual Studio 2003 to upgrade it. Would someone who has Visual Basic 6.0 please be so kind as to convert it for me If you can, please email me at david_kaye (at) yahoo.com for me to email you the project. It zips up to 253 KB. Thanks, Davi ...Show All

• SQL2K5 Printing with full PageBounds

  Hi, I need to print some custom drawings on the whole paper surface. I wanted to use the pagebounds width and height but i still have 100 pixels margins. What do i have to do to bypass those margins. The papersize width is 1169 Pix, i want a 1169 pix Line. I did try to set the PrintPageEventArgs.pagesettings.margins.[top-left-right-bottom] to zero(0), but it still doesn't work. Any idea Thanks in advance. Serge ...Show All

• Tri VB .NET closing forms and setting focus

  Hi Everybody, I have not been able to figure out how to close one form when I send the user to another form with VB .NET. In VB 6, this was no problem. Anyway, I have a logon form (frmLogon) and it's btnEnter code will send the user to frmMain if they type in a good user name and password. From frmMain, the user can select any number of forms to go to via a main menu. The problem is that I don't want the users to have five or six forms open o ...Show All