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• CurtGibson Console Application

  Is it possible to get right click menu on the console so users can paste Ok, does a console support utf8 I don't know, but I doubt it. conversion using the encoding class shouldn't be a big problem. If you right click on the bar along the top of a console window, there is an edit menu, which has a paste option. Otherwise, no. Your console app does not have a message pump to process mouse messages. ...Show All

• Jejomar Ronquillo Bug in For .. Next with Single data type

  Try the following simple code, by stepping through: Dim S As Single, T As Single For S = 16777214 To 16777218     T = S - 16777214 Next S Once S reaches 16'777'216 (hex FFFFFF) it will stop incrementing in the for..next loop, consequently T will remain at 2 I have the following System: Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, Service Pack 1, CPU is Pentium 4 CPU 2.4 GHz,  CPU-Driver Microsoft processr.sys Ver ...Show All

• firemaker86 Blair Allen Stark

  Here is the problem I am working on. It asks me to use the method CalculateCharges, but I don't fully understand how to do this or how it works. I would be grateful for any input. Lab Problem III A parking garage charges a $2.00 minimum fee to park for up to three hours. The garage charges an additional $0.50 per hour for each hour or part thereof in excess of three hours. The maximum charge for any given 24-hour period ...Show All

• Apparel1 "post" from form and return and parse xml

  hi, i am quite new to vb (using visual studio 2005 beta 2). i need to call a remote script with some parameters (same as POST froma webform) to a url, which returns an XML response. where would i start a) doing the POST and b) reading the XML thanks in advance for any help! regards, craigw. ...Show All

• nCognito VB Java Integration`

  I have a natural language parser that's written in Java. I can compile and run it in Eclipse. Does anyone know how to pass words from my VB.net apps and get back the results from the Java app I haven't found a decent NLP fro .net so any help on how to integrate these would be much appreciated. Byron Crowell If you don't already have J#, you can download it http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualj/ and recompile your natura ...Show All

• tolyy CANT DEPLOT APPLICATION

  Ok this is my first time doing this click once deployment thingy But im trying to basiclly deploy my application so that others can download and use it the problem is i dont know where to deploy it to I need help i tried microsofts website but it wont let me get acess to it. is there somewhere that will let me use a webspace for free. " If you want people to be able to download it, then you need ...Show All

• ricky816 Common class library between XP and SmartDevice

  I want to have a common class library between windows xp program and a Pocket PC program. The code in the class is general processing, nothing device dependant. So, in my VS2005 Solution, I have a XP program and a Pocket PC program, and a Class Library.  How can I get VS2005 to ( I guess) compile the class twice generating a DLL that will work with windows XP, and another DLL that will work with Pocket PC with out having to copy the c ...Show All

• cassiopia Browsing My Documents

  Got a newbie Q, How do you click a button that will open your My Documents folder so you can view it Similar to uploading things to the internet, and you can click a button that will browse through your My Documents folder. I'm new to coding, so please try to answer simply. Thanks, Hi there, You can try this: Dim browseDlg As OpenFileDialog = New OpenFileDialog() browseDlg.InitialDirectory = My.Compute ...Show All

• Nayan Making a picturebox have a transparent background

  I have a picture of a panda with a pink background (panda_down.bmp) and I was wondering: how do I get that pink background to be transparent I think you should be able to create a Bitmap object, store the contents of the imagebox in the Bitmap object, then use Bitmap.Maketransparent to get rid of the pink colour. If you can't do this in the picture box, try using the same method, but using the form.creategraphics.drawimage method to draw ...Show All

• LDesmons A Pause with a Loop

  Okay...what I want to do seems simple but I've been at it off 'n on for a few days with this & finally decided to post my question. I have a Label I want to flash on & off a few times much like a warning sign. You would think something as easy as: For i as Integer = 0 to 20 Label1.Visible = True Thread.Sleep(500) Label1.Visible = False Next would do it. But it doesn't. I tried throwing a timer in there s ...Show All

• MorB Database connections

  I am currently developing a system that will run on Pocket PC 2003. I am wanting to use a SQL Mobile database and VB. I have Sql Server 2005 and VS2005. I have been doing web programming lately and have not used straigt VB in a while now.(nearly ever) and I am wanting to connect to a SQL Mobile DB from VB. everything I have seen says that use something like dim con as new sqlceconnection or something. It does not seem to recognize anything s ...Show All

• MrMoke Set mousepointer

  Hello, How can I set the mousepointer on a place by fill in the x- and y- coordinates in a textbox I have change it to: Public Sub MakeMouseMove() Dim pt As New System.Drawing.Point() pt.X = 500 pt.Y = 100 Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position = pt End Sub Works well, Thanks for the answers. Can you add this in your routine, and if so did it work Public Sub MakeMouseMove() Dim pt ...Show All

• Jack Diamond How do I insert a line break in a string?

  I am going to write a program that lets me type text into a textbox and write that to a file. The two first lines should contain some pre-defined text that I want to write in the code. And here is my problem: I can't manage to make a line break in the text file, like when you press enter. I use strings to make the lines, but when I open the text file it's just written on one line. Does anyone have an idea how should do this ...Show All

• LynchburgRecord Listing the variables in a structure

  Hi, Does anyone know how I would list the variables in a structure I have a requirement to load a fixed length disk record made up of many fields into a structure - and I was looking for an automated way of doing it instead of hard coding each field position. Regards Michael Your reply seems to have been truncated...... use system.reflection you will have to c ...Show All

• Bruce Sandeman How do you start another application?

  How can you start another application from inside a Visual Basic windows or console application Process.Start("Notepad.exe") ...Show All