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• Harlan Witherspoon File Properties

  I would like to access the file properties of a file (summary, title, author, etc). I need to do it for all files, not just office documents. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I'm not sure that all file contain this information. Office documents do appear support additional properties. However http://support.microsoft.com/ id=224351 Details a DLL called DSOFile.dll which you can download and then simp ...Show All

• Bronco Billy Build Complete Notification Sounds - another workaround

  I just upgraded to Visual Studio 2005 from VS6.0  and I cannot find any documentation for Visual Studio sounds schemes.  In VS6.0 I could have seperate sounds for "BuildComplete", "BuildError", and "BuildWarning".  In Visual Studio I can only create a sound for VS_BreakpointHit  Are any of the others available Here are three tips to avoid having to read and parse the (entire) output window: ...Show All

• listerg converting old PowerBasic for WIN

  Is there software to convert a program written in an old version of PowerBasic for Windows to Visual Basic   ...Show All

• Brian Siler Compiler Problems even though code is sound.

  Hi, I'm having a strange problem with Visual Studio 2003 and I'm hoping someone can help. The problem is I'm getting compiler errors even though the code is fine. Here's an example.... This is code from a form I have... Public Class frmGasDiagram Dim udtGasDiagram As clsGasDiagram In some methods of the form I get errors saying the type udtGasDiagram cannot be used as it hasn't been defined, but it is. If I change the ac ...Show All

• zerep PBX Data Capture via Serial Port

  Hi, Uses: VS.NET, WINXP PRO+SP2; Our company has a NEC 2000 IPS PBX system. Since now, we use the hyperterminal in Windows to record all calls taken to a Text file which is a fixed-length file via a SMDR Cable. The configrations are the following to the COM Port: COM Port: COM2 Baud Rate: 2400 b/s; Parity: None; Stop Bit: 1; Data Length: 8 bit; for the After end of each week we process the text file and record it in the ...Show All

• Zcat databinding

  Hi anybody, I'm new to visual studio express 2005. I have learned the data binding metho with a simple table. Everything works as told but when I want to change a record, it will change it in memory but not in the database SQL. I want to creat an application that will let user change any record. Can someone help Thanks. Well, I found some answers already. The VS Express 2005 is limited and will not let The user change the database i ...Show All

• Mauricio Junior VB2005: Creating forms in 'DataReceived' Serial Event

  Hi, I have a VB2005 program that interacts with the serial port. My serial port code is in its own module. I have NOT attached a 'SerialPort' control to any form. When I process received serial data using the 'DataReceived' event, I may see a certain chunk of data for which I want to bring up a new form and show that data in a listbox.. The problem is that when I create this new form (Messages = new frmMessages) and then populate ...Show All

• Steve Lange Enum Display Text

  First off, I am using .net 1.0. I am using a combobox and populating the values from a custom enum object. Instead of the default string values that the combobox shows for the enum values I would like to show a custom string. The reason being that the default string is not very user friendly ie. 'Two_Weeks' instead of 'Two Weeks'. What is the easiest way to accomplish this Thanks!!! sorry.... I guess that when I read your post... you ...Show All

• Micah Armantrout No text in MSGBOX

  The MSGBOX function presents a result that has no visible text in either the prompt or on the buttons. Is there some property that turns this off I wrote a simple test code and it fails on my machine by displaying a box without any visible text. It has just a button to force up a msgbox. Any suggestions Public Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form # Region " Windows Form Designer generated code " Public Sub New () MyBa ...Show All

• N Anderton After saving project always shows error one of file is Missing

  Dear All I am always getting this error "File is missing"...most of time resource file of one of the WindowsForm. This happens after I click on SAVE button in IDE to save 2-3 modified forms. Regards Nitin Tarkar nitin_bt@hotmail.com ...Show All

• ChrisMSG Best way to make frequently used functions available to all apps?

  I have written several functions in VB.Net that I reuse again and again.  Other than importing modules, copying and pasting, etc. does Visual Studio have some sort of tool that I don't know about to make these readily available to any new apps Thanks, Dave Or you could turn them into Code Snippets so that they are always available in the Code Editor. See: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms165392(en-us,v ...Show All

• Please help with my query. Pending Limit exceeded

  Hi! I have downloaded Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Beta and tried to activate it. I did not get any answer in my mailbox, so I have tried several times and finally got this message: Pending limit exceeded Our records indicate that you have exceeded your limit of verification e-mail messages. Check your Inbox to confirm that an e-mail message has already been sent. If you are unable to locate a verification e- ...Show All

• Claudeb1965 How do I execute a sub in different form?

  How do I execute a sub in different form Michael Michael, Can you post the code that is throwing this error   'subFromForm2' is a member of Form2 so I would need to see your code to help troubleshoot this. Dim OrderForm As New Order() Order.Order_Load() Hello Michael, If you have 2 forms (Form1 and Form2), and Form2 has a sub named 'subFromForm2' you execute it from Form1 with the following code: Dim secondForm as ...Show All

• Floele HScrollBar and AutoRedraw

  HScrollBar From the toolbox, the HScrollBar does not seem to be working (as it did in VB6) It does not fire on "Gotfocus", no matter where you click There is no "Mouseup" event for ending the scroll. Is this tool being phased out, or are there known bugs Related to this problem is Auto-redraw. I use the Scrollbar to help make a selection. As the user pulls the cursor, I have a floating tex ...Show All

• yumin Select a word from database then put in HTML

  I have make an advertisement in my E-learning Project. I make the advertiment using Adrotator. How can i Select a Word from database like " Sport ". Then put in the HTML like "<asp:adrotator id="Ad" AdvertisementFile=" Sport .xml"></asp:adrotatorasasp:adrotator>" so that i can make an advertiment depend on their hobby. Thanks ...Show All