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• Criminet Change VB form Color

  Hi all, I would like to change the color of a form in VB 6.0. Is there any WIN32 API function or any other Visual Basic function which gets the form handle and changes the color of the form. Just setting form.backcolor does not help as they do not change the color of other controls and menus. I would like change the default color of the whole form. Pls reply asap. Thanks, Sugan Thanks for your response. I also used a c ...Show All

• Marco Foco Timer Questions???

  I am trying to build this app that Grabs these doc files out of this folder...But i dont know how to pass the procedure to the Timer...I know in C# it seems i could do it like aTimer.Elapsed += New ElaspedEventHandler(Name of Procedure) but in VB.Net i am kinda lost any help would be great!! Imports System Imports System.Timers Imports System.IO Module Module1 Sub TestTime( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal ...Show All

• Kristian Dupont VB?

  Hi, I was wondering if there is any free version of VB around And which is better to learn ( ) VB or C++ or whatever the laguage is called ^_^ (sorry I'm a beginner :)) Thanks, Henry. VB.NET and C# are essentially the same language with different syntax. I'd say that VB.NET has more traps for young players, although the syntax is initally perhaps more intuitive, being more 'English like'. ...Show All

• staelenss Visual Studio.Net 2005; Visual Basic.Net; Windows Generated Code

  How is the Windows generated code accessed It no longer shows up as outline in code window as it did in previous versions of Visual Studio. Thanks for any response... When a Visual Basic.Net 2003 project is converted from Visual Studio.Net 2003 to Visual Studio.Net 2005 the Windows generated code 2005 version is placed in the code text window as in previous versions. If a new project is started in 2005 ver ...Show All

• pratcp I am a Beginer in VB/VB.net and want to develop a software which should prompt the user for voice password

  I am a Beginer in VB/VB.net and want to develop a software which should prompt the user for voice password i mean user will have to logon the software by saying few self prestored word if the voice pattern will be same then and only then user can use the software. Can you tell me what control i'll have to use and what code should be written for the same There is a thing called Microsoft Agent which I us ...Show All

• Pabya upgrading winform that contains a usercontrol: it faield to upgrade most of my properties

  eg, the VB6 form code is something like; VERSION 5.00 Begin VB.UserControl BCcsClientSelect : : Begin R5Controls.R5Display Ccs_Cd_Company_Ref FieldType = 1 FormatString = "!>@@@@@@@@" ForeColor = 0 TextLength = 8 UpperCaseOnly = -1 'True FieldName = "Ccs_Cd_Company_Ref" BorderStyle = 1 KeyField = -1 'True Hint = "Company account ref (/ for list)" ...Show All

• Imran Aziz Help on Update String

  MyCommand.CommandText = "UPDATE PATIENTS SET LastName='" & tboxLastName.Text & "',FirstName='" & tboxFirstName.Text & " ' WHERE PatientID= '" & Val(tboxPatientID.Text) & "'" the application throws in another exception saying "No value given for one or more required parameter" and the debugger was displaying WHERE PatientID = '1", instead of '1' so I think its in the WHERE statement, I had tried different combination o ...Show All

• Forch Writing to a notepad

  When keyboard key is pressed, less say key A then a message " you have clicked A" should be entered into a notepad in the applications path. If the note pad already has messages, new messages should be entered after them, not in another new notepad   An instance if thats what i think it is. I want it to write to a notepad which path i will specify Please be clear with what you want.  Do you mean an ...Show All

• Artur Magaljan Visual Basic Compiler Error Hotfix

  Hi all i just want to know when is going to be released the fix for visual basic compiler error &H8013141e&   this is already reported in the microsoft productfeedback site. i think this is a very urgent patch that must be released asap and please do not repond that i should go back to vs.2003 because i have lots of code developed in VS 2005 to framework 2.0 ..   JSB PS: this error pisses me of, i need to res ...Show All

• poderosa Null Reference Exception

  Hi, Our application has 2 main windows it can be changed using the combo box.When i try to change to another window i am getting this exception.When i try to catch the exception it is caught only after Application.Run(context).I dont know where this exception is thrown from. this is the exception i got... System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.C ...Show All

• gauravmangla VB 2005, calling a query?

  I just started using VB 2005, i want to execute a query i have created when a command button is pressed, any ideas anyone I'm trying to modify an access table using a query, and i've figured all that out only to be left in a dead end with the queries . i can execute the query from the main form (anyform.vb) right someone help please !! Thanks everyone, any help you can provide is greatly appreciated How about, ...Show All

• Hugo Vale [vb 2005 expr] Killing a copy-dir process

  Hi. In my VB 2005 express application I make a copy of one remote directory (connected as a net unit) to my local hard disk with this line: My .Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory("F:\namedir1", "C:\namedir1", True ) This works inside a backgroundworker thread. When I cancel the thread, the copy still goes on, especially if the source-directory is big (some Gb). I want to stop immediately the copy, how can I do this Is there a way to know ...Show All

• Sir Tron 2005 .Net Nightmare

  As a visB programmer who has been happily coding very successful applications for many years, I have been shocked at the verbose incomprehensibility of the .net framework. Where is the wonderful Basic language that has served so well for so long Is there a way to disable all the garbage in VisB 2005 in order to just write simple single thread applications in the Visual Basic language I have been unable to get even the simplest microsoft SDK exa ...Show All

• MAKem38 Graphical GUI's in Visual Basic -- is it possible?

  Hello, first off, i'm not much of a programmer so forgive me if this question sounds silly... Is it possibleto create a DLL file in visual basic 2005 express which consists of a GUI ...maybe I put that the wrong way...here's what i'm trying to do: I'm using a program called ActiveWords that can read from a .dll file. I want the program (activewords) to call a method in the .dll file which will display a GUI file and then return a ...Show All

• Marco Foco disable pop-up

  hello how i can disable pop-up window like "msgbox". i want that a window can not create "msgbox" thanks   DMan1 wrote: nima_API, All messageboxes, dialog, and forms are controled by the programmer in .NET.  If you do not want the user to be able to display a messagebox then you as the programmer should not create an instance of the mesagebox, dialog, or form. You really should listen to DMan1. This is common sens ...Show All