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• skyhawk7ma Building Relationships/Querying datasets

  I have a form where I want to display in a datagrid the results of a query. My challenge is that the final query (the results query) needs to run over the results of two other queries. In SQL Server, I can just create and save views, then do a query with a join of those two views, but I need to be able to pass parameters to those views via some text boxes on the form. So ideally, I want to have 3 SQL queries in my code, the user enter ...Show All

• Cyber Wombat need program of motion detection and capturing live video from any device

  hi i need a program that capture live video from any divice like webcam ,tv card(AV) or any other and also detect motion mean it has motion detection functionlality thanks Vicon, Panasonic...to name a couple of mfgs that have video motion detection devices available on the market today!  They are not that expensive and can be added to a variety of sources  ie NTSC, PAL etc... Hi Zaman, I would start by developing an applica ...Show All

• Andrew Law Process question

  Is there a way to trap an event relating to trying to start a process when the computer lacks the application.  For instance doing a process.start on a MS Project file when the computer lacks the application.  Now my application just hangs when that occurs. Thanks, Fred I'm assuming you are not using "ProcessStartInfo" take alook there are several methods and properties to handle non-start errors such as: Public Property ErrorD ...Show All

• Scarlett Lee MSFT vb.NET2005 frustration .....'Unable to copy file "obj\Debug\....." to "bin\Release\......"'

  Recently, but not immediately, I started to get the above error message almost every time I rebuilt my vb.NET application. The only way I know how to proceed is to rename all the \bin\Release\ files. I'm sure this isn't the normal expectation but why do I get it and how can I avoid it Urgent help required please! Geoff It's because another process has those files 'locked' in the release folder. Look in your tas ...Show All

• my name is jay VS 2005 RTM Weird Editor Behavior

  I'm using the VB Editor in VS 2005 RTM version and every so often it starts misbehaving and I have to close all editor windows to get working properly again. What happens is that as soon as I type a single letter at the beginning of a line it immediately appends open and close parens. So for example if I want to type an If statement, as soon as I type 'i' it changes it to i(). If I backspace to delete the parens it puts them back in. ...Show All

• Dariya Visual Basic .NET 2003

  I have lost my Prerequisites CD, im wanting to install my Visual Basic .Net 2003 but i cant, it says my system is missing something and says I need to install the Prerequisites. I reformated my computer. I installed : Windows XP SP2 Microsoft Visual J# .Net Redistributable 1.1 Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 IIS Server with Front page extentions Windows Installer 3.1 What am i ...Show All

• Keyboard_Cowboy Help with files

  Unnable to reprogram this in visual basic 2005. any help_ Public Structure header_mia         Public eti1 As String '* 8         Public NUM_OREC As Long         Public padding1 As Long         Public eti2 As String '* 8         Public NUM_SR ...Show All

• blancblanc VB confused about SQL Server versions ?

  Some months ago I installed beta preview editions of Visual Studio including a copy of SQL Express. Recently, I successfully uninstalled all of these betas using the special purpose uninstall tool available on the Microsoft website. The uninstal completed successfully or so it said. Next I installed Visual Studio 2005 Professional and the installation completed successfully. I also removed SQL Server Express Edition (Autoinstalled with VB) an ...Show All

• mithra11shiva third-party installer for choice and security

  Does vb.net express offer a way for the developer or user to decide where an app would be installed or is a third-party installer necessary If so, any recommendations Thats good to know I was just whining to myself yesterday that the product comparison listed clickonce for the Basic Edition. I didn't wanna have to fork out the money for Pro. Now i might be happy :) I don' ...Show All

• Bart Devriendt SerialPort coding

  Hi, i've recently been trying to connect my RFID tag reader to my vb application. when i read the instructions, it appears that i need to use the mscomm control which isn't available. I am simply lost as to how to write the code for the serial port. i am supposed to install a INRFID125CTRL into the application. Then write the code using the mscomm control. Unfortunately, i was only able to add the INRFID125CTRL as a reference. How d ...Show All

• Simona Sorokin getting files from FTP

  Hey, I got a Windows application that processes Excel files and transfers all data to a DB. These Excel files at the moment are being sent to Malta from Germany via FTP........ the user copies the files to another location (as the FTP directory is not accessible) and then browses for them using an Open File Dialog.... the application then does the processing needed! I would like to automate this a bit more. 1. How can I access the FTP server (NO ...Show All

• Sreenaiah VS 2005 RTM Weird Editor Behavior

  I'm using the VB Editor in VS 2005 RTM version and every so often it starts misbehaving and I have to close all editor windows to get working properly again. What happens is that as soon as I type a single letter at the beginning of a line it immediately appends open and close parens. So for example if I want to type an If statement, as soon as I type 'i' it changes it to i(). If I backspace to delete the parens it puts them back in. ...Show All

• Sarika_MS How to use SmtpNetworkElement for smtp authentication

  I am new to programming and visual basic. I am using visual basic 2005. I have looked through other threads on how to do username and password authentication for a smtp server but cannot get any anwers. I have found the class SmtpNetworkElement which contains properties that could let you use username and password. Could anyone help me with this class, so that I can send an email from a clients computer, but using my Smtp server Thank you! Bra ...Show All

• Leonid S. Knyshov VB.net 2002 vs 2005 Express

  I switched to VB.Net quite a while ago now and still use the 2002 version. I tried the express version a while ago but was put off by the new click-once setup facility. Do any of the new Express versions have a Deployment add-on like the older versions where you can build a setup.exe to include a setup.msi, instead of the click-once version   The more inclusive versions such as Standard, Pro and Te ...Show All

• Sparklight Year in 2 digits

  Hi How do i write the code to display the year in 2 digits thx now.Year.ToString.Substring(2) Anarchy wrote: now.Year.ToString.Substring(2) Blair Allen Stark wrote: someDate.ToString("yy") Although both work, Blair's solution would be less ambiguous, and so would say preferable.   Blair Allen Stark wrote: proper: ...Show All