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• Mike Graham - Denver Build a Program Now! E-Book Question

  Hey there, I just started using Visual Basic and I was wondering about that E-book. I went to the registration benefits and was told I can't register because I am not 16. Is there any way for a 15 year old to get a copy of the E-book Two, options: Get your parent to register and get it. Wait until you are 16. I'm not really understanding what you mean, Dave... . You are obviously both too ...Show All

• Joewski clocks and Excel, or ?

  Hello all, I need to present 2 labels based on the time of day, ...eg, It is now time1, or it is now time 3, I'm having quite a "time" trying every way from Sunday to make it work.   I also need to do a VLOOKUP type function in an array, or in an actual excel file (I'd prefer to do it in a SQL way from a local database file.   It sort of like a mileage chart on a map. I have a form made up with a list box of 85 sele ...Show All

• IraW How to set a date field to null

  I have a bound text box showing a date field and I can enter a date into this no problem and save the changes. I have spent the past two days trying to find a way to allow the user to delete the date i.e. set the field back to null! I have found several articles on the net but nothing that provides an answer or explains why something that should be simple should be so hard!! I guess what you're asking is ...Show All

• Uleepera VS 2005 Express C# hangs when creating WinApp.

  Hi! I've just installed VS 2005 Express C# (without previously installing any betas) with the 2.0 framework and SQL Express. Installation completes with (reported) errors. Creating a ClassLib project works. However, after creating a new WinApp project the IDE hangs. After the empty form and the Solution Explorer are displayed I can't click on anything without the hourglass popping up and staying up, indefinetly. Trying to close the IDE gives the ...Show All

• Shadow Chaser Accessing Controls in a different Form.

  Hi there. I'm new to C# and programming in general and need some help on my first "project". I'm writing a very basic program. It uses the built in WebBrowser control and the TabControl-control (phew). Each tabpage got a different webbrowser control in it. There is no problem when i add all the controls from the Form1 designer. The problem is when I try to dynamicly add TabPages, and a webcontrol in the created tabpage. I'm opening a ...Show All

• bcsanches (very newbie) Click Data base row to start filter

  I am very new can anyone help! I have my access database up and running in VB express and what I want to happen is for the user to click on the line in the data grid view and for the program to reference one of the fields in the row to use as search criteria to load up at run time a new data base created at run time to display the results of the filtered field. I will try to explain a bit better for example I have 3 columns named first ...Show All

• Pringy yadda yadda for Dummies -- getting data into my VB thang

  I posted this here , but realized it may have been in the wrong place. WDIK     yadda yadda for Dummies -- getting data into my project. OK, here's another newbie question. I run a third party app.  I've been able to take data from that app, and by "pasting as link" into excel, manipulate the data (yes, "paste as link" was a new dis ...Show All

• vAlex Working and saving as VB 6.0

  I have an assignment to do and one of the hand-in requirements is that the files submitted are Visual BASIC 6.0 only. I don't have Visual Studio 6.0 available to use, but I do have Visual Basic Express Edition so I'm wondering how do I run VB Express in BASIC 6.0 mode, and so that it will only save files at 6.0 At the moment I load up old files and it converts them to VB 2005, adding code I'm not familiar with, so that's not what I want. Many ...Show All

• rctaubert Collection access in event handler (newbie)

  Hi I am making huge progress on my first program in Visual Basic Express, and have come to an abrupt stop. I have dynamically created a new Panel and dynamically populated it with a series of textboxes. Then I have filled each box successfully with desired text contents. These procedures work well and I can refill the textbox text properties at will. During the dynamic creation of the textboxes, I added each to a collection with: new ...Show All

• Dejan Vesic Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Not Installing

  I downloaded the ISO images of Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition, Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, and Visual C# 2005 Express Edition. Burned each to a CD. Practiced installing each on a DEV PC. After witnessing that each installed correctly and without problems, I began to install each on my PROD PC. #1 Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition installed without a problem. #2 Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition will not start ...Show All

• JayaK Opening Doc Files

  For organizational purposes I added a DOC file into my project. I double-clicked to open it and nothing happened. I then right-clicked, chose open-with, chose microsoft word and pressed ok and got the same results. Well I reset everything but have no luck in getting Word docs to open. I will try the release version soon. Just having a quick look at your problem. I created a sample windows application in C# express, and added a work d ...Show All

• Sean X Installing VSE C++

  G'day, Two questions, if anyone can help. (I've tried searching the forum, but without much luck!) I'm trying to install the C++ version of the Visual Studio Express. However, the setup's download step stops at just at the point when its either completed or about to complete the 68Mb download (ie - it gets to 68MB or pretty close). Also, and maybe related (though I wouldnt expect it to cause problems at the point mentioned above), I've already ...Show All

• Peder Lesson 8: Working with the GridView and FormView

  I have follow this lesson 8, by creating GridView and FormView, however I cannot do any editing or deleting my record. At the sametime, I have another question. There are two tables which need to be combine to insert new records, and update records. How do I do As I have use "INNER JOIN" in my SELECT statement, but there is nothing when click on 'edit' / 'delete' / 'new'. Kindly help! Thank you.   ...Show All

• Pirgher Toolbox: (1)How to bring in all the controls? (2) How to make it as thumbtack button

  Hi all, I just started my first VB Express Windows application. (1) My toolbox is empty. I clicked on the "View" menu =>Toolbox and I got the following: Toolbox |-| General There are no usable controls in this group. Drag an item onto this text to add it to the toolbox. Where are the controls How can I drag them onto the ToolBox (2) After the ToolBox is filled with the controls, I like to know how to make the ToolBox as ...Show All

• houseofmusic How do i get Data Out of a List Box and Seperate it ?

  hi im quite new to VB i have been asked to build a program that will ping a number of ip address. I have placed The IP Addresses in a Access Database and have bound the IP Address Field to a list Box. At present i can select a IP Address and it will work but i need some way of it doing it automaticaly The problem is that i don't know how to get vb to go though the list and ping each item on the list any help on this would be great. th ...Show All