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• exBK When will Visual Studio 2005 ship?

  I place an order on November 7 with Amazon for VB2005Pro and still they have not ship it yet because they have no receive stock from Microsoft.   Does anyone know when Microsoft will start shipping the new version I have received an email from my supplier (VS2005 standard) and he said that there is now stock in Australia and should ship tomorrow or the day after I ...Show All

• Prakash19 Deployment?

  I've read articles in the online help files about deployment of programs, and I'm still confused. Is there a runtime library that has to be deployed with an app that I make I know that earlier editions of VB required a user to have a library installed. Is that the case with VC++ 2005 Express Please clear this up for me. Thanks If you just search on msdn.microsoft.com on Compiler options, you will find how t ...Show All

• Shaun Michael Advice Needed Regarding C# and C integration

  I have a project where I am given C code and I have to implement a GUI for that code. The C code was generated on with a Linux box and gcc. My first thought was to implement the GUI in C# and pass the input parameters to the C file. I researched how to do this but I wasn't coming up with many results. I read about converting C++ files into DLL files. I also read this thread regarding converting C files into C++ DLL files with C++ Express ...Show All

• sammy Updating a Typed Table

  I have a form which has a combobox and a collection of textboxes. The combobox is bound to one table and the textboxes are bound to another. However the value displayed by the combobox is also a field in the table to which the text boxes are bound. I have not been able to find a satisfactory way of updating this latter table after setting the required values on the form. The only way I have been able to do it is to put a dummy textbox onto th ...Show All

• LarkinAtTheBar VB 2005 Forms Control

  Can some one help me how to make a textbox accept only numeric values. The code "textbox1.numeric=true" gives an error thanks hello, thanks for the reply. I tried MTBox, not that effective. Well, I got some other code to ckeck the value programmatically. amou Two such threads on this http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=218113&S ...Show All

• nraf System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE.8.0") in VCSExpress!!!!

  EnvDTE80.DTE2 dte; dte = (EnvDTE80.DTE2)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE.8.0"); Solution2 sln = dte.Solution; foreach (Project proj in sln.Projects) { foreach (ProjectItem item in proj.ProjectItems) { MessageBox.Show(item.Name); } } In these code these is always an error that tell me that "dte = (EnvDTE80.DTE2)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetA ...Show All

• gifa Need help with for and pictureboxes

  I'm making a map editor to make maps Every tile is a picurebox. In the menu there is a command "New" wich will load all the default pics into the picturebozes, so you can make a new map i created this for statement dim i as integer For i = 0 To 391 PictureBox(i).image = My.Resources.Image_default Next i But this doesn't work. There is something wrong with the PictureBox(i).image Please help me. I'm using vb2005 Thanks in advance, Radexxio ...Show All

• Charliem Error Problem when making a Executable file (Publish)

  This error is reoccuring when I try to make the system an executable.  Please Help Urgent   Error 1 Problem generating manifest. The process cannot access the file 'C:\Final Time Management System\Time ManagementSystem 14\Copy of Time_Management_System13\Time_Management_System12\Time_Management_log.ldf' because it is being used by another process. Time_Management_System12 Hi, this cannot find file, becau ...Show All

• Wally_West Display a variable in a TextBox - Simple task if I new how

  In the absence of reference materials which are still somewhere over the Pacific, I'm trying to teach myself how to implement the simplest tasks without much luck. I have created a form and on that form have placed a TextBox. Now I go to the underlying code for this control and want to display a type LONG variable in the TextBox. Two issues here: the TextBox will not display a Long variable; this I have apparently overcome using ToString. ...Show All

• chuckdfoster How do I get my free e-books?

  I downloaded, installed and registered the beta editions before Nov. 7th. I have yet to get an e-mail though telling me how to access my free e-books. I have a benefits page where I can download icons and pictures but nothing about e-books. Anyone know what's going on Thanks. Thanks for the reply Chris. When I log into the Connect page I see no options for e-books. What am I missing here Thank you. ...Show All

• Sergey Romanov Header Problems

  Hi, I was experimenting with DirectX and the PSDK, when suddenly when I attempted to compile the solution I recieved an error about the compiler complaining about the syntax of one of the PSDK files!! Is this a bug in my code or is there really an error in the PSDK libraries, which i find unlikely. Any ideas Thanks, Mike lord_8 wrote: Problem Solved!! Thanks ...Show All

• T Evans MdiParent hides part of mdiChild when scroll

  I've MdiParent with Children. The child has Autoscroll = true. But, If the scroll appears, the mdiparent hides a part of the child. If I hit (I make the window larger or smaller) the sizable border, the mdichild is correct. Screenshot 1 (wrong, see the scrollbar): http://img96.imageshack.us/my.php image=scr13hu.jpg Screenshot 2 (correct, by hitting the sizable border) http://img76.imageshack.us/my.php image=scr25he.jpg My questi ...Show All

• blaydes99 How to get and/or set IP address?

  Hey, I'm using VB Express 2005 and I'm trying to write a small program to configure remote network devices. In order to do the initial configuration, I need to get the IP address of the local hard-wired ethernet adapter, or set it. One way of doing this, I figured I could set the local hard-wired adapter to DHCP and connect it to the device. Windows would assign an automatic IP address, which I could simply obtain. I would much rather be able ...Show All

• Sean Patzer How do I press enter to activate a button click?

  I have a login form and what I want to be able to do is press the enter key to click my "okbutton" without having the button selected like it is in nearly every login screen you've ever seen. The AcceptButton property is correct...or you can code it.... Public Class Form1 Private Sub Form1_Load ( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System . EventArgs ) Handles Me . ...Show All

• TheMegalomaniac How to play a sound in VB 2005 Express Edition

  I am a very begginner in this software and I am having problems to play sounds with Visual Basic. I have copied the code suggested by the Help (my wav file is called 1) but even though there seems to be no errors, there is no sound. Sub PlayBackgroundSoundFile() My.Computer.Audio.Play("C:\Windows\1.wav", _ Audio.PlayMode.Background) End Sub Thank-you very much. Seems you posted question twic ...Show All