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• Yuelin Reports in VB Express

  How do I generate reports for printing in VB express I found this message when I wanted to download SQL Express with Advanced Features and SQL Express Toolkit: "These packages have been made available for general testing purposes only. Do not deploy the CTP software in production" I am using this in a small project for a client, but I cannot take any risk since thi Advanced Features and Toolkit are for testing purposes only ...Show All

• ozhonetech Beginner Code help

  I need to read from a text.txt file If "C:\standards" exists within the text file I want to replace it with "P:\standards" else If "P:\standards" exists within the text file replace with P:\standards Mike Ok here goes. If P:/standards (line of text within the file) exists within an .ini file, I want a button to change, that line (P:/standards) to (C:\standards).&nbs ...Show All

• 3D Paul Where's the Quickwatch window

  Hi,  In VS2003 I can get a quickwatch window when I select a valid exression and hit SHIFT+F9. This did not work in VS2005 Beta 2 and also does not seem to come up in the current VS2005 edition How di I get this to come up. Thanks tribal Oh well I have answered myself, you now get a detailed object tree if you hover over the object while debugging, which does away with the need to do a quickwatch. tribal ...Show All

• Paul Coene Microsoft Ascending Icons???

  Is there any way that I can import the "Sort Ascending" Icon from Microsoft Excel into my Accending Query in a toolbar. I know how to import the file, but I just can't find the file anywhere on my computer. (if there is such a file that exists) There's a zip file called VS2005ImageLibrary in the Common7 folder of your Visual Studio installation. It contains many icons and bitmaps, the sort icon is in bitma ...Show All

• V_1DLivi Dotnetfirebird

  Hi! Does anyone know if it's possible to get an report printed using the Firebird database It seems to be very good for using with embedded databases, but i can't find any good free report liberys to use with it. Does anyone know one If you have an ado.net provider for firebird, you should be able to use crystal Hi, you can use Reporting Service thorugh ODBC (or any avaliable provider). Hello! ...Show All

• TCben Determine checked checkboxes

  I show dynamically (on the fly) checkboxes in my form. How can I determine which checkboxes are checked You have two options 1. Add your checkboxes to a collection as you create them, iterate over that 2. Iterate over the controls collection for your form ( probably recursively ) looking for check boxes, and check them that way If you would like to add a control (like a checkbox) dynamically you could use the "M ...Show All

• Dr. eX Downloading Visual C++ 2005

  Setup "loading installation components" is stalled at about 3/4 done.  Nothing happening - what can I do Thanks - I got pass the "componants loading" box.  I don't know what stopped it the first few times, but is in the downloading mode now.  Thanks for your fast reply to my post. You can download the CD image (complete with MSDN help and SQL Express) at http:// ...Show All

• Mindy Riddick Starter Kit won´t start

  Hi all, I still enjoy my first steps in Visual Basic 2005 Express. Now I’ve tried to run the Starter Kit "WebLogAnalyzer" with F5 after opening it with NewProject but it won’t start. Whenever I tried it there comes the message: "There where build errors. ...". Does anybody have an idea thanks’n greets, VBFan    ReneeC wrote:   I don't believe you installed the original kit properly, or if you did ...Show All

• Matt Dely Microsoft SQL2005 Express with Advanced Tools

  I just finished downloading and installing Microsoft SQL2005 Express with Advanced tools and I attempted to install the SP1 update. It would not run. I have gone back to the download page and it appears that SQL2005 Express with Advanced Tools might already come with SP1 installed. Is this true If not, is there some "special version" of SQL2005 SP1 that I need to locate on the Website specifically for SQL2005 Express with Advance To ...Show All

• Dustin Mihalko how to prevent multiple instances of my program?

  how to prevent multiple instances of my program please can someone give me a small example if is posible in C not C++ thanks! Thank YOU Try this... ( to be placed at the beginning of the _tWinMain() function if using C++ Express ) CreateMutex(NULL, TRUE, (LPCWSTR) "TESTAPP_MUTEX_NAME" ); if ( GetLastError() == ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS )    return FALSE; ...Show All

• Mark Pemberton caps lock command

  Is there a way to toggle the caps lock from within a program made in visual basic Aha, it's the forum, it adds newlines to the code you copy. In some places I have used the line continuation character _ at the end of a line. When you see one, delete any blank lines between it and the next statement, so it should look like this: Private Sub DoKeyBoard( ByVal flags As NativeMethods.KEYEVENTF, _ ByVal key As ...Show All

• James Wu BUG : RightToLeftLayout and BackgroundImage

  hi, i f you set TRUE for RightToLeftLayout of a MDI form and set background for it, it never show backgrond!!! and i think that it is very important bug in vc2005 and specialy vc# Exp edition. what we can do for this problem I have tried to reproduce but I can not. In the designer I do not see the image but when running it is there. If you start from an empty project, can you reproduce this by doing certain ...Show All

• daniel testa Windows Forms Opacity where is that ?

  im using vb.net 05 express, im trying to make a transparent form, where is the The Opacity property i been looking everywhere thanks I'll try as you suggested, windows visita, behaves pretty much as windows xp with little more functions, and better human interface layout, i suggest you search on windows vista screen dumps, it looks pretty nice, the effects I'm trying to make are basically same as on the vi ...Show All

• Sanjukta Cannot install Visual studio 2005

  Hi all, I don't understand why I cannot install Visual Studio 2005 while my friend could using the same copy of exe file. I keep on getting " Error. Writing to file: Microsoft.VSDesigner.dll. Verify that you have access to that directory. " I am not sure what could be the reason. Could it be low memory Please help. Thanks in advance. You will need to make sure that you are an administrator (Local or Domain) or a p ...Show All

• Scott Mauvais Message Box

  Hi Im trying to generate a message box, which I can do, but I want it to print out the information in one of the text box cells. If Finish_DateDateTimePicker.Value.Date = MonthCalendar1.SelectionStart Then MessageBox.Show( "This Task Is Due" & Me .Task_NameTextBox.Text) End If As you can see from the code I have compared two values and when the values are the same it will give me a message sa ...Show All