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• Felix Jiang Installing VB 2005 Express Edition with Visual Studio.Net

  Hello, I currently have visual studio.net 2003 installed. I would like to install visual basic 2005 express edition on the same laptop and I'm wondering if this will cause a problem I need the express edition to get a jump start on a class that I need to create. Does the latest beta version expire Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. We do actually test VB 2005 side by side with VS 2003.  ...Show All

• MattC CLR Documentation Team Cannot create a new project that opens startup form

  Have been using vb 2005 express final now for a week or too.  Have had no problems using and modifying example code and connecting to a MySQL database.  However i am now trying to create a new project and no matter what form is selected under startup form nothing displays when code f5 is pressed.  Message that build is ok in status bar screen refreshes and back to IDE.  However existing projects work ok.  Even creating a ...Show All

• Maddinel Can't install any Visual Studio Express program

  I've tried downloading the programs from the website (VWD, VC# etc.) but the installer always stops at this point: http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/2791/error6ma.png Anyone have a reason why Thanks. The web installer is a small 2mg file that then launches an application that connects to the full version on MS Se ...Show All

• shuttler caps lock command

  Is there a way to toggle the caps lock from within a program made in visual basic I'm all for improvisation... I put in a GetKeyboardState sample on pinvoke.net. To use it, you would create a new project, and add a button to form1. Copy the sample from the webpage (including the Imports statement). Delete all the code in Form1.vb and paste in the sample. Then it will run... Same should go for the SendInput samp ...Show All

• LTN GIFs as a pseudo-font

  I have a specialized group of GIF images (Similar to some of those used on the 'print a banner' pages on the web). I am cooking up a project to do some printing with these guys. Soooo... Before I have to re-invent every wheel again, I thought I would ask here for some suggestions. I have already tested graphics positioning of images in the printpage event and have some confidence I can handle that, but pointers to examples or code samples ...Show All

• Gary Strader accessing OPC server

  how i can change data to an actual opc server that was created using RSlinx opc server Google "OPC client toolkit" or start here . ...Show All

• Leslie2222 database saga

  I am at my wits end. I am trying to create a program that will add users to a database. I have read the various posts regarding the output file and have changed the Copy To Output File to Copy Never. I have also tried Copy If Newer. The database still does not retain my changes/additions. The code I have used is shown below. Code Here... Private Sub AddUser_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles AddUser ...Show All

• djflanger Copy schema from data table to data source

  DataAdaptor.FillSchema is handy for creating a data table and configuring it to match the schema of an existing table in a data source. But I need to do just the opposite. I have a table that I create progamatically. I create a new SQL database using t-SQL CREATE DATABASE. I want to add a new table to the database with schema matching that of my existing table. I can do it rather laboriously with t-SQL, but some sort of "DataAdaptor.S ...Show All

• David Weller Distribution of your program

  How can i distrubute my programs so that my friends can run them First of all you need to sign the Go-Live license for VS 2005: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/golive/ Then your friends need to download the .NET 2.0 Beta 2. ...Show All

• Simon Tamman mspdb80.dll was not found !

  When I tried to run cl.exe from the command line, the error message I get is "Application unable to start, mspdb80.dll was not found". Can somebody help me with this Thanks, Deepak I've found that simply adding C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin to the system path environment variable seemed to work, I also noticed that a user environment variable called Path was defined that I deleted ( ...Show All

• Alex G. How do you execute code in Visual C++ express???

  How do you execute your source code in Visual C++ express I am a new user of this product. Thanks! Yes, thank-you very much. That was exactly what I was trying to do. Yeah, that's what I had been doing. I was just wondering if there was an easier way. Oh well. Thank-you very much. For debugging, f10 is used to step over and f11 are used to step into. But if you want to view what the output of the window is, I f ...Show All

• cnewbie Create a shortcut to a program in VB.Net 2005 Express

  I am building an application that is going to run on a USB Flash drive. The application functions are: Starts programs with a press of a button on the usb I used application.startuppath + "\program files\winrar\winrar.exe" This makes it universal (non dependent on drive letter. I want to be able to automatically create shortcuts to programs on my usb to the desktop, then on program exit erase them. I also wondering, how do i ...Show All

• mobildev ???????Stuck???????

  I went to this site: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/system.windows.forms.webbrowser.aspx It had a code to make a web browser this, but I don't get which bits go where erc. Please Help hi, right click on any empty area in your form and select code view, it will open to you the code view scroll down you will find end class put the code b4 this line 'your code end class hope this helps hi, ...Show All

• Cellardoor76 VWD Couldn't be extracted

  Hi, I receive an error during extraction of the vwd.img file, it asks me to retry, ignore or quit. I try retry but same prompt re-appears, when I click ignore, files are extracted but installation encounters problems. Please let me know how to fix the issue. Thanks Zubair Hi, I have burnt the *.img file to a CD using MagicISO, the burn was successfull however, when I try to install the Visual Web Developer, the ...Show All

• smith_a Newbie trying to understand the use of a Timer in Visual Studio VB

  Hi I have copied the example code from the help files. ms-help://MS.VSExpressCC.v80/MS.NETFramework.v20.en/cpref17/html/T_System_Windows_Forms_Timer.htm but cannot figure out how to use it. I tried a whole bunch of things involving stuff like: Dim fred As New Timer fred.Enabled = True fred.Start() expecting the included 5000 ms timer to start and count down to zero then show the message as per the example code - b ...Show All