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• .net.phil Is VB Studio the right application to:

  Open Outlook copy an email and paste it into Acrobat Professional and save it as a *.pdf file Blair, thank you so much your response was extremely helpful and informative.. much appreciation ................. you can certainly do that with Visual Studio. You can also do it in an Outlook VBA Project (or any office application project) In outlook, select Tools ...Show All

• Clifford Dibble sample project "addresses" database

  I just downloaded VB Express.   I am a beginner.  In the VBGuided Tour - managing your records, I tried the sample program "addresses" and the 3 addresses came up fine but I couldn't add any addresses to it.  I first hit the add button and blank text boxes came up, then I filled them in and hit the save button but nothing was saved.(that is when I closed the program and then ran it again just the original 3 addresses wer ...Show All

• Karokpa Connecting to a remote registry in VB 2005 Express

  Hello everyone, I don't know if it is possible in the Express edition to do any sort of remote work. I seem to have seen something somewhere that sounded like it was not possible. Anyway, here is what I would like to do: Connect to the registry on a remote PC and read a key. My program works on my local machine. But, I am not sure how to change the code to run it against a remote machine. Presently I am using the: "My.Computer.Regi ...Show All

• PeepingTom1000 Windows Explorer type shell

  Hi, I am trying to develop a windows explorer type shell, using a treeview and a listview control, on a Windows Forms Application type project of Visual C++ Express. In Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2, there is a sample in the directory below: \\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Samples\WinUI\Shell\EnumDesk This sample is a makefile type project and using Windows Shell API functions adding related he ...Show All

• David_H Help! Want to create basic user input form tied to database in VWD

  Hello everybody. I have used VWD (Visual Web Developper) for the past few weeks and love it so far. As a inexperienced ASP.NET developper, I have run into difficulties when trying to design user web form input to populate a database. Indeed, the medical unit I'm working at whishes to create a webpage with simple user forms ( checkboxes, textboxes) - to keep track of patients medical records - that will then fill a database (SQL preferr ...Show All

• FDSD Editing a Fixed Length Text File.....

  I searched the forumns and nothing seems to pertain to what I am trying to do. I have done the following easily in VB 6.0 enterprise edition, but am having headaches over trying to convert my code to VB express (BTW the converter Wizard blows up big time trying to convert my code). Anyway.... 1. I have a text file that is fixed length and has records of data that a seperate program accesses (so I can not change the layout or structure and it ...Show All

• Vetric ASP (not ASP.NET)

  OK, here is the deal, short and sweet. I have a godaddy account which supports asp, mysql, access, and frontpage extensions.  I want to create a very simple asp site which includes the following: A Home Page Site Navagation (those links at the top that show you how deep in the page you are) User Registration A Guest Book A Discussion Forum (although it's gonna be hard to be the one are proboards) A resume, which can ...Show All

• Code Cowboy Error message on connect to SQLEXPRESS

  A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 2 - Connection was terminated) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 1236) I don't know what version of SQLEXPRESS I have. I can't uninstall this version. I no longer have any item in the AddRemove panel that has "SQL" in it except my SQL Server 2000 and MSDE. I desperately want to install the April C ...Show All

• vasu4us Transperent Menu

  i want to use toopstrip menu and menustrip in my window form. i am trying to set them transperent. i a m unable to do that. i want to know how to make menu transperent. It is not supported natively. There is an article on the code project website about transparent menu's that might help. http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/transmenuandtitlebuttons.asp ...Show All

• Jeyaraj N Tab pages- enabling and disabling (or mimicing as seen in C# thread)

  I had a search for this and found something about mimicing the enabling and disabling of tabpages but unfortunately couldn't convert it from C# (im a beginner and only with vb). I have a shared variable called op as a string. It has three states, "Add", "Edit" and "Delete". When i open the form (with three different buttons) it changes the variable as required. I have three tabpages add, edit and delete and i wan ...Show All

• marcus42 Print preview maxed out

  I am an old timer who used to program in DOS basic, DOS assembly, and Dbase III. I have not done any programming in about 12 years, but am now trying to learn VB using the free express version. Anyway, my question(s): I have clipped in and modified slightly some code I found on how to print stuff. The print preview and everything else involved with printing works fine as long as the source text (a textbox) is less than 13 pages or so. Afte ...Show All

• sxsoptic Problems with Downloading Registration Benefits

  There have been several reports of problems with accessing and downloading registration benefits.  We have investigated the issue and have news to report.  This sticky thread will be updated with additional information as it becomes available over the next few days. Background In order to negotiate deals with partners and authors to provide the highest value benefits, we must must be able to guarantee a secure download center that li ...Show All

• luoqi Amazon-Enabled Movie Collection

  Hello So far I am unable to find the web Update edition on the movie collection kit. Anyone has the link Thank you I am trying to download the the Updated Web Plus Edition of the My Movie Collection starter kit but I cannot find it on the Microsoft website. Would you happen to the url for that download Thanks, Fred Bernstein Hi SMAL, Glad to hear that you are trying out the Amazon-E ...Show All

• webber123456 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

• Dean Wagner VB app memory usage

  I noticed that my VBE apps were consuming a lot of memory so I wrote a test app that consists of nothing more than a form with a single button. When I run the compiled .exe file, Windows Task Manager reports the the process is using over 8 meg of memory. If I minimize the app, memory usage drops to 372K. If I un-minimize the app, memory usage then jumps to approximately 2 meg & stays there with each successive minimize/un-minimize. Can someb ...Show All