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• StoneWasHere Using forms in VB Express

  How do I move from one form to another. Can I use buttons. I would like to click on a button and go to another form. Scott Hi, I think your question is accidently a little misleading because of nomenclature.. Shak is right a form is an object and a class. Classes occur in hierachies and a form is high up on the hierarchy, so it's hard to add a form to another control set and people are giving you ...Show All

• Trixtan PinChange enumeration

  How can I PinChange enumeration for Ring indicator Please, send me an example for case when ring pin of com1 is active , I read received bytes. Unfortunately I’m not too skilled in the low level details of RS232... however if I understand you right you want to read data after the Ring line has toggled... in that case, try using this as an Event Handler: private void serialPort1_PinChanged(object sender, System.IO.Ports.SerialP ...Show All

• ausmock Distributing a multi-user application

  Hi there, This post stems from a problem that many of us are having: the fact that we don’t see our database being updated. I understand now why this is the case as there have been many posts on the subject. We are expecting to see the database updated (in the Database explorer or in the Solution explorer) when in actual fact a local copy of the database (in the bin folder) is being updated (unitl you rebuild your app in which case it gets ...Show All

• JeffGill Redistributing C# ISO

  Am I allowed to redistribute the Visual Studio C# express .ISO image by putting it on a Portal in my company (Intranet) Thanks, Marcus Thanks for your reply. Can somebody from Microsoft confirm this Regards, Marcus Visual Studio 2005 Express Editons are free-to-download and free-to- register , for the distributing I'm not so sure... Maybe redistributing is free for ISVs only ...Show All

• Omar AlAmoudi PInvoke restriction: cannot return variants

  I am trying to use the dhcpsapi.dll to search for a dhcp client using GetClientInfo. This returns the error "PInvoke restriction: cannot return variants". Any ideas what causes this The code: <StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)> _ Public Structure DHCP_SEARCH_INFO Dim SearchType As String Dim SearchInfo End Structure Private Declare Function DhcpGetClientInfo Lib "Dhcpsapi.dll" ( ByVal ServerIpAddress As ...Show All

• Eric Promislow Backgroundworker and my.computer.network.ping

  Hello, I am developing a small application that checks a list of ip's to see if they are reachable or not. When they aren't available the icon turns red, otherwise it just stays white. I've decided to use a backgroundworker to check if the pc's are available when there are more then 0 computers in the list. However when the program reaches the my.computer.network.ip("insert adres") event my program freezes until it gets a timeout or a reply. I t ...Show All

• metaza XML Documentation

  I have just finished a project in beta 2005 of VS.  I have generated the XML Documentation file, which is obviously not very readable.  I have tried using NDoc to compile it, but this does not cope well with generics or inface .NET v2.x. Are there any programs that will compile this into a nice format Cheers, Chris Nope, as far as i can see, its not there.  So bacially there i ...Show All

• pecket invalid search path

  I am using Bob Tabors beginning C# video series and get the following error when I run the application. Warning 1 Invalid search path 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\mfc\lib' specified in 'LIB environment variable' -- 'The system cannot find the path specified. ' Lesson09 I don't have such a path on my hard drive. Where do I change the path and what do I change it to Thanks, Roger I ...Show All

• jcdevnet Directory Verification

  Hi All, I have developed a piece of software that creates directories for our firm. This creates a standard set of them so as not to have to create all of them every time. (This is a big time saver). What i would please like to know is, how do i verify a directory so that i do not create to very similiar. e.g. Our directories will always begin with "M:\PROJECTS\K199 Project name" but what can hapen is: "M:\PROJECTS\K19 ...Show All

• Jeffrey Morales insert filename into SQL Table

  Hi I'm just not getting this but how can you insert the filename into a table. I managed to upload a file from website to my hard drive but now what to save the filename to a field in the database. Can someone please help Here's the code for aspx file and following the code for aspx.vb file: <% @ Page Language ="VB" MasterPageFile ="~/MasterPage.master" AutoEventWireup ="false" CodeFil ...Show All

• r4nd0m convert .net project to native

  OK, I am new to the VS. I created a Windows Form Designer application the other day, but apparently had it set up for the .NET framework. I want this to be native, so I don't have to distribute anything along with my *.exe Is there a way I can convert it Or if I create a new project set as native can I add in  the cpp and h files already created or will I have to roll through the whole creation process all over again Obviously there is ...Show All

• SamirPatel where are the databases?

  All I get is sql surface area configuration. Who thinks of this stuff Where are the databases If you are looking for the site to download and setup a copy of Northwind database. This URL might be the one you are looking for: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vcsample/html/vcsamsampledatabaseinstallationutility.asp HTH Download Northwind and pubs Sample Databases for SQL Server 2000 http:/ ...Show All

• JoeDeVirs SOS:VC2005 B2 Express VC++ Directories Problem

  I downloaded and installed VC2005 B2 Express, I can't set "VC++ Directories". screenshot: http://member.netease.com/~lilong/temp/VS2005ExOpt.jpg is this bug this is a BIG PROBLEM!! I think I have found this issue in the known issues doc for VC++ Express. Issue :   Cannot set VC++ Directories in the Options dialog of Visual C++ Express Edition Details :   The ...Show All

• Amin_msw Can't start setup process for Visual Studio 2005 Express(Beta 2)

  How I did(my OS is WinXP Prof with SP2): 1. Download full copy of Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Beta 2(492,204 KB) 2. Mount it as CD-image. All fine, I can read/launch files from packaging. 3. Launch setup.exe in root. 4. Little window appear in the center of display and show how files are copying in Temp-folder. 5. Next this window closed. And that's all. No error/warning messages, no info message boxes... Nothing. So all setup.exe done is c ...Show All

• MattP88 High Speed Timers

  Hi I'm developping an Data Aquisition Program, to read a bunch of digital sensors. My problem: the main module, needs to read 32 sensors (I can read a byte at once, so It can be done in 4 steps) in a timebase of about 0,3 to 0,7 ms (miliseconds). Can it be done in VB.Net Express I already saw a post to a 10 ms timer, still ... it takes too long to read all the entries from the Digital Aquisition Board. Note: the Board is an Advantech ...Show All