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• Mark Jordan How to print formatted text in VB Express.

  I have been reading everything I can find in the forums on printing. There is lots of good info for printing plain text and printing a single line of formatted text . What I want to know is whether or not it is possible to print several pages of formatted text with varied formatting within a single line and have the page breaks be at the end of a word not in the middle of a word If it is possible then I sure would like to see some sample ...Show All

• BCuthie The type or namespace name 'SqlConnection' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference

  Hi, I have this code on my form but I received the aboved-mentioned subject error. string SqlConnStr = "server=localhost;database=HRM;uid=sa;pwd=sa" ; SqlConnection SqlConn = new SqlConnection(SqlConnStr); What's wrong Is it because I've miss to declare SqlConnection Classes Thanks. Have you added a reference to System.Data.dll and have this line of code at the top using System.Data.SqlClient; ...Show All

• Tom Kirby-Green Win32 and VC++ 2005 Express

  I am trying to do Win32 stuff from a book I have, but I keep getting a number of different errors. Right now I am getting this error: ------ Build started: Project: Example 2, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Linking... main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__MessageBoxA@16 referenced in function _WinMain@16 C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\Programming\Windows Game Programming Book\Chapter 2\Example ...Show All

• Soren D. VC# Express 2005 - Remove Recent Projects

  I am seeing projects listed in thr Recent Projetcs list mulitple times. How can we clean up the start page recent project list There is no delete in the express version. The easiest and most efficient way is to delete all the entries under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList\ Deleting those entries is probably the simplest form for registery "hacking" you can do, and as lo ...Show All

• ssimmer an array of Objects?

  Hi, I'm trying to get back into programming and I'm using Visual Studio 2005 and I need some help. I've create a DataTable and want to use the LoadDataRow method to add to the DataTable. I want to use this method because it will check for a duplicate entry. However, the LoadDataRow function requires an array of Object files and I can't seem to create one. Object^ objectArray = gcnew Object[3]; But the compiler doesn't like it a ...Show All

• Robbie Mark RSS Screensaver Starter Kit

  This thread is the place to ask questions and provide feedback for the RSS Screensaver Starter Kit.  How does the RSS Screensaver Starter Kit generate the *.scr file   I cannot find any settings or custom steps for this file.   BigJoe wrote: How does the RSS Screensaver Starter Kit generate the *.scr file   I cannot find any settings or custom steps ...Show All

• Magic21 Slide

  I am lefthanded and want to have toolbox, properties, eg, to be shown on the right side of my screen, I did try to drag it there, but I cannot get it to slide on the right side, at this stage, ever thing is on the left side of the screen Thank you, I did not know that the icons that are showing when you drag has something to do with the drag, now I have learnt something new ...Show All

• Martin2007 VC++ Express Win32 Application without Platform SDK

  Good afternoon... When I select New Project in VC++ Express I given a template choice of Win32 Console Application. My question is, what is a Win32 Console application without the Platform SDK installed   Is this just a Standard C/C++ library application   If not, what is it Thanks Hi Robert, Thank you for the advice. I am still interested in the following technical point; Point : As far as I know, ATL and MFC are typical M ...Show All

• depl0y Is there only one possibility the read out variables etc. from an HTML or PHP website?

  Hi, Im working on Visual Basic Application. I implicity want to read out some variables or text from an website. Here my idea: Im owning an website writen in PHP an HTML. Now I got an "Who is Online" System. The Application should (with assistance of an timer) periodly visit the website and read out the variaable contains the number or online users. Now the Application should notify me in an an baloon tip: "12 users yre visiting y ...Show All

• Tom Hollander Beta 2 totally unusable?

  Is this just my installation that has gone to pot I keep getting really freaky things. Opening an old project, my menus have disappeared. They are still in the code, but don't show in the design view of the form. Tried a sample project to double check my code against the automatically generated code. - created a new form - added a menu with a few menu items VS adds multiple definitions for each item. Manually deleting the additional items cras ...Show All

• Devra Unable to insert or update into SQL2005Express from C# 2005

  I have been going at this for several hours now and have run out of options.  My end result is I want to add to a table... shouldn't be too hard.  Here is some of my code (it's on a laptop right now not connected to the internet so I had to type it). class DataManager {     private static SqlConnection myConnection;     private static SqlDataAdapter workcenterAdapter;     private st ...Show All

• ManjuPrabhu splash screen

  I recently found some code to use to mske a splash screen in vb however it does not: The information read like this: The code below in a timer object (interval 1000) on the Splash form shows that after the counter reaches 5 the Splash Screen will close (Unload.Me) and open the main application form. Private Sub tmrWait_Timer() Counter = Counter + 1 If Counter = 5 Then Unload Me frmApplication.Show End If End Sub I have un ...Show All

• Frank D AppendTex problem about RichTextBox

  The RichTextBox control need to save some data received from a serial port. At the same time, also need to process the KeyPress event. The problem is RichTextBox.AppendText method will lost some data from the serial port when processing the key press event at the same time. My code is follow: private: System::Void sfRichTextBox_KeyPress(System::Object^ sender, System::Windows::Forms::KeyPressEventArgs^ e) { if(m_bInputChar){ if(sfPort-> ...Show All

• Francois JEAN Data Binding

  Hello, I am trying to bind a simple textbox within my code to the datasource as follows; Extension is passed in from a textbox the datagridview works fine Private Sub loaddata3( ByVal extension As String ) conn.ConnectionString = My .Settings.Database1ConnectionString sql = "Select * from data where lastname = '" & extension & "'" da = New SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter(sql, conn) da.Fill( ...Show All

• Eli Ofek no answer so i will ask once more! please help!!!! ( Populating Rich textbox from File )

   thanks for any help just want (in Windows ) the person who opens a text file -that it will open with my note pad type program not windows notepad,     no answer so i will ask once more! can some one please tell me how to click a text file and get it to open with my vb notepad program i use file open with my program bt when my program opens the rich text box is empty   Dim MyFileStream As New FileStre ...Show All