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• Michal Donat Visual Basic Express Edition expired..

  Just opened a new project for today (12:45AM) and Visual Basic Express Edition Beta 2 has given me a prompt that its' expired.. I thought it never did - can someone help me out here please. Thank you. The key word here is 'beta'. All betas expire. The full version of VBEE does not exire, you should download it, uninstall the beta and install the final release. Fair enough. I didn't know they'd st ...Show All

• Bertus Botha Inserting Snippet (where did code go?)

  I am reading through "Build a Program Now" (Microsoft VB 2005 Express Edition by Patrice Pelland). Following the instructions for the first Snippet insertion (Ch. 5), I a supposed to see a section of 25 lines of code for the SaveFileDialog1_FileOK Method, but nothing else than (" C:\Test.txt" , "Text" , True ) is actually added. I looked on the C-drive, but cannot find a file with name test.txt on C:. ...Show All

• Yevgeniy K Displaying forms to another user account (NEWBIE HELP)

  how would i show a form in a different user account lets say i have formmessage.vb and i want it to show itself [formmessage.show()] how do i make sure that it shows itself in a user account different than mine lets say im Owner and the windows xp user account i want to send it to is Guest how do i show the form in Guest if they are logged on its occuring on one computer only its a simple messa ...Show All

• sai120042 Trying to Create a simple KeyDown or KeyPress Sub......

  Hello all. learning about visual basic in college right now..... I have been trying to figure out how to create a textbox that shows the values of Shift, Alt and Ctrl when pressed. If Shift is only pressed, then the value in the textbox would be one, if Shift and Ctrl are pressed a 3 would come up, and if all three are pressed at once then a 7 would be shown. I also need to do the same with a different textbox with the left, right and middle mou ...Show All

• Dwoods7219 invalidcastexception derived treenode

  hi all! in my program i have a treeview formed by some classes derived from the treenode parent class...the scope of my program is to write an xml file by the structure of the treeview... i can save my project( and so write the xml file) and when i save a new project i can do a good cast...for example: org = (Organization) node; ->org is an instance of Organization(derived from treenode) node is an instance of TreeNode i can also ...Show All

• IECUSTOMIZER Shortcut Keys

  How can a make a shortcut key combination ( ie ctrl+shift+q) open a form Could you clarify what you just said Here's an example of a Keypress event handler     Private Sub Combinedlv1AndTvc_KeyPress( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) _                 Handles ...Show All

• inbarik System.InvalidOperationException in System.Windows.Forms.dll

  Hello, I use to do programming long time ago, in the DOS era, survived TRS80, Tiny Basic, GWbasic and Quickbasic. Recently I managed to pickup programming Basic style again with Visual Basic Express. After installing it and playing a bit around, I tried to find an initial setup for a Local area network packet sniffer. Google came up with a package called PackMon.NET and Sniffer.NET from v2softwares http://www.1vbstreet.com/vb/scripts/ ...Show All

• GKNewYork How to open DB within code, not from the project environment

  I'm using Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition and have created a project and statically linked it to existing data in an Access 2000 database. VB 2005 Express opens the database (visible in Data Sources pane) when I start the project explorer. I haven't copied the db into the project, it is still external. That's fine while developing, but once the app moves into production, it needs to find the database location from a registry key and then ...Show All

• GaryHend Resources for Beginners

  Good day fellow developers, Being a 4GL database developer for over twenty years, I've now decided to break into the Web development world and have a simple question maybe you can help with. I'm running Visual Web Devloper and SQL Express setup, and am very familier with SQL 7.0. I would like to know what resources would be the best starting point to begin to understand HTML, XML, ASP, and .NET logic. Having read the associated manual "Buil ...Show All

• DKode Checked vs CheckState

  Just curious if the following statements do the same thing and what is the difference between the properties .Checked and .CheckState for a CheckBox Me .ActiveCheckBox.Checked = CheckState.Checked Me .ActiveCheckBox.CheckState = CheckState.Checked Thanks GS If you have Option Strict On, your first line won't compile: the Checked property is Boolean, so it may only be Tr ...Show All

• AndySc System.IO.StreamReader

  I have created a print handler class to print a file, which works well.  I have now tried to print a file with some funny characters (>128).  I have tried passing some encoding enumerators to the constructor, but it is not making any difference.  Any character > 128 is being skipped by the readline() method. Is there another way to achieve the same thing   I happy to write my own readline method and read bytes u ...Show All

• brettman New to MsC#2005 and Ms Server 2005, need help!!

  Hi all, I moved from .php, mysql, and Apache to Ms C# 2005 and Ms Server 2005. I want to connect my program C# to a Ms database, just like .php connect to mysql. How do I go about that, what do I need. I had installed "Ms visual C# 2005 express edition" and also "Microsoft SQL Server 2005" on my computer. What else do I need thanks Jason hi, there is a nice tutorial but will take some times from you, ...Show All

• ARMegos DDS out of memory

  Hello, I've kinda learned how to program a bit using Patrice Pellands book and I tried to make a program.this was my problem. I had an out of memory exception. Here was the code:   Public Class Form1   Private Sub open_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles open.Click OpenFileDialog1.Filter = "DDS Texture (*.dds)|*.dds" If OpenFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogRes ...Show All

• MichaelPolak Internet Explorer in C#

  Hello, First of all, I am very thankful for these forums and I am glad you guys are here to help! Anyway, I have Visual Studio 2005 Express C# Edition and I am working on a program and let me explain what I need to do. Okay, so I am working on this program. I was talking to the head manager on this and he said here is what we need. We need to have one text box and one button to load a website. Inside the text box the user will type the URL in ...Show All

• MatanK Free Books with registration of Visual Web Developer

  I registered my copy of vwd 2005.  This was about 2 months ago! I havent even received the promised mail from ms containing the links to access these books! Please get your act together Donal--We send out registration mails for Beta 2 Visual Web Developer each week to new registrants. Occasionally, our mail from response.microsoft.com is blocked by an ISP or by the spam blocker in Outlook (or another e-ma ...Show All