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• YodaC Serial communications outputting and receiving one byte of data.....

  Okay, I am on deadline here.... 3 days... and for the last 2 weeks I have been trying to find the answer. Apparently there is no easy way to use a serial ports in VB2005 express... Most of the code I have found is for the .net version. It really doesn't port well. I have gone through and for the most part changed what needed to be changed. No Luck.... With the code written below that was copied and I duplicated the form to match the text, co ...Show All

• maguidhir ToolStrip Placement Not Maintained in ToolStripContainer

  Hi, I'm developing a data-bound application in Visual C# 2005 Express Edition. I have a ToolStripContainer with about 7 different ToolStrip items embedded within it.  (A data binding navigator plus 6 custom filters for retrieving the data). I know that the idea is that the user can reposition each of the ToolStrip items anywhere he/she wants at runtime and that the chosen positions will be remembered across invocations. My iss ...Show All

• StephenW rss_screensaver , how do I get data out ?

  I just what to get usefull data from the rss screen saver. ( in biult one ) I have made my own project and added all the rss classes + item.vb, added just the bit to read a rss file and convert it . I have now my data in RSS .. how do I get to RSS item data ...mewbie version please !!! I want it in a sample string array Done it in the end , didn`t think to try a dot after a array Me.Label4.Text = rss.MainChannel.Items(inx) ...Show All

• Deepak Sivaraman Web application...?

  Is it possible to create a web application using visual basic express edition I'm trying to create a web form using vb-express edition, please let me know if i need to install any additional components and also the URL for installation. Thanks, Balaji I seem to be missing some "New File" pre-sets/funtionality in in Web Developer. Please see link: My New File Dialogue I had Visual Studio 2005 Standard installed prior ...Show All

• Jose Luu Registration Benefit Portal

  After downloading and registering Visual Studio Express I received my email thanking me for registering but when I try to go to the Benefit Portal I receive an error message telling me the site is unavailable or I don't have access Message reads Error: The page you have requested is unavailable or you do not have access. I am receiving exactly the same message. We have found that it can take about 24 ...Show All

• GEEEO Uninstall problem

  Maybe not the right place to post this but I cant see where else I should. I have Visual Studio Express C++ and Visual Studio Exress C# install willed. But neither will uninstall. They both get as far as "Setup is loading installation components. This may take a minute or two". It gets a few bars in and then stops. I've left it 15 minutes but it just hangs. I need to deinstall both because I have bought Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition. ...Show All

• idkIDE DirectX in Visual Basic

  I have been developing 3d games using vb6 for a while, though i have not even managed to create a DirectX7 object in VB.Net 2005 Express edition. Can anyone give me some detailed guidance of how to create a DirectX7 object, including how to add references OK thanks, i'll try directx 9 Woah, DX7 in Visual Basic 2005   I used to code in DX7 with VB6, but good luck doing that in 2005.  You are probably better off downloadi ...Show All

• Albert Benatov How to determine image size?

  Hi, I load web images (from my website) into my program. Dim picBox As New Picturebox() picBox.ImageLocation = " http://url.nl/afbeeldingen/test.jpg " etc. But how can I determine the width en height of test.jpg Hi! Picture box have Image property and Image property have ImageSize. ...Show All

• kelly hughes im new

  Hello Although i have a background in Actionscript, this is my first sojourn into VB and it seems like a steep climb to the top from way down here. I have installed the Basic Edition, and i am following the video series. so far, so helpful i must say. one or two tenderfoot questions however : are there any books any of you can recommend (i know the principles of OOP). also, im working during some of day, but i am giving up around ...Show All

• Qmar csc.exe

  hi I installed Microsoft c# express edition.Now Problem is How to get the c# command line compiler to run the c# applications. I found csc.exe file in .net framework 2.0 ,I tried to open it,but it flashes once and disappears. Please help me how to get csc.exe. Thanks in advance. Hi, Thank you very much. I need csc,exe when i want to use assemblies,Placing the assembly into GAC and to see the int ...Show All

• Kevin Frei iterate through form controls

  hi, i want to iterate through form controls (just buttons in the form) and to check if they have particular tag for example if (btn.tag == "abc") //do something but i'm a lost in this how can i do so thx in advance Try looking at Foreach this can be achieved by using the following code snippet for (int i = 0 ; i<this.Controls.Count; i++) {          if (this.Cont ...Show All

• Asa Whillock what is System.IO.Port of ver 2.0 in Ver 1.1?

  Hi everybody,    I am looking for replacements of functions of System.IO.Port class of .net Framework Ver 2.0. what is the closest if not not exact equivalent of Port class in Ver 1.1 Advanced Thanks.   den2005 This was introduced in Ver 2.0.  Previous versions did not include a serial port class.  MSDN has an article that describes a class for the serial port that works ...Show All

• Tobias Boehler Newbe help with Receive Serial Data

  Hello everyone, I'm new to visual VB and I am trying to setup communications using the Function ReceiveSerialData() As String example found in the help section of Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. Sample Code: Function ReceiveSerialData() As String ' Receive strings from a serial port. Dim returnStr As String = "" Using com2 As IO.Ports.SerialPort = _ My.Computer.Ports.OpenSerialPort("COM2") D ...Show All

• darentan Installing MS.Office.Interop with VB.NET Express

  I am trying to install Microsoft.Office.Interop with VB.NET 2005 Express The only installation package I found said that it requires Visual Studio 2005. Question: I assume Microsoft.Office.Interop is compatible with VB.NET 2005 Express. How do I install it on my PC without Visual Studio 2005 Thanks If might be a bit easier to troubleshoot if you could specify the line(s) of code that was causing the comp ...Show All

• Jamie Hornstein How do you make an invisible OCX?

  Hi, I'm using VB express and I cant seem to find a way of making my usercontrol invisible I can do it with VB6, its easy, But I want to make a control that doesn't have location and other visual properties, I've seen them but I cant make them. Am I missing something PS. Please dont post the obvious set visible to false, thats not what I want, lol, I want the ocx to only expose the methods and properties I set. Thanks. It also makes ...Show All