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• Thomas Waldron trying to download from Registration Benefit Portal

  I tried to download the e-book including Build a Program Now! and all I got was a mess that was call Download Description.aspx.  Then I tried to buy the book from MSDN and could not. I finally ordered the whole book at Barnes & Noble.  Getting the "benefits" from registration is turning out to be more difficult than it should be. All I really want is to get some good basic ideas about how to use Visual Basic 2005 Express an ...Show All

• Ralph Rivas yadda yadda for Dummies -- getting data into my VB thang

  I posted this here , but realized it may have been in the wrong place. WDIK     yadda yadda for Dummies -- getting data into my project. OK, here's another newbie question. I run a third party app.  I've been able to take data from that app, and by "pasting as link" into excel, manipulate the data (yes, "paste as link" was a new dis ...Show All

• Frustrated1689 SQL Server Reporting Services

  Hi There http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/compare/default.aspx    States that Express Editions supports - SQL Server Reporting Services........... I would like to Generate Reports using these Services...... How Do I Do It Thanks Cheers Bronco Billy "Beer and Fast Women are Ok... No Cigarettes or Hard Liquor Allowed Please follow your thread at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ ...Show All

• cstout There will be a reduced version for a complete manual installation of "Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions Beta 2" ?

  There are 5 CD images for manual installing "Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions Beta 2". I didn't downloaded any of these but I presume that every package has all what is need for an insulated installation. For a whole installation this is too much because for example .NET Framework 2.0 or MSDN Express Library that is in any CD takes 5fold space. If we put together al 5 CDs and elminate all duplicates how many CDs of max 700M we ...Show All

• nekto VC# express consumes a lot of memory

  VC# express consumes a lot of memory.. why come sometimes upto 100 Megs also the the document explorer does the dame I can repro this behavior. We'll need to investigate and get back to you. The issue with Document Explorer (dexplore) crashing is discussed in the Help and Documentation Forum at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=66&SiteID=1 Michael Blome Visual C# Documentation Team ...Show All

• edenxiii Problem getting Makefiles to run

  Hi, Can anyone point me to a tutorial for importing a makefile into VC++ 2005 Express I want to compile some samples in the Platform SDK (there don't seem to be compiled versions available anymore).  There are no .sln,.dsw, .prj files in the folders, just files called "makefile"... Thanks, Philip Thanks for your post, however the video was of very little help. :( Ran into all sort ...Show All

• Scott Lovell serial port help for dummies!

  is there any documentation on how to use the serialport component in visual basic express edition First of all add this to your start up code: SerialPort1.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.Default otherwise if you happen to send charcter above 127 ($7f) they will show up as (spend a few days on this little chestnut ) This is yor serial port routine: Try    'In case you can't open the port  & ...Show All

• JoseMiguel Getting files with specific extensions using FolderBrowserDialog

  Hi everyone. I'm making a media player using the BASS API Library and Direct-X. My problem is, I'm using the FolderBrowserDialog component and I know it can't filter files but I need only files with specific extensions to be added to the Listbox I have on the form. So far the code looks like this: Public Sub foldertoplaylist() Dim plug As Integer = 2 Dim playlistid3 As String Dim chosen As String ...Show All

• s441 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

• FLx Learn VC++ from where to begin

  Hello frnz, i want to learn VC++. i know C,C++,C# programming language. please help me from where to begin. i have asked from many people. some told me to begin learning Win32 api programming, some asked me to go for MFC. i am totally confused. please help me out. Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/learning/default.aspx . Also, the videos at http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/learning/vce ...Show All

• Rob Hounsell Development kits for Visual C++ 2005 Express

  Good morning... What development kits can I add on to VC++ Express I know that I'm supposed to add the Platform SDK, but there's a long list of development kits and SDKs at the Download center.  Which ones can I use Thanks. Good evening... Allow me to elaborate. I see a number of references to adding the MSXML kit to one's available libraries (given the pervasiveness of XML I'm not sure why this isn't part of the platform, but whate ...Show All

• Buddhike 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

• merls I do not want SP2. I do not want SP2.

  Hi. I run on Windows XP Professional SP1 and I really need Visual Basic .NET Express edition, as SharpDevelop2 is very buggy (atm). The thing is: I do not want SP2. Please do not flood me with comments such as "BUT OMFG SP2 PWNZZZ SP1 ! !" but tell me one good reason why to update into it. Not "security", not "more stable", but something real. Incase it comes with some updates needed by the Visual Studio's, why not ...Show All

• Andrew.Fetchko data grid view update

  what hapens with my program is simple ... datagrid view dont updates into database(acess)..but when i debug there is no errors: and my binding navugator was generated automactaly and it has code on it... Hi RQuaresma86, This could be caused by a number of things: For example, are you clicking the Save button on the BindingNavigator or are you expecting it to automatically update The DataGridView d ...Show All

• Neal McFee GridView with changed Header Text wont Update

  EDIT: see 2nd post for more up to date testing results. I'm having a few mildly frustrating issues with these components because finally they are usuable for me (2003 couldn't bind parameter values to controls), it's almost working except for one small niggling problem... I have setup an SQL database connection with my SqlDataSource and bound it to my FormView. I have manually verified that all 4 of my SQL statements exist. The f ...Show All