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• curwiler vb6

  Where, oh where, is a free download of vb6 I am taking a class that is going to teach vb6, but the book for the class was only available used. Therefore the s-ware that WAS bundled with the book is no longer. I specifically need vb6, and was unable to find the download on ms.com. My textbook says it is available from ms for free. I need a rather specific answer, and thanks in advance from a novice! Are you abso ...Show All

• VickiJohnson SQL Express install issue

  Help, I can not seem to install or uninstall SQL Express.  I receive this notification, "SQL Server 2005 CTP Setup has detected incompatable beta components from Visual Studio or SQL Express."   I have read the forums and it seems others are having the same issue.  Hope this helps you figure out what is going on. I have followed all the readme files and ran the cleanup wizard utility to help resolve any issues and nothi ...Show All

• elle1 Basic Questions on Debugging ASP

  Can you debug legacy ASP pages in Web Express I have a project in ASP, I built an Empty Web Site project in Express and dropped it in. The first time I tried to debug, it said it didn't like .asp postfixes. Is there some cofing trick I can use to have it accept asp pages for debugging Also, how about jscript I notice only VB and C# appear on the project wizard But legacy Interdev supported jscript and so does IIS5 and IIS6. ...Show All

• Rama Raman Access files on a Mobile Device

  I am currently having issues with my first Visual Studio program. I have written an application that selects a file using the openfiledialog class, it then copies the file to a backup folder, and then reads the same file and creates an edited copy for use in our office. The program is very simple, and works. EXCEPT, that i want the original file that is being selected via openfiledialog class, to come from a mobile device. When the open file dia ...Show All

• Giorgio Agrifoglio DataSets Are Mixed Up Across Two Projects

  Hi Folks, I have two Unrelated Projects that show on the Startup Page. If I am working in the first Project and then close the first Project and open the Second Project, the DataSet for the first Project appears in the DataSet sidebar pop-out panel. It's like the DataSet is stuck and no matter which Project I open the same DataSet is active. If I close the first Project and then close VB Express and re-open VB Express, the ...Show All

• David Jarmoluk Publish Can't Find Redist Files

  I've checked SQLExpress, .Net Framework, and Windows installer  and checked "Download prereq from same location an as my application" and get several errors.  Here is a sample:  Error 4 The install location for prerequisites has not been set to 'component vendor's web site' and the file 'DotNetFX\dotnetfx.exe' in item '.NET Framework 2.0' can not be located on disk. See Help for more information. TOPKPDFServ ...Show All

• TomBarnhart Setting ComboBox.Items from app.settings

  I want to store my Combobox.Items string collection outside of my application (i.e. not hard-coded) as they are values that would be useful to change without recompiling the code. I thought, at first, to store these values in the application settings as a StringCollection and would have assigned this to Combobox.Items at form load. This would have been straightforward as they are both type StringCollection, however, disappointingly Combobox.Ite ...Show All

• Panos Edessa Accessing child form from other child form

  I have an mdi based app with a number of child forms docked in controls on the mdi form. in VB6 I could access a list box on one of the child forms with code in another child form ! In C# Vs2005 this seem's very difficult to do - I believe the accessibility has been changed to add security, but it's causing me major problems with the re-write of a VB6 app i am doing. Can anyone help thanks SteveT Hi all, think i've found a soluti ...Show All

• Pubsnack Arraylist and recursion problems

  Ok I am new to this c# stuff. I have used c++ for a while and have to say that this new c# thing is pretty nice. Ok here is my problem. C# doesn't have vectors so I am using an arrylist instead. I don't know if you can set a type or not but I haven't. I store a list of files that I am recursively compiling as it runs through each directory. I was stupid and created a new instance of the array list each time I recursed. So I figured I nee ...Show All

• GeoffW85 visual studio 2003 & 2005 Express

  Can I run visual studio 2003 on the same computer as Visual Studio 2005 Express Are there any special steps needed to have them workl side by side They work fine side by side, no special steps. Just install them. ...Show All

• Amit Bhagwat BindingSource.Filter Problem Part 2

  Sorry for reposting this, but my new question was burried within the thread of my previous post and I wanted people to get a fresh look at my problem. I have a form with a DataGridView with multiple columns. I have another form that pops up to give the user options of filtering the data in the DataGridView form. I have several ComboBoxes bound to tables that contain the data available in a certain column in which the user can select items fr ...Show All

• MgManoj Save Data

  I am making a very dynamic program, it is a sync program, user can select a source and destination folder, they can do as many of them as they want, each "Set" has some values and settings that go to them. What is the best approach to load, read and save this data, XML, Object Array Help and examples appreciated. It depends one what you want to do with the saved data. If all you need is to serialize and deserialize for the pro ...Show All

• Skyruner2 No Export Template menu

  Hi, I use VS Express 2005 C++ (not the beta version). I cannot see the export template File menu options. I checked in the Customisation but there is no "Export Template" command in File Category. I try Import/Export setting to reset the setting to basic standard VC++ setting but it changed nothing. I read about difficulties to export from VC++ but at least I should have the greyed option, shouln't I What is this problem Thanks in adv ...Show All

• FunkeyMonkey Is it possible to shell an application seamlessly?

  I need to be able to run an application such as notepad or calc in the same way that I can start a browser inside my VB app ie. make the spawned program appear to be just another window in my program. Has anyone done this before I'm not aware of anything natively (to .NET), however, the SetParent API may be usable, if you get the handle to the window that you open. Will it work Don't know, but it may be a sta ...Show All

• Cputans Passing a Handle to a dll

  ABC_STATUS ABC_Init(HWND hWnd, UINT messageOffset ); hWnd is the Handle to window waiting a message. UINT is the Offset value of message ID. I'm calling the above unmanaged dll in C# as below: static extern string ABC_Init( int hInstDLL, int DLL_MESSAGE_OFFSET); string status = ABC_Init(2, 3); Actually the first parameter is the handle but i have declared as int. Tell me how to pass the paramet ...Show All