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• Geckex A way to swap variables?

  Does VB provide an easy way to swap the contents of 2 variables without having to use an intermediate variable Thanks... In VB you can define your own functions. No, not that I know of, you'll need to write a simple function to do that. x ^= y; y ^= x; x ^= y; will swap x and y. That's in C#.  Not sure how to do the ...Show All

• JEA Installing visual studio express problems

  Hi All Having problems after downloading the express editions of vb and web developer. it copies 39 files to the temp area then does the loading instalations componets, i accept the license aggrement and click the two boxes. I then click install, it then says :-  Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition - ENU has encountered a probelm during set up. setyp did not complete correclty. Error signature bits says something about dllmgr_bitse ...Show All

• Alphadon FIND and Delete certain file types????

  sorry if this has been answered before..but i have searched in vain.. hi I hope someone can help me, i'm very new to VB, so please bear with me. All I want to do is what I thought would be simple....ish, is to specify a folder and for the program to search all subfolders within that folder and delete any files it finds with a certain file extension..i.e mp3, txt, doc etc. this is what i have done so far but it doesnt work, i'm probably way off t ...Show All

• Leslie Brown Newbie - File copying confusion

  Hi I am severely struggling with even the basics of this part of my project. I have a destination path in a variable, selected via the FolderBrowserDialog function, and this works fine. I have a ArrayList of source paths, mixed folders and files. eg a file as C:\My Documents\TextFile.txt eg Folder as C:\My Documents\Folder1 I am trying to copy each item as follows: if it is a file, copy to destination folder, if it exists, ...Show All

• Dr. Thunder displaying different Time besides local time

  Hi I am a newbie to VB 2005 Express actually am a newbie period to vb . The problem that I am having is trying to display local time & another time ie: say london uk. on another clock side by side. On a form Any idea's on how to this is tnx Eze Where exactly do you want these times to be displayed Are you referring to the source files timestamps I 'm trying to put them on a form as individual cl ...Show All

• emilevdberg Order Tables Ascending in DataSet

  Hey there, I have a problem cause I don't know how to order tables ascending within a dataset, so I need to know how can I do that, I have for example these tablenames within a dataset in this order: "0050Colors" "0021Cars" "0120Symbols" "1008Field" "0215Country" that's the order in what the tables are added into the dataset, and I need them in the next order: "0021Cars& ...Show All

• Mercedestime Cannot select Dll Application Type in Win32 Console Application

  I am creating a new VC++ Win32 Console Application project in express edition and when i go to Application Type i was not able to select Dll as the Application Type in Win32 Console Application. Why and how to use the Dll Win32 Application type Willfin I have enabled the DLL option in Application Type Thank You. Willfin Look at this blog http://blog.ka ...Show All

• Pavel Orehov DataGridView TextBoxes

  What is the easiest way to limit a textbox column in a datagridview to the entering of just numbers. I know how to do it on a regular textbox by using the keyup and keydown event handlers but am not sure how to do it on a datagridview textbox. Also, I don't have a datasource and don't want one for the datagridview, I am using it for another purpose and for some reason it will not format the number to a currency even though I have that selecte ...Show All

• RussianValery (newbie) Simple array - complex problem

  Hi Well it is complex to me. How can such a simple thing can cast such a large dark cloud All the code works - except, when adding the marked line, then fails at the added line with 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.' Without the line, the code works as expected and subsequent code also works OK - what is the mistake I'm making here Bound to be my mistake cause VB never makes a mistake Dim tt As New TextBo ...Show All

• zeyansoft Making A Simple File Manager

  I want to make a simple file manager program my mom is in college and always asking for help with files. Can someone plz help me make a File Manager Program step by step I want to be able to make files,copy files,look up files,print,and look into files with this so plz help I dont think it would be hard if you know wat your doing I want to make it but I need some help so plz if you can make the directions I will give you my e-mail where you can ...Show All

• Hatem.t VB 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005

  Hi I have a server with Windows 2003 SBS and SQL Server 2005. Also i have a client computer with Windows XP and installed the VB 2005 Express Edition I try to make a programm to communicate with SQL Server 2005, but i couldn't Why Thanks Please look at the differences between the Express versions and the full versions of VB (Visual Studio): http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/compare/default.aspx Specifica ...Show All

• Smitha_Vijayan Data Sources window doesn't display sources

  It creates the xsd file. Also, in code windows (such as Form1.cs), I can see the sources I created. the problem is that the windows is not active in design view (such as Form1.cs[Design]), and I can't see the sources. The result is that I can't drag and drop a resource (for example to automatically create a multiple textbox's form which is bound to BindingSource). Is it just me I had the same issue. Check ...Show All

• annefa crystal reports in VC# express

  how to display crystal report in VS C# express... there is no report viewer control. Hi, That is one of the limitations of C#. There's no available report tool. You'll have to upgrade to Professional edition or upper to use crystal reports in your apps. cheers, Paul June A. Domag If you have a developers version of Crystal reports you should be able to create the objects in code, and design them using the reports designer that ...Show All

• dansha Integrating a program with the active directory - how?

  Hello again. This time I have a completely different kind of question. Here we go: My program retrieves news from an xml file. In the news there are different nodes for differenct sections of a news item. What i'd like to do is: Show a certain news item to a specific user of the active directory or nt usergroups (needs to be compatible with win 2000 server) or show news to a section of the directory/groups, such as domain admins etc. Th ...Show All

• TRan1101 How do i make a textbox that uses different forecolors?

  I would like to make a textbox that uses a color for a word and uses another color for other words. is there any way to do this Yes, you can do this pretty easily with the RichTextBox control. You can find a list of documentation at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vboririchtextboxctltasks.asp   Hope this helps, Dan Fernandez Product Manager Visual S ...Show All