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• Jaffi What are the risks with including a SQL Server Express Database with VB Express Application

  Greetings, I am in the beginning process of building my first VB application in years, and my first time using the "Express" editions, and my first time with the .NET framework. My question really boils down to one thing: Will bundling a VB Express application with a SQL Server Express Database cause complications for novice end-users. When someone installs JosBoysApp.exe and it does the 'silent' installation of SQL Server Express, do ...Show All

• Chris Thomas Can't create new project in Visual Basic 2005 express

  I had the previous version installed of Visual Basic 2005 and I unistalled everything like the site said, Now I will test Visual Basic 2005 Beta 2, open a previous project, and it doesn't work at all, the program changed everything, ok too bad I think. Let's make a new project and "plop" there is an error message saying I can't create a new project because there's something missing. What can I do about it, how do I have to work with the new vers ...Show All

• itsnomihere Opening shorucut with VB application

  hello there, I'm having a strange problem here... i want to open up my "Mouse Properties" when my application starts... i dont know if i can make it open it from the control panel directly but else, i have tried to create a shortcut to do open it from that. now the problem is that the application seems not to be able to initiate any shortcuts, only other files or smt... at least it can find the other files with the: If My.Computer.FileSystem.Fi ...Show All

• zadcoe Active Directory Look up

  I have written a program to set up project directories for our company. We were on Novell but have changed to MSServer 2003. I used a try to look to see if a person had rights to create directories on a drive. (basically I tried to copy a blank text file and if you couldn't you didn't get that choice in the combo box) What I'd like to do is set it up to see if the user is a member of either Group1 or Group2 and choose the list from there. ...Show All

• jgunning Will XP Media Edition work?

  Hey guys. I am using Visual Basic Express Edition for a class and I need to be able to use VB at home. The problem is that my old machine is getting ready to go the big computer store in the sky. I dont have time to build a new machine or repair my old one so I am going to buy a new system. All of the systems at my local store run Windows XP Media Edition. Well I be able to install Visual Basic Express with XP Media Edition If not I ...Show All

• flynhigh How to Find Child Nodes in a TreeView Control

  This will hopefully be a simple question... I have a treeview control (Treeview1) that gets filled programmatically with different numbers of nodes and child nodes. I am trying to find out how many child nodes one particular node has and what the text of these child nodes are. I know the parent node's name is "Drives" and that each of the child nodes under this node will be a drive letter followed by a colon and backslash (such as C ...Show All

• FtLeeJerry Enabling WSE Support

  hi, does anyone know how to enable WSE support in Visual C# Express Edition I tried unistalling both the WSE files and Visual C# and re-installing them etc... all to no avail. The readme for WSE 2.0 states that there is a know bug where the WSE Settings 2.0.. option doesn't appear if Visual Studio is not running. is it even possible to add in WSE support to the Express Editions please help! Add-ins are not su ...Show All

• cs101 Charts?

  I was just wondering how to make a program that has like a spreadsheet and you type in numbers like daily income or somthing and it adds it up for the month and you can set it for like add for the week,or month or year! How can we do that And how do we code a exit button on the menu strip, a open, and a new button Tutorials Try uding a SQl server database.... Im assuming you know how to do this. When you view ...Show All

• Voltzz Windows Control Library.......

  I don't have the ' Windows Control Library' template in my project types list. Where is it Hi VcDeveloper! Are you trying to follow the tutorial from MSDN Do you know where can I download 'Windows Control Library template' from, in order to follow the MSDN Walkthroughs Thank you in advance. Cancel that!.... it doesn't come with the Express Edition.... No, but ...Show All

• Kerpoise Why this limitation in C#express

  Here is a problem with my C# express installation.(RTM). With the previous version it was possible to connect to the SQL Server Express specifing a server and a database(add connection). Now it is only possible through "AttachDBFileName". So I cannot connect to the SQLEXPRESS if I don't specify "Database file name(.mdf file)". Is that correct In the VWD it is possible Why this limitation in C#express In the "Change Data Source" dialog, there a ...Show All

• Sumeet Sharma XML Documentation

  I have just finished a project in beta 2005 of VS.  I have generated the XML Documentation file, which is obviously not very readable.  I have tried using NDoc to compile it, but this does not cope well with generics or inface .NET v2.x. Are there any programs that will compile this into a nice format Cheers, Chris Thanks for the Stylesheet, at least that gives me a useful starting ...Show All

• kryzchek Making EXE files and testing applications

  I am new to this version of visual basic. I am making a Active:Win32 application (just a little one, does nothing) and I want to make a application exe. I don't know how to. There is no thing that says make exe or anything. I used MS Visual Basic 3.0 once and it was easy to create. No debugging or anything I just want to create an exe application and the ability to test it. ASAP If You want to make a proper installer, go to build / publis ...Show All

• jessj EXE

  Is it possible to compile simple .exe's in vb.net. Simple, like asking the user what message will he display through say an input box then he chooses. Then, clicks "build" and saves the .exe somewhere so when you click on the .exe it will say the message that he inputed. I read that some language called KPL was written in C#. And i thought, hey, c sharp and vb are almost the same. Maybe i can do an extreamly cheesy simple version of this. ...Show All

• JMiller99 deployment wizard error -- does not publish -dotnetfx\instmisa.exe file not found

  downloaded the dotnetfx.exe file and ran it for installation but when trying to deploy with cd and using the prerequisites on local machine as instructed in oneclick mode on studio 2005 express edition , I get the error that this file dotnetfx\instmisa.exe cannot be found on my computer. Thought the download exe would put it where it is supposed to be. Have a Win2k OS 1 meg memory with a pentium 3 cpu and 40 & 80 mg harddrives. This f ...Show All

• AxelF sql commands in visual basic express 2005

  hi im trying to use a delete command to delete data from table1 if its in table2 my command is delete table1 from table1, table2 where table1.test = table2.test please help i keep getting delete is not declared so i tryed this Dim delete As New SqlCommand() delete table1 from table1, table2 where table1.test = table2.test now i get delete isnt an expression please help willing to change anything to get this to work ok i got that c ...Show All