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• mlal Communicating to other apps...?

  Hello, Is there a way to communicate to other apps It doesn't have to be communicating communicate... What I need is this. I need to fill out a from another app. Then my app has to press enter. Yes, I think it's possible by "Sending" the keys. But the problem is when I try to get the result, let's say trajectory distance, then how am I going to get that It's in the program after you press enter. It displays it for you. H ...Show All

• Jamie Cansdale How to close parent form?

  I know that I can't do this in VB2005... Do you mean, how can you work with more than one form and only have one visible at a time You could create a Sub Main procedure and use that as your StartUp object. See: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/17k74w0c(en-US,VS.80).aspx Hope this helps, Steve Hoag At last, I have changed the "Shudown mode" to "When last form closes" on "My project" and now th ...Show All

• Khanh.p Cannot Install Visual Studio Web Express

  Hi, I am having difficulty installing Visual Studio Web Express. Everyting starts fine but the system "hangs" during the install of 2.0 .net framework. I have reviewed several of the suggested solutions from this forum, but none seem to do to the job. I have also tried to install 2.0 .net directly from Microsoft, but the insall ends and states that another installation is in progress. Not exactly sure what process/or install that ...Show All

• Charles Washika Opening/Linking to Web pages

  Can't find this yet, i am very novice and would like to link to my homepage with a linklabel. i double clicked on it in designer, but now i don't know what code to enter. could anyone tell me what should put in the onclick event > thanks in advance Jasper hi, you can start a new webpage and navigate to your homepage something like this Private Sub LinkLabel1_LinkClicked( ByVal sender As System. Ob ...Show All

• xyktiger fatal error C1083

  Hi I'am getting a fatal error it reads as follows: 1>c:\documents and settings\ghost\desktop\text\text\fghdfth.cpp(3) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'iostream': No such file or directory My code is as follows: (It's from the MSDN website) // iostream_cin.cpp // compile with: /EHsc #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int x; cout << "enter choice:"; cin >> x; while (x < 1 || x ...Show All

• Ram_r Newbie Trying to get specific data from an sse database

  I am trying to query a specific field from my sse database based on two different variables. And use this information to fill a textbox with an integer. The first variable is a combobox that is filled with data in one of the other tables in the sse database. This table has a PKcolumn that is an integer and the identity of the column. The only other column is a nvarchar(30) string (which is the actual data in the combobox) The second variabl ...Show All

• DannyvG Form Navigation - anything better than hide() and show()?

  Guys, When I develop a multiple form application, I only know two methods, show() and hide(). This is very inconvenient and here is the situation. I have two forms. When I click on the menu, I want to close (or hide) form1 and navigate to form2. When I click on the "X" button to close form 2, I want to exit the program altogether. Here is the code I use to naviagate from form 1 to 2. Form2 f = new Form2(); f.show(); this.hi ...Show All

• Frank Srebot Delimited Text File

  This question is related to reading in text files delimited by commas into a VBExpress 2005 program and then the values written to a database. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cakac7e6.aspx This is the way i have been doing this. With the file layouts that i have some alteration has been required. The way i am currently doing it is this: y = 1 Using MyReader As New _ Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.TextFieldParser( "C:\testfile.txt&q ...Show All

• PeB Writing to a text file

  I am trying to write text to a disk file. I dimensioned a variable, sr, as StreamWriter and used the line sr.WriteLine(strPage) to write the text to the file but all it does is open an empty file and does not write the text to the file. I know there is something in strPage because I also write it to a textbox on my form. Can someone please help Don VB 2005 Express My system ...Show All

• Janus_42 Visual studio express using visual database tools

  I want know if we can use visual studio express to connect to other database like oracle, foxpro... than than acess and sql sever express thanks! Thank you for your response but if i don't want to do it by code how can i do it directly in the IDE. For example in the enterprise edition you go to server explorer to connect to a database you have several choices. I want to know if i must install additionals ...Show All

• Elqueso Spanish visual basic 2005 Express Edition

  Where I can obtain the version in Spanish of VISUAL BASIC 2005 express edition final release Where can I download the Express products in spanish for an offline installation Thanks BauNZ - The Spanish versions of the Express products have not been released yet, but will be coming out early in 2006.  Stay tuned for the exact release date. Thanks, Luke Hoban Vis ...Show All

• Gerardo Cignarella Problem to compile directX and openGL very basic examples

  I've problems to compile all files I've goggled about 'no GLUT' openGL and DirectX using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition I'm trying all in last 6 hours. I've correctly configured the environment, (I think it's ok because  I've compiled easily some other applications that use GLUT). But no one pure openGL project work. Of course, I've downloaded (and registered) microsoft SDK. In example I can't compile the famous l ...Show All

• Hugocpp 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

• hjy how to work with Send Keys

  Hi, I have similar query on sendkeys. I am having one application in which , I Need to make on the scrolllock key. Actually a third party application runs parallely which recognizes it and convert the key strokes if the scrolllock is on ( Font character conversion. transliteration).( in that, an option like other windows application is present which is disabled) When Physically i hit the scrolllock key it works.( in my appln) ...Show All

• mahmoodilyas Making a call to a shared Shared Method

  Hi, Can not workout answer to this problem: I have, for example, a MDI form (Form1) a child form (Accounts) and a Class (Add_Account) Within Form1 I have a shared method as follows: Shared Sub testshare() MsgBox( "testshare" ) Form1.Text = ( "Test Share" ) End Sub I call this shared method from the Add_Account class like this: Form1.testshare() '\\Calls shared method in form1(MDI form) ...Show All