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• Kedrik Windows Forms Opacity where is that ?

  im using vb.net 05 express, im trying to make a transparent form, where is the The Opacity property i been looking everywhere Well, I've no idea what Windows Vista looks like, but I can imagine what you are saying. Looks like you would have to do something clever like make a background form that has an opacity, and a second, owned form, borderless, containing your browser. When the main form  is moved, mo ...Show All

• rw-ral Extremely Illogical Error

  Hi Guys and Gals, I'm having a really wierd error with my application, perhaps someone can help The problem is that we cannot replicate the error on another machine, it seems specific to my machine which makes it all a little more confusing. I'm running a P4 3.0Ghz Prescott processor with Hyper-threading and 768MB RAM. The application was coded using VB 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 but has since been re-coded on the final release of VB 2005 Expr ...Show All

• ChrisPeers Developing PocketPC applications

  Hello. I have two problems related to the usability of Visual Studio 2005 in its express edition. I am developing an application for a Pocket PC. It should read data from a GPS and use them for a multimedial application in Adobe Flash. To perform its task, it needs an API that reads data from GPS and makes them available for an Actionscript routine in the Flash files. I have read that the SDK available for Windows Mobile 5.0 contains a GPS AP ...Show All

• brsrkr Case Select - Not the best way ..

  I am trying to look up data in a grid.  I am using a Select Case statement, see below.  My question is there an another way to do this.  I have another table/grid of data that has 30 rows and 30 columns and my Select Case statement will be very big.       *grin* It was the best article my google search found, in terms of explaining how a hashtable works. Thank ...Show All

• Dominique Dupuis How do i get Data Out of a List Box and Seperate it ?

  hi im quite new to VB i have been asked to build a program that will ping a number of ip address. I have placed The IP Addresses in a Access Database and have bound the IP Address Field to a list Box. At present i can select a IP Address and it will work but i need some way of it doing it automaticaly The problem is that i don't know how to get vb to go though the list and ping each item on the list any help on this would be great. th ...Show All

• diluted_water Form corruption

  I am creating a rather small application with VB Express. I have noticed that occasionally some of the fields on the form will just go missing. Sometimes they'll randomly come back. The last time, evey single component I've dropped in the form went missing! That includes tabs, datgrids, data adaptors, buttons, everything! I didn't delete them, I've tried restarting, I've tried undoing, I've tried everything I can think of. They are still 'There' ...Show All

• Vikram Invalid cast exception

  Is there a simple method of preventing incorrect type input How do you prevent a user from keying in a string when variable is type integer etc I know there must be a simple solution but I am going nuts trying to figure it out. Although I must admit I am really learning lots of other things in the process! First of all, anything that is entered via a textbox is a string datatype which may or may not descr ...Show All

• jemi Amazon-enabled movie collection starter kit

  This kit works fine for me but the movies I add to the collection are not saved. For example, I add movies to the collection and they show in the movie list, but if I exit the program and restart it, the movies are no longer shown in the movie list. Any suggestions Thank you. Moved it and I recalled something that might be your problem. If you run the application inside the IDE you will always start with ...Show All

• Tomasz Staroszczyk Poland Communicating with Windows Form from external app

  I'm trying to make something so that I can communicate with a Windows form from the mIRC chat client (in a script). Eventually, I want to be able to send it an IP address and have the windows media player object on the form navigate to that IP to show a remote webcam. For now, I'm just trying to change the text of a label on the open form. Is this possible I managed to open a COM connection to the form from mIRC, but I'm not able to change the ...Show All

• Leonid-NSK MyApp.xml file generated at compile time

  We are evaluating moving from VS2002 to VS2005 and have come across something. I installed VBExpress and let it convert our application. I noticed that when the app is compiled an xml file is generated that is named the same as the executable. For example MyApp.exe and MyApp.xml. This presents a small problem for us; we already deploy a MyApp.xml file with our application that contains settings for our application, and when I compile it overwrit ...Show All

• joan leon [2005] Positioning DatagridView "Center in Form" at runtime

  hi i have a DAtagridView that gets loaded on the execution of SQL query each time the WIDTH of colums are diffrent... so after execution of the query i wnat the DGV control to align itself in the center of the form i donot want to use Dock=Fill..as i am also having other controls also thank u all very mcuh I am using Visual Basic Express Edition 2005 use anchor property to anchor it to the form http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-u ...Show All

• bugduc Changing the desktop bakcground

  Does anyone know how I could change the desktop background in C++ Anyone See this thread , or try asking in one of the newsgroups. Is there a way to us that to set an HTM(L) file as the background There's a group policy option called Active Desktop Wallpaper. See if you can utilise that. ...Show All

• Jessie968 database saga

  I am at my wits end. I am trying to create a program that will add users to a database. I have read the various posts regarding the output file and have changed the Copy To Output File to Copy Never. I have also tried Copy If Newer. The database still does not retain my changes/additions. The code I have used is shown below. Code Here... Private Sub AddUser_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles AddUser ...Show All

• FireWave Application failed to start, mspdb80.dll was not found error !!

  I stopped using Visual C++ Express Edition for a few days after it was working fine.  I came back to it today, opened some programs in a text editor that I had gotten from a tutorial, and tried to compile and run them on the command line using "cl /EHsc [filename].cpp".  I have done this many times in the past with the same exact files, in fact, and I have never gotten this error before. [cl.exe - Unable To Locate Component] ...Show All

• Dejvino Need help on setting up a query page using MenuItem, GridView, AcessDataSource components

  Hi, I'm a college student with an homework assignment to do. I'm developing an website where there is a menu with several items. Each item is configured with an unique ID "idsubcat": < asp : MenuItem NavigateUrl ="Consulta.aspx idsubcat=1" Text ="Espumantes" Value ="Vinhos"></ asp : MenuItem >   The AcessDataSource object should receive that info and display the desired data on a GridView object ...Show All