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• Ed Phips Programming Languages

  I need to know in what ways are C, C++, Java and C# alike or similiar. i know Anders came from Borland, but he wasn't the only one who was working on C#. As i said i might be wrong... but i hope i'm not :) > C#, in theory has C++ like syntax, in practice I believe it owes more to Java. Well, infact (as far as i can remember) the C# was mainly designed by the guy who created the Java language, so i would say that C# has more ...Show All

• Mark Watkin Need help with streamreader.Read

  My objective is to convert text files that are outputted by one program into a format that better suits my program. I also need to do a bit of math to those values, but I don't need help with that part. See the comments below the program to see what the text files look like. These files only vary in the number of lines. For the first 19 numbers in each line, every number with a semicolon following it is a value in the range of 90 to ...Show All

• aeoshi

  Hi, I am using VB express 2005 to create an interface to retrieve data from Excel spreadsheet then store it into my Access database. I am able to retrieve data and store it in a dataset then display it in a dataGridView. But I am not sure how can i store the data into an Access database. I tried to connect VB to Access by opening a connection and then create a table in Access. I created a DataGridView and bind it to this tab ...Show All

• Joerg Weser Mdiparent - Is this bug solved?

  I've an mdiParent (maximized) with X children (maximized). The mdiParent contains a menustrip. I load the children into the parent. The first time when I load a child into the parent, the menustrip hides a part of the child. When I minimize the parent and then maximize it, the position of the child is correct (below the menustrip). The same problem: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=180826&SiteID=1   ...Show All

• matthewfoster Searching a data base in visual basic 2005

  l need to be able to search for a word or part of a word. as well l need help to code a button to add a record to the data base as well one to delete and one to save. Anyone able to help me with this. it would be most helpful. Ok, well l still cant believe that you need all that code to do a simple thing like delete. for save all you need is this code BindingSource1.EndEdit() CustomerTableAdapter1.Update( ...Show All

• purpleendurer Can Visual Studio 2005 express be used to create Win32 applications or for future .net versions?

  Hi, two questions: * Can visual studio 2005 express (as in like VB and C++) be used to create Win32 applications If not, why and which program (or which SDK do I need) should I use to develop for Win32. That is, for an audience without having .NET installed. *Lastly, I read in the faqs that Visual Studio 2005 can ONLY be used to develop applications for .NET 2, well then, what about .net 3 when that comes out or for that matter, even for .NET 1. ...Show All

• ReaLitaliano Using multiple data bound items

  Hello! Im very new to programing in VB. I have a database with info about some persons. I've managed to let the user select the name from the listbox and other info apeears on the form. Now I want to build in a search. I want to let the user to select gander, hair color, eyecolor etc. But if i use data bound items on gander I get gander info of every person (of course :P). So how to get in the gander combo box only 2 options (male/female) and ge ...Show All

• Aleniko29139 console window closes too fast!

  How do I configurate Visual Studio 2005 so that the console windows does not close after an exception is throw I've see systems with Visual Studio 2005 that does not close console windows unless they are manually closed. But my newly installed VS2005 closes my consoel output too fast for me to see anything. Thanks! hi, regardless it throw exception or not console window close as soon as it finished i ...Show All

• Vikramaditya The Initial setup for Visual Studio 2005 asks me for dotnetfx.exe?

  I am unable to attain the .IMG or the .ISO file for Visual Studio 2005 Express b/c the initial setup asks me to find dotnetfx.exe and I have no Idea where I would find that. If I even have it. Could you tell me wht course of action to take I'm guessing that dotnetfx.exe is part of the .NET Framework 1.1. dotnetfx.exe is the installer for the .net framework. So, you need to install .NET 2.0, it would seem. I'd ...Show All

• FreshByte Cannot publish because a project failed to build

  When I was publishing a RSS Reader, an error 'Cannot publish because a project failed to build' occured. I can't find the error help in the local help. How can I solve this problem My RSSReader project is failed to build. The whole error message is "Error 1 Cannot publish because a project failed to build. 1 1 RSSReader". I build the program successfully but I failed to publish it. ...Show All

• Sreekanth Ammisetty Copy/Paste bug?

  A simple problem that is causing great frustration: sometimes when I copy or cut (usually cut) a line of code, what will instead end up on the clipboard is a single line break. When I go to paste, instead of the code I expected I will get a blank line and have to hit undo until I can try the operation again. It doesn't happen all the time, but certainly enough to be a major problem. Couldn't find this on a search, so presumably it's not a wid ...Show All

• harygoldie VB 2005 Forms Control

  Can some one help me how to make a textbox accept only numeric values. The code "textbox1.numeric=true" gives an error thanks hello, thanks for the reply. I tried MTBox, not that effective. Well, I got some other code to ckeck the value programmatically. amou Two such threads on this http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=218113&S ...Show All

• ytandeta Should I register VS 2005 again after reinstalling a fresh copy of Windows?

  I recently had a crash and had to reinstall Windows. Unfortunately, due to problems with the file system, I had to wipe my hard disk and start over again. Before this happened, I had Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions installed. I had registered all the components (VB, VC#, VC++, VJ#, VWD) after installing. Should I register all those again after installing this time Yes, you need to register all editions that you reinstall. ...Show All

• SteveBender Can see only a few classes in .NET library

  I've downloaded VB Express Edition just one week ago and all seems right. Now i'm trying to program a simple application, an UDP_Client. It would be easy making use of the system.net.sockets namespace and the UdpClient Class. But when I try to add the "system.net" reference to the project (double-clicking "my project" in solution explorer, in the references tab), only a few "system.xxx" namespaces appears ready to be added (and system.ne ...Show All

• FormerMarine New project creation error

  Hi All I just installed Visual basic 2005 Express Editon, but any attempt to create a new project producess the below listed:      The file, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect (Exception        from HRESULT: 0x8007007B) Please help thanks. Ps:     I'm using window XP Home Edition      There is a known issue where having the "&" chara ...Show All