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• BobF Scientific notation conversion to real numbers

  Hello, I'm new to programming so please take this into account if the question seems a little simple. I have an app. that I am writing where I need to display the number of miles there are against other measures, it all works fine until I try to display a fraction of a mile as follows. 1 Inch = 1.57828282828283E-05 miles which is confusing to the average user of my app. What I am wanting to do is convert this scientific notation ...Show All

• diavo Numbers only in a TextBox

  Hi All I drew a TextBox from the tool box but don't know how to make the TextBox accept numbers only. Any help is appreciated. Hi Mac7 The following should do the trick... ' Boolean flag used to determine when a character other than a number is entered. Private nonNumberEntered As Boolean = False   ' Handle the KeyDown event to determine the type of character entered into ...Show All

• JohnGrabau VC# Express 2005 - Remove Recent Projects

  I am seeing projects listed in thr Recent Projetcs list mulitple times. How can we clean up the start page recent project list There is no delete in the express version. Thanks James. I'm not keen on hacking the registry so I have taken to removing the project folder so that when the project is selected from the "recent projects" list, it can't find it. I then get a pop-up to remove the entry from the regisry. ...Show All

• David Silverlight Visual C# Keeps asking for Registration

  As of this moment I already have 2 "Thank you for registering Visual C# 2005 Express Edition!" e-mails in my inbox and just now, Visual C# asks again to register I'm OK with registering, but not if it keeps asking for it every day or two. What could be the problem Eric Same problem with me. Rahul. Eric - did you copy and paste the registration key into the registration dialo ...Show All

• Galleon Register for COM Interop Missing?

  I've noticed that in VC# 2005 Express Edition an option to "Register for COM Interop" (Project > Properties > Build) is available. However, when I try to search around VB 2005 Express Edition I cannot find such an option. What would I need to do in VB 2005 EE to have the same effect of having VC# "Register for COM Interop" selected Thanks, Ryan Thanks Renee. ...Show All

• Luis69 How I can create a file association?

  how i can associate a file type with my application ps: I wan't somethink easy.. Amazingly I have been unable to find a piece of sample code on how to do this in C# in managed code... instead, try this old school and trusty VB6 code from Microsoft that provides the basic steps required. Thanks.The code is working but were I put the tipe of extension For example : .MP3 and .WAV ...Show All

• naylouvar timer

  are threre any timer class in visual web developer please send me an example You should also think on how you are going to use them, for example the windows forms timer (One from the Toolbox) will pause when the windows form is busy. Also on another note there is also the high performance timer that you can use, this is the main timer function that is used in a lot of the managed directX systems as well as the sample framework ...Show All

• Daniel D.C. How do I create command line software that works in MS-DOS mode?

  Hi, I was wondering why the console app that I made works in the MS-DOS prompt under Windows, but doesn't work under MS-DOS mode, when booting from an emergency disk. Any ideas A C/C++ app can use IOSTREAM and has ready access to files... the issue you will run into though is using a compiler that supports your environment. If you were to build a C/C++ application with say... Visual Studio 2005, it would require Windows and the approp ...Show All

• 2fastrunner Linker errors when building samples...

  Ever since I installed VC++ express I get linker errors when building any of the samples I've found in the "Microsoft DirectX SDK (December 2005)". It has been a long time since I have used C++ and thought I should give it a new try when I found it free here. But I can't get it to do any programming when the aplication will not work. I installed VC++ express, "Microsoft Platform SDK", "Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003&q ...Show All

• amoty I have registered, how do i get the free stuff?

  I have registered my version of VB 2005 Express Edition, but i can not find anything that will lead to the free icons ( from IconBuffet.com ) and free images (from corbra, or something like that). Please can someone tell me how to download these packages. Thanks in advance, Uzzy Anyone know I have gone back to the link, and it now works! ! ! Not sure why. From the Thank You e-mail: Access ...Show All

• ssk123 Learning Resources Zip File

  I was going throught videos on learning Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition and in lesson 2 (I just started) he says that you can download a learning resources .zip file from the location where this video was. I can't find the file anyone know where it is We are talking about tool strips and adding images tot he button and the zip file supposidly has the images. Thanks, Rick If you went to the download pag ...Show All

• Azman Printing Linebreak question

  Can anyone show me some example code of how to break up lines of text for printing I want to know the most efficient way to take the text that was typed into a textbox and break it up if its too long to fit on one line for printing. I've been fooling around with this but I can't seem to figure anything out that would be elegant or efficient...and hopefully reusable. Breaking across pages will be similar t ...Show All

• Angel Azcarraga Adding Project References

  In the VCS express edition, I don't see an option for adding project references.  There is a project tab within the "add reference" dialog... but it doesn't have any buttons like [add] or [browse]... only a blank list... that is all that I see on the project tab. Is this normal   Is it a problem with my install   How can I add project references   Is there another way to go about it through the UI ...Show All

• never.1981.m.ph Visual C# Express Help complaining that I am not online

  I am online and help is configured to use local + online but I keep getting this error message below ---------------------------------------- The information you are trying to access could not be found. Various events could have caused this error. You have chosen to use local Help only, and the topic could not be found in local Help. This error can be caused when local Help has not been installed or only a subset of local Help was installed ...Show All

• OfficeDeveloper how to read text from a bitmap file(hand written document) in c#

  hey this is madhuri actually i need to read text from a hand written document(bmp file), how to edit a bmp file.I thought to get pixels first but then how to match those pixels with raw data in order to read the exact text from the file. Do i need 2 have any knowledge of pattern matching Any idea of pattern matching in c# i need this very urgently,,, thanx bye Hi Madhuri. I am looking for a sloution to the same problem Di ...Show All