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• Careltje Trouble with ending out an application

  This application is a guessing game where the user has ten tries to guess a random number. After each guess the user is promted to guess higher or lower. When the user guesses the right answer a "Congratulations" message box appears. The problem is when the user guesses correctly, the program should display the Congratulations message box and then end, however the loop keeps going. How can I make it stop The code follows: Pri ...Show All

• James 1 Dumb newbie question regarding XP Styles

  Going through the video tutorials which show forms with XP style borders, etc.  However, mimicking those actions of the trainer, I only see plain vanilla-styled form headers and such.  I understand there's a way to "fix" this, but I don't know how.  Any referral links   Note that I have Visual Basic Express on an XP Tablet edition machine. BTW - Microsoft - why aren't XP styles the default for this new version of Vi ...Show All

• gicio Q : Exceptions

  hi, i want to ask about try and catch should it be used just for exceptions or i can use it like "if" for example i have a treeview and i want to know if the node has a parent or not so i don't know anymethod to indecate that so i used try and catch like this, Try mylastfolder = mylastfolder.Parent Catch mylastfolder = Nothing End Try or should i use catch null ...Show All

• PFPS Classes - Help!

  Hello! I've been in self-study with VB.NET for a year or so now and I've still to this day had problems understanding the concept of classes. I am currently using the free video series for VB.NET 2005 Express and am on the area of OOP and it still doesn't make much sense. I have a subscription to Books 24/7 and maybe can find a good book. Does anyone know of a good books to teach the concept of class design in VB and ASP.NET ISBN's would be appr ...Show All

• ebrainsoft System.InvalidOperationException in System.Windows.Forms.dll

  Hello, I use to do programming long time ago, in the DOS era, survived TRS80, Tiny Basic, GWbasic and Quickbasic. Recently I managed to pickup programming Basic style again with Visual Basic Express. After installing it and playing a bit around, I tried to find an initial setup for a Local area network packet sniffer. Google came up with a package called PackMon.NET and Sniffer.NET from v2softwares http://www.1vbstreet.com/vb/scripts/ ...Show All

• Jeroen123 How do I inset the degree symbol

  How do I inset the degree symbol into a text string I tried using chr(167) but, that didn't work. Thanks in advance. Ken Dim Outside_temp As New System.Drawing.Font( "Arial" , 8, FontStyle.Bold) formGraphics.DrawString( "Outside temp: " & out_temp & Chr(167), Outside_temp, Brushes.Black, 140, 10) instead of Chr(167), start a quote (") Hold down the ALT key an ...Show All

• RESAI AHMET CUBUKCU Installing Visual Web Developer problem

  Whenever I try to install vwdsetup.exe, the progress bar gets about 3 quarters of the way across and then stops. I left it running for about 10 minutes to see if it was going to do something and it didn't. So I did Ctrl Alt Del and ended the setup.exe process (which was using about 90% CPU). The setup window disapeared, but the processes kept running, the only way to get rid of the process is to restart the computer. Is there a fix for this So ...Show All

• Debabrata.debroy E-Books offer with registration: Is this offer real?

  I completed the registration almost a month ++ ago, but have not gotten any response. Has anyone actually gotten this offer fulfilled Cheers, yousaid Greetings, Well, thanks very much for the link. That's what I needed. Do you have the links to the others. Also do you know where I can download the WYSISWYG editor editor used in this forum Thanks yousaid Hi, Yes. Its true. I did ...Show All

• drymedia Write and read a file in Visual Basic 2005?

  Hello Microsoft. I need to know how to read or write from / to a file with Visual Basic 2005. This is quite hard for me, when I'm used to Visual Basic 6. Since I'm lazy, I'm not even gonna look at that dude. Can you like shorten the lines a little I'm not gonna try to understand the meaning of all that ;) Imports System.io Public Class Form1     Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Syst ...Show All

• Rutger van Hagen Free books after signup to Express Edition

  Haven't recevied an email with the links to the free ebooks. I activated my express edition 9 days ago. Can anyone help! Rohit, This is the link I think you're asking about: https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/enterCode.aspx The problem is you have to enter a code that you receive in your email in order to enter the site.  Right now the site looks like it's down for maintenance also. Sorry, Tony I have waited 11 days ...Show All

• amitshah003 Users in SQL Express server

  This is my connection routine for an SQL Express database I'm using with ASP.NET and C#         connectionString = "server=.\\SQLExpress;uid=sa;pwd=;database=cartridge;" +         "Integrated Security=True;";         connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString);         connection.Open(); When I run ...Show All

• chj915 Creating a Database in Code

  I've tried 3 (three) different scenarios to create an access MDB file from code. I can "create" the MDB file successfully using ADOX, after I added a COM reference to it for my application. My first attempt to create tables was a blind alley. I was using DataTables, and I couldn't find any way to have the DataTable create itself in an OLEDB. The second one was to use a create statement in OleDBCommand and then perform an ExecuteN ...Show All

• Kripa How do I convert a Url to a String to be used in a text box?

  i keep getting this message: InvalidOperationException Was Unhandled An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details.  The error is: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. here is the code that causes the problem on the program: Private Sub WebBrowser1_LocationChanged( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.LocationChan ...Show All

• janfe313 my first program

  hy ive made my first program today after watching some of the videos on this site. Now i made a calculation program and it works fine until u type in numbers that deal with a , . like 0.00675. first my val1 and val2 were integers so they cant have , so i maked then double. but it still dont work. heres my code for the calculate button: Private Sub Button1_Click( ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As Sy ...Show All

• Sk75 Windows Mobile 5 SDK with VS Express

  Can I use the Windows Mobile 5 SDK with the Visual Studios 2005 Express I tried to install the Windows Mobile 5 SDK aufter installing the Visual Basic 2005 Express but it tells me there are no development tools install. Ist it in general not possible Or do I need more than just Visual Basic Thanks Stefan To my knowledge I thought the express edition provided no support for creating mobile applications ...Show All