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• Vasco Veiga - MSFT Disabled Panel or GroupBox

  Hello. I'm working on a project right now. I placed my controls (textboxes, buttons, etc) in a panel or groupbox, and disabled these containers by default so that users cannot play with these controls unless it is in edit mode or adding a new record. My problem is when these containers are disabled, background and forecolors of textboxes are grayed which do not give good presentation of data or impression to users as far as font ...Show All

• Dpcsgl Information not found

  I find very little content in the VB Express Help files. If I try to follow links from the pages I have -- even the "Guided Tour"  -- I get the "Information not Found" page. I have my Help options set to search local first, then the Internet. My connection is good. Did I neglect to download a critical file How can I find basic language reference material Thanks, Mable Links to topics that aren't part of ...Show All

• graphicsxp_too Eror : The procedure entry poing_recallooc...! Help!

  The Procedure Entry point_recalloc could not be located in the dynamic link library MSVCR80 Help! can you give us more details refer to ReneeC on http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=227937&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Half Abude Publish Can't Find Redist Files

  I've checked SQLExpress, .Net Framework, and Windows installer  and checked "Download prereq from same location an as my application" and get several errors.  Here is a sample:  Error 4 The install location for prerequisites has not been set to 'component vendor's web site' and the file 'DotNetFX\dotnetfx.exe' in item '.NET Framework 2.0' can not be located on disk. See Help for more information. TOPKPDFServ ...Show All

• Smitha S Saligrama Serial Port Read Hangs

  G'Day, Trying to read data from a serial port using Microsoft supplied Snippet. Project involves occasional read/writes to a microcontroller on the serial port Have been able to enumerate and write to port no problems. Reading works okay if there is something in the port buffer, but if there isn't anything there, it just hangs at location marked below. Dim buffer As New StringBuilder() Using comPort As SerialPort = My .C ...Show All

• Lacan Designer view won't work!

  When I try to switch to designer view I get an error report dialog::: "Microsoft (R) Visual Basic Compiler has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience." After the error report dialog, I get a messagebox that says "More data is available" I can still compile projects and they work fine, but I can not view the designer. I have tried reinstalling Vb.net express but the error still occurs. ...Show All

• UncleSam89 Something wrong with do,while loop.

  Here is my code and I cant figure why it wont work: #include <iostream> #include <string> using namespace std; int main() { int x; string name; string lastname; string emailaddress; string password; string password2; string username; cout << "Input the following information. \n\n"; cout << "name: "; cin >> name; cout << "lastname: "; cin >> lastname; cout << "emailaddress: "; cin >> emailadd ...Show All

• DonOrel visual basic problem

  Hi guys i m developing one application in which i want to send and recieve mails via visual basic program in outlook express. as i developed the application but the prob it wont able to send mails when the system is locked. so plz help me out for that prob as soon as possible. I'm not sure I understand. You wrote an app that sends mail, it's an add in for Outlook Express And how do you mean 'when the system is ...Show All

• sboots Problems with SQL Express Beta

  Hi, I have just installed Visual Web Developer Beta 2 with SQL Express April CTP. I'm not really to sure what to do now. I think I've got to put sqlcmd S- Server/Instance into the command prompt. I put my computer name where it says Server and SQLExpress where it says Instance. When I put that into Command Prompt, it gives me errors: VIA Provider: The specified module can not be found Error: Microsoft SQL Native Client unable to esta ...Show All

• MKeeper debugger in vb express 2005 runs unupdated form, no matter what changes i do and save

  the problem is very simple, the debugger in vb express 2005 runs a form that is stored somewhere but it does not run the current from. this happens randomly after a certain amount of time. no matter what i do to my form or the project, the debugger runs the same old form. I saved, resaved, started new several times, restared the comp, searched for any trace of the mystarious form and nothing. im sure its a setting somewhere but i dont know of ...Show All

• Gianluigi B. Is it possible to shell an application seamlessly?

  I need to be able to run an application such as notepad or calc in the same way that I can start a browser inside my VB app ie. make the spawned program appear to be just another window in my program. Has anyone done this before   Good code Billy, however this isn't what the user was asking for. RB, Are you wanting your old app to appear seamless just for aesthetics Will your 'front-end' wrap ...Show All

• Ansgar Publishing

  This may seem like a silly question, but how do you publish your file into an application (.exe) hi, you can check this link for the last tutorial it talk about that in details http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/default.aspx but simply right click in your project in solution explorer and then go to the last tab at buttom its called publish you can check there hope this helps ...Show All

• Ventuspilot Visual Studio 2005 = very very very unstable !!!

  Out of frustration, I'd like to warn you all that the release of Visual Studio 2005 is horribly unstable !!  Please beware before upgrading. We've upgraded and it wasn't worth it. I regret it ! Are you sticking like Java code in there to make it unstable   Yeah you really need to elaborate, b/c just spitting out comments without identifying the causes is called BS. ...Show All

• Divya Formating of numbers and dates on text data binded controls

  How to format numbers and/or dates on text data binded controls DataGridView has this properties but I cant found (if exists) on text controls. Regards. The System.Windows.Forms.Binding class has an 2 events: Format and Parse. These should allow you to achieve what you want. Binding binding = new Binding("Text", dataObject, "NumberProperty"); binding.Format += new EventHandler(binding_Format); binding.Parse ...Show All

• Daniel Chu How do I get the collection of frames (image) from videos?

  Dear friends, I would like to get your help. As I want to analysis the color change of video. I have to capture the collection of frames from videos. In other words, I need collection of Bitmaps image that constitute the video. How could I get this collection with C# language. Would anyone help me Thank you. Regards, David http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/ExtractVideoFrames.a ...Show All