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• RobertPalmer To VB 03 or VB EE, that is the Question.

  I have an application that was programmed in VB 5 (yes, Five). I purchased VB.Net 2003 a couple of years ago to update my application by adding new screens, illustrations and generally make it pretty. A few days ago, I decided to get started on my updates and I found out about these forums and have read about the different versions of VB.  I am not much of a programmer, but seem to be able to get by, however after spending a week with VB.Ne ...Show All

• jaedge 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. Andreas: I am using Visual Basic .Net. I would appreciate it if you would move my post to the proper forum. Thank you. ...Show All

• John Whattam Getting the SDK

  Well it said i have to download the SDK or something like that, i cant find where it said that so can someone give me a link to it Thank You! You can perform a web install of the platform sdk from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=A55B6B43-E24F-4EA3-A93E-40C0EC4F68E5&displaylang=en or, download the full thing thing from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=EBA0128F-A770-45F ...Show All

• Arjuna_M Cannot UNINSTALL Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions

  I noticed that several people have had this problem when attempting to install a VS2005 Express package, but I'm having it when attempting to uninstall. I also receive the same error message: "suite integration toolkit executable has encountered a problem..." My installation of .NET 2.0 is up to date, as well as that of SP2 and MSSQL (I'm only mentioning this because while Googling for a solution I saw that some people suggested that u ...Show All

• Eugene Pavlov Loading a new form!

  Forum, I am using the Visual Basic Express Beta version. I've been trying it out and have noticed some language enhancements. Ive used Visual Basic 6.0 and have the code to load a new forum. In other words, I want the user to be able to click a button and it will load a new window. While closing the Previous form, using the Unload Me function. I want the code for VB Express Edition Beta, to load a new window. Any ideas Code samplings wo ...Show All

• HarishRavi Express install lockup

  Hello! I've downloaded the visual c++ express installer only to find that it locks up during its "Setup is loading installation components, this will take a minute or two" part. Keep in mind that I have no proir 'beta' versions installed on this machine. In fact it's a fresh install of winxp pro with all the updates. Machine: Amd64 3000+ 1024meg ram ATI Radeon 9800 Pro and a pathetic keyboard w/out the space bar :) ...Show All

• jacco2 Adding an XML file to a Project

  I'm new to VB Express and I'm looking for some "how to" information. I have an existing XML file and I would like to add it to a new project. Your help would be greatly appreciated, thanks. Right click on the project in Solution Explorer, then select Add -> Existing Item. Ryan, Thanks, that worked just fine. I had tried Add -> New Item, but did not see how to add an XML file and then got lost in the help files. ...Show All

• anilF to old to learn visual basic

  hi computing does my head in....if I were just leaving school I would definitely go into computing....but alas....pcs came along too late for me....... I am amazed at the amount of ( know how) a lot of you people have...... the thing is .....I am too old to learn vb...( or anything else for that matter) for any reason other than pure amusement....... so I would like to have my pc start-up with my own windows form ready loaded.... ...Show All

• Ani D. Is it possible to connect to SQL Server Express?

  From the SQL Server Express web site it claims that you can use Visual C# Express 2005 with SQL Server Express 2005, but I have yet to find a way to make that happen. When I try to select a data source the only options I get are Microsoft Access Database File Microsoft SQL Server Database File When I try to select the latter, I just go on a wild goose chase where it claims that I don't have credentials with the server. When I use the re ...Show All

• Danielyaakove Web browser splash screen C#

  C#  2005 Express Edition Hi. I am a beginner and I am working on my first project in C# following the 'Build a Program NOW' guide that was downloaded as part of the express edition package for C#. The project is a web browser which I am adding the code for a splash screen on page 86 of the guide. I have made no changes to the code and only a few changes to the splash screen properties itself which shouldn't have affected muc ...Show All

• Ling A Where's the "e-book"?

  As one of my "Registration Benifits" listed, I see: E-book - Download an electronic version of MicrosoftR Visual C#R 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! from Microsoft Press I've searched High and low -- Where do I find this hi, i'm downloading from this site right now it will redirect you if you registered your product and have .net password hope this helps hi, if ...Show All

• Tim Schmidt fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'xxxx.h': No such file or directory

  Hi, I'm using Visual C++ 2005 Express, and I see that this type of error message has been giving a lot of people problems, but after trying a few of the fixes posted here, my project still gets the same error message. Here's a snippet of my .h file: //randomcard.h int randomcard( void ) {    int randomnum; and here's the top part of my .cpp file: #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> ...Show All

• Pierre-Andre Any way to simulate a key being pressed?

  I'm wondering if there is a way to simulate a key being pressed, such as ENTER. I need to do this without targetting a specific window, just simulate as if somebody hit enter on the keyboard. I cannot target the window (or more like I don't know how) because I'm not creating the window. It's a print dialog that is created by the FaxServer object. Any ideas I know that simulating enter would certainly not be the best answer (without targetting), ...Show All

• Bradr1 Database not updating. Just installed SQL Server Database. Please help!

  I just installed SQL Server 2005 Express Edition to allow me to create databases in VB Express. The installation went fine (or so it seemed). When I complete the example to create a database and try to save the changes in the file, they are not retained. I use the following statement to verify the changes have been made, but when I exit and return to the database, the changes are not made. If I make changes, the If statemetn correctly indicat ...Show All

• Jeong-hun Missed only one think: Code Friendly

  Hi to everone! I'm install VC++ 2k5 express and PSDK, now I'm in the heavens Only few things crashme down to the reality: Why generated code is not friendly and clean (read: partial classes) like VC# 2005 Any forecast to bring up this Irritating refactoring error, basically any alteration leaves fragments of code. You can't rename the main form, in fact, you cannot rename nothing therefore it do not propagate the alteration. ...Show All