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• C4jun Set pixel of a window

  I'm trying to learn basic C++ so that I can make DLLs for use in another programming language. I've had some success, but got completley stuck when trying to set a pixel on a window. I thought this would be a very easy task, so maybe I'm missing something basic. Anyway, here's the entirety of the code I'm trying: (the window and hDC are already prepaired by the other language) #define STRICT #include <windows.h> #include <stdio.h ...Show All

• Rocinante8 Office 2000 has VB Installer / Configuration Problem after installing VB Express 2005

  I am an absolute beginner with VB. I installed VBE 2005 without a hitch but since doing so I have a problem with Word and Excel. Each time I launch them I get a message saying "Please wait while Windows configures Visual Basic Express 2005 ENU". If I let the installer run it chugs aways for several minutes. There is lots of hard drive activity and I notice MSIexec runs in the task list with lots of MSInnn.tmp entries (where nnn is a nu ...Show All

• Codemachine form.showdialog problem

  i can get the OK message return when i press the OK Button in form frmChooseItems, also get the CANCEL message return when i press ESC If the focus on the control datagridview on frmChooseItems, when i press the enter, i cannot get the message "OK" return. I want to know how to : when i press the "Enter" on the datagridview on frmChooseItems, i can get the result sames as i press the OK Button. frmPI COD ...Show All

• Shivax32 Properties.Settings gives error :"0, 0 is not a valid value for Int32"

  Happens everytime, don't know why... Take a form... In properties: ApplicationSettings...Location...new...opens up a standard window to pick a New Application Setting...Take the default value 0;0 or make that anything you want and then somehow that 0;0 turns into 0,0. Now when I edit it in the Settings.settings and type in 0;0 instead of 0,0 ...pop-up says cann't convert 300;00  to an instance of System.Drawing.Size... Am I missing somethi ...Show All

• Chris G 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

• Rich Cyc Bindingsource.find

  I’m sorry to ask something so basic but how do I get bindingsource.find to work Below is the dreadful code I have in place and it always complains that the column name CarMake does not exist when it happily displays it as the column heading suggesting it does exist. The actual error text is DataMember property 'CarMake' cannot be found on the DataSource. If you can help me gain momentum I’ll be very grateful. It's ...Show All

• Michael Faschinger Beginner Video Series Resource Availability

  My Visual Studio 2005 Express registration confirmation email listed an available Resource called "Beginner Video Series — Learn how to program using Visual Basic in a series that covers the basics of programming using Visual Basic as well as working with SQL Server 2005 Express" The link in the registration confirmation email for this resource takes me back to the Express Editions home page.  http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/expre ...Show All

• RobertG1 C# Absolute Beginner Project Files arent available for Final Project!

  I have been SO SO happy with Express and learning all this stuff! I love it and cannot get enough. I am going through the absolute beginner series offered on the site and have made it basically to the final project. NOW on the final project, where there are multiple files and coding that I need from the beginning, the project files are not even offered for download! All the other lessons have the files available, but this is the one where you R ...Show All

• Mike Gough Getting the ID from a newly entered record

  I hope this describes what I am trying to accomplish, on a form I want users to enter information in fields that will be used as header information then enter information in fields that will be detail records and each of the detail records need to have the ID = to the ID of the header record. I created a simple form to try and test this but I need a little help if someone could be so kind it would be most appreciated. Private Sub Form1_Lo ...Show All

• billreynolds Amazon-Enabled Movie Collection

  I've downloaded the web-enabled MovieCollection and got it to run, but for some reason, it does not save any of the data.  I type in movie names but as soon as I exit the program and restart it, the data is gone.  What could be the problem I'm still trying to get this to work, but no luck.  I've set breakpoints in the save processing and they get hit as I expected.  The rowsSaved variable i ...Show All

• GMc Db connection info

  I have a Mysql dB that I develop web apps with,   I would like to tryout working with   ASP but I would need to be able to convert my old sites over to ASP for PHP, but I don’t want to change db to SQL.   Can someone direct me were to go, to get a step by step explanation of what to do, to connect to Mysql for .net Have not done much with MySQL, but you might want to look at the following link ...Show All

• Marcos Rodrigues Pinto enter key on textbox to run button click event????

  hi people, i am completely stuck trying to get the enter key to submit a search query after typing in a textbox. please help!!! it sounds such a simple and obvious thing to do, its in software everywhere but for the life of me i can't find a simple answer for a newbie like myself to absorb. here's the scenario in pseudo code... private sub searchBtn_click... here's my working search code - reading contents from textbox1, activate ...Show All

• gpai Adding Excel as reference

  Hi, I just tried my program which references Excel 11.0 Object Library on a computer that has windows2000 and got a Runtime error. The computer that I programmed has windows2003. Am I correct to assume that this excel library is the problem I also see Excel 5.0 object library on my computer. Should I reference this instead I just want to make sure before I fix my code. Thanks Thanks for your ...Show All

• Colin Doran OK I AM Dumb

  I must be because what I'm trying to do will not work. I have a table (Fruit) containing an ID (Identity)and a description(Apple, Banana etc..) so 1= Apple 2= Banana etc... I have a table (containing other info plus a column for the fruit ID I have a form with a dropdown to select the fruit to add Now heres where I go stupid... I need the combobox to show the item description from the first table (Apple) but stamp the ID(1) i ...Show All

• Stephen_Weber CDate function returns 'IndexOutOfRange' error - also in VB.Net 2005 Beta2

  Hi folks, I have already reported this error in the VS 2005 Beta2 forum, but was told that it was not reproducible (VbCity and VBug, and your UK Launch team were also unable to reproduce the problem). I think I now have a lead on the issue! It also looks similar to a problem reported yesterday on the VB Express forum - 'I keep getting the out of range exception'. I have condensed the problem to two lines of code:    &nb ...Show All