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• Lacko Exception in visual studio 2003

  9953569 Hi,             I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2003( registered). While using visual basic if I try to compile a form without any control it runs, but when I add any control e.g textbox, label or button etc, I found the following error.   An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArithmeticException' occurred in system.drawing.dll   Additional inform ...Show All

• chinafax Is Visual Basic Express A Toy?????

  Hi There This Dog Don’t Hunt........ From Visual Basic Guided Tour Managing Your Records: Using Data in Your Program In this section, you will learn about working with databases. This Section Flat A*S Does Not work.... It DOES NOT Update the Data Base.....Rendering this Version of VB Express to the TOY BOX..... It Ain’t Just Bronco.... Check The Forum for multiple posts saying the same thing...... This Edition is for Advertising and Not ...Show All

• LMV596 Splash Screen Delay

  I'm following along in the "Build a Program NOW" tutorial and on page 100 it states that a code snippet is available to set the dealy of a splash screen. I can't find the snippet. More importantly I can't find anything on the msdn site telling how to accomplish this. This seems like an issue that would be VERY common. Why no help Can the screen be made to stay untill a condition is met - for example untill a sub has completed ...Show All

• juunas Is The OOP Microsoft.VisualBasic.IIf Equivalent To the Procedural If Then?

  so I guess the thread was locked due to thinskinned vb'ers, unfortunately bronco has a fantastic question in his last post and it certainly warrants discussion. . . This Particular Microsoft.VisualBasic.IIf Is extremely important to me.... If Microsoft.VisualBasic.IIf is Equivalent to the Procedural "Classic" If then.... If it is Equivalent I can Transist to Pure OOP by using Descision Tables, Boolean Algebra and other CS tec ...Show All

• spakh Visual Web developer 2005 and SQL server

  Hi to everyone, somebody can tell me how to validate a login with an aspx page and sql server with visual web developer 2005, it's my first time using web developer so i don't know how to do that!! Any help would be appreciated Thanks for the info guys, but what i'm trying to do is to login and validate the user via SQL server, with a table of the database, and i don't know if visual web developer 2005 express allow this or maybe i need ...Show All

• Warren Timmer control.visible

  can someone give me an example program for using the control.visible property i need to know how to set it. i am trying to make a forms visible property false and i dont know how to refer to the form thus i dont know how to set its properties While it is not a full program, take a look at the example code found on the MSDN page about Control.Visible . Hopefully not much more is needed as it is really a simple property as when it ...Show All

• Mukesh Joshi Hide property disables list boxes

  Whenever we set the visible property of a list box to false, we can no longer access the list box.  When it is not hidden, we can get whatever information we want out of it.  If anyone can help with this problem it would help us out greatly. Thanks, Hoofe What Development Language are you using for your solution How are you trying to access it when it is hidden Ok, sorry ...Show All

• mark_05 Trying to follow lessons... problem

  Hey fellow beginners and pros, I following the tuturials in order to start learning the software and I am having a weird problem. Specifically, I am currently trying to set up a Style Sheet and Master Page. I can create the Style Sheet just fine but when I create the Master Page I cannot see the DOCUMENT properties in the properties window. I need to access these in order to specifiy the Style Sheet to use and I simply dont see any pr ...Show All

• Aleksei Application.StartupPath????????

  Con.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & Application.StartupPath & "\db1.mdb" Con.Open() VB.Net is OK! ________________________________________________ (VB.Express Edition ) Is error! please help to me! hi, try to make it like this connectionString="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=|DataDirectory|\db1.mdb" or you can us ...Show All

• Iyana Updating the database

  I am asking a pretty common question it seems. Yes, I did look and do see the existing posts/responses. My problem is that I am not seeing the database actually get updated with new data. It seems fine at runtime, but if I shutdown the app and check the Db it is not getting back to the table. I also added some code from one of those VB for dummies books to help check that the update worked and it claims it is. I must be a different kind ...Show All

• KeithSmith website expression validator

  hi all..... how can i check the website whether it is in valid format / type when user input the webiste url in the textbox.... the code below is used to check email expression Regex.IsMatch(txtEmail.Text, _ "^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\] )$") = False but i can't find out the website expression in visual baisc....... please let me kn ...Show All

• hegazy Error spawning CL.exe?

  What is this problem My project can't compile How to solve this I solved this problem by examining what environment the IDE uses when running cl.exe. I added a custom build step to dump all environment variables (SET >env.txt) and then applied 'binary search' to find the variable that makes CL run. It turned out to be the PATH variable. In my case it was: PATH=D:\ProgFiles\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET ...Show All

• binglehopper Shareware Service Starter Kit problem

  I downloaded the SharewareStarter kit and installed it. When I Created a new project with the template I got the following error. "A problem was encountered creating the sub project 'Sharewareservice' . The template specified cannot be found." What do I need to do to corrent this ...Show All

• DueyDooDah UserControl TestContainer in VB Express? Possible error in "Adding Code to your User Control"?

  Hi everyone, Well, I've used every possible search term and can't seem to find an answer to this anywhere on here or Google. This isn't my first time programming, but even my VB6 days were awhile ago, so I'm starting from scratch. I'm working through the Visual Basic Guided Tour for VB Express and am a bit perplexed by the UserControl TestContainer that doesn't seem to appear for me. This is under the Adding Code to Your User Control secti ...Show All

• Rothariger Directory searching

  Using: Directory.GetFiles(string path, string searchPattern) Is there a way to specify multiple file types in the search pattern What I'm trying to do is get all BMP, PNG, and JPG files from a directory without having to search the same directory three times to get all of the files. Thanks in advance, Bill Thanks for the info. This is what I ended up doing: string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(path, "*", SearchOption.TopDirector ...Show All