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• Jignesh Joshi Adding print summary

  I want to be able to print a summary for 4-5 forms in my program. how do I add a print summary button and then be able to print a summary. The forms have information on them that use typed in. Please help Scott Could you give some more details about your application You can search the forums, or use the Visual Basic/Visual Studio IDE to search for printing. There are several examples. Here's a lin ...Show All

• ValidDisplayName can't update sql table with TableAdapter.Update

  Hello all, I'm unable to update a SQL table in C# 2005. I created a basic form with binding navigator, dataset, tableAdapter, and a BindingSource. I have 3 text boxes on the form to display data from my table. The text boxes are bound to the binding source. I can make changes and they stick until I exit the application. I have a message box tell me how many rows are updated and that seems to work but when I look at my data all of the changes ar ...Show All

• temp12000 c# pointers

  A need help and hope someone here can help me!! A long time ago I used c++ and used pointer but now moved over to c# and havent programmed for a while! my problem is: I have a picturebox that contains a number of rich text boxes (dont ask why!! :D ) what I want to do is enable bold on all of the richtextboxes with only using reference to the picture box (called pbxContainer ) this is all the code I have written before a blank: privat ...Show All

• Bob Glassley Pass on variables?

  In windows form application I made two forms... One is the dialog thing and one is the main form... I made it so that the variable "selectedPath" equals a certain thing... Then I need to confirm the path... and label3 is placed in the dialog... so when I type in: label3.Text = selectedPath   it says that the variable "selectedPath" is not defined... How can I make it so that the main form passes on the variable "selectedPath" to the ...Show All

• Darkpaw why are textbox1.text == null and textbox1.text == "" different?

  just found out that textbox1.text == null and textbox1.text == "" are different. I am checking if textbox1.text has value or not, if not, show message. Firstly I tried textbox1.text == null , it didnt work, then changed it to textbox1.text == "" , it worked. why plz help The string type is a reference type for performance reasons, so that long strings don't have to be allocated on the stack every time they are p ...Show All

• Alexx4 howcan I install the Document Explorer for Visual Basic Express edition

  In Visual Basic I can't access the online help Are you getting any error messages when you go to the help menu from the top... At the moment you can not install the different parts seperatly (Other then SQL Express). When I try to enter in a link of help,like Overview of transact-SQL, I recive a message "on line help is not available" and several sugerences for remedy the problem, but none ...Show All

• Yun yang Distributing a multi-user application

  Hi there, This post stems from a problem that many of us are having: the fact that we don’t see our database being updated. I understand now why this is the case as there have been many posts on the subject. We are expecting to see the database updated (in the Database explorer or in the Solution explorer) when in actual fact a local copy of the database (in the bin folder) is being updated (unitl you rebuild your app in which case it gets ...Show All

• Graeme Lowry beta2, new personal web starter

  downloaded latest team system beta 2 today, created new personal web starter project, when i attempt to create an administrator account here: http://localhost:1689/asp.netwebadminfiles/security/users/addUser.aspx no mater what i type, it continues to say "please enter a different password".  you are instructed to create an admin account for your personal web site by the new starter project.  ideas ...Show All

• el-chema 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

• da Vinci Update SQL Express to Standard

  How do I update my SQL Server 2005 Express to the Standard Edition How much does it cost Thanks You will find that the costs will be different depending on where you are located, to find out how much in your area you should first look at your localized Microsoft site for retailers. Or have a look at the local software supply stores for the price. It costs alot of money, and you should install it on a server oper ...Show All

• TohKung Sending keys to a game

  I tried to send keys using the "SendKeys" function to a game, and its didn't worked. How can I do it Games like CounterStrike tend to talk directly to the hardware (DirectInput ) rather than pump a message loop. SendKeys won't work without one. Your code will help .... I used simple SendKeys. System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.Send( "{UP}" ) And the game act like I pressed ESC an ...Show All

• acydeK Mobile Device Application template

  Where can I find and download the Mobile Device Application template as one of the project templates for MS Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Thanks, Kevin Doesn't seem to available. If you have access to the professional edition, you might be able to zip up the templates from there and copy it to your express edition computer, but Microsoft don't support this scenario. ...Show All

• didisteiner Int array conversion to string

  I have an integer array number[x] i need to convert the entire array of unknow length to a singal string. In the end i want to take all of the integers from the array and put them on one line and out put it to a text box. I have tried using encout->Text= number[x].ToString(); but that only out puts the last integer in the array, and i need all of them comeing out. Get rid of the ToString. This works ...Show All

• KitZ_CK Trouble with C++ Express Install

  I have tried multiple times to instll the MSVE C++ package with no success.Everytime I try I get a MS .Net Framework 2.o installation errror, which in turn prevents the rest of the package from installing. I have/had none of the components that were not allowed to be on before I started. I even ran the vs_uninst_betas.exe to make sure I wasn't missing anything. I just do not know what to try next to get around this issue. I am running a Athlo ...Show All

• vidula Managing exceptions in a backgroundworker

  Hi, I'm using a backgroundworker (in VSE2005 for C#) and have the following problem : In the 'dowork' method I have a try/catch that handles exceptions that might occur and then rethrow them for the 'workcompleted' method have a proper error state. The problem is that when an exception occurs, I get an unhandled exception error message pointing to the 'throw ex;' in the catch block (see code below), because of course ex is not being han ...Show All