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• TomAStraw Is there a way to open macro

  Hi, I have a project in VB and it connects to a Access database. And there is a macro in my Access database, which opens a table in that database. I want to create a button, so that when i click on the button, the macro in Access will be executed. Is there a way to do this by using functions provided in VB 2005 express or writing some code to do it Thanks. Add the Office Primary Interop Assemblies onto you machine. Add ...Show All

• vishal868 Remote Apps with VB and SQL

  HI please excuse my ignorance or the simplicity of this question, I have programmed in VB before but am new to VB2005 and SQL. The basic aim of my app is quite simple, to create something that retrieves and updates data from an SQL database. I have managed to create this locally and the app works fine updating and showing information on the local machine, but how do i put this app on another machine, either connected to my domain via my lan ...Show All

• Bruce Curling microsoft access error after update

  I have this program that we use to do quick estimates when people walk in. The program was working fine before we did updates for our office program. Afterwards it gave an error and went to debug. We are a small buisness and the guy before me setup the program. I don't know anything about visual basic or access programming. I was wondering if someone could help me out with this problem. If you could fix it for me that would be even better. ...Show All

• Christian Jacob Unhandled exception

  I'm a new visual basic user, when I try to launch my application in another PC (always with windowsXP as mine) I have the following error. (My application uses a COM object created with the Matlab COM builder and on my PC it works perfectly). Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately. ...Show All

• MadDawg2020 VB 2005 RSS German special character cut off!

  My template is the screensaver from projectfolder in VB 2005 Express. Wenn in the textbox insert a german rss-url then the special charater are cut off. In the XML-file all charakters are present. Thanks I'm not sure, but you may need to have the German language pack installed in order to see special characters. Are you using the English version of VB Express Steve Hoag Visual Basic Express ...Show All

• Prachi Tyagi How to disable the space bar in maskedTextBox?

  I have a masked text box of an IP address. the mask is set as 099.099.099.099 and it allows user to enter space bar. I' like to know how to disable the space bar key i.e. when a user press space bar then nothing happen, the cursor is still at the same position.. I've tried to use the keyDown and keyPress with the e.handled = true; but it dose not work. Can anyone help me Thank you Thank ...Show All

• stupidStan Accesing Databases other than Access or SQL Server?

  Hello all. On the Express edition, in the Database Explorer, I only have Microsoft Access and SQL Server available as possible data sources. I've done some searches, and I've found some code on how to manually set-up ODBC connections etc., but is there a way install a .NET framework provider for ODBC or in some other way allow me to set up arbitrary data sources via the Database Explorer interface Any advice will be warmly appreciated. ...Show All

• sayangoin Conversion Problem

  Hi, I am new to these forums and it seems like the last place I can turn. I have a DirectX 9/C++ Book that requires Visual Studio .NET 2003. But, I do not want to purchase it at this time. I want to try to convert it to Visual C++ 2005, but I do not see anyway to convert it. Is there any built - in way of converting VC++ 2003 to VC++ 2005 If so, how, because I am a little upset. Well, the author of the book probably used the version o ...Show All

• jim_leier Saving DateTimePicker results to .txt file and then reading them back to the same place?

  Visual Basic 2005 Express question: I have a form that among other things has(almost 100 TextBoxes)that I am able to write into a .txt file, close the form, and when it re-opens, all the values re-appear where the came from. I works fine. But now, I want to add ten DateTimePicker’s to the form and when like the TextBoxes, have the DateTimePicker’s selected values re-appear in the same “DateTimePicker”’s frome wence they came. I ...Show All

• Epiana Dotnetfirebird

  Hi! Does anyone know if it's possible to get an report printed using the Firebird database It seems to be very good for using with embedded databases, but i can't find any good free report liberys to use with it. Does anyone know one Not aware of any free reporting tools available for .NET I'm afraid and there are no reporting facilities in any of the Express editions. Most third-party vendors seem to charge a ...Show All

• kdlady1974 mediaSoundPlayer.Play() does not always play right!

  This is supposed to play a click sound. It usually does, but it frequently plays a PFFFFFFT instead!mediaSoundPlayer.Stream = My .Resources.PodVwBy mediaSoundPlayer.Load() mediaSoundPlayer.Play() I have other sounds in the program, and, they misfire occasionally, too! I would think that playing a click sound when a key is pressed would be a very common thing! Why is this so difficult Half of the t ...Show All

• Filreis IDE 2005 editor tab size

  Hi, Does anyone know how to change the tab size in an editor window Thanks. Geert Go to the "Tools->Options..." menu. You get the options dialog where you can check "Show all settings" at the bottom left corner. Now you can set the tabsize under Text Editor->All Languages->Tabs You can also set it per type of source file. ...Show All

• precchia Graphics Programming in Visual Basic .NET

  At first, excuse me for my bad English (it isn't my native language). I have such a question: is it possible to program graphics in Visual Basic .NET using OpenGL library without long list of subs and functions declaration May be, it's only need to add some library like gl.h in C++ Thank you. Thank you very much. I don`t know why I did`t find it earlier - perhaps, I used not very good search system. ...Show All

• axp localization

  Hi to all, In the form's properties ,I changed Localizible->True And language->telugu when i changed the above two properties,visual studio will add the corresponding resource files.But resource file form1.te.resx is not added.why Please help me how to generate those resource files Hi, Thanks for your valuble information.Can You explain a bit clearly.Then How to generate resource files. I create a new ...Show All

• RJW1958 NotifyIcon

  Is there any way to start my vb.net2005 application to start without any forms at all ie, I want to hide my start up form much like when setting the form visibility = false but with the icon in the tray. Thanx in advance to reply me on tomsmaily@gmail.com I also wrote (well, changed the notifyicon sample from MSDN) an example that puts a notification icon in the systray without using any forms fo ...Show All