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• IanMuscat Runtime Error On Delete / Free, only with "/MD" and outside the IDE

  Hi, I appreciate any help with this issue. I have an application which runs fine both in debug and release mode, if I launch it within the IDE. The debug compiled .exe "/MDd" can also run fine outside the IDE. However, the release compiled .exe "/MD" gives a run time error: ************** Exception Text ************** System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indic ...Show All

• Bravo OpenFileDialog example not working - but why?

  Hi Wonder if anyone can help out Copied directly from system help on OpenFileDialog -> FileNames. Started with blank form1, and as per example setup instructions, added button named filebutton, picturebox named picturebox1, and created form load with InitializePictureBox() InitializeOpenFileDialog() When I run the Application, and step through the Sub OpenFileDialog1_FileOk routine, I can see the 'file' variable is holding the ...Show All

• nx797rd Manual Installation of VS 2005

  Somebody support me in doing the manual installation of VS 2005 on Windows XP Sp2. I have downloaded the .img file named "54764" for manual installation of Visual Basic 2005. I have extracted all the contents from this file and put in under "\VS2005\VS\" folder on my Desktop. Now while running the Autorun or Setup.exe file i receive a message "A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Cence ...Show All

• Poojac25 Dataset Question

  Hi, I created a form and setup a Split Container - the left pane being a Tree View (with some top level nodes being topics: Memory, Operating System, Hard Drives, etc). The right pane contains a listbox. Is it possible to use a dataset (with no DB connection) to hold all my information in memory Then I'd like to be able to query the dataset to fill the listbox with the info I need when a user click on a node in the left pane. I've trie ...Show All

• pfitzsimons builder path

  Hi,    I sucessfully installed c#expr b2 and I'm starting to use it but it seems like some .Net framework classes are not supported by the IDE yet.    For instance if I use the ConfigurationManager class, I receive a "does no exists in the current context" error. But if I compile the same program using the SDK compiler it works just fine.    I wonder if you can tell me how can I switch the compiler th ...Show All

• Craig Barkhouse getting started

  hey all im new to C++ and was just wondering if someone could walk me through on how to make a simple little program just to get me started on programming. Take a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/learning/vcexpvids/default.aspx for tutorials. Also, I would recommend any of the books referenced at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=107484&SiteID=1 Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• sqldev80 Drop Down List in a Details View Update

  Hi I am new to asp.net and visual web developer and was wondering if somebody could give me some help. I have a details view with an update and insert facility. When the update button is clicked textboxes appear, for the user to enter data into. Instead of having textboxes for all fields I would like a number of fields to appear as drop down lists that are populated from a database. How easy is this to do I would like the value in the field used ...Show All

• mancer Printing a document in VB

  Can you please let me know how to print a document in Visual Basic 2005 You have to be clear about what you want: a 'document' can mean anything (is it a word document, PDF, code from your application, an unknown file, a web page, a form in your application, a custom printed page, etc.) Do a search on 'printing' on these forums and you will find a few discussions. Additionally, the online and offline help provides some good examples a ...Show All

• WarrenT Standard Library missing?

  Hi, I've recently started a Univercity course and I am required to do a small amount of C++ programming such as make calculators etc. These are made in the command line part of the compiler (looks like DOS) and they run there too. My question is how do I get the standard header files in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition to work I mean like when using: #include <iostream> The <iostream> part appears in ...Show All

• A. Anderson I have registered, how do i get the free stuff?

  I have registered my version of VB 2005 Express Edition, but i can not find anything that will lead to the free icons ( from IconBuffet.com ) and free images (from corbra, or something like that). Please can someone tell me how to download these packages. Thanks in advance, Uzzy I have gone back to the link, and it now works! ! ! Not sure why. Could you please post the link Anyone know ...Show All

• CrazyIdeas Source Code is secured with vb 2005 express compiler ?

  After i compiled my code into exe, is it easier or harder for some1 decode your source If you have Visual Studio, you can use Dotfuscator a Obfuscator for .NET. It basically makes it hard for prying eyes to determine what is happening within the code. No, exe's can be just as easily decompiled as dlls. What if my program does not have any dlls Except dlls like stdole which are coming along with OS ...Show All

• Rajesh Nallani user set connection string

  I am creating a program that will read MS Access Database information. I have all of the forms created and everything work fine. The only problem is that the databases are created by another application and in that application they have the ability to set the database in any location on the computer. What I would like to do is have the program check the default location of the database and if it doesn't find the databases, then I would like t ...Show All

• oiji2000 Connecting with C# 2005 Express

  I downloaded the SQL Server 2005 Express Advanced. Everything seems to be working fine. I have on my pc C# 2005 Express and Visual Studio 2005. The only product I have installed in Visual Studio 2005 is the SQL Server Reporting Services. Which is fine as I only want to use C# Express. In VS 2005 I can go to Data Connections and add a my database I created in SQL Server Managment Studio Express. Great. So now I want to connect to my db with ...Show All

• Kendal Walton obtain filename only from opendialog

  can anyone help me with how to retrieve only the filename and extension with openfiledialog. when I use openfiledialog.filename I get c:\folder\filename ( just like the documentation says) and cant seem to find an easy way to get just the filename. I am using visual basic express. thanks Hi, You can also use System.IO.Path class which provides many shared methods for manipulating file path strings ...Show All

• M Thomas Uninstalling -- I have version VB.NET 2005 Beta -- no uninstaller

  Bit complicated question... I had VB.NET 2005 BETA during testing last year. I created a backup of my harddrive with it installed (full drive and registers) and since then I uninstalled the beta. Then, last month my computer crashed, and I restored the files and registers, and it overlapped with some files I still had on disk. I wasn't able to run it for some reason and couldn't get that installer since beta is finished, so I uninstalled it usin ...Show All