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• Camello Amarillo SOS:VC2005 B2 Express VC++ Directories Problem

  I downloaded and installed VC2005 B2 Express, I can't set "VC++ Directories". screenshot: http://member.netease.com/~lilong/temp/VS2005ExOpt.jpg is this bug this is a BIG PROBLEM!! In fact, without sounding too harsh it is a bit of a joke really. Didnt anyone try to follow the install instructions before everything was released This is seems to be another incident in a long ...Show All

• Scott Simms Running Without CLR

  Is there any way that we can compile our application (.NET) without CLR   So, it can work on the older Windows OS, without installing the CLR.   I don’t see any option in the build that allows me to compile without the CLR.   If someone could point me into right direction that would be great! No! Nope. C#/J#/VB.NET all requires the .NET Framework. Only C++ can do both (native ...Show All

• Patrick in Canada Windows Explorer type shell

  Hi, I am trying to develop a windows explorer type shell, using a treeview and a listview control, on a Windows Forms Application type project of Visual C++ Express. In Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2, there is a sample in the directory below: \\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\Samples\WinUI\Shell\EnumDesk This sample is a makefile type project and using Windows Shell API functions adding related he ...Show All

• Siddharth Fadnis How Can I Copy Source Code from Book Souces or MS WebSite to My Windows Application Form1.vb

  Hi all, Is it possible to copy the VB Express code from Book Souces or MS WebSite to my Windows Application Form1.vb If possible, please tell me how to do it and how to make the code to be used by the component tray. Thanks, Scott Chang Hi shakalama, Thanks for your response. Please answer my question of how to connect the copied code with the component tray (like table adapter in the component tray). Scott Chang ...Show All

• LProgrammer Process continues to run after Application.Exit()

  When the user clicks on my Exit menu command I call Close() followed by Application.Exit(). The GUI goes away as expected but the process is still listed in Task Manager. What do I need to do to really terminate the process Do you have any non background threads running When creating a thread that you don’t want to manually have to clean up when the app exits, it is a good idea to set it’s IsBackground property to true so that it will ...Show All

• fxcoper SQL problems and vs web developer

  Hi People, hope to find some help. I am new to SQL and vs and currently have to develop a web project. Problem 1: I have created a project in vs web developer, connected it to a slq database located in a file system/rather than on the sql server. Initially, I have created my database with the desired fields and tables, however, after I used web tools in vs web develope ...Show All

• Ben Mills Basic Array Help

  If i was to make a socket array like Dim Sockets(1000) as socket Then in form_load i put For a as integer = 1 to 1000 sockets(a) = new socket next a How would i go about handling when it connects and stuff I dont get that Okay, I'm posting this because I'm 99% sure I've seen code that does what you want. I was surprised because I thought it couldn't be done either. I'm pretty sure that vb express treats everything as objects, ...Show All

• Jari Haaranen access parent form function

  Hi, I am fairly new to the "Visual" IDE arena. I have a program with a parent window which switches between several child windows, only displaying one at a time. I created a switchPanel method which takes a form variable, closes the current form and sets the new form as the current child. This function works fine as long as I use it in the parent window, but I cannot access it from a child window. I am sure this is some newbie e ...Show All

• JMitchell Loading a 2-d array of indefinite size from a text file

  I have a file which is comma-delimited in rows like this: X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X X,X,X,T,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,I,O,O,S,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,s,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X,X,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,O,X,X,X X,X, ...Show All

• newone Bug or problem?

  Dim song As String = tags.artist & " - " & tags.song When setting a text box to song it only appears with the tags.artist. When debugging i have found that first of all it sets the song to "tags.artist but it misses out the ending ". Is this a bug with vb and if so can it be fixed or is it something i have done wrong Hi gamesplant!! The behavior you reported would the behavio ...Show All

• Grant Jackson Uninstall won't work

  I'm having problems with my current installation of VB 2005 Express Beta 2 and want to uninstall/reinstall, but can't. if i try to uninstall, i get a popup saying "Setup is unable to determine a valid ordering for the installation. See the error log for further details." Where do i find the error log, and what can it tell me Anyone seen this before Could you try running the cleanup tool at http://go.microsof ...Show All

• Alan Sydney package "Microsoft Report Designer" has failed to load properly

  When starting Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition the following message appears: package "Microsoft Report Designer" has failed to load properly Any suggestions Hi: Aaron's blog has several things you can try to get rid of package load failures: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/09/06/461804.aspx Hope that helps! Ravenna ...Show All

• Potatow installing VWD 2005 Express: must uninstall ANY previous versions of SQL Server 2005

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/download/ Hello, according to the above page/link I must uninstall my current version of SQL 2000...but I don't want to. Can't I just install the Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition without installing the SQL Express Version with it Please tell me yes. And...will this install also take care of the .net 2.0 upgrade also thanks so much, looking forward to giving it a test d ...Show All

• joceryl HTML from website

  Hi guys, I'm trying to get the source from a website from a VB program, and even though this is my second post, the two questions are sort of unrelated. I'm trying to figure out which header files I should be using when i run this chunk of code: ' Create a new WebClient instance. Dim myWebClient As New WebClient ' Download home page data. Console.WriteLine("Accessing {0} ...", uriString) ' Open a stream to point to t ...Show All

• george22 Read Serial Port Data

  Hi I am trying to read data form a Serial Port, below is the VB Express Code Snippet that does this, as supplied in VB Express. This does work however I cannot get it to place the text in a multiline Textbox. The data is repeated as a 56 character string approx every 1 second. What I want to do is read the string place it in a textbox, go to next line, read the next 56 character string and write that to textbox. Ultimately I will have a textb ...Show All