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• Rajeevr 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 How are you trying to access it when it is hidden What Development Language are you using for your solution Ok, sorry ...Show All

• SaranT How to print receipt in a picture box?

  Hi, I made a simple program that would generate a receipt preview, but I wander on how to do it in Visual Basic Express. I am going to use Picture Box because, other said that picture box can hold up a text or an image. How can I do this with my example format below: MyCompanyLogo MyCompanyAddress DATE: 05/06/2006 RCPT: 34566 STAFF: 23455 SND: 3467785667 1 480MLNSTEA ICE 18.00 2 SFGUAR SOAP 5 ...Show All

• basedcp Starter Kit Documentation Pages

  When creating a new project from a starter kit, the starter kit documentation page is displayed when the project is created. After I close VS Express and re-open the project, the documentation page is displayed as HTML source. Is there an option somewhere in the IDE that can force starter kit doc pages to be displayed as rendered HTML and not as source The starter kit documentation is very helpful when creating a project, but decidely less so ...Show All

• StiNKy Registration benefits

  I just read the announcement about the benefits of registration. I already had registered so of course it didn't let me register again. Is there a way to still get the downloads or should I now know never to register an MS product until they have some registration benefits announced I am having the same issues as most posters in this forum. That is, the Downloads (i.e. Corbis, Icon Buffet and various e-books) ...Show All

• oivindroed Reading and writing numeric data from text and generating unwanted characters.

  Hello. I am fairly new to VB 2005 and windows programming (I have been forced to abandon FORTRAN by my new job ;). I have developed an application which reads numeric data from a text file, performs computations and sorts the data, and then writes the output to a text file. Certain characters are being generated which are not part of the output, such as " " or boxes, etc. The characters appear differently in WordPad and Notepad. Often ...Show All

• Icsoft How to get DDL script for MS SQL database?

  Is there any way to generate DDL for a database used in a Visual C# Express project I've searched the MSDN but the answer provided doesn't work on VC#E, unfortunately... You can not do it through the IDE, you will need to use one of the specific SQL Management tools for SQL Express to do it. The other option is to attach the database file to the SQL Express instance on your machine, then use the command li ...Show All

• mikemalter SQL Express free or not?

  Hi All,   I am really happy to hear and read from microsoft websites and also press release that a free edition of SQL Express 2005 will be made available for novice programmers like me. But when I heard that you are required to pay RM700 per user for the SQL Express, I am basically dumbfounded! Could anyone please explain to me how does the 'FREE' term works for SQL Express Does this mean that you can install the SQL Express for free but ...Show All

• Roil_O How do I calculate a person's age?

  Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition: I need to display a selected person's age in years. Lastname, Firstname Age: 99 LastName, FirstName and BirthDate are from my SQL database table. Pocket, Polly Age: 6 You'd be better off using Christian's method. To see why try this: Dim BirthDate As DateTime = #3/1/2003# Dim Today As DateTime = #2/29/2008# Dim age As Integer = Today.Year ...Show All

• TadAnderson MSSQL 2005 Express Install Problem

  After 30 or 40 install attempts, I'm further than I've ever been.  Now I'm at the point where I get the following error logged: msg=[Microsoft][SQL Native Client]Encryption not supported on the client. I get this at the point of installing the SQL Server Database Services, i.e., the native client, MSXML6 etc. pieces installed without incident.  Prior to installation I rampaged through every piece of previous MSSQL stuff and cleaned it ...Show All

• Kirill Tropin How to Load / Save

  I Have three questions about loading and saving!  1.   How do you load a file like a .txt file into your program and then edit and save it as another file like .doc   2.  also how do you open music files and/or picture files    3. And is it possible to convert files like mp3 by opening them and them saving them in another format like wma Thanx in advance ...Show All

• soskman Cannot update database through data bound TextBox

  Hi all, simple example: I've added a TextBox on a form, have bound it's text property to Table1BindingSource - Column_ID. Data source update mode is set to OnPropertyChanged. Table1BindingSource has DBDataSet as it's data source, DBDataSet is connect to Access database db.mdb. So, problem is, when I change content in TextBox and I leave it, changes are'nt saved to database db.mdb. As I close the main form and run project again, TextB ...Show All

• Cristian Adam Help converting Function to C#

  Im a little lost to say the least. Trying to compare 2 pictureboxes. Are they the same. Thanks Public Shared Function ImagesAreTheSame( ByVal bmp1 _ As Bitmap, ByVal bmp2 As Bitmap) As Boolean 'If the images aren't the same size, quit If bmp1.Size.Width <> bmp2.Size.Width OrElse _ bmp1.Size.Height <> bmp2.Size.Height Then Return False Else 'Convert each image to a byte array '.NET.NET() D ...Show All

• Peter de Jong Why two languages C++ and C#?

  Something which slightly puzzles me is why Microsoft bothered to develop the C# language, when there was already an OOP language derived from C in existence (C++). I would not say that it is a copy, there was already Visual J++ and now J# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp C# is designed with .NET in mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B C++ is, well, c++ c# is a copy of java made ...Show All

• klem182 MSDN Express -- download.

  Hello out there! I'm excited to have received a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express! I have had previous experience with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, as a student. I continue to be a student, as well as a hobbyist, and, hopefully, some day, a professional software product developer! To this end, I would like to, if at all possible, obtain a downloadable copy of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Express Manual - so that I cou ...Show All

• Would you really like to know? Making DLLs with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

  Hello, I've been coding in C++ for long using other compilers. But I have recently installed Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition and I would like to know how to compile a DLL using multiple CPP and H files with this program. Hello Maikel H and welcome to Visual C++ 2005 Express. I assume you're already quite proficient with making DLLs, and just need to know what extra steps are required for VC++2005. Before co ...Show All