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• JasonD why is vb.net printing so difficult?

  Hi, I have loads of VB6 apps I am trying to migrate to VB.net and the biggest problem I have is that printer.print has no equivalent in vb.net Can anyone tell me a simple way to print in dot net Thanks Personally, from what I've played around with, I much prefer this new method to the VB 'classic' way of printing - it was always a pain in the neck to print anything other than text. Impossible is ...Show All

• jay2068 DirectX SDK and Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition Beta

  I have Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition Beta installed and I wish to learn DirectX graphics and game programming. My installation of the DirectX SDK goes smoothly, but whe I attempt to debug a DirectX code i get an error in the using Microsoft.DirectX and using Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D, Visual Studio doesn't recognise the DirectX namespace and refuses to compile and run. How do I solve this problem The te ...Show All

• Phillip M. Hoff How can I get UML from code?

  I have Visual Studio 2003, Visio and Visual Studio Express. I am doing a proyect in the Express edition and I would like to get the UML out of it. I am stuck because I cannot open the proyect in the 2003 version, nor in Visio. Is there any plugin to convert 2005 proyect to 2003, to reverse-engineering to Visio or any external tool I think MS is doing a great job having this Express editions but I think they should have provided a way to work ...Show All

• Zygimantas LPCWSTR doesn't work with reg commands

  I am making some functions that use regcreatekeyex, regsetvalueex, ect. So I made them and tested them by making a command prompt program and had no problems. Then I tried using the in the form designer and the compiler keeps telling me it can't convert my parameters that are strings into LPCWSTR. So I add the (LPCWSTR) in front of the parameter to convert it. Well my project compiles but recreatekeyex and stuff never succeed. How can I fix this ...Show All

• Kris_H Find the first empty MaskedTextBox...

  I've searched through the forum, and I haven't been able to locate any code that is similar that I could modify, or find a thread close to what I'm trying to do, so any suggestions would be appreciated. (I'll get a book when I can get some time off) I have a form with ten empty "MaskedTextBoxes". I would like to go through them starting from "MaskedTextBox1" through to MaskedTextBox10" in that order, find the first ...Show All

• Bob Everland [newbie] Webbrowser question

  Hello all, I am working on an application that will print a saved Web page without displaying it to the user. I have found a code sample in the help that would do exactly this. Here is the code: public void PrintHelpPage () { WebBrowser webBrowserForPrinting = new WebBrowser(); webBrowserForPrinting.Url = new Uri (@ file://c:/out.html ); webBrowserForPrinting.DocumentCompleted += new WebBrowserDocumentCompletedE ...Show All

• baeriali Auto-Save

  How do I turn off the auto-save feature. When I make changes and just exit the IDE, it automatically saves those changes that I don't want saved. Thanks. It is in Tools-Options-Projects and Solutions. http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=85342 I tried to turn it off (Do not save any changes before run), however, it still saves all changes and does not prompt you to save any change when you ex ...Show All

• rean SQL Server Express Installation Problem

  Hi, I am trying to install SQL Sever Express and it gets hanged at the stage "detecting installed IIS...." I have correctly installed Visual Basic 2005 Express edition. I have Windows XP Sp2 OS and correct version of .Net framework. I tried the installation many times since yesterday with IIS installed and not installed. But everytimes it gets hanged at the above stage.  Please help me out from this. Thanks Prasad Can you give more i ...Show All

• stzgr express - visual studio .net 2003 compatibility

  I have msvs.net 2003 [edit]Professional[/edit] (academic) installed - can I install any of the express products alongside it or are there likely to be compatibility issues If there are, what are they thanks. I would also like an answer to this.  I have VS.Net 2003 Professional at work.  I would like to start upgrading some of our desktop apps to 2005. Is there any compatibility issues between 200 ...Show All

• Mike Aelaian Using Classes and Structs

  I am confused on using Classes and Structs. Can anyone shed light on what MS has changed about them example this code generates a ton of weird errors #include <windows.h> class CIGECORE { public :     LPSTR sAppTitle;     int iPosX;     int iPosY;     int iWidth;     int iHeight; };   Then the pragma doesn't wor ...Show All

• BruceB Different between Me. and My.

  Dear all, Would like to ask what is actually the different between Me. and My. in Visual Basic programming (Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition) If I wana do a comparison between data captured from user input and Database data.. which one I should use when TableAdapter applied Now learning VB..Hope can discover more and understand more Especially Database application. Thanks ya! GOD bless, Jesse   ...Show All

• khanfauji Getting HTML from a website

  Hi guys, I have a fairly simple question reguarding connecting to the internet in a VB app. I was just wondering how i might go about getting the HTML from a website using the URL in VB.net. For instance, in perl you might just say my @data = get(http://www.google.com/); How can i do this in VB Thanks in advance -Robert One way of doing it may be. download the HTML file to a file and then read this file My.Computer.Network.Downloa ...Show All

• my display1 How do I find Song Length

  Hi, i'm using the  AxWindowsMediaPlayer tool to play a song and I want to be able to get the length of the song into a variable. Plz help, I have looked in soooo many places. Thanks Hi. How can I find the length of a song using the Windows Media Player tool (AxWindowsMediaPlayer1) And if I can't do it with that, please tell me how I can do it some other way. Thanks. ...Show All

• Nigel Watling Data Source Problem

  Hi, I want to add data connection with Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. But in "Choose Data Source" dialog, there are only "Microsoft Access Database File" & "Microsoft SQL Sever Database File" in Data source list. I think it should be like this: What should I do to find other options hi, in visual basic express you can't see more options,even though you can connect ...Show All

• Lilian K Visual Web Developer Debug error

  Visual Web Developer Debug error Using Visual Web Developer Express Beta 2 Trying to debug a simple  application fails with a Prompt message box and the message "Enter username and password". I have no idea what username and password it's looking for. It gives the error: Server Error in '/WebSite1' Application. This is due to a security alteration. The webserver that runs within Visual Web Developer, uses NTLM security by ...Show All