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• Pradeep K Change Label.text from within a module?

  In an application I'm developing, I'm starting a thread from main form. That thread calls a function from within a module. In the main form, I want to update the text of a label while the function is executing. From within the function, I have a Do...Until statement. Inside the do...while, I have a char variable which changes value. I want to pass that value (single char) back to the main form.... Here's what I'm trying... Form1.vb h ...Show All

• ravithegreat Bronco Billy...Please Read

  Bronco Billy, could you do me a huge favor and email me directly at joemorel AT microsoft DOT com I need to talk to you about something offline, and you haven't included your email address in your profile. Please contact me directly as soon as you can. Thanks, Just as I thought..... A Job Offer...... ...Show All

• Ragin Cajun 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

• Steve Guidos Free Ebooks

  hello hwo can i get a free ebook from microsoft Some of these might also be useful for learning the OO and some of the basics. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/learning/default.aspx http://mindview.net/Books http://prosoftware.se/home/ProSoft.php   And for learning some of the latest things I recommend the sessions at http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/ while ...Show All

• Devrim Problems installing the platform SDK

  I am having problems running the windows installer. (in order to extract the SDK) The steps I took were: 1)Download x86. version from web. Using web install. (I have a cable internet connection) 2)Go to the installed file and double click on it. 3)It opens and brings up windows installer. 4)Windows installer never opens. (I left my computer for about 20 min to see if it was opening slow).   That is the problem. In the e ...Show All

• a7mad How to Reset Form and Delete DataSet

  Hi everyone, I have a form that gets filled with all kinds of goodies (listboxes, treeviews, textboxes, labels, etc). A dataset also gets created programatically with a single table (6 columns and probably 100 rows). I'm looking for a way to quickly reset the form back to its original state and delete the dataset. I found: Application.Restart() which looks like it resets the form like I want it to. Two questions: Any repercu ...Show All

• Andy2222 undisposing forms

  Hello all, I was wondering if there was any way to sort of... re-invoke a form after it has been disposed. Sort of... if the form is disposed of, i want to be able to hit a button to be able to open the form again. (assuming that i'm using more than 1 form) Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks so much -Robert If you going to need to "undispose" of a form - why would you dispose it in the first place.    I'd look at wh ...Show All

• Bill Martin unable to install visual c# 2005 express edition - mscrorsvw.exe - Unable To Locate DLL

  while installing, message appears - The dynamic link library MSVCR80.dll could not found in te specified path. I found that there is no file named MSVCR80.dll in c:\winnt\system32 (os - windows 2000) Can anyone please help me... I too am here because Norton flagged these files, and I also recenly installed .Net 2.0. The difference is that I am not a developer and am puzzled why this VC++ file is completely missing, and if that means anyt ...Show All

• Muralidharan does vc++ express programs require win xp sp2?

  I was just wondering if the users of my program need windows xp sp2 to run my program The readmes say that XP SP2 is required: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/readme/   Martin Richter wrote: The readmes say that XP SP2 is required: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/readme/ I have now read the page you linked to, but i could not find any info about if the ...Show All

• manojguptase Registration Benefit Portal

  I just installed C# express. When I click on the registration benefit portal link of the thanks you mail it say: Error: The page you have requested is unavailable or you do not have access. I read many solution on forum, but noone work for me. Two question: What should I do It's the portal developed with Microsoft Visual Studio Thanks for your help ...Show All

• raccoonone c# express download problem

  Hello, I started dabbling in programming again and downloaded VB and C# express last November . A few weeks ago a dialog box popped up stating the trial period was over. I went back to Microsoft and read whatever I could to try and reload C# express but have not had any success. I used the auto erase procedure and checked the add/remove area in the control panel and found no mention of any relevent programs. The C# program downloads but when ...Show All

• DeliDaba How do I get back into Form1.vb [Design]?

  Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition: I am in the middle of developing a large application. I can get into my Form1.vb code, but, how do I get back into Form1.vb [Design] It is not in my list of Active Files! Techgnome in http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php p=2519538#post2519538 had the answer! OrthoLabRx.Designer.vb had a blank sheet next to it in Solution Explorer. I had to right click it and sel ...Show All

• Matthieu System.InvalidOperationException in System.Windows.Forms.dll

  Hello, I use to do programming long time ago, in the DOS era, survived TRS80, Tiny Basic, GWbasic and Quickbasic. Recently I managed to pickup programming Basic style again with Visual Basic Express. After installing it and playing a bit around, I tried to find an initial setup for a Local area network packet sniffer. Google came up with a package called PackMon.NET and Sniffer.NET from v2softwares http://www.1vbstreet.com/vb/scripts/ ...Show All

• RajL What form call me ?, if i have many of them....

  I create 10 forms dinamically.... << dim f as new frmAny , f.show >>, well, any of these forms calls other form, here i create a value that i need return to the form who call these other form...... How i know who make(which of all the forms) that call to the other form...because only he must receive the value.... Thanks for everything..... Hans, When you show your dynamic forms specifiy the Parent for ...Show All

• Srikanth valdas VB app memory usage

  I noticed that my VBE apps were consuming a lot of memory so I wrote a test app that consists of nothing more than a form with a single button. When I run the compiled .exe file, Windows Task Manager reports the the process is using over 8 meg of memory. If I minimize the app, memory usage drops to 372K. If I un-minimize the app, memory usage then jumps to approximately 2 meg & stays there with each successive minimize/un-minimize. Can someb ...Show All