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• HelenL What now? - x86

  I have downloaded http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=32BC1BEE-A3F9-4C13-9C99-220B62A191EE&displaylang=en . To let me redistribute my applications, but I don't understand how to use this. I installed it and I was given no instructions on how to use it. Please help, Wilko In Visual Studio, open your project properties -> Configuration Properties -> General -> Common ...Show All

• bryant1410 Preventing updating database with empty string

  Hope you're not fed up with me yet! My next problem is this. I'm adding records to my database but I noticed that if I don't enter data on the form the database is still updated with empty strings. I have put NULLS NOT ALLOWED flags on the fields that should have data but this allows empty strings. How can I check to make sure that the textboxes text contain none empty string before they pass the values on Does that make sense ...Show All

• Seah Chen Khoon trying to download from Registration Benefit Portal

  I tried to download the e-book including Build a Program Now! and all I got was a mess that was call Download Description.aspx.  Then I tried to buy the book from MSDN and could not. I finally ordered the whole book at Barnes & Noble.  Getting the "benefits" from registration is turning out to be more difficult than it should be. All I really want is to get some good basic ideas about how to use Visual Basic 2005 Express an ...Show All

• thargy Newbie: Using Opengl

  i've been programming with Opengl in other enviroments like Dev C++ and other and recently i've been trying to migrate to Visual C++ (i'm using Visual C++ 2005 exprees edition). - already downloaded the SDK - already have the Win32app template My questions are: -how do i LINK the libraries needed  (i was used to simply write somewhere what library you want to link, but in vc++ i cant find where and the msdn help is ..... bad) - what should ...Show All

• fcarp Getting error after adding NotifyIcon

  Hello, I was just working on my program again. I have added a NotifyIcon, and I wanted to test it, so I start my program. It shows the NotifyIcon, but my main form doesn't open with all the controls on it, its just a white form. I get the following error: FatalExecutionEngineError was detected Message: The runtime has encountered a fatal error. The address of the error was at 0x79fce5c2, on thread 0xd50. The error code is 0xc0000005. This err ...Show All

• gotelin Print() Method in VB.NET

  Hi. Is there any way to make the equivalent of the print() method in VB.NET VB 6 has a print() method, which, from what I can tell puts out text to the form without any labels or whatever needed. 1. Is my assumption correct 2. If it is, can it be done in VB.NET also 3. If it can, HOW Thanks, The Digital Pioneer Hi, If you like to know only the value of the print.. just you can use messagebox.show method. Now ...Show All

• Diego Gonzalez Cannot create a new project that opens startup form

  Have been using vb 2005 express final now for a week or too.  Have had no problems using and modifying example code and connecting to a MySQL database.  However i am now trying to create a new project and no matter what form is selected under startup form nothing displays when code f5 is pressed.  Message that build is ok in status bar screen refreshes and back to IDE.  However existing projects work ok.  Even creating a ...Show All

• Pedro Ferreira Datagrid

  I just converted a small database program from VS2003 to the VS2005 Express Edition. No problems at all, the program ran fine. Then I tried to created a newprogram from scratch in VS2005 Express. I copied and pasted some Datagrid code into my creation. I always get an error message pertaining to 3, that I know of, Datagrid properties stating that " TableStyles is not a member of Systems.Windows.Forms.DataGridView ". SetDataBinding and ...Show All

• NXCX Problems installing Visual C++: install hangs & 100% cpu

  I meet or exceed the system requirements: WinXP SP2 Over 3GHz Processor Pentium 4 w/HT (not sure if you need to know this or not) 1GB RAM 50GB available hard drive space I already had the .NET framework installed, so I uninstalled it as directed, and rebooted my computer. I then tried to run the install. It tells me that it's loading up and gets to the " This may take a moment or two" message. The load bar gets to about 3/4 of the way across, ...Show All

• Nicolas de Fontenay vb2005 exp ed will not connect to sql 2005 exp ed

  I uninstalled the Beta2 version per the install instructions with the release edition.  I have been taking the online learning up to lesson 08 in which we start doing something with sql2005.  I cannot make a database in visual studio 2005 because it will not connect to the current instance of sql 2005.  Starting sql2005 indicates that the default instance is running as a service on my computer.  in lessons 1 through 7, everyt ...Show All

• swfisher Good VB2005 Books

  Hi all, I started this post to know which books are decent to buy in the code community's eye. I have bought myself the following books: 1. Programming VB2005 - Oreilly (Good in my view, to much Web in my view as I want Visual Basic 2005 not Visual Web Developer)(I think that some integration in VB2005 and VWDev2005 are good but not 2/3 of the book) 2. Mastering VB2005 - Sybex (Excellent)(Covers almost all the topics that could b ...Show All

• Peter Kranenburg Changing .msg file date and time

  I currently save all of my emails as .msg files so that they can be archived in our main office (I work from home rather than in our main office). When I copy each email into the relevant folder, the file date and time is set at when the copy procedure took place. I would like to create a program which will cycle through selected folders and sub-folders, extract the date and time from within each .msg file that each email was sent/received, then ...Show All

• CFIG i got C++ and new to programming. please tell me wht to do

  wht should i do first please post here Thanx thanks for ur answer really helps lots of thanx Of course you should get started with a "Hello World"-example. After that I think the best way is to find some book about programming in C++. You might Google on "C++ Get Started" and you'll find among others: http://www.cprogramming.com/begin.html ...Show All

• Chad Moran 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 Dooh... good question. No I think not. But I never tried it. But if I read this: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235435%28en-US%2CVS.80%29.aspx Than I think SP2 is not needed.   Martin Richter wrote: The readmes say that XP SP2 is required: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/readme ...Show All

• securitymaven Play sounds through speaker?

  Is it possible to play sound files (such as .wav) through the PC's internal speaker If so, how would I do this Thanks... Check out the: My.Computer.Audio.Play function... Best regards, Johan Stenberg ...Show All