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• Martin Platt Any consultants out there know what 'Normal' terms are to a client?

  I have a project coming up and they need to know payment plans, terms, retainers, etc. Is there a standard way people go about this   I'm charging per hour with a predefined amount of hours.  They're going to give me a deposit/retainer&nbs ...Show All

• tdickson Binding to RichTextBox

  Using VS 2005 Beta 2, VB, SQL Server 2000 I have an existing SQL table with a field 'Comments' of SQL datatype 'text'.  The data stored in the field was created using the RichTextBox under VB6. I use a Data Source/Data Set and set the Comments field to RichTextBox.  When I drag the control onto the form a RichTextBox is created but the control displays the existing RTF as text. I expected a RTF under DataBindings but did find it there. ...Show All

• JonathanM Installation Failure

  Hi, When I try to install the source code I am getting the following errror. WindowsNT or User Group 'machine name-\ASPNET' not found. Check the name and try again Changed database context to TaskVision Granted database access to 'machine-name\ASPNET' I am installing t ...Show All

• Jelle Kooi First Time Poster - Display Status while process is ongoing

  Fairly new to the vb.net world.  I've done plenty of Client/Server dev and I'm looking for a way to display the status while a process is in the works.  The process is a crystal report that takes approx 20 secs to query and displ ...Show All

• Adremoshier deployment of vb.net application with MSSQL db

  I built my application using VB.NET 2003, MSSQL database which is hosted locally. How can i build the deployment file plz help in details, i am new ClickOnce is not supported for applications built against anything other than Visual Studio 2005. Rebuild you app in VS 2005 and publish it -thanks Sreekanth   ...Show All

• dicky.sum CheckedListBox

  Can someone lend me a hand please, I have been staring at my code for 2 days now and have no solution for my problem. What I want to do is as follows. I have a CheckedListBox, one of the colums is called denied, one is called&nbs ...Show All

• Gary B. .NET forms with VB6 parent

  Hi, I'm using some .NET created forms from within VB6, and I was wondering if it is possible to have them become MDI childs of a VB6 MDI form Thanks How and what was the API call   Did you ever get it figured out I figured it o ...Show All

• Ollie VB How do I find out location of toolstrip in VB.NET 2005

  Hi, I would like to give the user the option to grab the toolstrip of the app and place it on the side or the bottom of the window. This works fine without a single line of code written. The thing is I want the program to remember where it has been placed. This is no problem as long as we don't leave the docking position. I just cannot determine on which edge the toolstrip has been placed. I found the properties .Container and .Parent, however ...Show All

• SlayerGatsu Error in Data Source Configuration Wizard (VS2005)

  When I try to bind an object with the wizard I get the following error popup: An unexpected error has occured. Error message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.   It works fine for other projects in my solution. I have references to Infragistics assemblies.   Thanks for your help. Hi, Can you provide more details about how you got this error When you said it worked fine for other proje ...Show All

• Bassem Insert data

  hi. in VB 6, it was possible to do something like this recordset.open <TableName>, connection recordset.addNew recordset("FieldName").value = <value> recordset("FieldName").value = <value> recordset("FieldName").value = <value> recordset("FieldName").value = <value> recordset.update ...Show All

• ravinder reddy Datagridview -- appearance

  The datagridview is filled with some data, but not every column of the grid should be the same width. I want the columnwidth to adjust to the data in the cells, but when I do that (I also use wordwrap), the grid itself doesn't has the same width as the datagridview. It leaves a grey background, and it's not so prettty to see. I have try different different combinations (autosizecolumnsmode, autosizerowsmode...), and the best I found was to ...Show All

• JeepATLGuy Finding first textbox in groupbox

  Hi, I have this code:     Public Overridable Sub ModeChange(ByVal ctrlContainer As Control, ByVal Sender As Control)         Dim ctrl As Control         For Each ctrl In ctrlContainer.Controls           & ...Show All

• Christof.Mattes Staging / Production clickonce versions

  I'm having difficulty deploying multiple versions of a clickonce application onto the same desktop. When I deploy I want to end up with two shortcuts in the start menu: Company | Application Company | Application (staging) When I deploy each one overwrites the other even if they come from separate locations. What is the best way around this and to manage this on an ongoing basis (assuming numerous rollouts per week) Cheers ...Show All

• Thore Binding to Property of Property

  Hi, I'd like to achieve something like this: [code] List myClass = new List(); myClass.Add(new MyClass()); BindingSource source = new BindingSource(myClass, "SubClass.MyProperty"); comboBox1.DataSource = source;[/code] Anybody knows if that is possible somehow Generally, this is not possible. This thread may help you however: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx Post ...Show All

• licheca Form Identify

  Hi All, Is it possible to get the Path of the form for example: I had created a Solution is including 3 project in it, 3 projects is named as "Project1", "Project2", "Project3", and created a directory call "Dir" for each projects and including a form call "Form.cs" for each directory. Is it possible to get the path as "..\Project1\Dir\Form.cs" "..\Project2\Dir\Form.cs&qu ...Show All