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• Ravi K BA Non-administrator user and Misc

  hello few questions from a newbie trying to use MSI3.1 on Windows 2003 SP1 - can users without administrator privilege install MSI package where can I set this up - can users without adminstrator privileges install in C:\Program Files - can I install two copies of same application (same productversion) on a given system eg. install the same project.msi twice into C:\project1 and C:\project2 appreciate responses and/or p ...Show All

• Ian-XPL Icons

  Just a quick question. Does Windows XP/2000 contain a standard set of icons i can use in my app  Such as the folder icon and the "group" icon Thanks. Since the icons are part of the Windows XP core, and your applicatio ...Show All

• keith826 Less Hassles with Listboxes and Comboboxes

  It is sad that Combos and Listboxes lost so much when moving from VB6 to VB.net 2000/2003. Just looking at the list Microsoft issued comparing properties events and Methods, I was sad. The basic things any developer needs  to do: a) Load the Li ...Show All

• Manuel_0001 How can i change app.config after deployment?

  Hello, i'm deploying my application using ClickOnce. After deploying it i change a connectionstring manually in app.config in the deployed directory. But my application seems not to use that changed connectionstring. When i'm doing just a release build, it works! I can change the string after building an after restarting the application the new string is used. Can please anyone give me a hint regards Oliver Ta ...Show All

• Open Source Pong Inherit events

  hi al, q: can i inherit events  eg: Public Class InvoerVeld     Inherits System.Windows.Forms.TextBox     Public Event FoutOpgetreden(ByVal Foutmelding As String)     Public Event WaardeGeacepteerd() end class Public Class NummeriekInvoerVeld     Inherits InvoerVeld   ...Show All

• Robert Bouillon How to Deploy an VB 2005 application?

  I have done a small application and i would like to test the deployment features availables in VB 2005 Express Edition.  I have seen some tutorial redarding this point but all of theses refers to Setup Projects availables in VB 2003.  In VB 2005 Express Edition this option is unavailable. Could u share with me your experience with this topics Thanks If you're interested in our new "Clickonce" feature you should be able to ...Show All

• thatKid Best user interface control suite?

  The application I'm currently developing requires a very robust and user-friendly interface.  I know there are many third party control suites out there, but which one is the best for the money   I'm looking for a package that supports dockable toolbars and windows/containers, preferrably multiple color schemes, menus with icons, tab interfaces, etc. (pretty much the standards.)  I've looked at Infragistic's NetAdvantage, Actipro ...Show All

• iansmith no data to screen...

  hi there  i want to write text to my screen in a for loop but that doesn't work.....         For i = 1 To 500             Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000)             lblSynchText.Text&nbs ...Show All

• Noah Hambayi An item with the same key has already been added

  Hi All, I added a toolstrip control into my application main form. And then I added a toolstripbutton to the toolstrip. Right clicked on the toolstripbutton and clicked on the properties to display the properties for the button. I clicked on the dropdown button of the Image property (so that I can change the image property from the system.drawing.bitmap to a toolbar icon that I already loaded into the resource file) and immediately, I ...Show All

• PikachuSalad Async Web Service Calls

  Hi, I read that that in 2.0 there are new possibilities to do async web service calls. For example I want to make a Web Service call to retrieve a long DataSet and I don't want the UI to freeze ... how would I go forward doing th ...Show All

• rockybooth Problem with setting an initial time value to Date Time Picker

  I am working on an application to store the daily activities of employees. It has two datetimepickers to capture the starting and ending time of work. The starting time needs to be set to 12.01AM initially. If a time beyond this is selected ,application will not work. Maximum and minimum value can be set for date.But i couldnt set values for time. I am using client-side scripting with VBScript. Plz help SJP ...Show All

• Tony Ba No touch deployment working in some computers but not in others

  I have an application deployed on a web server, this application works for example in my computer at home, I had to first change the security settings on .NET, but after it ran fine, at work however it does not run at all, when I  ...Show All

• gaxtell Sample Code: DataGridView progress bar column

  I have a column that has integer data in it, I want to display it as a progress bar in the column so the user can quickly identify lagging processes.   I just started with 2005 and it looks great but does anyone know a quick way to do this I would also like to change the color of the progress bar based on the cells value. I found in the data sources toolbox where I can change the column to progress bar but that does not pass thr ...Show All

• Tom Freedman Casting EventArgs object to KeyEventArgs - is it possible?

  Hi all , I am receiving a casting error message when I try to perform the following code... private void txtSnagDetailsActionBy_GotFocus(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { KeyEventArgs ke = (KeyEventArgs)e; } Is this type of casting not possible Tryst A better way to cast, would actually be the following (that way you are not excluding classes that derive from KeyEventArgs): KeyEventArgs ke = e as KeyEventArgs; if (k ...Show All

• jvrobert Store Objects In A Control - Like Outlook E-Mail

  I need a control where I can drag and drop objects into it (i.e., files, e-mails, pictures) and I'd like it to work like an e-mail works in Outlook. In Outlook, I drag a picture into the e-mail and it because an attachment and display ...Show All