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• Don Riggs Drawing Strings with fixed-size fonts in pixels

  Hello out there, I was wondering if anyone had managed to find a way to draw strings with fixed sized in pixels. I know I know, you're all thinking easy, all you have to do is create a font a new font fixing the height property to&nbs ...Show All

• boxerboy David Guyer DataFile DirectoryNotFoundException

  Please I ask all of you not to answer unless you are sure that this is the answer Hey David I publish an application using ClickOnce, in the visual studio I add a folder called: ProjData and put a file in it and call it Con.xml Set the file to be DataFile and publish. It works fine, now I add a nother file to the directory and change the current file again works great, BUT Now I add another directory, into the other directory a ...Show All

• GirishP Clarification

  I wrote saying I con't get imported creatures.  I should mention that I am not getting any message with this so the problem may be different than what others have reported.  Please help. ...Show All

• Suki Baby Cast or convert?

  We've just turned Option Strict on in our project and I'm just cleaning up a few of the errors. I've always used CType for all my conversions but my collegue said to use Convert.To.. Is there a particular reason to use one or the other An ...Show All

• jemmyw Programmatically add a row to a dataset table with IDENTITY column

  Hi, I want to programmatically add a row to a datatable in my dataset.  I have a primary key that is an IDENTITY column in my database.  How do I do this   If I set the column value to DBNull.Value I get an error about it not accepting nulls.  If I set it to 'nothing' it tells me to use dbnull.  If I use "" I get a cast problem from string to integer. Sample Code:         &n ...Show All

• SDdot1 Converting Vb.net application to ASP.net application

  Hi friends, I want to know is there any way of converting vb.net 2005 applcation to asp.net 2005 application. Other thing is should i convert it or not. and what are do's and dont's of ASP.net. And please guide me if we are using the application on Lan which one should we use asp.net or vb.net Thank a Lot If the application is used regularly by the same people, then you should use Smart Client (Windows Forms) application. Most ...Show All

• Abhinav Mohan Datagridviewcombocolumn EndEdit event?

  Dears, I have a Datagridviewcombocolumn and I databind a datatable to that combobox, however, the selected value lost when I press tab or click another cell on the same row. It looks like jump to the initial option but the fact is that this combobox jump to another option randomly. Is there any endedit event that I have to add manually or i have to handle the EditControlShowing event and then capture the selectedValue Is there any code s ...Show All

• rocklandusa Jumbling 30 picture boxes - challenge to you all

  A small challenge for those interested: Who can create the easiest way of jumbling 30 (small 76,72) picture boxes in a 6X5 layout at the press of 'button1' so that they all swap position and this process could be done again and again to swap pictures around randomly each time Picture boxes are named. pic1, pic2, pic3 .... pic30 and the positions of these picture boxes from left to right are as follows 12,79 94,79 178,79 261,7 ...Show All

• Darkpaw how to print a rich text box

  how do you print a rich textbox Hi, check this page: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;812425 ...Show All

• Bill Du System.ArgumentException while deploying

  Exception occurred while initializing installation. System.ArgumentException:File = does not exist.If this parameter is used as an installer option,the format must be /key=[value] What i do is: add a custom dialog in instalion process to enter the string, then add custom action In custom action -- in install i add my primary output whose property CustomActionData I set it to /medPath = [EDITA1], also InstallerClass property is true. if i dont se ...Show All

• Manoj K Srivastava Help with classes

  Hi there, I have a form created in vb.net, which uses a Text Box called TextBox1.  A second class in a seperate file needs to change the contents of the textbox.  How can I do this A little background on this one. ...Show All

• eosull41 Adding Components

  In VB6 we could add components in this way: Project Menu-->Components. but in VB.net I don't know how can I add some components. Is there anyone who could help me The component that I want to add is: Microsoft Comm Control 6.0 (or higher versions) Hi, To add controls. Right click on your toolbar and select " choose items "...     cheers, Paul June A. Domag Hi, I guess the "Microsoft Com ...Show All

• Hakan Gumus Terrarium Setup Help

  This was posted elsewhere, but has not been addressed: ... I happened upon Terrium yesterday and am very interested in participating becasue 1) I NEED to learn how WindowsForms work so I can make applications look 'DotNettie" and I come from vb6, so ALL this is new to me, 2) I've recently developed a strong interest in AI and A-life, so I want to experiment. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble getting things to work. I can't get past th ...Show All

• Jesper144 Can i create my own server?

  I am trying to play Terrarium within a LAN with proxy and failwall :(.  i want to create my own server so that i can work with it. does the server code is publiced If anyone still has any version of the .Net Terra ...Show All

• Koolkanadia Is there BeginUpdate() functionality for the DataGridView?

  I have a DataGridView bound to a DataView. A certain points I temporarily sort the DataGridView on specific columns to build filter lists. During these "temporary" sorts on the DataView I would like stop the sort from being applied on the DataGridView, which causes it to redraw. Then after the filter list is created I reapply the DataGridView's last sort. ComboBoxes have BeginUpdate() and EndUpdate() for when changes are made t ...Show All