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• Visual Basic Culture info failure

  I am building an application for a French client. We originally had a problem with spurious characters being added at the beginning of the text output files created with WriteAllText, but managed to overcome this by   Imports System.Globalization Imports System.Threading Dim myCIintl As New CultureInfo( "fr-FR" ) Application.CurrentCulture = myCIintl   Now that has stopped working. When I publish t ...Show All

• Visual Basic HOW TO: Prevent Image Degradation while using the ImageList Component

  Problem: I’m using an ImageList object to maintain an array of predefined images. I’ve tried utilizing the ImageList property for both the Label control and the PictureBox control. However, the images Bitmap or Icon files lose their image quality. Question I ImageList Configuration: imgIcons.ColorDepth = System.Windows.Forms.ColorDepth.Depth32Bit imgIcons.ImageSize = New System.Drawing.Size(48, 48) imgIcons.Tran ...Show All

• Visual Studio ProjectReference

  I'm generating a 3tier solution (business facade, business rule, data component). The name of the 3 assemblies is asked through the wizard. The reference between the assemblies should automaticaly be created. This is done with the code here under : <ItemGroup>   <Reference Include="System"/>   <Reference Include="System.Data"/>   <Reference Include="System.Xml"/>   <ProjectRefere ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office Selection.PasteExcelTable not working correctly the first time it is called

  Hi, There are specific circumstances under which Selection.PasteExcelTable does not behave as expected the first time it is called. The following are the steps to reproduce it. In a Word Template project, add the following code private void ThisDocument_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { UserControl1 userControl = new UserControl1(); userControl.button1.Click += new EventHandler(userControl_Click); this.ActionsPane.Contr ...Show All

• Visual Basic please help!

  EDITED: Sorry about the post I'm hesitant to write the code, because most of the time, you'll come back asking to write more code... The forums are used for help on specific things, not making the entire app. Instead, i am going to give the link to 101 VB samples.  you'll find examples for pretty much all you've requested in your post there.  Read them, use them, learn them. 101 VB 2005 Samples Dustin. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Filter datetimepicker (Start Date end Date)

  Hello I've got a database in access and i'm trying to do my first steps in VB Express 2005. I had made a datagridview from one table of my database which contens many columns, one of that column is the field DATE. 1. I want to filter the datagridview by date ( lets say 1/1/2005 to  31/06/2005 - i had made to DateTimePicker fields with value of date). 2. How can i set default value "*" or "ALL" to a Combobox and then use it to filter the dat ...Show All

• Windows Forms tabcontrol and event handler problem

  Hello, hopefully someone could help me with the following problem: I have a windows form with a tabcontrol, several tab pages. Each of the tab pages has textboxes and combo-boxes on it. The form is quite large and the user must fill in certain  ...Show All

• Visual C# SQL lookup

  I am a new user to Visual Studio and SQL Server. This is probably a question that has been asked before but I can't seem to find it anywhere. I have an SQL database with two tables. One has a primary key and the second has a primary key with a foreign key referring back to the first table. I display the fields that are of interest in about 9 text boxes. My question is how do I use the text box containing the key for the second table and derive t ...Show All

• Visual C# Why does Visual Studio 2005 starts to consume 100% of my CPU?

  Hello, Sometimes Visual Studio 2005 starts to consume 100% of my CPU. I've tried see if it is when I'm doing something specific, but I cannot put my finger on what it is that might trigger it. It is my first solution in VS 2005, so I have no clue if it's specific to this C# solution. I have a Windows Forms project and a Webservice project in my solution, all connected to a SourceSafe 6 database. This far I've always been editing ...Show All

• Visual Basic Application.ThreadException event troubles

  Could someone explain why this code will not trap unhandled exceptions.  This is in VS2005 and is a simple winforms app with a single form: Public Class Form1    Private Sub Form1_Load( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me .Load       AddHandler System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadException, AddressOf ErrorHandler    End Sub &nb ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) Is peerchannel enough for one-one chat application?

  The peer-to-peer chat sample in SDK is fit for multiparty chat. So, how implement a chat application like msn which provide one-one chat Thanks. Thanks for your kindly reponse. I have no ideas on how to restrict the conversation in two persons since the peerchannel is used. Any suggestions anyother question, can peerchannel be used in a multipart video conference application as the performance is concerned ...Show All

• SQL Server Problem with Totals with calculated cells

  Hello I have a problem with totals I have the following dimension -Turnover            700 ----Software         100 ----Hardware        150 ----Other              200 ----Other total      250 The other total is a calculated cell where I make a sum of Software and Hardware, This works fine in the cube But the total of turn ...Show All

• .NET Development Batch INSERTS into MDB

  I have a string array containing sql INSERT statements that I want to run.  Here is the code: For i = 0 To UBound(sqlArray)    sSQL = sqlArray(i)    command.CommandText = sSQL    command.ExecuteNonQuery() Next   This works fine IN DEBUG MODE but not in runtime.  In Runtime, only the last insert works.  The solution - I think - to ensure running the next quer ...Show All

• .NET Development UI Guidelines

  Hi, does anyone know where the User Interface guidelines can be found for Longhorn (Vista) Regard Graham Hi Graham, Take a look here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/building/aero/default.aspx Also this(mentioned below) would be better newsgroup for questions on Vista... microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.aero Regards, Vikram ...Show All

• Windows Forms Changing component size on windows resize

  I can't remember this one from my old days of Windows programming. I want to change the width of an object when the form size is changed. How do you do this No wonder you're an MVP Ken! That worked like a charm! I'm ...Show All