biggoron311's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic How to strip/Rearrange textbox characters?

  Hi all, Here's what I wanna code in VB 2005: I have a textbox that accepts only numeric characters upto 17 characters max. now, depending on the button i click, i want to either rearrange those characters and/or strip them (based on the character postion) to have another combination. Example: I input 27130948129045716 on the text box. i click on a button to convert it into 12 characters (by taking the last 5 digits, strip the 2nd to 6th digits, take the first digit, 7th to 11th digit;  we can place these digits into separate variables so it will be easier rearranging them) and i will get as final res ...Show All

• Smart Device Development PocketPC SerialPort and turning off/on the device

  Hi, Here a simple C# example that reads data from a GPS Device Assume two Buttons on the form and one Textbox. Further a SerialPort with the DataReceived Event handled in the form. public class Form1 : Form {     public delegate void SetText ( string strPar);     public SetText myDelegate;     public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void Form1_Load( object sender, EventArgs e) {    myDelegate = new SetText (SetTheText);    serialPort1.BaudRate = 4800;    serialPort1.Handshake = System.IO.Ports. H ...Show All

• Visual C# Firewall

  Hi everyone. I don't know if this post belong to Visual C# General. I'm interesting in develop to firewall (in C#) on windows XP. It's a aplication's firewall (no only package's firewall). What librery can i use to working with system's process. Because i can list the table of process but i cannot show what process is used to network interface. I need modify the flow of packet between the network card and the OS. Can anyone help me Thank.. Go to http://www.webtropy.com/articles specially to http://www.webtropy.com/articles/art21-firewall-api.asp Firewall%20api ( Windows Firewall API (XP SP2) in VB.NET) and   ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions I need some help with thread and key pressed

  Hello Here's my problem: I have a GUI-program with to buttons, start and stop. When you press start the program shall begin and stop ends it. You don't see the program cause it's running in the background. What shall happen when you press 'start' I would like to have a listener on my keyboard, and when there is typed in a code followed with F1-F4 it shall but that code in a String and do different things when pressed F1-F4.... Eks. I'll type '2421fdsf' on my keybord followed with [F1], than it shall write "hey world + code", and when [F2] is pressed it shall write "End + code"... It's just an example, in the real th ...Show All

• Windows Forms Windows form properties and Property Window

  Hello, I have written couple of articles on Windows form properties and their practical usage and published on my site: http://dotnetuser.www2.dotnetplayground.com/ It may be especially useful to those who are beginning to play with Windows forms and also those who are interested in specific properties. Check them out! I also have an interesting article on writing a DAL layer  ...Show All

• SQL Server ~* Checking for the folder name *~

  Hi, i am using a script file to deploy the reports to the reportserver. and it contains a statment rs.createfolder("foldername") for the first time it works fine. but when deployed for the second time it throws an error, saying "folder already exists". but still the reports are deployed to the server. how to avoid that error by creating folder only if it does not exist. thanks in advance. Use ListChildren() on the parent of (I assume the root folder in this case) and if the folder comes back, then it already exists. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions How I can create a file association?

  how i can associate a file type with my application ps: I wan't somethink easy.. Well....I put the code in my application (at the begining), but a .MP3 file is stile registred to Windows Media Player ...Show All

• Windows Forms Event handler and disappearing desktop icons...

  I have noticed a strange behaviour when from a _DragDrop() event handler you show a message box (something like this very simple code). eg: ---------------- private void treeView_DragDrop(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs e) { MessageBox.Show("See me erase the icons on your desktop!"); } ----------------- (Make sure of course that your main window is not maximized and you can see  ...Show All

• Visual C# Compare Generics Dictionary

  I've some generics dictionary objects, I want to compare if they contain the same key and value. Dictionary<string, string> a = new Dictionary<string, string>(); a.Add("A", "001"); a.Add("B", "002"); Dictionary<string, string> b = new Dictionary<string, string>(); b.Add("A", "001"); b.Add("B", "002"); Dictionary<string, string> c = new Dictionary<string, string>(); b.Add("A", "001"); b.Add("C", "002"); I want to compare the above objects, a and b are treated to be equal becaus ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions VB.Net Express 2005 Beta 2 Hangs - No Error

  I have just loaded VB.net Express Beta 2 and when I open either a new project or an existing project (from VB.Net 2002), it hanges. No error, just freezes altogether. It seems to happen just after I open a project (WinApp). I have unlaoded any previous version of VB and .net prioir to loading Beta 2. Anyone know what's causing this C ...you could also try the .Net 2.0 Beta 1 manual cleanup instructions at: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/04/16/408856.aspx ...I had all kinds of trouble till I did the manual cleanup, then it worked great after. Davey ...Show All

• .NET Development Database connection

  How can i change the path of the location of the database associated to a dataset at runtime Dataset objects are not associated with the database connection string, only  the connection objects such as SqlConnection, OleDbConnection and Odbc connection objects are associated with the connection string. to simply change the database location, change the connection string and fill the dataset programmatically... that's it ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions read write serial port

  I have found several classes online that say they make using the serial ports easy. I am never able to get any of them to compile. Is there a bare bones example of how to read/write to a serial port all bundled in a project for Visual C++ Express Edition Hey!! I looked at the same place with the window app that worked. It was blank and had the check box below checked. (Inherent from parent or project defaults.) Now it compiles!! Would you suggest a different setting ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. DirectX Bug

  Hey! In all samples I install using DirectX 9.0 as API, may it be from DirectX SDK or NVidia SDK, the following bug is present: The ui controls, such as drop down box, slider bars, check boxes etc all appears normal at first. But whenever I try to interact with them they disapear for good never to come back. The samples are still running as they should. My machine is uses a dual core amd athlon x64 cpu, it has about 2 gigs of ram, nvidia GeForce 6600 is the graphics card and the OS is Windows XP x64. How can I by the way report bugs and enhancement proposals for the Managed DirectX team We'll be glad to investigate the problem, but we ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro COPY TO Command

  In Visual Foxpro, I am trying to create a CSV file using the COPY TO command with TYPE CSV, but do not want header fields on top of the output file. Furthermore, I am also trying to attach a COMMA after every row. Current Output f1,f2,f3,f4,f5,f6,f7,f8,f9,f10,f11,f12,f13,f14,f15,f16,f17 "0","49162","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0",2.1, "02/14/2006" "0","49162","0","0","0","0","0","0 ...Show All

• Visual C# System.Xml.XPath function

  Hi, The XPath expression "//Employee/Name" is given to the Select() method and it returns a set of nodes. Now the expression is a general one. Name at any level. Is there a method in System.Xml.XPath namespace which gives the absolute path of the resultant expression. Say if it has two results then I should be able to determine /root/level1/Employee/Name and /root/level1/level2/level3/Employee/Name. Is this possible Hi, Check this out. I used SelectAncestors().This one worked for me. XPathDocument doc = new XPathDocument("Sample.xm ...Show All