marmok's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Populating Combobox with distinct data from a datasource

  Hi, I have a database which contains the field "Date". The database is such that, one "Date" can have many entries. When I populate a combobox with the data from this field, I get a date multiple times. I would like to know if there is a way, that I can group all the dates under one category. (NB - Selecting a date returns the data for that particular ID - not all the data that the date falls under - even if I have a ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Flashing/Blinking Forms/Windows

  How can I flash/Blink a certain form. Like a Blinking/Flashing "ACCESS DENIED" dialog I take it you mean flash it so that if it is hidden behind other windows, its tab in the taskbar flashes a couple of times If so... as far as I know there is no built in way to do this in the .NET Framework, instead you’d need to do a P/Invoke against user32.dll to call FlashWindowEx . Take a look at this pinvoke.net entry on it and see if ...Show All

• Visual Basic [VB6] excel into vb forms?

  Hi, I have some experience with VBA but I'm new in VB6. I'm looking for a way to include some Excel functionallity into VB forms: select multiple areas (like cells in Excel) by mouse-drag, assign a colour to them, translate the colours in values and store these values in a database. Once stored I must be able to call these values into the same form again. The simplest way about this seems to insert part of an excel worksheet (50x10 cell ...Show All

• Visual Basic Console textbox

  What is the best way to make a textbox behave like a console (command prompt) I have a System.IO.StringWriter that gets text appended to it. I can display the output of this in a textbox but the string grows bigger and bigger (i don't care about old stuff just a couple screens of the recent stuff) and anytime the textbox changes it is scrolled to the top, not at the bottom where the new text is located. This is what I have now but it's te ...Show All

• Visual Basic returning values from a listbox

  I am new to VB and I am trying to solve what is probably a simple problem. I have a listbox that is populated by parsing a delimited text file. The listbox is filled with temperatures that have been sampled by a sensor every 10 minutes during a day. This gives me 144 samples per day. What i need to find is the following: The minimum temperature, the maximum temperature, and the average temperature. If I knew how to retrieve the values (tem ...Show All

• Visual Basic Help With Sending Mail in VB Express 2005

  You know, there are several good examples for sending E-mail via C# and C++... But I have yet to find one that will send mail thru VB2005 Express. Here's my code: Function ThisDoesntWorkInVB2005() Dim client As New SmtpClient( "smtp.mymailserver.com" ) Dim fromAdd As New MailAddress( me@myworkemail.com ) Dim toAdd As New MailAddress( me@mypersonalemail.com ) Dim message As New MailMessage(fromAdd, toAdd) mes ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Line breaks

  When I create a label in a form, the next continues and goes out of the form. How do i create line breaks Isn't it /n or /s or something like that a VB line break vbCrLf Example: "Bob" & vbCrLf & "Sally" & vbCrLf & "Biff" ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Is vc++ 6.0 good

  i bought a book on vc++6.0.can i build powerful software applications with that.what is the difference between the vc++6.0 and vc++ 2005.what is the latest released version Well... you could use VC++ 6.0 but that's too old really. VC++ 6.0 was released about 8 years ago and I'd say that the quality of the C++ compiler and the IDE itself improved a bit since then . Not to mention that there is a free version of VC++ 2005 called "Expr ...Show All

• SQL Server Exec SQL task with xml result fails when items are added.

  I have an Exec SQL task that does a SELECT ... FOR XML AUTO. The resultset is set to XML and is mapped to a variable of type string. It works fine when there are 5 rows returned, but when there are 10 rows returned I get this error. [Execute SQL Task] Error: Executing the query "SELECT Country_ID, Country_DS, Country_DS_Abbrev FROM dbo.tlkpCountry FOR XML AUTO" failed with the following error: "Missing equals sign between attri ...Show All

• Windows Forms Displaying selected text on an inactive form

  I'm failrly new to Windows Forms programming. I've started working on a "Notepad" like application to get familiar with this. I've recently run into a problem that I haven't been able to solve yet. My main form uses a richtextbox to display&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions vwd 2005 express beta 2 and final .net framework 2

  Hi First of, i am very pleased with the product vwd 2005 express beta 2, but after the final release of the .net framework 2, and some (unsuccessfull) experimenting, i have two questions which  i hope someone would answer. Is there a way to make the vwd 2005 express beta 2, work with the final release of the .net framework 2. Will the final release of vwd 2005 express have any further limitations, compared to  the vwd 2005 express ...Show All

• Windows Forms how to controll the cell focus in datagrid row ?

  hello,All: I'm new to windows form datagrid control,Now I have a win form with a datagrid control,and I want to edit the cell data when I selected a row in datagrid. I want to press Enter to validate current cell data and then move to next cell , when I press Down Arrow move to next row and Press Top Arrow to move to previous row in my datagrid. so how to get it anyone can give me an idea or some sample thanks so muc ...Show All

• Visual C# MessageBox return (enter)

  Hi guys! Hi do I insert an enter (return) between lines into a messageBox Thanks a lot, Aldo. Hi there, I assume from what you're asking that you want a message box that will display its contents on multiple lines. If so, try the following as an example: MessageBox .Show( "Multi-line message box example\nLine 2\nLine3\nLine4" ); The use of the \n character constant inserts a new line (or line break or "Enter" as you called ...Show All

• Visual C# Keeping the info

  I have several classes inside a class file, at the top of each one is:         Info T = new Info();         other N = new other(); 'info' and 'other' are declared in another class, these are filled with information when the app is running, they are then needed later for a different process, the thing is, i dont know how to access the stored info from an ...Show All

• .NET Development Problem: How to draw text into bitmap?

  Hi, I need to draw text into the bitmap. Resulting text should be "smooth" (antialiased) and international scripts should be handled properly. In addition, it should be fast. You might think, "That is simple, isn't it " Well, it is not! There are at least two ways to do it: 1. Graphics.DrawString and 2. TextRenderer.DrawText. Problem is that I cannot reach my targets with these two guys (who wou ...Show All