bashman's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic Graphing in Visual Basic

  As an assingment for school I am to make a program that will evaluate a quadratic equation with the quadratic formula. I know how to complete this part and display the roots along with y values inside a ListBox, however, I'd like to add a display of the graph. I saw in one of the Visual Basic books that I have how to make a graphing calculator in Visual Basic 6.0 and it uses a PictureBox but only displays the sin of a number. How could I go ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Check for throw or rethrow in a try block

  Thank you David ...I have another question.... How can I check if there is any sentence in a block ... for example i want to check an empty catch and I do this: public override ProblemCollection Check( Member member) { Method method = member as Method ; bool isCatchExists = false ; bool isThrowExists = false ; if (method == null ) return null ; InstructionList iList = method.Instructions; f ...Show All

• Visual Basic Shell method causes the error "VBX Library init failure" on some machines

  Hi, I have been dealing with a problem for the last few days. An error which can be traced to a single line of shell method shows up on a pc other than mine(non development). The error is a dialogue box stating: "VBX Library init failure" The funny thing is the error can be avoided if before executing the shell, a file browser window is activated and a file is selected. Any help to make shell work on all machines wou ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Firewall outbound exception configuation.

  I know that it is possible to configure outbound firewall exceptions with the new 'Windows Firewall with Advanced Security' MMC snap-in. However, how do I configure such exceptions through code The XP SP2 firewall interfaces do not appear to have been extended according to the Vista SDK documentation. Any help would be much appreciated. Mark. The documentation for the interfaces < http://msdn.microsof ...Show All

• Windows Forms Display info in a Table without using a DataGrid. How?

  Hi, I need to display Forms controls in a tabular format. For example, imagine a table of 5 rows by 1 column and each cell containing one radio button. The radio button will have varying text length (and font type and font size) so where&n ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Run-time error 13, "Type Mismatch" in Excel application

  Hi, The following macro functions correctly in an Excel 2003 workbook. However, when I create a copy of the workbook, the macro generates a run-time error 13, "Type Mismatch" when it is run from the copied workbook. Sub print_schedule() ' ' print_schedule Macro ' Application.ScreenUpdating = False Application.DisplayAlerts = False Sheets("Schedule 1").Select ActiveWorkbook.Names.Add Name:= _ "'Schedule 1' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions dumb newcomer question

  Hi all I know this may sound dumb but can anyone tell me what visual basic is for from my understanding....c++ is for progamming visual web developer is for web desigh direct x is for making games and sql is for server stuff...... so what about vb I mean I can desigh a form with a couple of buttons which when clicked will load another form.......I can display a photo and even make a simple animation... but I can do th ...Show All

• Visual Basic MDI Forms

  I have a problem. I load MDI child forms from the parent form, but when the child form loads I get objects from the parent form being displayed on the child form (Grid Box with command buttons). Does anyone have any idea how to stop this behaviour Thanks. Hi Rudolph, Make sure that you are not doing any of following Inheriting the child form from the main form and not setting mdi parent property of chil ...Show All

• SQL Server Log restore failure

  Hi, I'm getting error: An error occurred while processing the log for database ' ' when trying to restore first transaction log backup after successful restore of full backup on SQL 2000. Note that database name is blank. What's the cause and the solution Please help. Hello, Can you provide some more details   How are you attempting to restore the log   How have you restored the databas ...Show All

• Windows Forms messagebox

  how can i make a messgaebox contains two buttons (yes and no) so that when the user press the yes button then a certain code will be executed and another code will be executed when he presses the no button. thank you for the time and& ...Show All

• Visual C# Partial Class For a Form Problem

  Hello! When I create a partial class for my form the "View Designer" button is shown for my partial class. For the MyForm.Designer.cs partial class it isn't shown and that's the kind of behaviour I want and what I expected, especially as the "View Designer" button show another form, not the form that my partial class extends, but at the same time it overwrites entries in the MyForm.Designer.cs file, destroying my original Form. I looked in ...Show All

• Visual Studio Error: SourceSafe web service cannot be accessed: Machine name does not match SSL

  Hiya, I get the following error when trying to connect to a newly installed SourceSafe database: The SourceSafe Web Service cannot be accessed because the server name specified in the following address does not match the machine name for which the SSL certificate was issued. http://myURL/sharename/VssService.asmx Now... The funny thing here is that I do not use SSL for this link, and SSL is turned off both in the SourceSafe Administrati ...Show All

• Visual Basic Just a simple question

  I encountered a command a while ago that, if used, would return the specified form to its standard layout.  I do not remember what it was, however. As an Example: Form1 has the value "1" written on it.  While testing the prog ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Express Editions are free?

  Hi all,       I downloaded Visual Basic Express Edition,I also registered it.Is this software is free, or will expire after some days Thanks in advance, Kripz Hi, Yes, its free once you register it. You can also try the manual download. It doesn't require any registration... cheers, Paul June A. Domag ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista How to get windows state

  Hi Can anyone tell how can I get windows state,i.e., it is hidden, minimized or maximized. Thanks. Hi & Thanks for the post, Searching msdn.microsoft.com, I found this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxlrfwindowstateproperty.asp also I found this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemWindowsFormsPrint ...Show All