jony67907's Q&A profile

• Visual Basic read a cell of excel from vb.net 2005

  hello guyes I have an small database in excel and I want to retrive this data from vb.net and store them into strName, strPhone, strMsg. here is my code:   Dim MessageType As Integer Dim strFileName As String Dim dlg As New Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog Dim strName As String Dim strPhone As String Dim strMsg As String   dlg.Filter = "Excel Files (*.xls)|*.xls" dlg. ...Show All

• Smart Device Development background services

  http://www.pocketpcdn.com/articles/services.html is this still up to date somebody who has experiences withit Even better, does somebody understand it :) and knows how to use it. The sample files can you find below. I want an alltime backgroundservice that for example always on 3 o' clock do function. ...Show All

• Microsoft ISV Community Center Forums Security Warning

  I’m using an ‘Ole1.CreatLink (Path)’ to a .WMD video file, followed by DoVerb to start the video. Before the video will start, Windows (XP service pack 2) gives the Open File – Security warning as though I was accessing a file from the web. This destroys the flow of my product in the eyes of the user. How can I prevent this The .WMV file is just a file I created using Microsoft Movie Maker. Per the support engineer: ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions fstream with Japanese filenames?

  Hi I'm currently making a studylist program for learning Japanese. I'm using an fstream reader to read and open my studylists and it works fine when the filename is in English, however when the filename is in Japanese, or any directory in the path is Japanese the fstream reader returns a null string. (actually it returns nothing which I'm assuming is null). This is strange because reading the studylists (with Japanese entires) is fine, ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Quick question about SQL databases

  I'm following the C# video tutorials about creating an RSS reader.  I'm about halfway through the videos and just completed the lesson about creating, accessing, and modifying an SQL database. My question is, and please forgive me if the author of the video series touches on this in a later video, if I were to use an SQL database for this RSS reader application and decided to install it onto another computer, would I be able to use or acces ...Show All

• .NET Development Sending E-Mails the secure way

  Hello, I send order informations with my application to a special e-mail adress. The order informations are plain text and I think it is not very secure to send emails via a simple smtp protocol. Can you give me some informations how to make ik possible to send security emails Thank you IMO the simplest way is to connected to your smtp server via SSL. Then all the data will pass through the network w ...Show All

• Windows Forms New user cant install app after I have posted updates?

  I am using clickonce to publish my application to a web server. The users who installed the first version succesfully recieve and install the updates I release for the app. However, when a new user on a new machine pushes the 'Install' button it does not install Shouldnt it just install the most recent version This is my first go round with ClickOnce and I assume I am missing something simple. Could someone shed some light on this situatio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System I can no longer view the Team System Installation Guide.

  This morning my computer was updated with some new Microsoft security updates, and now I can no longer view the Team System Installation guide.  This guide is accessed through item 7 - "Visual Studio Team System Installation Guide" at the web site address - http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem/gettingstarted/default.aspx   This is true of the file "dv_VSETInstall-v50428.chm" file that I had downloaded a few days ago, as well i ...Show All

• .NET Development Moving from RC to full release version

  Is this going to be a simple uninstall of the rc version   Or do I have to run the auto uninstaller I used for removing Beta 2   Or is this going to be a completely manual process to remove all the associated programs 1 by 1 Thanks! yes...thanks.  i just wasn't sure if it was set up to uninstall only the beta or not, but it's not. :) ...Show All

• Windows Forms The solution

  Hey guys, Would it be too hard to put a status indicator on the web site somewhere indicating the availability of the server.  Ie, a red or green light representing the server status being available or not would be a nice feature. I for on ...Show All

• Visual FoxPro Which one is faster, cursors, queries, local views, other?

  Hello, I'm using VFP 7 on a very old machine. I'm working with very large tables and I need to create a lot of queries, but my tables are so large it takes forever to load the results. I've been creating cursors on the run from SELECT statements but it's still very slow.... What can I do to optimize my queries/views so they are much faster... I'm new to this, so I don't know much... I just need to be able to run all this queries ...Show All

• Visual Basic Passing data from form to form in the same project

  Hello, My project have multiple forms. How can I get a text entry from one form and have it display on another Is it also possible to do with Radio Buttons Thank you. Hi Christian, I'm not sure why this works given what you're saying, but it does. I took out the me.show in form2.vb like you said becuause it is redundant and it does still work. The code I used is just exactly the code I posted in my message. I don't have a variable called ...Show All

• Visual Basic visual basic ide+compiler is a mess!

  Hi, i have a solution with with 10+ projects (some in c# most in vb) and every time i try to debug inside a vb project i get about 50 annoying error dialogs telling me vbc is broken and the only way to escape from them is to kill visual studio and restart it. sometimes i get lucky and the ide crashes itself saving me from the pain of the never ending dialogs. now debugging is a pain and whats the use of the "edit and continue" if i can even debu ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Books which cover XML with C#

  Anyone know of any good books which cover XML and C# The only one i've found so far is Beginning C# XML: Essential XML Skills for C# Programmers Okay, I'm not sure how good book this is, but take a look at this: Professional ASP.NET 1.0 XML with C# www.bookware.com.au/cgi-bin/bookware/1861007248 I listed there some links, where you can learn more. www.perfectxml.com/articles/xml/csharp.asp www.c-sharpcorner.c ...Show All

• Visual C# using keywords

  Hi everyone, I have some doubts about the usage necessity of using keywords. Instead of using this keyword, it is enough to only add the packages into our Assembly(DLL files), so inspite of this, why do some programmer do both of them(add the packages into Assembly and also use using keywords for these packages). Thanks, Mert Regardless of your having added a package to your assembly, you need either a using statement, or a complete namesp ...Show All