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Something strange going on at my place. The ability to move controls or resize them using CTRL,ALT,SHIFT etc does not work any longer. Anyone else seen this? Do I have to re-install VB?(NOOOOOOOOOOOOO) Thanks Gordon

Hi, I have a small problem... I have an application that copy files from one computer to another (very simple), but... when I try to check a folder in the remote computer using: System.IO.Directory.Exists("\\remote\drive\folder\") If the local computer tried to get to this folder using Windows Explorer before to run my program, it...

Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to print an external document with vb.NET? I want to create a function that needs a file name (*.doc, *.xls *.pdf or whatever) and then print that document. If you rightclick on a document in explorer there is also a print option. And my function has to do exactly the same. If you e.g. print an...

Hy I am using the webbrowser control with the navigate2 method. I have a problem when i pass 2 times the same url to the navigate2 method. I will load old content, so i assume it has something todo with caching I have tried to pass the NoReadFromCache flag, but it does not solve my problem: webbrowser1.navigate2 sUrl, 4

Hi My tables are in vfp8 and I need to transfer data from the foxpro tables to SQL server 2000. Should I have to buy SQL Client access licences in order to fetch data from foxPro tables to SQL server tables Please advise Thanks.

hi friends I have create one class in VB.Net, named as TestCtrl.V Now, i want to add some properties in that class. In VB, there is add-in component (Class Builder Utility) by which we can add properties in class But in dotnet how to add properties. Is there any add-in components available or we have to write them manually regards...

Hi, Can anybody tell me why this piece of code makes my app halt? It's just a simple form with two buttons on it! But when I remove "Button2.Show()", everything is ok! Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(AddressOf SomeThing) End Sub

I have posted a similar question before but now want to officially begin a new project correctly using OOP. I have created two classes, Customer and Customers. I want Customers to have some form of a variable/array/collection/etc. that contains as many customer objects as I need to be using at that time. For example when I populate a...

Hi all I posted this under IE and am reposting here in the hope that you can help! I maintain a system that subclasses IE browser when run. This has been working perfectly but recently one of the user gets the following message when trying to use it Dwsbc36.Subclass.6 already exists in the Licenses collection Looking at the call stack,...

Hi, This is probably a stupid question, but I can't seem to get a form to show / load? In the older versions of VB I'd use frmMyform.show / load myForm, etc? I looked at the help file and it showed me how to create a new form in code and then load it, but I want to load a form when a user clicks a button.. and hide the form that currently...

I got a program that consists of different windows forms. I can add, edit, delete and view data. After I deleted or edited data, the window gets closed and the updated data should be shown, but so far it only shows the window as it was before a edit or a delete, which is quite confusing. What have I got to do? Destroy the old window and...

I have created a vb.net project in local drive and the program contains crystal report 9.0 through ODBC and link to SQL server. I can run this no problem on WinXP. But when I move the project to a mapped drive and run the same application there. I got the following error: "Just-In-Time Debugging Handler and CLR Remote Host JIT...

OK, here's the problem... I have a digital input/output card that exposes IRQs (digital input change-of-state) through a DLL function. In VB6.0, I can use this ability through code that looks like this: Public sub test()

I have a form with a main menu on it (mdi parent form) and i have a child form with a menu and I am mergeing the menus together for the menu called reports.. now when i do this they merge just fine.. but i need to disable the menu when the user logs out of the system or clear it so they cant run reports still after logout. but when i try to...

Is there any way to change the color of the background region of a form with its IsMdiContainer property set to True Thanks Lance

I have made a test VB6 app as folows: Private Sub Command1_Click() Dim ip As String Dim msg As String ip = "Gateway" msg = "hey how are you" Shell ("net send" & ip & " " & msg) End Sub

What's the secret to getting the text editor to automatically create the interface members when you use an implements? I am implementing an interface in my class, which has about 20 functions, 2 events, and 34 properties. Thanks!!!

I have just started to use Classes a lot in my code. Often I find that I need to use the same contstructor, but wish to invoke a different action depending on where I am clling the class from. I hav therefors started sending an extra parameter to initialise the Class that I tend to call sArea. I then use this in my code with a series of Select...

Anyone know where I can find some good examples on how to access a text file.

I have the following situation: Need a user resizable user control. After much trying with user control I came across the idea of hosting the controls in a form marked as not TopLevel = false. This work fine for most cases, allowing the user to resize the form (and controls within the form. The forms them selves are create dynamically...

I just created a simple Windows Service in VB.NET. I right clicked on the component and added the installer, installed via InstallUtil.exe all went well until i try to do a net start and then I get: "the service name is invalid" WHY??

Hi, I'need information and examples on Multithreading programming in VB.NET. Please send information to federico@gazum.com Thanks and Regards, Federico

I am writing a batch program for locating hyperlinks in HTML files. I thought I could use regular expressions to search for "<a HREF.*</a>" but this returns only one match from the beginning of the first hyperlink to the end of the last hyperlink. Is there a switch I am missing to have it return each hyperlink separately. Or is my regular...

Hello everybody. On a windows form, using vb.net , I have been trying to figure out how to display images, linklabel into a datagrid. So, far no problem when I bind an iherited datagrid to a dataset where the columns have been defined as icons. Can anybody show me to some vb sample code to implement a linklabel column into a datagrid ?

Hi, If I create a reference to a COM object in my .net project. When I copy the app to a client workstation, where do I place this dll? And do I have to register it? Thanks,