Visual Basic .NET Forum

I have an icon I want to draw onto the screen, but I want to streatch it out to be about 256x256 and make it about 75% transparent how would I go about this? do i need to convert it to a bitmap first then paint it larger? and how would i make the entire image transparent at 75% transparency (25% opaque) thanks!

I need to control something (visibility of toolbar buttons) when the cursor moves between fields on a form (using VB .net). How do I detect that the focus has moved? Thanks, Paul.

How can I set "As the form load" , the caplock is on automically ? I know that I can default the Me.textbox.CharacterCasing = CharacterCasing.Upper However, once i set it, the user never can change it . So I would like to default it is upper case but let the user change it. Thanks From Agnes

Every time I jumped to a new month, the app kept popping up the message box for subsequent months until 2050! If I stayed within the same month (current month), it worked fine. Please take a look at the following codes. Nothing special about it. Please help!! Bill Private Sub dtPicker1_ValueChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e...

Hi all in my VB6 project, every function had a tidyup section at the end (approximates to the "finally" contsruct in a try..catch block). It did a SET OBJECT=NOTHING, for explicit memory release. In .NET, is this totally redundant, and I'm best off letting the compiler handle things ?

How can I get the location of the temp directory for the current user? Thanks!

In my MDI parent form I choose to open a Child thru a MenuClick... I want a progressabar to show up and progress allthru the loading of the new Child Form.. and then when it's done I want the progressbar to disapear and the child so show up. Sometimes there's a lot to load in these child windows and I feel I want to show the user that...

Hello people, Can somebody tell where I can find a good site for info about rs232 communication with VB.net. TIA

Hi, Using VB.NET. I have a datagrid having a strongly typed array of objects as its data source. The data from the array of objects is displayed by means of a table style, which is fine, but I cannot sort the data when I click on the column header. I have set the tablestype.allowsorting = true, but this has no effect.

Hi I try to fill a combobox with a dataset. I see the data in the dataset, but when i try to bind this dataset with a combobox. The list is fill only whith this message "System.Data.DataRowView". That was my code, can you help me. Thanks! Tr 'Create connection object Dim strConnNorthwind As String = "Provider=oraoledb.oracle;User...

MSFT KB article 302896 includes a step by step example demonstrating how to build an Office COM in VB .NET, Yesterday, I implemented the example and it works correctly when starting each of the following Office 2003 apps from the quick launch bar: Access, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint and Word. I used VB.NET 2003. Today, I tried to open an...

I am new to VB.NET and I am trying to learn. So, your indulgence for the triviality of my questions is kindly requested. I would like to calculate an MD5 hash for very lage files. The examples I came across read the file into a byte array and apply the hash to that array. The following code illustrates what I am doing. I would like to...

I am scanning selected drives and computers and capture all files and their attributes. I am using the scripting file system object. It takes a long time to collect the attributes. Is there a better and faster way of capturing file attributes of all files in a selected drive or computer. CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Folder =...

Hi, In the program below, C = A+B, and the aim is to delay the calculation of C until the user asks for C. The boolean mUTD (UpToDate) is used indicate when Calc() must be run to make the C = A+B calculation before C is returned to user. When the Driver program at bottom is run, the behavior is very strange, the debug statement "in...

please hel i cant change the default printer papersiz can you show me an example for a4 paper siz and custom paper siz

Hi, I can not add a chart to a word document I have the following code ...... ....... xlblad.Range("A1:B3").Select()

i've got a form that i'm adding controls to dynamically. i'm doing development on a laptop and testing different resolutions. the screens look fine at each res. being tested. however, when i install the app on a different pc (desktop), the controls are out of alignment, some are even off the screen. what gives? tia,

picDocument is a picturebox When I do picDocument.Invalidate() the box paints. But if instead I do picDocument.Refresh() the box does not paint. What does Refresh do. I guessed it did an Invalidate and an Update. Can someone shed some light?

Hi, I want to get the URL that the user typed in the address bar, I tryed with mshtml and with shdocvw, but I did not found anything that could help me.. If someones has any ideas it could be very helpful Thanks in advance

Ok. I have a windows form with a textbox for displaying certain messages. Multiline=true and wordwrap=true. I want to know the amount of the lines currently showing. That should not be any rocket-science, eh? Textbox.lines.length() only returns the amount of lines ending with a 'hard' CrLF, not the lines with a 'soft' CrLf done by the...

There has been a lot of discussion lately about extending the treeview control to allow finding a node by key rather than by index. Everyone seems to agree that a hashtable is needed to accomplish this. Also, there is a KB article (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311318) purporting to show you how to extend the treenode...

Hi, Does anyone know how I can capture the print out of a printer into a image? The image will be pasted to a richtextbox and save to sql database (this part has been done). Any commend is welcome!! Cheers

Hello, in 2 months i will create an eCommerce web site in ASP.net. I have been creating web sites in Flash, ASP, ASP.net and PHP for quite sometime. However i never created an eCommerce web site. So i have a few questions: 1. How an eCommerce web site works? Where can i find some information about it?

Hi, I've created an application in VS 2002 using vb.net. My application contain a Crystal Decisions report and when I run it on my development PC with VS installed it works fine. However, when I install it on the users PC I get this error : System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms was not...

Hi all, I want to read the colors used in a jpeg image. I want the code or any any other code components that can do that. any suggestion , links and samples will be gratly appreciated thanks in advance, --prem