Visual Basic .NET Forum

Hello I would like to trigger an event from within my code. I have a MouseUp event handler and I need to call a paint event handler from within the former, to update the form of my application. Is that possible? Thanks in advance, Frankkie

Hello, I've developed an app. It displays PPT files in WebBrowswer control. The file would run a PPT file for certain duration and then another PPT file is being loaded. So it's kind of multiple powerpoint show. Every time i run a new PPT file, i'm dispossing off the current webbrowswer control and creating new one and then load new...

Using vb.Net,i created a application.in that application i user Cr-Report for creating reports.After launch the report ,we can't scroll up or down the report using Mouse wheel or keyboard arrow buttons.I want to enable this functionality in my report.please help me -- Regards, R.Sathiamoorthy

Hi Everybody, At run time, regardless of the computer regional settings, is there a simple way of swtiching the DateTime Picker in French (fr-CA) or in English (en-US) depending of the user selection. The user of my small application can switch the entire application to French or English, but I dont know how to work with the DTP, that...

I have written a Console Application then created a shortcut to it on my desktop. I was able to minimize the DOS window when I click my shortcut so I dont see anymore the DOS window But, using Task Manager to run the shortcut, I am not able to get rid of (minimize) the DOS window. Is there somebody that is aware of this problem ? My...

Hi all, I created a DTS package in SQL Server 2000 that creates several stored procedures. I need to run this package as part of an installation program for an application that uses the stored procedures. In the past I saved the DTS package as a Visual Basic file, compiled the Visual Basic file in the Visual Studio 6.0 environment and ran...

Hi, All, I want to generate empty data tag, for example, the table1 has 2 fileds called field1 and field2, the field1 has data there but field2 no data, when creating xml fiel using query select field1, field2 from table1 for xml auto, elements, get xml file like this: <Table1> <field123 <field1> </Table1>

Hi, i want to read mail using pop3 but i don't know where i have to search... I've heard about cslmail but is there another way to read those mails ? Thanks Mary

Hi I have a vb iis application and some asp pages. The logic is in the vb dll. Now I need to extent one asp page to do extra step, but the similarly code is in the vb dll. I don¡¯t want to copy/paste code (and beside don¡¯t know copy/paste will work). So I¡¯m thinking of open a web service function in vb dll and the asp can http request? Is...

Hi, All, the xml file is like this: <Root> <AutoData> <Table1> <Data1 10 </Data1> <Data2 20 </Data2> <Data3 40 </Data3>

Hello, A UserControl that I'm developing is causing an InvalidCastException to be thrown when the form, with the userControl on it, is shown. The trouble is that I don't seem to be able to debug the exception. A dialogbox is shown with the following information when I open the form in design mode: The following exception occured:...

Hi, All, I want to remove xml namespace attribute (xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance") in the following file <AutoData xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <Table1> <Data1 10 </Data1> <Data2 20 </Data2> <Data3 40 </Data3>

Is there a way to create an index (non-unique) constraint on a DataTable column? Here is some code sample I would like to run, but the constraint can not be unique. Dim IDDataColumn As DataColumn IDDataColumn = ds.Tables(1).Columns("MyNonUniqueID") ds.Tables(1).Constraints.Add("IndexID", IDDataColumn, False)

I would like to have the text of a label resize to fit the label control itself. I understand that the other way around is possible, i.e. having the control resize to display the text (autosize property) but I can not seem to find any sample or technique suitable for what I need. My label control is set to fill a resizable form and I would...

Hi, All, I try to add xml version line(<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>) before xml file AutoData root node in the following file <AutoData > <Table1> <Data1 10 </Data1> <Data2 20 </Data2> <Data3 40 </Data3>

Hey All, I am building a solution which will have many strings that will need to be localized (i.e. strings for toolbars, strings for different WinForms, strings for messages and error messages, etc.). I am having trouble accessing string file resources. What I want to do is to break out strings into separate files so that they are...

Hi. When I try to run Visual Studio 2003 I get the message "MS development environment is not installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application." Is there any way to work around this without reinstalling VS 2003? Also, can VS 2003 and VS 2005 coexist?

This may sound really obvious, but is there a way to change the text of different certain label depending on an integer? For example, here is the long hand (using the default label1, label2 etc) : Dim myInteger as integer = 15 Select Case myInteger Case 1 label1.text = "This was changed" Case 2 label2.text = "This was changed" Case 3 ...

I am doing customization for Microsoft Pos. I am working on installation package now. I added some new tables and stored procuedures and generated SQL Script for that. During the installation process, after user entered the server name and database name, how to open the script file (*.sql) and run that to update database? So they don't have...

Hi all, Is DDE still available in .NET? Is there a way to send DDE commands through VB.NET? Do I need an ActiveX component, or is there something in the .NET API or Win32 API that I can use?

I have been working for a while on a new project and suddenly get this warning, without knowing what I have done to trigger it. The form is simple, with a data adapter. The 'urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdatasource:DataSetUISetting' element is not declared. It points to the 7th line in my dataset xsc file <?xml version="1.0"...

Hello! Say, in VB.NET, is there a 'point & click' feature for creating subs/functions/etc like in VB 6.0? If not, is there a 3rd party one that can be used? If so, how do I go about installing it? -- Thanks! Soddy

Strangest thing, but, if I put debug.print statements in my code, they simply get ignored when I run the project. Also, if I try to put a breakpoint on a line containing debug.print, it jumps down to the next available line of code when I run the project (or jumps down immediately if the project is already running). Another thing that's...

the vb.upgrade group is dead. I think I will post this here instead. Hi, I ran the Upgrade Wizard to upgrade my VB6 project to VB2005 Express Edition. I got 140 errors and 170 warnings. One of the error was that it wouldn't load a VB6 control.

VB 2005 Express Edition I need to propagate the results of a selection of radio buttons over several pages and eventually write the results (values) of the radiobuttons to CSV file. Best approach?