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Im making this game its kinda like dance dance revolution and I can quite figure out how to save the highest streak of a combo so the combo streak does well every time you hit an arrow Combo_Counter increment by 1 and if you miss 1 your Combo_Counter reset to 0 its all good but I want to save the highest combo streak and dont quite know what to...

I m a newbee, I m creating an application of many forms. One form is an mdi parent which has 3 mdi child form. what I need to know is how can I close that parent and the childs form while not closing the application or have other form open. the idea is to create the application so I always have one icon of the application in the computer task bar?

MSDN recommends disposing any variable of type System.Drawing.Brush before its last reference is released. Otherwise, the resources it is using will not be freed until the garbage collector calls the Brush object's Finalize method. As we know, local variables are destroyed automatically when the control flow goes out of the scope of the method...

So lets say I have 3 subs. Sub 1, Sub 2 and Sub 3. How do I pass a variable from Sub 1 (that calls Sub 2) AND Sub 2 to Sub 3?

How do I make specific checkboxes be checked when I select an entry in a combobox? Like if I select entry 1 checkbox 1 and 3 will be checked if entry 2 then 3 and 4 be checked? So far I'm encountering a problem that when I change the combobox entry the checboxes that were checked stay checked. Here's the code from the sub it's related to if...

using the 'richtextboxprintctrl' works fine and prints all the different fonts within the text I need to know how far down the page the text prints so I can print additional items below the text (such as an image) in the correct position

So lets say I have a column that could have either A,B,C,D in it in whatever order. How would I make it so depending on what letter or combination of letters there is it would output for example: A for Apple B for Bubble C for Cute D for Dunk (really random words i know) if its AB Apple Bubble with a space in between or if its CB Cute...

Hi there! I'm having a small problem with my coding. I am new to this level of VB coding, and coding in general really, the only coding I've ever done in VB is to make a simple login manager! Anyway, I am getting the errors that are mentioned in the title. Here is my code: Imports System.Net Imports System.IO Imports...

i want to make an app that count words from a text file and count words and the number of each word then to list it in alphabetical order for example: text file : hello world hi world number of words : 4 number of each word : hello 1 time hi 1 time world 2 time i manage to write a code that manage to open a text file and to count the...

Please I was using vb.net 2008 with its crystal report and when I migrated to vb.net 2012, the crystal report displays junk characters. And the packaged files that I used to have in 2008 version have mysteriously vanished in the 2012 project. Please help me solve the problems. Thanks

Hi guys, I need a help. I have EmployeesInfo system with several tables (Employees, Payroll and Purchases tables) in Ms Access Database and forms in Vb.Net accordingly. How can I Export and Import data from Ms Access Database using vb.net 2008 ?. Can anyone help me with codes ?. I had coded but does not work !. Private Sub...

I have an vb.net application that I want to install on client machine. The backend is SQL server. Could I make up a setup package that would deploy an application that includes the database with all the stored procedures and tables? The client pc do not have sql server installed therer. If I could where would I look to get started ... ...

i need the to write a coding to display the database value in datagridview,

I already saved value in access database,in combobox i didn't add the item during run time. I need to display the values from database to combobox.

first time if i select the datatimepicker value and i saved. next time it will automatically show the next date , how can i do it , pls send me the coding

I am getting an error stating there are too many arguments to public readonly default property My program is this : Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Dim Right, Left As String Label3.Text = Left(TextBox1.Text, InStr(TextBox1.Text, "@",...

I am getting error as Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Source Error: Line 251: ' .FindControl("chk"), CheckBox) Line 252: If chk IsNot Nothing Then Line 253: chk.Checked =...

Hi. I realise there are 3 different timers in VB.Net but I'm not certain which I should be using for the following. Could anyone help with some basic code and type of timer I should use? This is the scenario simplified for clarity. Main form runs all kinds of processes etc and a timer needs to run every second that increments a label...

How do i read given binary file and also want to read 4 bit from a byte of that file. It is a "Call Details Record" of Mobile calls. I faced following problem to read that file 1. Its 844KB file, with 907Byte same format several data and i need to read each data(907) and saved it to a separate files. 2. There is a single byte on the offset 9...

I can't access xml file from vb.net.It always show " your file is being used by another process " .Please tell me what should I do. Thanks in advance

how to give coding to radio buttons while using for gender

I have an MDI application containing an MdiParent form and few MdiChild forms. The MdiParent has a fixed MenuStrip, a fixed ToolStrip and a fixed StatusStrip. The MdiChild forms have one or more ToolStrips and a StatusStrip along with other controls in them. The ToolStrips and the StatusStrip of the MdiChild are generally hidden and are only shown...

Hi, I have a VB.net project which consists of one main Form with about 5 buttons on. When clicking on a button, this will open another Form using the button_click Sub. What I would like it to do is open the form but run a macro in the background and then close the form. The form is a kind of splash screen, a "waiting" message while code is...

.Net Framework 4.0.30319 SP1Rel vb.net 2010 10.0.40219.1 SP1Rel Windows 7 I have searched on the web for this, but all I can find is how to USE a command window from VB.net, nothing on how to NOT get the window. I need to not have the window come up. This problem is both when running debug in the IDE and after installing with the...

Hi Every body there, I need to write a Vb code, so that it could simulate the keyboard press every 30 secs/45 secs untill some time desiganted. I have tried using API, with sendkeys, tried some .exe file "no sleep" however not of any help, the send keys actually sends the command may be but it doesnt get registers, hence any idea on putting...