Visual Basic .NET Forum

Dear all, I have an application which is plan to be language dependant. I have make some testing by using ressource files which have been automatically added to my form by setting the form property Localize =true and select my language. then I have a file named form1.fr-FR.resx in my project. I use then the ressource manager class with...

Does anyone know how to make a datagrid row selection only. I have a data grid with a list of jobs. on selecting a field I want the whole line to be selected not the specific col & row Thanks in advance Chris Wilmot

I had a problem at the end of installing visual basic 6.0 enterprice version. During "Update the system", the "Microsoft Setup Tool" had a problem. The problem said that "Microsoft Setup Tool" got fault. It had to close. How can I solve the problem? Please help me.... Thanks~

Dear all, I'm trying to validate if information has been added in to textboxes and combo boxes. Private Function CheckValues() As Boolean '************************************************** '*** '*** Function : CheckValues() '*** Purpose : Check if all values as filled -in '*** '***

Hi, I am trying to get file listing that would ignore hidden files and folders. But using the Directory.GetFiles method seems to get all files and folders in the specified path irrespective of their hidden status. Any ideas or help would be appreciated. Thanks, Saranjit

Hello, I am writing to a .txt file. Lots of data, about 1.1MB. It only took less than a second for VB6 to do so, but it took VB.NET one minute!! I am using a simple fileopen and print. Does anyone have any ideas? I've noticed that .NET runs slower for my other programs too. thanks in advance for any suggestions.

hi, i would like to add some smileys to a chat program and for that i intend to use pictures just like msn messenger but the following code doesnt preserve the transparency existant in the image file when the image is inserted in the richtextbox even though the image has a transparent background. instead that background is replaced by a...

Hi; Using vb.net, can we create forms in a dll and call this forms from an executable ? If yes, can anybody explain how to do it ? Helps'll be appreciated.. Regards; Ahmet

Good morning! Anyone recommend a good reference/best practices article discussing how one handles: 1 - Errors in VB.Net assemblies B - Raising these errors in ASP.NET pages 3 - Handling said errors in both assembly and ASP.NET? I have a generic error class that I use to handle errors in my assembly, but

How can i show balloon box or balloon box tool tip in my vb.net application ? Balloon box tip is kinda tool tip you can see whn you try to rename a file or folder with invalid characters it poped up. any kinda help will be appriciated. Thank you

I am creating a deployment project. On the Welcome screen I have a bitmap selected. The problem is that the BannerText is there and makes the bitmap look strange. There isn't a bannerText property on this dialog. How can I remove the BannerText so that just my Banner displays there. Thanks Kalvin

Hi, In VB6 when using ADO e.t.c, it was often required to called the function db.engine.idle, otherwise MS Access took ages to release record locks and basically made concurrent use impossible. Will I suffer the same problems with ADODB in VB.NET? if so is there a correct method to also implement this function. or does good old ADODB do...

A client creates a connection to the server using the TCPListener/Client classes and transfers data via a NetworkStream. When the client connects, the server creates a process and redirects its StandardOut to traverse back over the network to the client. I want to encrypt this data and the code I have is below. However, occasionally during...

Now this is confusing. I know in msdn they use OLEDB in their ADO.NET connection example (see ms- help://MS.VSCC/MS.MSDNVS/crystlmn/html/crtskgeneratinganado ..netdatasetobject.htm) The way I just done my reports is : - follow the step on this page (see link), except, instead of connecting to the database using OLEDB, manually create...

Hi, I have a TextBox that contains the following text. User1;User2;User3; ... and so on. Each string is seperated by ";". What is the best way to retreive the strings and place into a string array or ArrayList since i would not know how many strings are in the TextBox?

Dear all, I have one assembly named UserInfo which contains a form1 and a class1 I have a main application wich refer to the UserInfo library by using the import keyword or adding reference to my project. From my main application, I would like to be informed when the Button_click event of my form1 in UserInfo library is

Hello, I use simple 'fileopen' and 'print' to write data to a text file. Lots of data, about 1MB. However, for VB6, it takes less than a second, but for VB.NET it takes 1 minute!! Anyone have any ideas? Another program I migrated to .NET also run slower than in VB6.

Either I'm missing something (sanity, mayhap?) or the "/useenv" command-line option has disappeared from devenv in VS 2003. I'm in charge of our Audit Build Server and, to date, I've used this option to ensure that the build environment remains stable, regardless of what our Developers dream up. /Please/ tell me that devenv.com now uses the...

When I set the Size property on the VB.NET form properties pane to a size of 800, 1200 the 1200 always resets back to 1036? Why is that? When I open a child form in the MDI parent the only way the MDI displays scroll bars if if the child form is not maximized and is moved over the edge of the MDI. Is there a way to turn those scroll bars...

Hi I have the following code for a 3 column listview: intNumItemsSelected = lstPieceMark.SelectedItems.Count For intCount = 0 To intNumItemsSelected - 1 strPieceMark = lstPieceMark.SelectedItems.Item(intCount).Text Next

I am posting data to one form (integers mostly) with variables dimensioned at the modular level (i.e. mdecTotal as Integer) and have calculations performed on those variables in another form. The problem is that when I use ME.HIDE, the variables are being reset to zero values, so I can't even begin to think about how to even pass those...

imports system.drawing imports system.drawing.image dim img as image = image.fromfile("a.bmp") picturebox1.image = img i'm using vs 2003 and the error i have is that fromfile is not a member of system.drawind.image...what gives?!? tia,

There is any advantage on using C#, not VB NET?

Is there a .NET Component that will create an XML document from an HTML document, whereas dropping all the HTML tags ? TIA

I have written a TCP/IP server. The first thing a client does is send login info in the form of FirstName LastName|mypassword@ I read this in using the .GetByte method of a networkstream. I add the input as entered into a byte array which upon receiving the "@" character I convert into a string using the .GetChars method of an encoding...