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Hello...getting an 'argument not optional' message when testing first attempt at DDB Option Explicit Dim cost As Double Dim salvage As Double Dim life As Double Dim period As Double Dim factor As Variant Dim depreciation As Double

me and my friend made a media player and we need to know if there is anyway to make a visualisation for it.

Hey all. I have a whiteboard type program. I have 2 picturebox's (needed for their mousemove/mousedown events) Picture1.Picture = MyPicture ' Here is my hidden picture used to replace (on erase) Picture1 Picture2.Picture = MyPicture

I have a form that has a text box that allows multi-line text. When I read an 80K file into it, only 64K characters are stored and displayed. However, if I copy from the 80K file using the Windows clipboard commands and then paste into the text box, all the characters are stored and displayed. This is how I read the file into the text...

This is a great set of code for TAPI which does everything; however, I am having the worst time trying to figure out why the form is being reinitialized from the timerhandler instead of just calling GetLineMessage like I really need it to. I hope this amount of code will suffice. I think I'm just missing something very simple. Thanks in...

I'm attempting to open an USB HID device using createfile from kernel32. The open attempt always fails. This is the call I'm using: CreateFile(HidName$, &HC0000000, 3, 0, 3, 0 ,0) HidName$ gets assigned the device: \\?\hid #vid_7766&pid_1629 #6&1b9813bf&0&0000 #{4d1e55b2-f16f-11cf-88cb-00111100030}

Please help me with the following: This is a snippet of a function: Function MassPurlin(b, d) 'Looking up the mass of purlin, in relation to b=width, d=depth in Sheet1 Is there someway I could find out the position/location of the cell where b or d is stored? Ie, if b is stoed in cell B2,

after i pack my vb program using package and deployment wizard, i try to install the program on other computer instead of my computer and run the program. when i click to add a new record to the Microsoft Access database, the following error message was prompted out: item cannot be found in the collection corresponding to the requested name...

Hi: I have a form with a picture box and some command buttons to make certain shapes appear in the picture box. The shapes are drawn on blank UserControls added like this: 'at top of form module Dim WithEvents tc As testControl 'button1_click (for example)

Hi Everybody, This is the first timw I am entering into this Group. I am developing a VB Project with an MDI form. I want to display IE Favorites into my application. For this I need to create Submenus and Menuitems dynamically. It is possible to create menus using array index. But if I have multiple folders and files in Favorites then...

Hi. I have recently bougth VB.NET Standard Edition and I have a problem. I have several VB6 projects which I need to convert to .NET, but the Upgrade Wizard is only included with the pro version of VB.NET. Are there any third party tools which can do the conversion? Anything else I can do short of starting a new project, manually place...

I don't know if this is a problem with my .Net Framework or my Visual Studio ..NET itself, but everytime I try to compile or run a program that utilizes the .net framework I get the following error: An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArithmeticException' occurred in system.drawing.dll Additional information: Overflow or underflow in the...

Hi, I'm using Visual Basic 6 and I'm trying to make a program to change the colours of traffic lights. I am using 3 oval shapes, for each light. I want the traffic lights to change colour through the standard traffic light sequence by changing the 'backcolor' of each oval: Red, Red & Amber, Green, Amber, Red. There are 2 ways I am...

I am thinking of using COM Interop to have my application to use both ..NET and VB6 and communicate with each other. It does not matter whether the user should go into VB6 or Winforms to start the application. These are planned use of services in both environments: 1) VB6 to handle communication with other applications not in .NET...

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I have a spreadsheet with a list of accounts (names, address, tel #'s, etc... it is something that I constantly have to add to and change info on. What I want to do is write a program that will have an interface and once input is put into it, it will put it back in certain cells where it belongs. How should I go about doing this? or should I...

hi, I am doing a homebased .net course and i asked to give some real world examples of what type of things HTML, C++ and Visual Basic have been used to design. Can anyone help? thanks

Hi everyone. I am having a problem reading the contents of a file into a ComboBox. I end up with only the last item being read into the list. Can someone show me what is wrong? Thanks. test.txt contents: "1994 Ford F150 Pickup" "1987 GMC 2500" "1986 Hyundai Pony"

Hello. I need to write a small bit of code for a web application for commercial intranets. A small control panel in a web browser needs to be always visible (i.e in front of other windows) when the web application is used. This is to provide immediate access to functionality for e.g. Stopwatches used by the application. I know that you can...

I want to list *.CSV and *.XLS files in a drop down menu using dlgFileToImport.Filter = "CSV Files (*.csv)| *.csv" dlgFileToImport.Filter = "Excel Files (*.xls)| *.xls" dlgFileToImport.DefaultExt = ".csv" Please what is the syntax for ORing these two requirements. Many thanks - SB

If I need to do something like the following in Excel, would I use a VB macro? What I have is a number of occurrences with the same number (top 10 rows), followed by some value. I want a unique row per a column 1 value with the average of all those after it. I can do this manually but really want to have this done automatically once I...

Hey All, I've got a Conceptual delema that hopefully someone will have some insight on. I made a GUI for 1000 fields which are stored in an array of strings to programatically retrive them and save them to a file. But I also have 1000 uniquely named vars (numbers and strings) that I have to assign from the String Array. Right now I have one...

Hello everyone Is there a possibility to find or to calculate the data transfer-time during downloading a file from the internet? Gretings Ron

Does anyone know of an easy way to increment a string by one letter at a time? What I want to be able to do is set a variable with the value "A" and then be able to use a For loop to make it change to B,C,D,E... Any ideas? If so, then thankyou very very much!

Subject line says it all really. I have a 4 character long string, that contains a 32bit integer. Problem is i have no idea how i go about extracting it. Any help will be appreciated.