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Sending Emails  Replies (2) 6 January 2008
Hi all I use: Dim message As New MailMessage(txtTo.Text, txtFrom.Text, txtSubject.Text, txtBody.Text) Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient(txtSMTPServer.Text) emailClient.Send(message) And its w...

How to cast Control to a DropDownMenuItem?  Replies (1) 6 January 2008
I need to interate thru the menu items under a ToolStripDropDownButton. Some of them are ToolStripMenuItems and some are ToolStripSeparators. I want to deal only with the ToolStripMenuItems, so a...

RichTextBox - change color of visited hyperlink  Replies (1) 6 January 2008
In my app I would like to change the color of the hyperlink from blue to purple when a user clicks the hyperlink in a RichTextBox. The DetectUrls property is set to True and I handle the RichText...

How to convert the C# code below to VB.NET?  Replies (5) 5 January 2008
How to convert the C# code below to VB.NET? thank you. AddLogicalDrive(((char)('A' + i)).ToString() + ":");...

I need to get the screen's PPI  Replies (4) 5 January 2008
I need to be able to get the screen's PPI. I know I can do it using GetDeviceCaps but is there a class that I can use instead? Thanks...

Begininvoke needed?  Replies (12) 5 January 2008
Hi, I have a small app which sends using .NET's SmtpClient Class and sends well. But the problem is that i placed a marquee-type progress bar to have an animation and hide by default. Then i pla...

My.settings are lost if location is changed  Replies (12) 5 January 2008
Hi, I used My.Settings namespace to store application settings well. If i don't change its location, i can call saved settings OK. But maybe it's a bug or not, if i change my application location t...

Static Integer  Replies (1) 5 January 2008
smaple: sub SomeSub() static i as integer = 1 i+= 1 end Sub strange as initial Value means first call the variable = has as default max ( 243..... ) integer as value. is this normal? ...

select specific coordinate from pdf file  Replies (1) 5 January 2008
hello friends i have a problem i want to select a specific cordinate from pdf file according to X and Y cordinate through vb.net. and i have no any idea about this. i am not under stan...

Create Directory with VS2008  Replies (4) 5 January 2008
Greetings New to Visual Studio 2008. Always us VB6.0 SP5. I am trying to copy files from A to B. I select a directory, and copy files. Works ok, but it does not create the directory first. ...

Clearing Keyboard Buffer  Replies (11) 5 January 2008
Hi, I am coding a Windows Form Application in VB.NET 2008. I would like to clear the keyboard buffer or at least empty all outstanding key presses queued up for my application at certain points ...

copying combos  Replies (11) 5 January 2008
hi all i should copy the items of a combo to n other combos. it's not a cycle: With cboColor1 .Items.Add("ffffff") .Items.Add("cecece") ... ...

Array Function  Replies (9) 5 January 2008
Hi, I am wondering how you multi-dimension an array function? My declared function looks like this: Public Function GetCustomerList(ByVal Val1 As String, ByVal Val2 As Long, ByVal Val3 As S...

The code below will not work on Vista 64bit?  Replies (4) 5 January 2008
Hello, The code below can popup the property dialog of a file, it works well on XP, Vista 32bit, but it will not work on Vista 64bit, how to correct it? i have tried to change integer to intptr, ...

Why CLS-compliant warning?  Replies (3) 4 January 2008
Hi, I receive warning for the following enum: Public Enum enumMinOrMax Min Max End Enum Warning 20 Type of parameter 'MinOrMax' is not CLS-compliant. This enum i...

vb.net question  Replies (2) 4 January 2008
I am new to visual studio.net 2005. What I need to do at my new job is to write an application where users can enter data into 'screens'. The data that is entered will end up in excel spreadhseets...

Keydown event problem  Replies (2) 4 January 2008
when the cursor is in a textbox, only coding in the keydown event of the textbox triggered, the coding in the keydown event of the form does not triggered! Problem: I need to change a VB6 program...

Keydown event  Replies (7) 4 January 2008
I'm convert a VB6 program to .Net platform. My program use function key (F12) to close a form. Now I found that the coding in the keydown event of control triggered, the coding in the keydown of th...

Overloading constructor in an abstract nested clas ...  Replies (3) 4 January 2008
Is it possible (if so how) to override the constructor in an abstract class? Here is a simplified example of what I'm rtying to do: Create a windows App, drop a button on the form and doubleclick ...

Need a COM expert  Replies (2) 4 January 2008
I'm using ITextRange::FindText Method and it works OK but I have to code so that if the return is not equal to S_OK means it succeeded. Does VB.NET do some thing to the HRESULT before I get it? ...

List of Global Hotkey IDs?  Replies (8) 4 January 2008
Hi, Here is 2 questions: 1) I declared some global hotkeys located inside Windows API follows as: Private Const MOD_ALT As Integer = 1 Private Const MOD_CONTROL As Integer = 2 Private Const MO...

Pulling first name out of a name column in DB  Replies (4) 4 January 2008
I built a webpage using vb.net (.net 2.0) that creates a form letter. This letter pulls data from a database. Although I populate the address with the person's full name, which comes from the name...

Showing an email as read after viewing  Replies (1) 4 January 2008
Hi...I am using MAPI to loop through and view messages in a selected folder. Everything works fine, but when I'm finished with the message I want to mark it as read in Outlook. I thought this would ...

Do Loops and Timers  Replies (11) 4 January 2008
Can someone tell me why my program hangs when I call a timer function from within a Do Loop. Here is the code: Public Class MainForm Public intCounter As Double = 0 Public intMin As ...

overload resolution failure, narrowing conversion  Replies (1) 4 January 2008
I have a strange situation with vb 2005 regarding option strict that looks like a compiler bug to me. Consider: Dim f1 As New Font("Arial", 8.25) Dim f2 As New Font("Arial", 8.25, FontStyl...

How to create an automated input box.  Replies (12) 4 January 2008
I have the code below that will evaluate a string of characters. If its less then 12 long it will trigger a message box if its equal it will save the information and close the form. I have this ...

Extracting Parts of a String  Replies (1) 3 January 2008
Hello, I have a question about manipulating string in VB.NET2003. I have a string that looks as follows: MyString = "1st garbage blah, blah.. " & vbCrLf & _ "=============================="...

Extracting Parts of a String  Replies (1) 3 January 2008
Hello, I have a question about manipulating string in VB.NET2003. I have a string that looks as follows: MyString = "1st garbage blah, blah.. " & vbCrLf & _ "=============================="...

Extracting Parts of a String  Replies (2) 3 January 2008
Hello, I have a question about manipulating string in VB.NET2003. I have a string that looks as follows: MyString = "1st garbage blah, blah.. " & vbCrLf & _ "=============================="...

read Word file  Replies (4) 3 January 2008
Need to read Word file without Office installation. It's possible? http://www.alvas.net - Audio tools for C# and VB.Net developers...

Automatically keep database and dataset schema in ...  Replies (4) 3 January 2008
Hello, I am working on a project with a strongly typed dataset...I have to make alot of changes to it as I change the database schema. Its tedious, error prone and time consuming updating it manu...

Library Project  Replies (2) 3 January 2008
Hi, pls give some points on this project... Search - needs excution code...

NumericUpDown Control leading Zeros  Replies (2) 3 January 2008
Does anyone know how to set a property to display the leading zeros in the numberic updown control for vb 2005? I'm using the control and want to input a value of 01 however it will just show 1?...

getting the application publish version  Replies (6) 3 January 2008
Hi, I use the publish feature within Vs.net 2008, and have it set to increment on each build/publish I want to be able to display this as my application version number, but can not see how t...

Bring anothe app to the front and an "Inside Appli ...  Replies (4) 3 January 2008
I tried the code at the end of this note although I didn't think it would work since without and "Application.Run.." I'm thinking there is no message loop as I had found this on the intern...

how to open .doc within vb.net?  Replies (8) 3 January 2008
i have used this code(see below) to open .doc files using a cmd button, an open dialog box, a microsoft textbox(in COM components) to display the .doc file and a texbox to display the pathname of th...

CommandButton for further processing  Replies (3) 3 January 2008
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C84E50.3033F200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I want to se...

Another parsing question  Replies (1) 3 January 2008
Assume a user supplied excel cell formula of "=Model!E75" which could change so I don't want to hard code it. Inside of a loop I need to make it increment the row to refrence E76, E77, etc. Any sugg...

Convert a 2-dimensional array to bytes, and then b ...  Replies (2) 3 January 2008
I am building a client-server application. When the clients gets the data from the server, the data is received as a byte array. The server works with data in 2-dimentional arrays (recordsets rece...

Export to flat file  Replies (3) 3 January 2008
Hi There, I am developing an windows application using VB.NET and I need to export and open the contents of my datagrid to a flat file. Preferably txt or wordpad. Whats the best direction/chunk...

Binding Manager/Currency Manager Problem?  Replies (1) 3 January 2008
Hi, Trying to implement databinding. I've a dataset with a table, a windows form with typical controls: combobox, datetimepicker, textbox . . . I use what I think is a normal method to establish...

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Interface + derived method (via Overloads) problem  Replies (5) 2 January 2008
Hi, I have created a base class implementing an interface and a derived class also implementing the same interface. While figuring out that I am unable to call the derived method of an instance ...

IPC-Remoting: Threading issue in MDI-application  Replies (2) 2 January 2008
Hello, I have an Mdi-application which also is a remoting-server (Ipc). Several instances can co-exist on the same machine. I have a small app (search-engine) (remoting-client) which calls a su...

Getting keypress when form is inactive (no focus)  Replies (6) 2 January 2008
Hi, I was working on a screen capturing application which must do its work when a key (eg: CTRL) is pressed while the application is resides in tray as a notification icon. I mean, while my appl...

Which VS template do I need  Replies (9) 2 January 2008
I need to write a web service--actually several. The data these web services return will come mostly from odbc data sources. Also I'd like to make this a web application as opposed to a windows ...

Can I use LINQ to get to a VFP table?  Replies (4) 2 January 2008
Can I use LINQ in VB .Net 2008 to get to a Visual FoxPro Table? I've seen demos of it with SQL Server but they've used it with a server browser and I don't think that'd work when I need to see VF...

WebBrowser ctl  Replies (1) 2 January 2008
Hi, Visual Studio 6 WebBrowser control had the ability to set a value and also to raise webevents like click eg: webbrowser1.Document(icur).All.Item(Text_Password_Field.Text).Value = Text_Pa...

how to print .pdf and .doc files in vb.net  Replies (6) 2 January 2008
hi! im currently doing a project in vb.net that could print 3 kinds of file formats: .txt, .pdf, and .doc i can already print text files but i haven't done pdf and .doc yet. can anyone help me wit...

Cannot publish a VB app - signtool error  Replies (1) 2 January 2008
Windows XP VS 2005 I got the error message below when trying to publish the VB app to a network folder: Publishing location: \\nasserver\customapps$\VS2005\VISUALDISPATCH\ Installation URL: ...