Q: For Each loops

2006-01-30T09:53:00.026+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Q: For Each loopsby:Geoff Jones Hi Suppose I have a For Each loop, for example, For Each x As DataRow In drMyData ' Do stuff - calculation 1 ' Do more stuff - calculation 2 ' and even more stuff - calculation 3 Next If after completing calculation 1, I discover that there is no point doing calculations 2 and 3, how do I jump back to

How to find a list of SQL Servers?

2006-01-30T09:52:00.001+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Finding a list of SQL Serversby:Craig G without using SQLDMO is there another way, i've used the SQLDMO way but have had a few issues with it. is there another way? Cheers, Craig Reply:by:hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at (Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]) P/invoke, a VB6 sample that needs to be translated before using it can be found here:

How to find whether an Image is Color or b/w?

2006-01-30T09:52:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: How to find whether an Image is Color or b/wby:Chellapa For my ImageProcessing Application i need to find whether an Image is Color or B/W through code for GrayScale automation purpose, Iam using vb.net and photoshop for developing the application. Image Format is PNG Can any one help in this regard. Thanks, Chellapandian.S

Find Missing Data

2006-01-30T09:51:00.001+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Find Missing Databy:Justin Emlay I'm hopping someone can help me out on a payroll project I need to implement. To start we are dealing with payroll periods. So we are dealing with an exact 10 days (Monday - Friday, 2 weeks). I have a dataset as follows (1 week to keep it short): Employee 1 - Date 1 Employee 1 - Date 2 Employee 1 -

Design Tutorials

2006-01-30T09:51:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Design Tutorialsby:AnonymousI need a couple free tutorials on application design, I am trying to build a project but i really lack in the design category and its is affecting my production. thanks for the help WStoryeII Reply:by:Ken Tucker [MVP] Hi, http://www.microsoft.com/resources/practices/default.mspx Ken Reply:by:

Dateformat on databound textboxes?

2006-01-30T09:50:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Dateformat on databound textboxes?by:Graham Blandford Hi all, Can anyone tell me how I go about setting a custom date format (or any other format for that matter) to a textbox that has a databinding? In VB6 I would do something like 'set text1.format = myformat', but that isn;t a format property in VB.NET. Any help would be

Moveable Toolbars

2006-01-30T09:49:00.001+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Moveable Toolbarsby:VJ I am looking to implement moveable toolbars like in Word, or Visual Studio... any pointers or articles would great.. Thanks VJ Reply:by:Cor Ligthert Hi VJ, I made this sample for John Crouse, however the only thing in my opinion what you have to change basicly are toolbars instead of labels. (You can open a

Help with hiding LinkButton in DataList

2006-01-30T09:49:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Help with hiding LinkButton in DataListby:News Hi, I need help with datalist and linkbutton. I need a LinkButton to be visible in datalist only on the condition when datafield "is_measure_customchecklist" in a db table set to true. Here is the code (in parts):

Project converted from VB6 to VB.Net gets subclassed WndProc -- why?

2006-01-30T09:48:00.001+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Project converted from VB6 to VB.Net gets subclassed WndProc -- why?by:Rob Richardson Greetings! I have a VB.Net 2003 project that was originally written in VB6, converted to VB.Net 2002, and then converted to VB.Net 2003. I am trying to handle a form's Resize event. I put a breakpoint in it and saw that that event got fired four

.Net says I'm not Online, but I am!

2006-01-30T09:48:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: .Net says I'm not Online, but I am!by:Selden McCabe While at a client's site today, I suggested looking at one of the .Net newsgroups. When I pulled up the .Net start page, and clicked "Online Resources" it reported that we were not connected to the Internet. But we were! Does anyone have any idea why this was happening, and what to

Freeware/shareware Windows controls

2006-01-30T09:47:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Freeware/shareware Windows controlsby:Richard L Rosenheim I'm experimenting with .Net programming and is wondering what free (or low-cost) UI controls are available for non-commercial use. As I'm just playing around with code and concepts at the moment, I'm not really ready to go out and start purchasing commercial libraries at

Combobox in datagrid?

2006-01-30T09:46:00.001+01:00

To parenthesize or not... Bug in VB.Net?

2006-01-30T09:46:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: To parenthesize or not... Bug in VB.Net?by:AnonymousCall me a purist or picky but... I've found 2 instances where VB.Net considers parenthesis optional. Consider the following property, sub, and function in VB.Net: Public Property TestProperty() As Integer Get Return 0 End Get Set(ByVal Value As Integer)

How to change the Color of a Toolbar?

2006-01-30T09:45:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Changing the Color of a Toolbarby:Charles A. Lackman Hello, I am using the Toolbar from inside VS.NET and am looking for a way to change it's background color. When I look it up on Microsoft's Web Site I see that it is overridden ,but, I am very unsure how to accomplish this. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciaed. Thanks,

How to pass Objects as type System.Object?

2006-01-30T09:44:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Passing Objects as type System.Objectby:Stephen Travis I'm trying to ReDim a child object after passing the parent object as System.Object and it throws a System.InvalidCastException: Cast from type 'Object()' to type 'ChildType()' is not valid. If I pass the parent object as its type, the ReDim succeeds. How can I ReDim a child object

How to create a Username/Login Page?

2006-01-30T09:37:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Creating a Username/Login Pageby:Erik T. Nomad Hey...I'd like to link a login page (e-mail address, password) to an access database on the server whereby users can save items in a "wish list" and retrieve them later -- even e-mail the wish list to others. This threatens to be a pretty big project, but can anyone point me in the right

Suggestions to increase the performance of searching my array?

2006-01-30T09:35:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Suggestions to increase the performance of searching my array?by:AnonymousI wonder if anyone has suggestions for reducing the amount of time it would take to search my array using the function that I have written. I want to find a position in the array of an item that matches on all three variables. Suggestions? Public Shared

Where did my Dataset Go?

2006-01-30T09:33:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Where did my Dataset Go?by:Wayne Wengert I have a VB App (VSNET 2003) in which, during form load, I create a dataset (ds1) and then populate a datagrid by binding to the dataset. That works fine. The form has a button which, when clicked, initiates an export process. When the button click event opens, the dataset is "Nothing". The

Password Filter DLL

2006-01-30T09:32:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Password Filter DLLby:Andreas Hecker Hello, i want to write a password filter dll for windows 2003 server. I found an example in msdn http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;151082 wich is written in c++. I am not able to understand c++ in a way to port this onto ..net framework. Can anybody help me to find out how

An application framework for VB.NET

2006-01-30T09:31:00.001+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: An application framework for VB.NETby:alantolan@users.com (SionnachRoe)All, I was wondering if there is anything akin to the MFC App/Doc/View framework available for VB.NET, either as part of .NET, as a commercial library or as opensource. Background ========== We are moving from VB6 to VB.NET and are planning to write a number of

'System.Net.WebException' - Strange Error

2006-01-30T09:31:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: 'System.Net.WebException' - Strange Errorby:A User Very strange - this code is copy and paste from the net and works on 2 of my 3 development machines - but of course not the machine I need to run it on. I've seen similar posts, but no solutions that work for me. Is it a problem with my proxy settings on this 1 machine? I have all

Dataset Tablenames <- SQLHelper

2006-01-26T12:22:00.001+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Dataset Tablenames <- SQLHelperby:Lucas Tam I'm not sure if this is a problem with Microsoft's Application Data Blocks, but I am using a query like this: USE DATABASENAME;SELECT * FROM SOMETABLE The tablename property of my datasets are not being set - this causes a problem with CrystalReports. Is there a way to auto-set the

Add handlers to textboxes in a datagrid

2006-01-26T12:22:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: add handlers to textboxes in a datagridby:Josh Golden sorry for so many posts recently i am loading a datagrid from a datatable. the shape of the datatable is not known at design time. i want to dynamically add event handlers to the datagrid textboxes. it would be really easy if i were using a DataGridTableStyle at design time but

Datagrid (windows forms)

2006-01-26T12:21:00.001+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Datagrid (windows forms)by:Anonymousis there like a BeforeColumnEdit() or BeforeRowEdit() event in the datagrid. i want to disable a command button when a row in the grid is dirty. (i.e. a column is being currently edited) and enable it after the Changed() or Validated event fires i tried the RowChanging(), ColumnChanging() events.

Inheritance problem with custom control

2006-01-26T12:21:00.000+01:00

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups: Inheritance problem with custom controlby:Fred Flintstone This is driving me crazy. I've put together a perfect, easy example of the problem. What I'm doing is creating a custom control, prepopulated with 4 items when dropped on a form: - Create a new Control Library project. - Inherit System.Windows.Forms.Combobox - In New(), add

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