Books
I am currently looking for a book to help learn/brush up VB/VB.NET skills. I have done some programming in college and a previous job and really need to brush up my skills for my new job. Can anyone...
View ArticleVS 2012 How to load a picture box from a textbox?
Guy can anyone tell me how to do this? I have a test box and and picture box, and what I want is if the textbox.text has a location in it like C:\me.jpg then the picture box will load that textbox...
View ArticleDrawing to a bitmap
Hi, in VB2010, I decided to make my own chart control, and I was looking for a method to draw tens of Thousand pixels at a fair speed. I found out that the best way to do this is to draw all the data...
View Article[RESOLVED] Accessing Objects?
I was wondering if it is possible to access an object VIA strings, for example... I have a PictureBox with the name "PictureBox1"(Just an example), so accessing it would be simple as follows. Code:...
View ArticleLast row in Microsoft.Office.Interop.Worksheet
In Excel Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(Rows.count, 1).end(xlup).row will give me the last row in column "A". What is it in VB.net? Sub LastRow() Dim xlApp As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application Dim...
View ArticleVS 2012 Express: File Search Using Explorer Dialog Window
I'm using a small project to search for files. What I'm finding is that while this does recursively search, there will be times when I want to target a specific folder inside of the search area. I...
View ArticleVS 2012 vb.net reference
I am using vb.net 2012 and right now I am trying to figure out about reference. And I arrived in Reference Manager and I wanted to access crystal reports activex designer and runtime library 10.0, I...
View ArticleVS 2012 vb.net toolbox
hi, I added new com components to the toolbox which is crystal activex reprt viewer control 10.0 and i was successfully added but when I drag it to the form it causes the vb.net IDE to shutdown? what...
View ArticleInterTask communications. Service-to-UI
I have an old VB6 nt service that has a UI. The idea was that the service would start automatically before user logs in. It's a monitoring/logging system for some external devices. If a user logs in to...
View ArticleVS 2012 Need help!
I'll keep this simple. I have 3 TextBoxes: TextBox1TextBox2TextBox3 In the TextBox1 i have this text Rp.1,000.00 In the TextBox2 i have this text Rp.2,000.00 So, in the TextBox3 i want to have some...
View ArticleSave Listview XML
Every time i search i find loads of different approaches to exporting a ListView and sub items to XML. Kev offers loads of different approaches. http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...t%92s-contents...
View ArticleLooking for some advice on best practices
I have a few questions on what the best practices of certain things in VB.Net might be. 1. If I am displaying an number in a label, should I convert it to a string myself or should I just leave it as...
View Article[visual Basic 2010] - can i use Assembly in Visual Basic 2010 projects?
can i use Assembly in Visual Basic 2010 projects?
View ArticleCreating a Super Simple WWW Link, Copy, & Paste into Spreadsheet Program
Hi, I'm new to VB. Would someone be able to write me and/or to show me how to write a simple program that: 1-follows a hyperlink from MS Excel to the internet (one of many links like this,...
View ArticleUpgrade ASP.NET
I am an old VB6 programmer who is just getting into VB.NET. I bought an old version of VB.NET (2003) just to make sure I would feel comfortable to make the transfer. I am working on Windows 8. My...
View ArticleVS 2010 [RESOLVED] Read Last 30 Lines of Text File
Hi all, Really need some help with this, basically I have a text file located at "C:\test.txt" it is populated regularly with visitor information (date & time, name, company etc..). I'm trying to...
View ArticleVS 2012 Searching for and copying a file listed in a Datagridview
I am just getting back into VB.net programming...its been a long time! I am writing an app that: 1. takes two columns from an excel spreadsheet and puts them into a datagridview. One column is...
View ArticleVS 2010 [RESOLVED] How to find data and delete it from a text file
Hi all, What I'm trying to do is select data from CheckedListBox1.SelectedItem and then search C:\in.txt for that line and delete it entirely. I've tried the replace command, but isn't doing want I...
View ArticleVS 2012 EOF - End of file
Can anyone tell me What it Does exactly mean and end of file (EOF) ?
View ArticleVS 2012 Print screen shot of every form in a folder
I want to create a document (probably MS Word) containing screen shots of every form in each of my company's projects. There is no one .sln that contains all the .proj files. However, the .proj files...
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