I'm running Visual Basic.net. I used to use the INKEY command, available in older DOS versions of Basic, to allow the user to change the flow of a program by touching a keyboard key. It seems to be available only in Visual Fox Pro. Is there an alternative for Visual Basic?
View 4 RepliesI will have to perform updates/inserts/... on several relational tables of an Access database but I know that the Command builder usage is limited only to one table at a time.
View 1 RepliesIs there are VB.net alternative to the C++ command of set active window.text ? (its something like that) baisicly this command renames the active window to what ever you want, is VB.net powerful enough to do this?
View 3 RepliesAn excel addin was used for a report data from database employing flat files. This addin uses activeX controls to acheive the above functionality. However it was later identified that when associated with digital signature to make it run under high security settings the whole addin crashed.
However the Point of concern now is'A new dll has been developed that encapsulates all the functions of the existing addin.' The addin was registered and as it was used, it created multiple instances of excel objects vigorously. However it was identified that this was due to a portion of the code that caused a command bar to the inserted as shown below Set cbar = CommandBars.Name("My data extracts")
Can an alternative code snippet be given which would insert a CommandBar?
First let me say that I am not sure whether or not this should go in this section or the API section, and if it needs to be moved I apologize. My issue is fairly straight forward, but for some reason I cannot get it to work.
I am trying to send a command to a command line and then submit the command. I have been trying without success to get this to work in v2008 Express and v2010 Express, Here is the code I am trying to us:
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" ( _
ByVal lpClassName As String, _
ByVal lpWindowName As String _
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I've created an app (VB.NET) where each installation of the app works with a single local database on the PC. No multiuser and no ability for the user to change databases - the database is effectively part of the app, with a fixed scema, only the data will change.At the moment the database is SQL CE. It has about 30 tables with some simple relationships between the tables.
I'm wondering if there is an alternative to SQL CE that might be faster in this scenario. Although SQL CE is excellent and easy to use, I get the feeling there is perhaps an unecessary overhead when using it for something simple - and it does seem a little slow when my app is doing complex stuff that interacts a lot with the DB. In my prototype I actually loaded the 'database' tables from text files into Arrays and developed subs and functions to perform the database searches etc. It was blindingly fast but I realised it wasn't a scaleable solution because it was an 'in-memory' database. A compromise would be to 'page' data into array when needed, but it all gets horribly complex and that's probably why some very clver people have created SQL CE !
I am currently using psexec.exe from PsTools to send a command to a remote system to fire a command through a command prompt however I am finding that the shell I am doing does not seem to like the spaces in the path.
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Any ideas on how I handle the following error thrown in the SqlDataAdapter.Fill as a result of the BeginTrans in the callee?
System.InvalidOperationException = {"ExecuteReader requires the command to have a transaction when the connection assigned to the command is in a pending local transaction.The Transaction property of the command has not been initialized."}
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Public Sub ExecuteTransaction(ByVal connectionString As String) Using connection As New OleDbConnection(connectionString)
Dim command
As New OleDbCommand()
Dim transaction
As OleDbTransaction
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Using VB.net, I have a namespace which I'd like to rename for the future. However, I'd also like to keep the old obsolete namespace for a time to ensure backward-compatibility for our consumers for awhile. Is there a way in .NET to have two namespaces, one ordinary and one that merely is an alternative name for the other?
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From the WINDOWS Date & Time settings FORM is this accessible as an alternative
View 1 RepliesBelow is the code for a linked list search I have tried to implement in to searching through each of the elements of htmlelements .For some reason If element.InnerText = (item) will only work if if is only a string ("example") .Are there any other ways of Implementing the for each loop to search through my item linked list?
Original code for searching for 1 string
Private Sub block()
Dim elements As HtmlElementCollection = webBrowser.document.All
Dim word_found As Boolean
word_found = False
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This is the Loop for item I have tried to implement but is not working ,because of the for each loop .The value of element.Innertext = "" or null when I try to use one of the linked list item[If element.InnerText = (item)] is used and only have a value when a string is used to [If element.InnerText = (google)]
Private Sub block()
Dim elements As HtmlElementCollection = webBrowser.document.All
Dim word_found As Boolean
word_found = False
Dim item As LinkedListItem = words.Head
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I've encountered a problem in a application that I inherited. It contains a combo box that loads information.The problem is that there are more data that the control will hold (32767
View 2 RepliesIs there an alternative to Uri.EscapeDataString? I'm trying to upload an image, by converting it into a base64 string, but I need to use Uri.EscapeDataString on it first, and if the image is big then Uri.EscapeDataString will say that the URI is too long.
View 2 RepliesMy clients web application is using TidyCOM to clean up dynamically created XML files from a SQL database query. With this TidyCOM, they are not able to upgrade the web application to .Net 4.0 framework. Is there an alternative to using TidyCOM so that these dynamically created XML files are validated correctly?
View 1 RepliesWe heard a lot about the vulnerabilities of using QueryStrings and the possible attacks.Aside from that, yesterday, an error irritated me so much that i just decide to stop using QueryStrings, i was passing something like[code]....
View 8 RepliesMy VB application also needs to manage simple appointments in an agenda, however one user has no MSOutlook. Someone knows of an alternative calendar tool, with which I can do this?
View 2 Repliesis there an alternative for timer?
View 4 RepliesSo I've been doing a lot of reading today and apparently SendKeys isn't very reliable anymore.Does anyone know of another alternative to it for what I need:
The application works by the form being positioned over a open window, notepad, word, excel etc and it then determines what it is over, notepad, word, excel etc and then reads the file, and does some processing using SendKeys at the moment.Though I do believe I could probably change the later at some point. The problem I'm having right now is when I try to send the Alt + Tab to change focus it's working roughly 12% of the time.If you are wondering I ran it 50 times and it worked 6 of those,thus the 12%.I'm thinking that is rather unacceptable.This is what I'm using which should work: SendKeys.SendWait("%{TAB}")
XP Service Pack 3 and vb.net 2005
First off, using VB2010. I'm in the process of upgrading some applications from VB6 to 2010 and haveing a great time of it. The current application I'm working on is using Sendkeys of which I have changed over to the WSH.Sendkeys of which is pretty decent. Basically the program is copy and pasting the current open file, reading some data and saving it as a different file type. It also has to change xls files to csv and then saving it to the format as well as a smiliar thing with word. Thus the reason for the copy and paste as it's changing the extension to a dot date (for example, test.830).This is the flow of how it works for a text file (most basic)
1. changes focus to notepad
2. Select all Copy to ClipBoard
3. Open Programmers File Editor and a blank file
4. Paste in text
5. Save as code.date extension to the directory
Excel files obviously have a few extra steps.
I need a good alternative for System.Web that is included in the .NET 4 Client Profile. Currently all of my frameworks are included in the client profile, except System.Web. What is a good alternative?
View 7 RepliesI am using the following code to run defrag and to analyze if the C: drive requires defragmentation:
Dim analyze As Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:WindowsSystem32defrag.exe", "C: /a /h /u /v")
This process runs through analyzing, runs it in normal mode & prints the progress to the command window.
My problem is that as soon as the process is complete the command window closes. I need it to stay open so that I can read the results.
I am trying to send a command to the external command line (cmd.exe) from the Windows form application that I'm writing in VB.NET (using VS2008).
I can only access the external program thru the command line (its not my program) and I must do so from a form app.
I am trying to use the following code. I am able to call a cmd.exe window, but I can't pass the command line my command.
Using mp As New Process
With mp.StartInfo
.FileName = "cmd.exe"
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I have an MDI Windows Forms application (.net 2008) that allows the user to associate various file types with the application. I currently do this with a registry entry something like this, that causes the application to load and access the file name via the command line:[code...]
In the pre-.net version of the application, I used DDE (ddeexec in the registry). If an instance of the application was executing when a file was double-clicked in Windows Explorer, it would open the file without starting up a new instance of the application.
Now that DDE has been deprecated by Microsoft, what is the best way in .net for an executing MDI application to open an additional file when the file is double-clicked in Explorer, as opposed to starting a new instance of the application?
If I wanted to make changes in page site (using with WebBrowser, and only the user will see it) I would do it:
Dim Rstring As String = WebBrowser1.Document.Body.InnerHtml
Rstring = Replace(Rstring, "Some Text To Replace", "<B>Some Text To Replace</B>")
WebBrowser1.Document.Body.InnerHtml = Rstring
In my project i am using begin transaction commit or rollback changes. but this causes lock to the tables in that particular functionality.
So if the any other user does any other functionality those locked table are not available until the transaction is completed. I want to know if there is any alternative to transaction which insures data security but the tables are not locked out.
I assume that this is not possible.Could somebody please suggest an alternative way to display rows from a DB in a nice way. (with word wrap)
View 10 Repliesin my database i have an admin form, where it allows you to do admin stuff.Example: Allows you to enter price per membership, and change it.Problem i'm having is how would i save it, since all previous files had more than 1 records, so it would be in the form of:
FilePut(1, OnePerson, NumberOfRecords + 1)
Since this file will only cosist of one record, i don't know how i would save it.i tried FilePut(1, OnePerson, Index) But it doesn't work.
I was just wondering if there is and alternative for control arrays in .net as these were quite handy in vb6?
View 8 RepliesAny good alternative to using DoEvents in VB.NET
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