I code primarily in vb.net. I've been doing basic dependency injection manually and am looking to learn more about DI/IoC and maybe use a DI/IoC framework/container like Ninject. There are lots of examples and write-ups using Java and C# code. I'm looking for the best resources for vb.net programmers. Likewise, is there a particular framework that would be easiest for a vb.net programmer to pick up?
View 3 RepliesI have Crystal Reports 2008 installed on my win7 laptop but when i go to insert references from my application settings the CrystalDecisions references are missing and im not able to find them. Note: they do exist in my "c:windowsassembly" folder.
View 3 RepliesI was wondering if anyone could point me in the best direction to becoming proficient in Visual Basic and later maybe other languages? I work full-time as an Information Management Officer for the DoD and I am also a full-time student (CMIT Major) and father. I have to try as it is to balance my time and find ways to get programming practice in but admittedly it has proven difficult. I am currently taking my second class in Visual Basic and had a previous class in Java as well.
Next term I will be taking advanced VB but i don't feel at all like I'm very good at VB, especially not good enough to be taking an advanced class. I desperately want to become a proficient programmer and was wondering if anyone could suggest a good, at-you-own-pace program or instructional books, videos, anything, that would walk me through creating beginner, intermediate, then advanced VB programs and techniques and different ways to deploy applications created in VB?
I am looking to switch to C#. I come from a C / C++ background but C# is a little different for me. I am switching mainly because of Silverlight and MVVM; all examples are in C#. Any information is in C# and I am confused when I read through it all.
What is a good place to start learning C# when starting with existing C / C++ knowledge?
For a few years I developed websites in PHP, but couldn't get a job doing this nearly two years ago. I spent a year teaching (and if your thinking of teaching, my advice is don't! In the UK anyway), but kept handing my CV out to different web development companies. One of these offered me a job, but the downside (or upside, depending on your views) that they only developed websites in ASP.NET. I made the decision for a career change and accepted the job.
In ASP.NET, you can develop in either C# or VB.NET. The guys I work with are using VB.NET, and I have to say I'm struggling with it. I can understand the basics but it just seems weird, especially as I've come from PHP. C# on the other hand, looks similar to PHP. I'm contemplating learning C# instead of VB, but I'd like to know what other peoples opinions are about doing this?
How to tell a programmer he is wrong?
View 1 RepliesI'm new to VB programming usually im a PHP programmer, i am advancing fairy fast on the structure, theres one thing i have been stumped on[URL]..What im trying to do is when i put the detaisl in the fields, i press save and then am prompted to save with my own extension
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I'm writing a program in VB.NET 2010 that will connect to the PICkit(TM) 1 FLASH Starter Kit's USB programmer and send it commands to turn on or off something connected to the attached eLab16m board, for example, an LED. This is all done by using the libhid.net DLL. The vendor id is &H4D8 and the product id is &H32.
Update I've written a console program that outputs what's happening. Here's the output:Where it says device with report id 0x10, I am trying to query the firmware version from the USB Programmer.Update 2 I've fixed the problem with the Wacom Bamboo tablet by uninstalling its software and drivers from my computer. The error has disappeared from the command line, but it still shows the 0x10 error.
I need some basic assistance understanding how to mess with bytes. And when I say basic, I mean dumb it down for me, I'm a self taught hobbiest mostly and only spent 4 years proffessionally in development. And that 4 years was a database programmer handling the connecting, retreiving and inserting of data into various databases.
I can't honestly think of the last time I had to do anything with Bytes, but I do know that when I did, all of the functions that actually did anything were written by someone else. So start off, I've been trying to handle them like strings, and that's not working for me (you probably guessed that).
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I've been programming in C/C++ for several years and want to learn enough Visual Basic to create GUI front ends for some of my C programs & also so I know that C functions I have written can be called by VB programs that others write. I expect that the C programs would have to be turned into DLLs for this to work.
I have created some C DLLs & created other C programs that sucessfully call the functions in the DLLs. BTW I did this with Visual Studio 2010, would there be any advantages to using other versions?Can anyone recommend a book or a website to quickly get me up to speed on VB while allowing me to skip over the parts that are intended for people who are new to programming?
Many of my programs call functions from the Windows API such as CreateFile. IINM these functions can be called from VB, but it is done differently than in Visual C++, eg: in C++ Create file returns a HANDLE variable, but the HANDLE variable type doesn't exist in Visual Basic. So I'll need to learn enough about how Visual Basic uses the Windows API to pass the file HANDLE from the C functions to the VB calling program & back.
A job recruiter asked me if I could take over writing code for a device that uses Windows CE. He didn't know much about it except that he thought the previous programmer was using Visual Basic, and he thought it might be Visual Basic.NET, along with SQL Server. I'd like to take over this programming job if I am qualified, but I don't know if I am. I have developed code using VB.NET, C#.NET, SQL Server for standard Windows. I used .NET to build programs that run on Windows desktop, and also the WPF platform. I also built ASP.NET and Silverlight programs for the web. In addition I have written programs that interface with machinery using serial and TCP coimmunications.
Would I be able to get up-to-speed on taking over the coding of a program that targets Windows CE? Does Windows CE allow .NET managed code or just C++ and VB6? Would it be advisable to try to get this job or would taking it lead to problems and disappointment?
I would like to learn a new programming language to be able to compile the same code for different platforms.
My background in programming: VB.NET (I have been using it as my main language for the past 3 years), some Java (to which I couldn't really adapt) and very limited PHP. I use a Mac Book with OS X to code.
I'd like to find a PL with a very easy learning curve from VB.NET, cross-platform IDE and able to compile the same for Windows, Mac and Linux.
I am a beginning programmer, so a object-oriented, .net like language is probably my best bet.
I'm thinking of trying to learn VB 2008, and I was wondering if there's an online guide or tutorial to get going from the ground up - from the perspective of a former long-time VB6 user (makes it a bit easier to relate functions in VB 2008 and how they replace older functions in VB6)?
View 1 RepliesCurrently on an internship from my CS degree, we have some down time and I'd like to spend it working through a series of problems (although none too large) that would advance my programming skills and allow me to dip my toes in a large breadth of different topics and areas. Unfortunately, everything I do must be done in vb.net on .net 2.0, without downloading any particular libraries.I've already worked through many of the "code-golf" tagged problems on here and the programming praxis problems posed by dailywtf.
View 7 RepliesI've declared a class called WindowIDNamePair in which I associate the hwnd of a window with the window's text. (See end of this post)
I've declared an array of type WindowIDNamePair as follows:
Private windowList(0 To 500) As WindowIDNamePair To test the array and class I'm doing the following:
windowList(0) = New WindowIDNamePair(1, "a")
windowList(1) = New WindowIDNamePair(2, "b")
windowList(2) = New WindowIDNamePair(3, "c")
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In my friends company the management brought up the topic of moving in the WPF to design rich UIs. Majority of the employees of the company are programmers and only 3-4 graphic designers. The management wants to train the graphic designers with WPF so that their graphics skills could be applied in creating UIs. However, programmers have a mighty obligation for this. They have written several complaints to the management that WPF is not just Graphics but it has programming in XAML. SO the programmers wants to take over UI design as well (in the past programmers did the UI part as well)...... I'm a programmer therefore i'm with the programmers.
What would be the most suited solution for my friends compnay, should they move the graphic designers the WPF or should they train the current programmers to design UIs in WPF?
How can more than one programmer work on the same project at one time? is this possible? it surely must be possible??
View 2 RepliesI am an experienced vb6 programmer, even completed MCSD cert back in 2000. I have done alot since then, and I am thinking about learning vb.net where should i get started? From what I have seen briefly, the ADO is some of the biggest change from vb 6
View 3 RepliesI have downloaded and installed VB 2010 Express. I have used "Manage Help Settings" to download and install content to disk. My computer seems to know that has happened as I navigate through the various "Manage Help Settings" menus. As a former VB 6 programmer
I am used to getting context sensitive help at the click of a mouse. I spite of the steps above, when I click "Help' on the menu I get transferred to the Visual Studio website without any oportunity to access the local help I suspect must be there somewhere.
I want to add References from my another project. How Can I do that.
View 3 RepliesI am trying out Modi but i cant seem to find the references to add. I have office2k7 but cant find Microsoft Office Document Imaging 12.0 Type Library in com tab. Also cant find the dll in C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedMODI
View 2 RepliesI am using vb.net 2005.After I rebuild the solution that has many projects, some references in a project are always dropped.I have to manully add them again.
View 1 RepliesI've used VS 2005 for a while, when you use 'Add Reference' it puts the DLL in the BIN directory. I did this with VS 2008 and I don't see the DLL in the BIN. I am using an Application ( not a website ).
View 9 RepliesHow can i add Interop.ADODB.dll to my references as i cant seem to find it when i try?
View 3 RepliesOver and over i keep getting stuck on the idea of adding references to a project. I was looking about visual studios 2010, i clicked the project menu tab, and then scrolled to add reference. When i would click on it, it would bring up a large list to choose from. So, my issue is as follows. I am told to reference via my compile error message a few items. I thought i found the elements i was looking for and pressed OK. When i would try to run, it would still give me the errors.
What am i doing wrong? Am i not doing something correct?
here is my error code, and i looked it up, but for some reason, as stated above, i must not be referencing correctly?
Quotec:\users\fallenreaper\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Crystal Report Software\Crystal Report Software\CrystalReport1.vb(99) : error BC30652: Reference required to assembly 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' containing the type 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument'. Add one to your project.
c:\users\fallenreaper\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Crystal Report Software\Crystal Report Software\CrystalReport1.vb(99) : error BC30652: Reference required to assembly 'CrystalDecisions.Shared, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' containing the type 'CrystalDecisions.Shared.RequestContext'. Add one to your project.
c:\users\fallenreaper\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Crystal Report Software\Crystal Report Software\CrystalReport1.vb(138) : error BC30652: Reference required to assembly 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' containing the type 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument'. Add one to your project.
c:\users\fallenreaper\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\Crystal Report Software\Crystal Report Software\CrystalReport1.vb(144) : error BC30652: Reference required to assembly 'CrystalDecisions.Shared, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' containing the type 'CrystalDecisions.Shared.RequestContext'. Add one to your project.
I have a function GetAllProducts() which fetches all products from a database and stores it in the cache for future requests. This works fine, but if I then call the function e.g. ProductSearchResults = GetAllProducts(), and then modify ProductSearchResults variable, this also modifies the cache, which is very important this never happens, as the cache affects the whole website.
I understand this is because both ProductSearchResults and the cache now have the same reference, but how do I solve the problem? Is there something that I can put in GetAllProducts() to ensure the cache always uses its own value?
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I'm in college and I want to show my friend how to use winsock but for some reason, I can't add the Winsock control through references. Is there any way to load it through code?
View 3 RepliesI have a project that uses web references to make SOAP calls to several web services. When I'm working locally, the services are hosted on my local machine, so the URL of each web service is something like [URL]. When I deploy the project to a server, the URL needs to change to the production URL. Currently I am accomplishing this with a prebuild event that does a find-and-replace on each URL and overwrites it with the deployment URL before deploying. Surely there is a better way.
View 1 RepliesI am getting the following error when I add a service references that points to a web service.
'System.ServiceModel.XmlSerializerFormatAttribute' is not accessible in this context because it is 'Friend' in the Reference.vb file.
I have not gotten it in other projects that I have done that point to the same web service. I have recently add some code that I downloaded and cleaned up the errors in to my project and this seems to be what broke it. This code uses several new features that I am not familiar with, mainly the "Friend" declaration and also uses name spaces in the code it self. Also I converted the code from C# using an utility that I downloaded, that untility was not 100% in it's conversion, hence the clean up that was needed.
I have a tier application based on this video url... So far the client application only has a reference to the Business Logic (not Data Access).If i needed to tie a control such as a TreeView to list certain data fields from my table then where and how should i do that? For example i could write a For each statement to iterate through the table which returns the item from a table or i could do it in the WCF service app but how does this tie in with a control such as TreeView especially when there are no references?
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