Using visual studio 2008 environment, i would like to change a classic windows application design, so i'm wondering if there is an idea a bout this. i've find some skins like irriskins ( www.sunisoft.com ), but i'ts not what i'm looking for.
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how to implement a classic layout design in vb.net (2.0).The application design is the classical toolbar panel at the top and different panels stacked at the bottom. Depending on the button pressed at the top in the toolbar panel a different panel at the bottom will be available.This is thought to have different part of the software available on different panel but with the toolbar panel always available at the top.To implement this I thought:
1) one tablelayout with 2 rows. First row contain a panel with the button (toolbar panel) and adding/removing hte correct panel requested on the bottom row.
Should I run a classic VB6 app thru the upgrade wizard in VS08 or should I re-design it from scratch. The database is a mess. Originally designed in ACCESS and imported to MS SQL SERVER. The main entities are e.g. ROLLER_SKATES and RENTALS. If you would like to rent a pair of roller skates you can. So this more or less comprises an Inventory system for the roller skates. Now you have 2 different skating rings. Skate-B1 and Skate-Z9, and you keep redundant and duplicate data from the previously mentioned entities in the skating ring tables as well.It's a nightmare.
At least the tables have row ID's. But no explicit foreign keys, just implicit columns identically named that "seem" to correspond to each other. But the rest of the table's attributes all default to NULL. Considering what C.J Date says about Types in his book SQL and the Relation Model, isn't it desirable to have CHECK CONSTRAINTS on attributes?
I am developing a new application for Students Training. how the database design should be? And could you provide a sample application similar to my requirement? Following is the requirement of the Application, The objectives of the program or application are:
Get Information about the total number of students trained in all company's department
Get Information about the total number of students who were either withdrew/ apologized /rejected
Anticipate of the future needs for student's work placement opportunities (numbers of students as well as the majors)
On light of the objectives mentioned above I consider the following data for the application preparation: Company's Department Needs Department Major Number of students for each major Supervisor Mobile Number
If it is possible when entering students details the program will automatically register him/her in the Department that has vacant place and already fit the requirements of the certain department-Internship Information.
Public Class Form1
'Click event for the Calculate button!
Private Sub btnCalculate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
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Ok i am making a game in visual basic where its 1998 and you have windows 95 and you find time travel software and travel to different time periods with different operating systems...so far i have coded windows 95 and partly windows 98 into the game and have a good time travel sequence... (this will be a completely free game in the future)
View 9 RepliesOk i am making a game in visual basic where its 1998 and you have windows 95 and you find time travel software and travel to different time periods with different operating systems...so far i have coded windows 95 and partly windows 98 into the game and have a good time travel sequence... (this will be a completely free game in the future)
Theres just one major problem i have. Whatever operating system you are using for your current computer (windows 7 in my case) the buttons and tabs and everything else (apart from the windows border... or whatever you all it which i made myself) everything has the modern buttons on it.Hes an in game screen shot :As you can see it looks totally horrible... even the start menu has the windows 7 blue glow effect...I recently found another application (universe Sandbox) and it has the classic buttons even though i am using windows 7.how can i actually make my buttons classic? (without making picture boxes of each button)
I am going to open word document inside the browser. In here I am using following codes Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-word"Response.Buffer = True Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-word" Response.AddHeader "content-disposition", "inline; filename =Document000001.doc" This is working fine in widows server 2003 .but in windows server 2008 this its giving error "user does not have access privileges ".But here i am testing as a Admin user. wt kind of additional should I have to open this doument?
View 2 Replieshow to get the current Style of the Windows Xp programmatically. At the program startup I need to get if Windows is running in XP Style or in Windows Classic Style, so I will set my buttons Flatstyle property to flat or standard.
View 6 RepliesHow can I change this example from web application to windows applecation!
the web application example is attached bellow
Is it possible to change the background color of Message box in windows application.
View 7 RepliesI am building a windows application with different languages, when I change the language of a form visual basic will create a new form for me which i can change the settings for my new language and all was working fine, but recently i recognized that the images i am changing in the other language form is changing the images in the default language form, so i need to create two Resources Folders for images and manaully tells the application which folder to use.
View 3 Repliesone of the apps that I wrote a couple months ago is getting to be rolled out to my production floor; one issue tho - It works great as a standard executable (you double-click, it starts and waits for data), however, I cannot get it to start as a system service.
I've already done a little bit of research for how to create a system service, but most of the information that I've come across is point to VC# or Visual Studio 2010 - I'm not finding much for VB 2010. Additionally, I'm only using VB 2010 Express and I'm pretty sure that I don't have the Windows Service application template's on my PC.
My application does have a "UI", but there isn't any user interaction; it starts and just sits minimized in the system tray polling a directory for the existence of a file - i.e. the windows form is not required.
Can I programmatically change the startup form on application launch in VB.Net?
View 2 RepliesI'm making a jungle timer for League of Legends, where I will make buttons you can click or you can start by a hotkey.
The button will be a picture of the specific jungle camp, and when the press/start it, it will start a timer, which will count down to when the jungle camp spawns again. When you press this button, it will change the design of the button to make the picture blurry and add a timer above it, that you can see.
My question is how do you change the design of the button, when you press it, like I explained?
I am using the listbox control. Now I know how to change all the items in the design view. But how can I change it through code so I can change what it says during run time. How can I get it to say have 5 options
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Using code?
I know I need to use:
listbox1.items = XX
But I dont know what to put in the XX
Figured out I need to use listbox.items.add("String")
I am working on a University project, and I am trying to customize the design (background color, foreground color, border style) of the TABS in a Tabbed Layout, but I can't seem to find these properties in the properties windows.
View 1 RepliesI'm using SharpDevelop and .NET 4.0.
My question is this: If you start a new project with a "Windows Application" template, it generates a Program.vb with the following contents[code]...
I am using visual inheritance and was wondering if there is a way to change the properties of inherited controls at design time, preferably in the form designer. If not, then in the designer code. I have my control declared as Public in the base class. I can access it in the child form code, but not in the form designer. Is this just not possible?
View 3 RepliesI have a class where it's problematic to relay on the properties being serialized in alphabetical order at design time.In other words, property Z must be serialized before property A.The problem arises because property property Z clears property A whenever it changes - which happens in InitializeComponent.I work around this problem by setting a FirstTime flag, but that seems messy.
View 2 RepliesI just started using vb.net express 2008 about 2 months ago.I wanted to design a gui application and the controls for 2008 express look a little plain.
1. What software can I use to design cool looking windows and gui?
2. Does the full version of vb.net come with a better gui designer?3. What do people use to design gui, if you want to have something nice that people would buy?
In my never ending search for more knowledge, I have come across Partial Classes. I was wondering if some of the kind people who actually understand the uses could explain some of them to me. Now I know that when we create a form that we actually create a partial class which the generator rewrites when we add a control or change a property at design-time, and this allows us not to have to worry about setting up the controls ourselves.
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I have a project which still runs fine without issue however i dont seem to be able to access the design view of Form1. The icon in soultions explorer has also changed from a form to a sinple vb reference. Im unable to right click in solutions explorer and view designer as there is no option there.
View 6 RepliesWhen I select a standard windows form at design time, then in the toolbox, under the "general" section, there are ellipse, line, and rectangle, but they are all gray and so can't be used and I can't find any way to make them not gray and thus usable. What am I missing? The help system tells how to USE them but nothing about how to make them accessible, it just assumes they are.
I have no problem drawing a line on a form at run-time but I want to drop one on at design time and can't find any way that's my real problem.I'm not a heavy user of VB.NET so I figure there's probably something simple that I'm overlooking.
I wish to develop an application in VB.NET to provide to following functionality and hope you can give me some pointers on which direction to take.I need some kind of "server" type component which sits in the background monitoring request from users and performing various task. (this component can be install locally or centrally)
The users submit an instruction to the "server" to perform a certain task at a designated date and time. (or perform the task straight away)
The "server" would perform the task at the desired date and time and inform the user the result of the task.I have thought of using a central database to which the user writes the instructions. The "server" could read from the database to obtain the instructions, and write the result back to the database.
I want a fast reaction to the instructions, so the "server" must poll the database every few seconds; I fear this may be detrimental to performance. Also how do I get the server to perform the task at the desired time? Again checking all outstanding tasks against the current time is not very efficient, so I thought about utilising the Windows Scheduler, but I am not sure of the best way of integrating this functionality.
The main purpose of the my app that I need your help with is, to deliver an always (or close to) up to date a list of files for the user to choose from for a variety of common purposes. For instance, opening the selected file in its native client editor application so the user can make changes. Another purposes would be to print the file, and I have others.
If nothing else (meaning recommendations for a better design that still keep my desired in mind) I'd like ideas on how to update my complex DataSet (background processing options, what's the most efficeient/quickest way to update my DataSet) as the list of files changes while my app is running and my app is designed to never close due to the long amount of time it take to load it initially.
The list must be always kept up to date while my app is running because not only the intial loading of data takes a lot of time but updates (new/modified/deleted) could potentially take too long depending on not only how much data to update/add (new files) but how efficeient my code is in updating the list. To be perfectly clear: If a new file is created then it need to be somehow (automatically preferably or manually i.e. button code) add to the list. If a file is deleted then it needs to bet removed from the list. And if the file has changed, perhaps some of it metadata or thumbnail image have changes so update the file's data in the list. All of which (new/modified/deleted) need to be as real-time as possble without degrading the server too much and without the user waiting more than a handful of seconds.
Listing all the files as quick as possible whether that be with or without metadata initially is very important because most of the time the user is going to filter (or scroll the list by typing) for a partial file name. Once the user filters/scrolls to the desired file there's a very good chance that he/she isn't even interested in the metadata, most of the time the user wants my app to open the selected file in its native client editor application so he/she can view or modify the file. The initial
load time of the data doesn't concern me as much as updates because the user can possibly do other things while it initially loads all the data as long as it not too long (more than a few minutes). From there the updates will either be automatic if possible (most desirable from a users standpoint) or the user initiated (e.g. button). Plus I'm thinking the updates might need to be done with a few different background processes (multiple threads) because I think I need one for periodic updates (e.g. every
15 minutes) and one background process for page updates meaning whatever the user has either scrolled to or filtered for, more accurately all files currently display to the user will be systematically update in the background so the user can still operate my app.
I'm currently using SqlDataAdapter.Fill to fill a DataSet object variable (which is bound [BindingSource] to a DataGridview control) to first populate the DataSet from the SQL query and then prorgammatically adds records (DataRow) for local files but please make recommendations. I don't mind big changes or starting over if necessary, I just want the best app possible based on the aforementioned criteria. I'm not sure if it complicates matters but I've also added custom columns in the DataSet for some special needs (thumbnail of files, booleans for tracking custom statuses). For the local files I'm currently populating the DataSet prorammatically (iterating a path/file string collect made by System.IO.Directory.GetFiles) since the list is first (and very quickly) populated with Vault files (which is always a far larger list than the local files) so . Again, I don't have to take this direction, make recommendations.
I am making a small application for a friend, to help her update her website. The website is a very simple one, using a menu (table of links) in one frame, and the content in the other frame. The content consists merely of pictures, with some information (text) below each picture. Because my friend has no clue how to change her website (let alone upload it and the images to the right FTP folders), I decided to make an application that does that for her.
I had decided on the following design, but now I'm having second thoughts whether or not it's a good idea:
1. I use a Database to store the information and path to each picture.
2. I generate the content HTML files completely from scratch every time an update is required, retrieving the image path + info from the database and generating the correct HTML code from it.
3. I save the HTML files and upload them + all the images they use to the FTP.
She can now add, remove and/or edit any items in her website, in each category, and it works fine at the moment. But there are a few problems:
1. When she decides to remove a picture (from the database), the actual image will stay on the FTP server. She only has a maximum of 100 MB capacity, so having 50 unused images on there is not very efficient. To remedy this, I simply remove all the images before uploading the new website, so there will only ever exist the current images.
2. When her site gets larger, the amount of images will increase, possibly to about 80 MB. I don't think she'll want to wait for 80 MB in pictures to upload when she only changed a typo in one of the picture's descriptions.In the past, the whole site is uploaded at once without considering which changes were made, so that wasn't very good. I decided to keep track of which categories were changed, and only upload the categories that have been changed. This reduces the amount of images to upload, but there still could be around 10 MB in a single category, which is acceptable but still not ideal.
3. The images she has chosen have to remain on her computer, because they are uploaded again every time she updates here site. If she removes them, they will not be found and cannot be uploaded. Now, the images would still be on the server, so there really isn't any need for her to keep the images. But, due to point 1, they get deleted, so I don't have them anymore.
I simply want to create an application that can save each n every keystroke pressed from the keyboard and then user will be able to assign it a hotkey. And then whenever user presses that hotkey the data that is relevent/linked with that hotkey should be pasted into the active window e.g. notepad, ms word, email etc. I have developed it on my own everything is working fine but whenever I hit the assigned hotkey it wont stop sending data to the active window maybe because of timer.
View 8 RepliesI simply leave the GUID text blank in Properties/ Application. Can someone give the advantages of using the GUID? I have done a few searches on Google and VBFORUMS but have not found a FAQ describing its true advantages in VB Application design.
View 3 RepliesWhen I attempt to drag a WMP control from the toolbox this error arises: [code]Has anyone had this problem? I was able to add this component previously, however this was on my desktop computer.
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