I am new to software development and need to develop a VB software for one of my projects. **I want to know how can I copy a form created in a project to another.I have copied the form from the old project and tried to paste it in to the new project. But I was failed. I have read one of the answer which have given regarding to another one's question. But unfortunately I am not in the standard to acquire the way I could do it.
View 1 RepliesCopy Windows Form from projact A to project B This looks a trivial task, but using VB 2008 Express edition:
1 - If I click Solution - Add - Existing And hand pick the 3 form files (the .vb, the .resx and the .designer.vb) then I can see those 3 files as textfiles, not as a "real" VB form!
2 - I want to duplicate Form1 to create Form2 that is slightly different.
I'm attempting to copy a rather complex form from one part of my project and use it (modified) within another part (ie, depending on whether it's maintenance or an outage, you'll get a slightly different email screen).
My first attempt failed miserably, as I had simply right-clicked and pasted the form within the project, assuming renaming the controls would work. nope, I didn't realise that there was stuff in the original form that was renamed as well, and that created a monstrous pile of errors.My second through fourth attempts also failed, generating errors in forms that (I thought) weren't related or connected. Once I deleted the copied form, all was fine.
So, short of trying to rebuild the form from scratch (using a different naming convention for my controls etc.), is there a simple way of doing this? This seems to be such a simple task, but alas I was wrong....(or, at least it's not easy with the information I have right now.
Public Class ExtendedDateTimePicker Inherits DateTimePicker
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View 2 RepliesFor reasons that are beyond my control, I have three Projects. Projects A and B reference project C. Project A references project B so that it can open a large form in project B. I now need to open that large form from project C, but VB won't allow me to add a reference from C to B because that would create a circular dependency. I found a way around it, though. I created a Timer in A, and when I opened C from A, I passed in that timer. When the user performs a certain action, I enable the Timer from A, and this causes C to open B for me.
View 2 RepliesI have a .Net web application that I want to take a copy of and create a new application that can be worked on independently of the first - i.e. I want to branch the codebase.
View 2 RepliesI made SMALL PROJECT IN VB.NET ( USING TABLE, GRIDS) ON MY FRIENDS LAPTOP NOW I M UNABLE TO USE IT ON MY LAPTOP...FORMS ARE NOT WORKING ON MY LAPTOP..M NEW IN VB.NET
View 1 Replieshow can i copy one project to another?
View 8 Repliesok I have a baseline working project.. now I need to copy it off and make new versions that attach to new systems.. but I want to always start with my working base code.. whats the best way to copy the project to a new dir..
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I have a VS 2005 project. I want to create a project that is exactly the same except for the back end database name. Table names and structure, form names, etc., would not change.What is the easiest way to accomplish this? Copy the project? Start a new project and copy all forms, datasets, etc.?
View 1 RepliesHow do I copy an entire old project to a new project? Can I use the Visual Studio?
I need the old project to stay on my pc and the new project to go into a production environment with
different database connections, subdirectories, etc.
This has to be really simple and I am completely missing the boat. I have a VB2008 express windows forms project with several forms and an access database that I work on here at work. I want to copy it to a thumb drive and take it home and work on it there, then bring it back, etc.
View 1 RepliesI did a project in VB for a class last week. This weeks project requires we add on to the last project. Is there a way to copy the whole project, then modify the copied version so I can keep the original?
View 1 RepliesI will be working with another programmer today. He is just installing VB 2010 Express this morning on his computer. My question is how do I copy some of my projects over to his computer. Will copying the folder(s) under C:Documents and SettingsMy_User_NameMy DocumentsVisual Studio 2010 Projects.. be sufficient or will there be other support files I need to copy as well?
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View 1 RepliesI have a project, that has alot of controls (mostly buttons, arranges in group boxes, withing )Is there an easy way to drag and drop them to another project and maintain control names, so that I can copy all event code etc.?Another question - how can I move controls within tab control's pages? As I recall, cut - paste loses it's event code.
View 5 RepliesI am developing a fairly complex vb.net program with numerous forms, and custom classes, modules, etc. I want to start reorganizing the various folders for components of the program and have a few stupid questions.For one, I find that I cannot take a working executable and move it to a different folder on the same machine and have it work. My program drives numerous slave applications and I would like to group just the executables in a common folder. Do I need to carry additional files along with them to make them 'portable' on my own machine? I haven't discovered how to copy or move an existing project to a new folder. Things seem to blow up because of internal project references etc. Is there some way of copying or duplicating a working project without problems resulting?
View 1 RepliesI would like to find out how I can make a complete copy of an existing project.The purpose of this is not for backup but rather to be able to resue some of what I already designed/coded in VB and turn it into a new or different application.
View 5 Repliesi'm making a VB 6.0 project to copy files to WCE 5.0 Device. i copied a code i found in msdn but when trying to compile it send me an error: Expected: Identifier[URL]..
Private Declare Function WaitForSingleObject Lib "kernel32" ( ByVal _ hHandle As Long ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) As Long
We are using VB 2008. Because we want to make an service of an project we need also the settings of that project. We copy the app.config from the project to the service project but if we are starting the service project we don't see the original settings.
View 1 RepliesI build some dlls to be used in a big application, and have a team working in the dlls heart of the application and another team working in the GUI, but I am having a problems in the deployment of the dll's when a change is done, because the GUI team needs or copy the new dll to the project folder, or delete the old reference and add the new one. I am using Visual Studio 2008 and developing in VB and C#
View 1 RepliesI have a solution with several projects most of which are code or control libraries. I have a main windows forms application that references and uses these libraries. What i am trying to do is create a 2nd windows application that extends the main one, but i would like to be able to deploy them as separate exe's.
When i try to add a reference to the new app referencing the main app; all seems fine until i try to run the new app i get several error msgs similar to below:
Error 1 Could not find file 'ADODB.dll' referenced by assembly 'D:Visual Studio 2005ProjectsXXXinDebugXXX.exe.manifest'. <newAppName>
i have tried adding references to all the dll's in the error messages and they are still listed when i try to run the new app. I thought of a few work arounds but they require user changes to maintain separate exe's at deployment. I would like to avoid this if possible.
I'm making a program like PostIt! Well, i want to make a model form, and copy that form as many times i want.I think it works with something like frmPostit1 = frmModel.clone()
View 2 RepliesI am using VS 2008 and I have a solution with multiple projects. I would like to know how to open a form in project B from a Form in project A. The solution starts with the form in project A.I have tried the following and it does not produce the expected behaviour:In Form A I have added a reference to the Project B. The following code is in a form in project A. appraisal is a form in project B.
Dim appraisalForm As New appraisalApp.appraisal
appraisalForm.Show()
The above solution works to a degree. As the form is instantiated in Project A, I cannot reference any of the items in the form in Project B as I could if the Form in project B was instatiated through startup.
I have a number of projects in a solution and want to be able to access forms in all of the projects from a form in the main project. I thought of doing this to keep each segment of the solution manageble. If something goes seriously wrong in one of the projects it is easier to fix that starting from scratch with the whole solution.I have found numerous suggestions on this topic from "It cannot be done" to suggestions that do not work. The closest that I have come and still does not work is as follows:
Imports VAT_List.Form1 'This is Form1 in Project 2
Public Class Form1 ' This is Form1 in the Main Project
Private Sub ListsToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ListsToolStripMenuItem.Click
'Imports VAT_List.Form1
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How to add an existing form of old project to a new project? Which extension type files to be added to work that existing form correctly?
I actually need frmContacts.vb (because a lot of textboxes and other controls are there) which I have added. Since it doesn't show any existing controls on form, I added other following files as well.
1) frmContacts.vb
2) frmContacts.Designer.vb
3) frmContacts.Designer.vb
How to add an existing form of old project to a new project? Which extension type files to be added to work that existing form correctly?
I actually need frmContacts.vb(because a lot of textboxes and other controls are there) which I have added now to my New Project. Since it doesn't show any existing controls on form, I added other following files as well. Though there is no use.
1) frmContacts.vb
2) frmContacts.Designer.vb
3) frmContacts.Designer.vb
I am really new to Visual Studio and VB and I am having trouble closing a single form:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Me.Close()
End Sub
When I use Me.close() associated with this button it closes the entire project and not just the single form can anyone.