I'm very much interested in programming. I love to code, design and explore it. I thought to test my skills in an online competition. But I can't find a good one. Can you help me to find a good one ?
View 2 RepliesI'm having some problems with some API calls. I'm trying to return device driver information for a given device in device manager so I can access the available information and display it. I'm using a series of API calls which in turn populates a list with device driver objects associated with that device. The API calls fail. The problem is that I can't find any reference material online for these APIs so I can figure out what's wrong. [code]
View 1 RepliesI'm a Coldfusion Web Developer and I'm finding that in my local area, work for CF Devs has become extremely scarce.There were a handful of companies that were Coldfusion houses a few years ago and it appears most of them have moved away from CF development.I'm looking to expand my skillset to improve my employment outlook, and it appears that many of the web development positions that are available to me now are focused around .NET web development.The last time i took a look at .NET as a web development platform was way back during 2.0; where I found it to be poorly organized and extremely unfocused. Apparently somewhere along the line I missed the boat because that's where about 90% of the web development jobs in my area are now. I've done some searching on google to see if I can find a tutorial, something that's akin to hand-holding, and have come back dissapointed.So I'm turning to the SO community to ask for links and resources that might help better explain how .NET development works in a web development capacity, and for links to these resources so I can begin boning up my knowledge and start writing practice applications.
View 6 RepliesIs there anyway to find out the contents of a text file thats online?[code]...
View 3 RepliesI am designing a hardware interfaced system for use in quizbowl style competitions. Before you say this is unoriginal, I have designed a system from the ground up that uses a parallax basic stamp to handle the buttons. This way the keyboard is free for use while a dedicated controller handles the input.
While the project is still in its early stages, I have hit a roadblock with the logic. The rules for the standard quizbowl state that the first person to buzz in gets the first chance to answer and the second person (must be from other team) has a chance for an imediate response. The part I am having trouble with is creating the code for who buzzed in when.
The controller sends a single byte containing the state of all 8 buttons roughly once every 75ms. I am having difficulty with grabbing the ID of the first person to buzz in and then getting the ID of the next person while filtering any more responses from the first team.
How to find shift and rotation between same two images using programming languages vb.net or C++ or C#?
View 5 RepliesI am working on a TCG card game and I am having some trouble of thinking how to find the Properties of a Picturebox that was created at RunTime through a Click Event.
Here is the Code I have This is the Sub that I have to create the Pictureboxes...
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Private Sub CreatePictureBox(ByVal name As String, ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer, ByVal height As Integer, ByVal width As Integer, ByVal picture As String)
Dim PB As New PictureBox
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I have working on 1 program that is for Mu Online game. Its Mu Launcher program,but i'm having trouble with it. I can't make right "Server Status" to show Online or Offline I can't make autoupdater people to have using this for theyr server.
I make one file launcher.txt to get info the program but i need a lil help to finish thise program. The program is not for 1 server only its freewere . So here is the problem with the Server Status and AutoUpdater to get info from what server..
I have recently taken a liking to programming, and have programmed a few games in C#,my friend has asked me to program an application for him to use in his shop. But I have no idea of what language is best suitable?
View 8 RepliesI avidly create games in VB.net. Being a hobby programmer I give my games away for free. Since I'm a hobbiest without formal training I do try and educate myself on proper programming principles and follow them when programming such as OOP. There are however some things I have obviously missed being self-taught that perhaps I would know if I were formally educated. Once such issue that has really been my bane is how different classes (from now on referred to as objects) 'know' about each other WITHOUT programming specific interaction.
Okay imagine this, you have a space game and the following objects
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Now each one of these objects has a Health, X,Y and Z private members and properties that are all inherited from clsSpaceEntity for argument sake. Now one way of programming collision between them would be to code out the following logic in the main game loop
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Now this might seam okay if your talking about the simple example above but some of my games have tens or even HUNDREDS of objects that interact in this basic way. Is there a way in OOP to do the following... for each thing that inherits from clsSpaceEntity check against every other object that inherits this type (except itself) and if they collide then reduce health next? This sort of ability for a type of objects/class or whatever to be 'aware' of another and how they are the same/different and interact would save me tonnes and tonnes and TONNES of coding.
I thought you couldn't run an EXE from a web page, you had to download it. How can it be that ClickOnce lets you choose online-only? Does it temporarily install the EXE on the users computer?
If I want my application to run online only and I use the publishing wizard in Visual Studio, how do I get the whole install thing onto my website? Do I upload something onto my site using FTP?What do I upload onto the site? And once the files are on my website, what file does the user access to run my application online?
I have a customer that does not allow for local installation of any version of MSDN so telling me to press the help or F1 key in VB6 will not help. What I need is a link to VB6 IDE functionality (ie all of the special characters in the find dialogue to help in searching or how to effectively use "use pattern matching" when I press CTRL+F).
View 3 RepliesMy friend s doing an online project...He wants to know how many users(REGISTERED) are LOGGED-IN CURRENTLY in his site...i.e if i'm ADMINISTRATOR of this DANIWEB, i want to know the USERS CURRENTLY LOGGED-IN...
View 4 RepliesI am developing and application in vb.net winxp+ (windows xp upwards). The application has to receive backup data from clients software located at different pc over the Internet. but am concerned about security of this application on the Internet. what would be the best way to implement security in vb.net 2008 to make sure that the data is not sniffed or interfere with?
am thinking of encrypting the data before sending, saving it that way until it need to be viewed before decrypting. what type of encryption would you suggest? Is there any other way you would suggest this data be sent?
What is the efficient way to check if server is onlie? I used code to check one table in the server to see app can reach it or not. I do not think it is the best way.
View 11 RepliesHow can i check if the server is online or offline? I was thinking of using the Try and Catch method.
View 4 RepliesI friend and I are trying to work our way through this, and right are having some issues in terms of getting vb.net to connect to an online sql server. We have found lots of resources to connect to local sql servers but nothing about connecting to an online one. I was wondering if this is possible as we are trying to be build an inventory and pos system for a small company we have, which can be accessed through the vb program from any computer as long as it has an active web connection.
View 1 RepliesHow do you connect to an online database? Let's say it's located at www.abc.com/app_data/thisfile.mdb. What would you enter for as the DatabaseFile in the following code?
Dim DatabaseFile as string = ????
Dim connection_builder As New OleDb.OleDbConnectionStringBuilder
connection_builder = New OleDb.OleDbConnectionStringBuilder
connection_builder.DataSource = Me.DatabaseFile
connection_builder.Provider = "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
connection_builder.Add("Jet OLEDB:Database Password", Password)
Return New Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection(connection_builder.ConnectionString)
Our database has been having some occasional troubles and this seems to be presenting a problem in my new app. How should I test to make sure the database is up before sending SQL statements to it? We are using Oracle 11g and I am using odp drivers, VB.net 2010, .net framework 4.0.
View 4 RepliesI have an application that when it starts, it checks the internet to see if a new version is available. My problem is this: If there is no net connection, the program 'pauses' as it tries to check for the new version.
Is there a function that I can use to detect if the user is currently online, with a working connection?
All im trying to do is make a program that downloads all the files i want offline and but them in a folder, but when i go to the folder and look at the downloads they are all empty,
Here is my code.
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what is the logic behind this on this website "last activity: 1 min ago from this ip address "If you are obtaining the user's IP address in a hidden field , how can I do this in vb.net ?
And how can I check how many users are online using the application ?
my name is Bogdan and I am having a litte bit of a problem with vb.net.In my computer I have instaled Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express...so long everything it's ok.I told one of my friend about this cool program and now we want to make a program together in our free time but from each other computer...soo how do i make a online "vb.net project" (i am not sure if i have express myself correctly)that i can access from each other pc?I google this problem and i didn't find anything and now am starting to think this isn't even possible..
View 4 Repliesi have zero programming knowledge and wanting to learn programming from seeing people making bots for online games, i always seek the knowledge if things and wonder how they do them, even though its pretty useless motive lol i just want to know what knowledge needed to making bot for online game am learning know VB.net 2008 got visual basic step by step book for 2008, i was searching for online game hackers forums and hear them type things like hooks, packets sniffers , etc , so what things do i need to learn beside visual basic 2008 to make bots for online game? i wonder how can i connect my program to other programs
View 1 RepliesI am working on software that is Accounts Software there a database and some forms. There is a database which is made in sql server 2000 and there are many tables. My question is that I make that software for a Clint and database will be attached in my computer. Both are using DSL internet me and Clint too. I want to that when my Clint open that software and then he work in the software then he save record so it saved in my computer database. I saw software same as there is a bat format file I have to run first it then it successful then I can open software. [Code]
This is just use when software is running in my own computer but what will be connection when my Clint will use software and he is also using DSL internet connection so how can create connection between server and Clint.
i got a question i making a app and i have my db running on localhost but now i need to show witch people are online (i thought to show them in to a listview) and on that database i got a colum named active if the colum is 1 then you will be shown in to the listview if not then you will not be shown but how to do it i got some code but it wont work here is my code for loading the people in tho the listview :Imports MySql.Data.MySqlClient
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How do I enable online help in VS2010? When I press F1 it says it cant find any content locally & I cant find where to set it to look online.
View 5 RepliesI want ask whether there is online VB.NET editor and compiler. Word completion and intellisense features will be great.
View 3 Replieshow to display the list of all my application users who are currently online on a gridview and every user of my application sees who's online. How do I go about this if and if I am not using the built-in ASP.NET membership controls?
View 4 RepliesHow can I make vb.net application online. Is it possible? so it's can be access from anywhere..
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