We are translating UI of one VB6 application designed in English (US) into Chinese Language which contains API's, we need to know how to use the Unicode (Wide) versions of used API for new (Chinese) Language and how can we find is there any wide version exist for that used API and how to modify existing API with wide API.
View 1 RepliesI would like to get a list of the VB.net/C# "wide" functions for unicode - i.e. AscW, ChrW, MessageBoxW, etc.
View 3 RepliesHaving trouble with the UPDATE query, it workd perfectly fine when there is no unicode symbol in the textbox but gives me the following error when unicode is present.
Edit:
I am using .RTF format
Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression ''{
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I can't manage to display unicode characters in VB.NET.I'm doing this in C#:
string myString = "u03A3"; //upper case sigma (sum)
But it doesn't work in VB and I can't find a way to make it work.
Is there any easy way of converting a windows-1252 string into a Unicode one?
View 1 RepliesI have developed an application and need to allow users to enter text in any language and save it to my database. However the text is saved as '?' in my database. I have googled quite a bit and found that people have suggested not to use varchar, text types but use nvarchar and ntext etc in your database. I have gone through and made these changes to my database. However it still saved text as '?', I then found people where saying about adding 'N' infront of the text prior to saving into the database. The problem is that I cannot figure out how to do this in a stored procedure.
Stored Procedure
Code:
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[spUpdateActionTaken] @ID as varChar(4),@action as text,@modifyDate as varchar(50)
AS
UPDATE commentsTbl SET commActionTaken=@action,modifyDate=@modifyDate WHERE [ID]=@ID
Note: Fields commActionTaken set to nText
VB.Net Code
Code:
Dim actionTaken as String = Me.textBox.Text
Dim myCmd As New OleDb.OleDbCommand("spUpdateActionTaken")
myCmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure
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fI am reading some 10 fields per line from a text file. One of the field is in Chinese Characters. The other are numeric or english strings. When I open the text file (using notepad), I can see all characters displayed properly, including the Chinese. BUt when I read the line o text into a variable oneLine in a VB program using the following code:
Dim V_file As String = "N:Table_test.txt"
Dim oneLine As String
Dim scanfile As New IO.StreamReader(V_file)
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I made a batch script using VB.NET which deletes shortcut on my desktop. The problem is that shortcut title contains unicode characters so batch doesn't work. However if I remove that unicode character from the shortcut and batch script it does delete the shortcut. How can I make it delete the shortcut w/o removing that unicode character?
tempstring = "@echo off"
tempstring = tempstring & vbCrLf & "del " & Chr(34) & My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.Desktop & "My shortcut™ 1.lnk" & Chr(34)
tempstring = tempstring & vbCrLf & "del %0"
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In the same class I have
Dim WithEvents YMDChart As Chart
Dim WithEvents YMDChartArea As ChartArea
Then:
Public Sub PlotYMD() handles ButtonPlot.click
YMDChart = New Chart
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But here at line 5 I have an error saying that I am not refering to an existing instance whereas I am.If think it is because at this step the YMDChart is dead even if it is present on my form. I have tried with the declaration "Static" but it is only possible within a method and is incompatible with "with event".
I've seen this great example of serial communication in VB.NET[URL]..I try to use it in a project I am working on but somethings are not clear to me.1: Now the send and received data is shown in one RichTextBox but I would like to split this into two RichTextBoxes (RtbSend and RtbReceived).It is unclear to me how and were data is assigned to the RichTextBox?
2. the received data is shown in the Richtextbox as one long line, I would like to get a new line for every send message.So for example: I I send "test" four times, I would like to see:The example describes that "comPort_DataReceived" is executed when data is waiting in the buffer. Where can I see the eventhandler responsible for this? How does it know data is waiting?The problem is this kind of coding is a bit to difficult for me. I want to understand the code before I implement it into my project. I understand most of the code but this is unclear to me.
When the registry subkey value of "Compact Check Count" Dword reaches 100,Outlook Express starts posting nag screen each time you close it asking if you want to compact all your emails The Following snippet Gets the current value of the subkey
Imports Microsoft.Win32.Registry
'Get Path of dword
Public Class Form1
Dim keyvalue As String
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I want to modify the third column of an existing excel file. The problem with below code is a new file is prduced with the new values in Column C and erases all other values in the orginal file. I want to update the orginal file with the new values.
Public oExcel As Excel.Application
Public oBook As Excel.Workbook
Public oSheet As Excel.Worksheet
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How do I Extract all Characters in Unicode, UFT8,iso-8859-1 to 9 etc to a list or array In VB?I have a SQL Database of which contains values from 51 languages. I need to detect which ISO-8859-? Was used to encode the string value. For example Turkish Characters i.e. "Ö Ş ş ğ ü Ç" Once I have the correct ISO, I need to convert the Chars with-in the string to Unicode using only if the string value contains values that are not UFT7, and convert the string to HEX?The reason I need to detect the ISO etc is because we are sending SMS, of which jump from 160 characters to 70 if a special characters are used, i.e. "Ö Ş ş ğ ü Ç" Is there a simple way to extract the ISO-8859 Character Set to a Array etc, or is there a simple way to check if the character exists with a ISO-8859 data set?
View 5 RepliesI'm looking for a way to programmatically view and/or modify the permission for an existing share. I'm speaking of SHARE PERMISSION, not NTFS PERMISSION, I know how to view/modify ntfs permission.
View 2 RepliesPrivate Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim fso, inputFile
Dim str As String
fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
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SELECT ContactID, FirstName, LastName, Male, Female, Email, Address
FROM Contact
WHERE (FirstName LIKE @FirstName + '%')
The above query works and returns values on first names that begin with whatever item I type in a text box.
How can I modify that code to search for items containing specified characters instead of just searching for items that begin with the specified characters. I would still need to use a wildcard because it is a search field. see below for an example
For example can I query the FirstName column to display people who's name contain the letters "an" in that order a before n but anywhere within the word e.g.
- Anna
- Jane
- Samantha
I have two textboxes (InputTextBox, OutputTextbox).In the InputTextBox, if I type "a" I need to display tamil letter "அ" in OutputTextBox.For the above requirements, I tried like below,
View 4 RepliesIn times past, most people coded on a terminal that was 80 characters wide. In many languages this has become, if not holy then close to it. But now many people have 20"+ monitors (or dual monitors), so screen real estate isn't as prime as it once was.
So my question is this: in Visual Basic code, should code be limited to 80 characters, should there be no limit, or is it really a subjective thing, dependent on where you work and your own preferences?
I need to make a program in vb that takes a 1 page existing pdf that i specify and inserts that into another existing pdf that i specify.
View 4 RepliesI have a lot of HD images within my program design and it is causing the screen to flicker when loading other forms. It is kind of
slow too. Is there a way to resolve this, for example, using a reference or component such as DirectDraw. Here are my computer
specifications:
Intel Pentium 4 /2.53GHZ
1.5 GB RAM
512 MB ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO AGP Video card
19 IN. LCD Widescreen 1440x900 resolution monitor.
could it be the refresh rate of only 60HZ?
I am developing an application that has multiple forms and I wanted to know the best method to have application wide methods and functions. Currently I am using a Module with all my methods that are needed to be used across the entire application in it. However, I read at one point that modules should not be used, as they are only there to preserve backwards compatibility with older VB code. Is there a better way to have methods able to be called anywhere?
View 1 Replieshow can i capture system wide selectedtext?
i've managed so far to get a global mousehook + i'm hoping to capture the selectedtext from anywhere system wide when the user left clicks.
i tried using the keybd_event api to send CTRL+C to copy any selectedtext to the clipboard but it has unexpected effects + seems to run before the text i've just selected becomes selected.
here's the code i'm using:
Public Class Form1
Private Declare Function keybd_event Lib "user32" Alias "keybd_event" _
(ByVal bVk As Byte, ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Integer, _
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I'm trying to open a tool window as a child and although I can set the width to something like 50px wide in the ide, when it opens up its 125px wide. What is there to opening a widow with out much width am I missing.I have turned off the maximize and minimize gadgets and even the whole drag bar. When they open up when I run they are fat again. Looking for something like the tool window in paint.net.
View 1 RepliesI am after some GDI+ help, Basically I have an LED display which for example is 300 LEDs wide by 300 LED's deep, so you could say it has a resolution of 300x300.I am intending to use windows to process images ready to be sent to the display (as the display is dumb and simply displays what it is sent, But I require that the images are animated as well as static sort of like the basic PowerPoint animations (scroll on/off etc).to achieve this I need to write some code that creates frames much like gif's. So to scroll a 300x300 image onto the display I would need 300 separate frames.
So I have written the following code that uses the GDI+ objects to build the frames needed to scroll an image from the right or left.
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I'm looking for a windows "special folder" where user data can be stored and changed PC wide, not only per user.Up to now I've picked the so called COMMONAPPDATAFOLDER, but that doesn't work with a setup project, because the files copied there on installation (like a config file) are not changeable in Vista with a program used by a restricted user (probably because the Windows Installer performs with admin credencials).
View 2 RepliesCurrently I am able to see if a key is currently pressed via the GetAsyncKeyState function. Currently I just simply have a timer running in the background that constantly checks if a certain key is pressed in order to run a command. However my issue is if the user holds down the key it will continually run that bit of code over and over per timer tick. Is there a way or another function to detect a keyup or keypress only. This is my current code to detect keys:
Public Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal vKey As Windows.Forms.Keys) As Integer Public ReadOnly Property CurrKey(ByVal key As Windows.Forms.Keys) As Boolean
Get Return CBool(GetAsyncKeyState(key))
End Get
End Property
How would I register F7 as a System Wide Hotkey?This is my timer code
Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
SendKeys.Send(Keys.Space)
End Sub
When I start the timer, and open notepad, this is what i get
i need to store Application wide Settings in my Application like:
Connection to DB (Servername) Username/Password Registrar/Serial etc. I think there are basically two Options:
Store them in the Registry Store them in an Application Settings File Using one of the methods above is no problem, but under Windows 7 my Application running in normal user mode allows me only to store user specific data. For example inside UserAppDataRegistry, UserAppDataPath etc.
But when i want to use e.g. CommonAppDataRegistry to write my Data in, then i get no access to it, due to missing privileges.
Now my question:
Where and how to store Application Wide Data? How are others doing this? When i purchase an application and install it on my pc, it asks me for Uusername and Serial. When i insert it then it saves it somewhere without asking me for Administrative Privileges or something else.
I have a license form that i wish to save the information or just system wide information for that matter,I know about the my.Settings - however this will only save for a specific user and the aplpication scope you can not write to.Where is the best place or the normal practice of saving application wide information?
View 7 RepliesI have a series of GridViews in a Tab Panel - databound to a generic List of Business Objects.
The columns in the Gridview are all similar to the following:
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Company" SortExpression="Company.ShortName">
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Label ID="lblCompany" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("Company.ShortName")
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