Suppose somebody created a solution which contains many projects. How can I find the project types? I mean that how can I know whether a project is a library type or console application and so forth from IDE?
View 4 RepliesA colleague has written a useful tool. He wrote it as a standalone tool, but it works even better as an includable dll, though it needs a bit of other functionality for it to be a really good drop-in component. What I am wondering is whether a project can be compiled as both an exe and as a dll?
There are alternatives, such as having a dll version and an exe version, since the dll version needs to include a few different methods that the exe version doesn't need, but this alternative sucks, since it would mean changing two sets of code.
Another alternative is to build the dll, then change the exe to be a project that references the dll....and does nothing other than calling one method in the dll. That kind of sucks, too, but not as bad.
I want to be able to use his module in some of my programs, and it really should be built as a component rather than a standalone app, but I want to know whether there are other options that I haven't considered.
I make pretty extensive use of XML Comments in Visual Studio, but I'm discovering that some project types either don't appear to support them or else have default project settings preventing them from working properly.
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I make pretty extensive use of XML Comments in Visual Studio, but I'm discovering that some project types either don't appear to support them or else have default project settings preventing them from working properly. For example, I position the cursor immediately over a Class, Variable, or Sub declaration and I type ''' - usually this prompts Visual Studio to autofill a whole XML comment block for me, but in a recent Class Library project with COM enabled, this does nothing at all.
View 4 RepliesSome one suggest use WPF for better look and feel when i open the VS2008 and go new project there is no WPF application ICon image attached;Is there some extra installation required
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Where do I find the references and what types are the variables in this example. I copied the code into a new VB 2008 windows project, and all the vaiables and some method calls have "is not declared" wavy lines.
Is there any performance hit (or other problem) to creating a lot of class and structure types for a project? I'm not talking about the number of objects existing in-memory during runtime; rather just defining a lot of object types during design time. I find myself making a lot of small classes and structures that are little more than simply packaging a few related variables together.
View 4 RepliesI am using: (copied from the/about vb studio window:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Version 8.0.50727.762 (SP.050727-7600)
Microsoft .NET Framework
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I have a class with a Property called 'Value' which is of type Object.Value can be of any type, a structure, a class, an array, IList etc.My problem is with the setter and determining whether the value has changed or not.This is simple enough for value types, but reference types and lists present a problem.For a class, would you assume that the Equals method has been implemented correctly, or just assume that the value has changed every time the setter is called?If I did assume it's changed, then perhaps I should assume it for value types as well, so that the behaviour is consistent.
View 2 RepliesI am trying to update a Vs2008 project to vs2010. In one of my projects I have two controls. The controls are not being seen by the form when I open it up in design view. They are friend controls. (No code has changed since I opened it up in vs2010.) But it was running fine in vs2008.
View 4 RepliesI am working on a WPF project in Visual Basic. In some textboxes I want to limit what the user should be able to type. The sub roughly looks like this:
Private Sub Intervall_KeyDown(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Input.KeyEventArgs) Handles Intervall.KeyDown
'Determine whether the keystroke is a digit from the digit keys on the top of the keyboard.
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If the I type backspace or delete, keydown doesn't react, so these particular cases I've handled in KeyUp.
There are two problems with this code: The test If e.Key < Key.D0 only checks whether the user has pressed the key that contains 0 at the top of the keyboard. It is also possible to enter some other signs if the user presses shift, and this test doesn't discover whether the user presses shift. I therefore need to extract the actual character that the user entered, not only which key he or she entered, and check if this character is a legal one. This is easy in a Windows.Forms project; there I can use e.Keyvalue, but in my WPF project I don't get that alternative when I enter a dot after "e".
It's necessary to solve this problem in order to do the next step: The user should also be allowed to enter colon, as this textbox describes a time that an action should be performed. If I could check the content of the key pressed, this would be easy. The problem is that the test If e.Key = Key.OemPeriod returns true whether the user pressed shift or not, i.e. whether the user entered a period or a colon, which are on the same key on my keyboard, I don't know how it is on other standards of keyboards.
I have tried hard to find a solution for this on Google, [URL] and MSDN, but I haven't managed to find any articles or topics about this particular problem. Does anyone know how to do this in a WPF project?
I'm using Common Dialog in my project but I can't find the "Find and Replace" dialog there, how can I use that?
View 1 RepliesI am having a problem running an Excel/VBA program that has been working till this morning. The error I got when I ran a macro I wrote is: Compile error: Cannot find project or libraryWhen I check the references in VBA editor, I find the list of references to be different than when I ran it on another machine. I have some xla libraries on a server that I've linked to the application, and the libraries are being shared among my colleagues. I tried relinking the libraries but that didn't work either. Sometimes, I get another message saying the library is being used by another application.
View 10 RepliesI'm working on my first T4 code generation tool to add some Stored Procedure helper code to my project. I've created custom types (e.g. StoredProcedure and StoredProcedureParameter to help with my code generation and have included the assembly and namespace references in my code:
<#@ template debug="false" hostspecific="false" language="VB" #>
<#@ output extension=".generated.vb" #>
<#@ assembly name="$(TargetPath)" #>
<#@ import namespace="StoredProcCodeGenerator" #>
This allows me to use my custom types in my T4 template code. However, because my custom types exist in the same project as the T4 template code, I can't recompile my project once I run the template code without restarting Visual Studio. This isn't very much fun.
I read a great article that addresses this exact issue by using the T4 Toolbox, but it's not working. Either I'm implementing the VolatileAssembly directive wrong or the T4 toolbox simply didn't get installed. I'm not sure that the toolbox got installed correctly (I'm using VS 2010 on Win XP).
Find the COMPLETE CODE for the DynamicDataEntry project mentioned in Evangelos Petroutsos book, Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2010, page 239, theme "Handling Repeated Data Items".
View 2 RepliesIn my project there are lot of variables, and some of them are not used at all.I want to clean up the code by removing these unused variables. These variables are not shown as unused when i build the application. The problem is with the global variables, and not with the local varible for a function .Is there a method to find these unused variables?
View 8 RepliesDoes anyone able to advise on abovementioned error? Under Private Sub UserForm_
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I've just converted a project from .net 1.1 to 3.5, and I'm being given loads of warnings in the error list. The program compiles and runs ok, but I think I should probably try to at least reduce this large number of warnings.The trouble is that the error list only tells me about the first 102 warnings. Even when I fix one, the number stays at 102. So I have absolutely no idea how many warnings there actually are. If there are 150, I'd like to get rid of them. But if there are 10,000, I don't have the time to fix them all.Is there a way to see the actual total number of warnings?
View 2 RepliesI am trying to publish a project. Via the publish wizard I have published the project. So I have:Project.applicationSetup.exeand a directory application files in which:Project.applicationProject.exe.deployProject.exe.manifest. When I start the setup it does it's thing (only one question: do you want to install ...etc) and 2 seconds later its done.
Problem:
1. I can't find the installation directory... (I can find the app in the 'add/remove programs' but not anywhere in program files or ..)
2. there are a few xml and mdb files I want to include in de project (or else the project does not work).
But because of (1) I don't know where to do so. Or beter yet, I would like to include these files in the installer.3. Why doesn't the installer ask me where I want to install?
i am trying to add a text file in Debug folder. But when i go to project tab to add a new item, there is no option to add a new item? What part of the setting needs to be changed? Using Visual basicExpress 2010.
View 1 RepliesThe application must have basic functionality as to: Insert new customers into the database A search function will be needed to find a users criteria entered The more advanced features would include matching certain criteria with another for example if the data in field 1 is the same then it should match this and return the results. so for example if a person has a hobby of 'football' it will return all the people with the same hobby
View 4 RepliesI support applications in VB6 and VB2003, and I'm trying to upgrade the VB6 app to VB2005, so I have three versions of Visual Studio on my pc. I ran VS2005 and opened the VB6 app to launch the upgrade wizard. It seemed to run fine until it threw an error saying it could not find the project it just created. The project I'm trying to upgrade is called MGxFromSAP.vbp. The error said it could not find MGxFromSAP.vbproj. The project file it actually created is called MGxFromSAP.vbproj.vs7.vbproj. When I try to open this project in VS2005 it says it was created in an earlier version of Visual Studio and needs to be upgraded.Did it perhaps invoke the VB2003 upgrade wizard instead of the new one? How would I be able to tell?
Should I just let VS2005 upgrade the vs7 project or should I try to deinstall the old VS2003 upgrade wizard and rerun the upgrade from scratch?
I need to compare two dictionary values if the types stored are equal, this is what i have
if gettype(Args(key)) = gettype(argtypes(key)) then
'' do something
end if
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About 3 years ago i came across a vb project for a photo album, it was on online tutorial and I followed it and after some custom tweaking I found it was quite usefull. Unfortuatly the original sourcecode has long since vanished.The project was fairly easy to follow and I remember the author had a photo image of his sailing boat and a yellow labrador (just trying to jog some memories here) :).
Anyway; I have searched high and low for it but can not find it. I'm pretty sure it was on a msdn or some other microsoft forum and was to do with VB 2005 or VB 2008 edition of Visual studio.
i'm unable to debug my project that i made. i save it and everything, but it just won't playit says Warning 1 Could not find type 'WindowsApplication1.My.Resources.Resources, Time table'. Please make sure that the assembly that contains this type is referenced. If this type is a part of your development project, make sure that the project has been successfully built. C:SchoolIPTTime table, using 2 loopsTime table, using 2 loopsForm1.Designer.vb 123 0 now when i open it up and try to debug it , it comes up with an error, i even try referencing it but it does nothing ,
View 2 RepliesI have a couple of NET 2.0 projects on the go, but in one of them, I can't access the "Server" object to get at its HtmlEncode property.i.e Server.HtmlEncode("xxx") does not work.
I get the following error displayed in Visual Studio design time error log: "Local variable 'server' cannot be referred to before it is declared." I have tried to add a manual reference to System.Web, but although the dll file is present, it doesn't add itself on - or at least it doesn't display on the "Add Reference" dialog as being added. BUT here is what's interesting - I can access other intrinsic objects such as "Request", "Response"...etc. All except "Server" This is only happening to 1 particular project. In other projects, I can access the "Server" object just fine.
Public Class ExtendedDateTimePicker Inherits DateTimePicker
View 5 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 RepliesRemember MS Paint? The bucket tool? If you used it and clicked on a pixel, all pixels connected to this pixel that are the same are affected. The theory is, I suppose, to check if there is any pixel adjacent to the selected one. If such pixel is the same type as the selected one, check for more adjacent pixels in this one, and so on.
I want to implement something similar in VB.NET. Basically I have a 2D array map which represents the map. Let's assume there are only two types of tile: 0 and 1.Now, I got pretty much everything ready: I got my 2d map and I can tell which tile is clicked and tell what array indexes are the ones that represent such tile.Now for the "painting" process. Whenever I think about it, I can't figure a convenient way to execute such iteration. Can someone help me choosing a correct design/way/tip to achieve this?
I have a project that I have created, it something like a contact database.It is complete with its own sql server database, and controls and forms.I kinda of understand that I can include this project into another project.This is the tricky part,Can I include my contact project into another project and add more items to the database and forms in a new project?What I'm after is like using classes.My contact database would be like the base class, and the new project would be adding more features to that project.
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