I am performing a migration on a vb6 program, to vb.net. The basic knowledge you need to understand this question is that there are two forms that need to talk to each other, frmInput1 and frmInput2. I have the following code (behind frmInput1) that checks if a textbox on frmInput2 has a certain value, seemingly before it has loaded:
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I have a query about dynamically added controls to a form. I have a series of buttons which are created and added at run time. I have a two drop down lists and two buttons which are created at design time. Button 1 creates a series of buttons called "Test 1.x" based upon the selection of the two drop down lists. This works fine and am happy with the logic.However.... Button two should remove all the dynamically created buttons from the form.This does not happen. What does happen is that 50% of the buttons are removed starting with the first one. WHen checking the loop it only enters the loop half the amount of times that there are buttons. Very strange. When the loop is run repeatability it will remove all controls. Why will my logic not remove all the dynamically created controls at once? What is wrong with my logic?
I attach two code snippets and the .net file for your consideration.Button method which creates the dynamically created buttons from the two drop down lists and adds to form
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim Count As Integer
Dim MaxHours As Integer
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I would like to know how do .net developers manage a large window application with a large number of controls, such as textbox , button, groupbox? I have seen a number of people do it this way : declare the controls as an array and initialize them one by one at run time . In this way it is easy to manage those controls because they can be accessed by array index; but this solution seems to require very good understanding of control's attribute such as its location, font etc. This could be a difficult task if the project is passed on to a less experienced developer and add changes to it.How do you deal with it?
I'm working on a emulator program where I load all controls from a database. My database looks something like this :
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IDPageTypeControl_Indexnr Property Data
1131Label 1 Text Lbl1
1161Label 2 Text Lbl2
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I have an app that before it loads the form it uses Location to place the controls in the wright place.When it loads up I can see their original outline before they are displayed in their new location.So I have moved the the sub before the form load event but the result was the same.I also tried me.control.clear at the beginning of the formload.But I cant seam to find contrl property that allows to show all
Private Sub control_location()
CWgroupconfig()
Buildergroupconfig()
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This is an odd question but can I load custom controls from a directory? (e.g TestControl.dll) in my application at runtime instead of adding a com reference?The reason I am asking is that I have an application that is installed as an add-in for MS office. The entire interface is a panel that contains a user control. Initial installation is a bit involved so after the first install, I would like to use clickOnce to deploy updates by just supplying new user controls.
View 8 RepliesI found this mystifying in VB6 and it's still here...
For example - I have a combobox on a form and I have put some code in its SelectedIndexChanged event. The problem is that I want this code to be executed *only* when the user clicks on an item in the combobox dropdown. Why is it then that it gets executed when the form first loads? And how do I stop this happening?
I used to use a "FormLoading" boolean to decide whether or not the code was executed but this surely shouldn't be necessary. Is there a better way?
I am currently wokring on a project, which is going to serve as an interface for accessing various documentation and reports. It is basically just a tabcontrol with a few pages that will be poppulated with buttons which will open the appropriate document.I am trying to allow administrative users the ability to add new, edit or remove buttons which all seems relatiively simple, but have run into the problem of how to persist the changes once they are made. I want the setting to be stored centrally, either in a SQL table or on a network share
View 1 RepliesI am developping a VB.net application. I would like to add buttons on the MDI but every time I open a child form of the MDI, it appears down the buttons. Is there any way I can solve this problem?
View 3 Repliesi am wanting to add handler for controls i add at Page_load at page load i added several image buttons and applied the image urls using -i used the borderwidth propertiy for padding as was having trouble getting a cssclass to work. [code] what i want these Image button to do is when clicked a larger image in another panel will appear so i will need to assign the clicked buttons image url to the large image controls, image url
View 2 RepliesI wrote last week about a problem with an MDI program that had a large number of forms (each with a large number of controls on it) that was "sluggish" in loading and in switching between the child forms.I've attached an example program in VS2008 (though the actual app is VB2010)Rather than show the hardware control application with all of the text fields, and picture boxes acting as indicators, I made a simple program to show the point. This is exaggerated as this just loads 2000 or so text boxes on a form. In the real app I have ~ 200 assorted controls per form of picture boxes, scroll bars, text boxes, labels etc. Also, there is a large full screen .jpeg as the back ground of each form. All are generated at run time and are placed on the form in the New call of each form. (as in the sample attached)main issue seems to be the methodology I use to switch between child forms. I make the current form .visible = false, and the next.visible = true. I have used this as it "keeps the place" on each page if the user has scrolled or is looking at one section of the form. When the next form .visible = true happens I see the controls added in a "machine gun" fashion instead of all at once.
View 28 RepliesI am trying to build a NOTEPAD/WORDPAD like application with vb.net on visual studio 2008.
I need an option to define and choose (MsWord, or CSS like) paragraphs styles, such as: "heading1", "green quotes", etc.
I am having a difficult time getting my problem to compile could you possible give me some feed back.
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Right now I have controls that are in my update panel and change the data in my gridview they work fine, but then i thought it would be cool to have the controls in the header of my gridview. But when i add them to my header and hit the button/run the function i get the failed to load viewstate error.[code]
View 3 RepliesImports System.Data.OleDb
Public Class Form2
Dim Conn As OleDbConnection
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this is my codes in vb?I am thinking what is the error in this code?because everytime I execute this There is an error appearing in this part OleA.Fill (DSSearch, 0) it says that "No value given for one or more required parameters." so, what should i need to do?
How to increase a forms opacity without increasing the opacity of the controls in the form?
View 1 RepliesI know the WOW environment is currently shipping on Windows 7 and 2003/2008 MS server products to enable the use of 32-bit applications. But does anyone have any thoughts on whether they are going to provide this environment on PC and server operating systems beyond Windows 7?
I know that the runtime files (DLL, etc.) will not be provided beyond Windows 7 for 32-bit VB 6.0 applications to run on.
I want to validate textbox so that it will accept only future date. Can I have regular expression for the same.
View 2 RepliesI need to replace something that's going to change in the future and I don't know what that's going to be, so is that possible? I'm talking about Flash Player, current version is 11.1.102.55 and I can replace that with nothing, but if that version is changed my text replace wont work. I have one empty space after flashVer=WIN 11,1,102,55. Textbox1.Text = Textbox1.Text.Replace("flashVer=WIN 11,1,102,55", "")
View 5 RepliesI'm creating an application software. It has many features, which is in the base version of the software. And people could buy my software (which will be enough for most of them since it had all the common features needed) and use it. But some of them might need additional features to this version.So, I can add new features to the base version of my product and provide them a custom or extended version.
But my question is, how can I effectively manage these versions of the software while updating (or upgrading with new features which are common to all of them)
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In the above example F1, F2, F3, F4 & F5 are the features available common for all editions of my software.Whereas, A1, A2, A3 & A4 are the additional features added based on customer's request.
For some reason now, when I start a new project in Visual Basic 2008, I can no longer add any new controls to the forms. All controls are grayed out in the toolbox. What can I check to see what's causing this?
View 1 RepliesI'm using the ASP.Net Membership system but I'm having an issue with the LastActivityDate for the users in the database. For some users, their last activity date is in the future...
View 3 RepliesCreate a project that determines the future value of an investment at a given interest rate for a given number of years. The formula for the calculation is Future value = Investment amount * (1 + Interest Rate)^ Years..Form- Use labeled text boxes for the amount of investment, the interest rate (as a decimal fraction), and the number of years the investment will be held. Display the future value in a text box formatted as currency. Include buttons for calculate, Clear, Print, and exit. Format all dollar amounts. Display a message to the user for nonnumeric or missing input data.Remember that the result of an exponentiation operation is a Double data type. Interest rate is annual.So far this is what I have and I am missing something(s) in the calculate process.[code]
View 14 RepliesI'm automating some outlook functionality in a .NET app. It works great. I am compiling it and using v 12.0.0.0 of the Outlook Interop assembly. My code should work on any version of Outlook so it seems silly to have to bind it to a specific version. Is it possible to use reflection to do this instead of compiling a reference? Are the interop assemblies on PC's by default that have Office installed anyway or do I need to include them with my application?
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After right clicking on the form Context Menu give option to see 'View Code Window' which opens the the view code window and shows from the first line of code in the file, where actually it should show Event handlers related to the control on which Mouse was right clicked. right now we have to go through the line of codes to locate the event related to particular control.Also after double clicking on the control, VB inserts a default event handler to Code file which should happen only when there is no Event Handlers added for that control previously & if a previously added Event Handler present, double clicking controls should locate that procedure.[code]after dragging dataset table to the form vb assigns 'field name' concatinated with 'TextBox' to TextBox Control likewise 'field name' concatinated with 'ComboBox' for ComboBox Control where it is difficult to locate them in Controls Member list into code..Instead why don't you prefix them with 'txt' for TextBox, 'cbo' for ComboBox etc. It is then easy to find one in code. Or make the original Optional.
View 7 RepliesI have a form where a user can choose an election date. One of the most frequent errors users make is entering the incorrect due dates of reports. Therefore, I am attempting to generate the report due dates in the application using the report guidelines. For instance, reports are due 32 and 15 days prior to the election and 30 and 60 days after an election.
I know the following won't work but you get the jest of what I am attempting to do. I am assuming I will need to break down the month, day and year somehow before I subtract or add the days to the date to get the actual report date.
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I need to save actual age (in whole years) for future use in the program. The problem is, 'Years' returns a big, fat 0 every time. Changing "Dim years As Integer" to Dim years As String" does exactly the same thing.
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Dim myDate = New Date(Convert.ToInt32(Year.Value), Month.SelectedIndex + 1, Convert.ToInt32(Day.Value))
'If Month, Day, or Year not selected then
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I need to have the Calendar Control start 36 hours after the current date. How would I do that?
I have a form that requires that the future date has to be at least 36 hours from the current date in the order for the workers involved to be able to complete the task.
check values and keep the form from processing:
Protected Sub calPickupDate_SelectionChanged(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles calPickupDate.SelectionChanged
If calPickupDate.SelectedDate < Today.AddHours(36) Then
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I am at the stage of planning the application which will conect to a Ms SQl database, and process some data to Excel files.The problem is, that i would like to make a base pure application, without any functionality, and then add functionalities by adding some external files with code to program folder.I`not sure if what i just wrote is clear. To simplify:I would like to have an application which connects to a database, but let`s say when after 1 year, i will be in need of some more functionality, i woun`t have to change the code of whole application, but can just add a new file, and when I run the application there will be one more function to be chosen from the list.
View 13 RepliesWhether VB6 programs can be run on future Windows OS.How long it is supported.Any meaning in purchasing an ERP with VB framework.
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