I need to pass data (a user name) from a logon form in one vbproj to a form in another vbproj that are compiled in one solution. Public Read Only does not seem to work.
View 2 RepliesI have solution that has main app & userManagement app in the main app i referenced the userManagement app and I can see the class in my main app userManagement is a userLogin etc. how can I use the forms from userManagement project in main project??
in formLoad in main app If userID = "" then 'show formLogin from userManagement end if
I have 5 projects within the same solution file, Im trying to access a form that is part of one of the projects from my startup project.I have looked through the earlier threads and most of them deal with calling forms from within a project.To my understanding ive correctly added the projects to the solution file from File --> Add --> Existing Projects.I have also referenced my Project2 from Project1 but still the intellisense does not let me access form1 of project2 from project1.
View 3 RepliesI have a .Net solution with 5 projects in c# and one in visual basic. I want to know whether there would be a gain of performance to convert my visual basic project to C# in the day to day while I compile my solution.
View 3 RepliesIt's me again, trying to have multiple projects in the same solution. How can I do that?
I know that the project name should accompany whatever functions I'll be calling but somewhere it does not work.
One more thing, can I include forms in all the projects I create?
I've developed a stand-alone RTF project/solution and a stand-alone calendar project/solution. I'm trying to incorporate them into a master project/ solution.If I just add the RTF & Calendar projects to the master solution, I cannot access them from the Main form of the master project. It just doesn't see them. Just adding the forms doesn't work because it doesn't contain all of the necessary information embedded in the project (references, etc.)
View 4 RepliesI am coming to the end of coding this system in Visual Studios 2008 which I took over from a guy who has worked on it for a year.He is not here anymore.He made 9 projects and put them into one solution(screen shot below).I have only published a .NET website for VB and have never published something like this.P3Data is the only one that the publishing tab comes up with. All the other projects the publishing tab does not come up. Why is P3Data bold? How can I publish the whole solution 'P3Data' as one whole entity?
View 5 RepliesCurrently, I have a solution that contains two projects (ASP.net websites, FWIW). If I create a class in Project1, how do I expose it to Project2? Is it automatically available to Project2 because they are in the same solution? Or do I need to do something special to make the connection?
View 5 RepliesI thought I'd give VB a go after developing with C# for the past few months. I'm using Visual Studio 2008 and have imported the VB IDE settings. I'm going through the same steps in VB as I've gone through in C# to create my solution for an n-tiered ASP.NET web application, but the results are unexpected. Here's the steps:
1. File > New Project > Other Project Types > Visual Studio Solutions > Blank Solution .... name the solution & choose the location ...
2. At this point, I want to proceed to add projects as follows by right-click on the solution in solution explorer
a. Add > Visual Basic > Web > ASP.NET Web Application ... name / location of the Web Client
b. Add > Visual Basic > Windows > Class Library.. name / location of the Business Layer
c. Add > VB > Windows > Class Library ... name / location of the Data Access Layer
BUT, as soon as I complete step 2a, the solution disappears from solution explorer. "Show all files" is selected. This happens regardless of the project I create first.
All too often, when I am looking for sample .NET code to do something and actually find it, it is written in C#. I am by no means proficient with C#... I can read and follow the logic of C# or modify the code, though I have difficulty following along since everything ends in "}".So what do I do? I create a solution with 2 projects. I put the C# code in one project and VB code in the other project. The VB project references the C# project and I modify the C# as necessary so I can call the useful code from the VB project.The current C# code I'm working with is a rather large project. Specifically what it does is handle input from HIDs (specifically I want to use it for input from a media remote).What I wanted to do was leave the C# code pretty much alone and just call a VB subroutine when any HID input is received (many of the remote buttons can't be distinguished from keyboard keystrokes) and process them in VB. Problem is that the VB code also needs access to pieces of the C# code (circular reference). Ideally what I'd want to do is create a VB module within the C# project (since VB.NET and C#.NET are functionally equivalent -- mostly -- though syntactically different). I've used compilers in the past with similar functionality, though I don't know if VS.NET 2008 has this capability. If I just add a module to the C# project, it expects it to be written in C#.If I can't do that, I see 3 options:
1) Write my application in C#
2) Write a new class in C# that exposes the functionality I need, instantiate it in VB
3) Convert all the C# code to VB
These options are beyond my current skillset (except maybe 3), though now is just as good a time as any to learn C#. But this may require more time than I'm willing to invest. I just wanted to create a task launcher / application switcher to be able to switch between music, video, and other players. I, in fact, already have most of the VB code I need from another project, including a DirectX "cover flow" style interface. I just want to add remote control support to it.
Can I included several setup projects in the same vb solution such that when solution is built each setup creates its own setup package?
View 1 RepliesAm I able to share/access xsd in different projects in a solution? If so, how do I do it. If not, what are the other options.
What I intend to do is have the xsd in the DAL project and have the business logic checkings/validations in BLL project.
I am working on a solution that contains 2 projects one to be built as an exe and the other as a service. Both projects will share a class for certian functions and properties. I would like to have both projects use the same physical file so when I make a change in one of the projects it is also made in the other.
This was simple to do in VB6 but as of yet I see no way to do it under dot net. It seems to want to make a copy of the file and place it into the project folder for the second project resulting in the need to either copy after every change or manually make the changes twice.
Anyone know if there is a way to have common files area for a solution so that any project within the solution has access to the actual file rather than a copy of it?
I have a solution which consists among other things 2 windows applications.I would like to be able to run the first windows application then click on the second windows application and run that as well.
View 3 RepliesAs far as I know , it is possible to combine projects into a solution . So , lets say we have 3 projects . Each project has a starting form , lets call them SF1 , SF2 and SF3 .What I would like to ask you is how can I write code in order to have both the solution and the partial projects , working . You see , the solution (which as far as I know will also be accompanied by a new project) has to have a starting form ; lets call it SF0 .A) First of all I'd like to know how can I call a partial project from the solution itself .B) What code do I have to write in the partial projects in order to keep them running correctly when they are separate (that is not part of the solution) . I am asking this question too , because as I guess , there has to be code in SF1 , SF2 and SF3 (into buttons) that lead back to SF0 , but
View 3 RepliesI've been doing some lite coding over the last couple years so I'm no where near where a lot of you already are. So my code tends to be organized in the standard beginners format... one project per solution with one executable (*.dll or *.exe). So I have a bit of a "best-practices" question for you... Why use multiple projects in one solution?
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I've developed a couple of different stand-alone projects, myRibbonRTF and myRibbonCalendar and have them functioning well. I want to tie these together with other projects in a single solution called myMain. When I add these projects to the solution, their forms are not accessible in myMain (e.g. myRibbonRTF.frmMain.Show()). I've searched high and low for the last week trying to solve this and the only nearby solution is to turn the other projects into .dlls and access them in myMain that way.
View 7 RepliesWe create a class library and ship C# and VB.NET examples.I have a solution of 60 C# projects. If I make an edit to one of them, Visual Studio only builds the changed one. I have an equivalent solution of 60 VB.NET projects. Visual Studio always builds all 60 projects. Why? Is there a way to force Visual Studio to behave like it does with C# projects?
I should mention that there are no dependencies between the projects.More information: It's not recompiling, really, it's just checking if they need compilation and that takes a significant amount of time.
Here's the build output: Build: 0 succeeded, 3 failed, 58 up-to-date, 0 skipped Those 58 checks take about 30 seconds in my solution of VB.NET projects. This same up-to-date check is almost instant in the solution of C# projects.No edit is necessary. Just switching startup projects is enough.
I'm not sure if this is really a VB IDE issue, or a more general VS10 issue, but I couldn't find any other relevant category to post in, so here goes!I have several VB projects which I want to use in the same solution in Visual Studio 10. I created a project (& corresponding solution) which will reference them and added the existing projects by right clicking the solution in solution explorer choosing 'Add->Existing Project'. Then I went to the containing project's Properties window and added references to the existing projects, so they could be used by the project.
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How can I declare public constants that are available solution wide across all projects?
View 8 RepliesJust got a little quirk with VS2008 on 1 solution.When i press F5 to debug my solution builds the current project but then insists on building all my setup projects...
This only occurs on 1 of my solutions and it has 20 projects within it.
I've checked startup projects and it has no dependancies and is set to selected project.
EDIT: Right click and debug in new instance works fine
In vb.net 2.0 is it possible to declare a variable globally so that it is visible to all projects of a single solution?
View 1 RepliesIs this way a "right" way to pass data between two forms?[code]...
View 1 RepliesHow to pass data between forms made at runtime? I need to check the data in the form at runtime and accordingly use it in SQL queries to retrieve data from database.
View 2 RepliesHBasically I will have two forms. Form1 will control form2 which is the media display. Form2 will give back the media status and info back to form1 in someway. I was thinking of creating properties in form2 and having form1 polling these values to display the elapse run time etc... ideally i wish to have form2 somehow send events back with data when it values gets updated.
View 1 RepliesI am using 2 forms in a solution the first is the application itself (MainForm) while the second is for the settings (SettingsForm) My first question is how to let the (SettingsForm) to Inherits Or Share the Declarations in the (MainForm)? And how do I it Save Load , the settings if changed when the application is closed Some applications use *.ini files to save it's settings but I don't know how to load it back I may save it with this code:
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I may save a settings if there a Check box by "1" or "0" where "1" means Checked while "0" means UnChecked
Also, if there is a radio button I may set the first radio as "1" second as "2" third as "3" The problem is with Loading the settings Here is the Questions once more: 1- How to let the (SettingsForm) to inharets Or Share the Declarations in the (MainForm)? 2- How do I it Save , Load the settings when the application is closed?
I am on a project helping to analyze the load a VB.Net WinForms application can take. This app has been in production for several years and has many many products on it. We plan to add more products but see the client footprint rapidly increasing. This is contributing the degradation of performance on the system overall.There is duscussion that moving the UI intensive portions of the app to ASP.Net it will reduce the client footprint and solve many of our issues.My question which of the following will scale better in terms of performance and load? ASP.Net(VB) Web based architecture VB.NEt WinForms 3-tier architecture
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ok.. I'm not going to pretent that I know all the inner workings of the windows generated code.. but it was lots easier on vb6.. so I have a program that I wrote.. one for one version of our product and one for a newer one.. the config screen is very similar
from A to B.. so now I'm trying to make one version that has A and B config screens and I'll show one or the other based on some other setup.. so I just did add existing and pulled in the config form from the other project.. but now I get lots of these type errors
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I've recently noticed that a solution can contain multiple projects. I'd like to know if I can create a form that exists in multiple projects, so i can edit one form (or class) instead of six, and have it published in each one of them separately? I hope that makes sense....I seek not answers, but understanding, that I may not solve, but learn.
What good is a fish without the skill to catch it?
Just started VB programming this week and have found a wealth of information about what I'm trying to do. Problem is, some of it is more complete than others.Here's what I'm trying to do:In Form1 (my main form), I want to instantiate a class that contains a couple of properties (speed setpoint and position setpoint). When I click a button, I want to pass this data to Form2 and populate two textboxes on Form2 with the properties of this object. I want to manipulate the property values on Form2 and click an OK button which closes the dialog and returns the manipulated data, updating the property values of the object. Here's the algorithm I'm following:1) On Form1, instantiate the class2) On Form1's "Pass Data" button click event handler, instantiate a Form2 object and invoke the ShowDialog method, passing the object as a parameter.
3) On Form2, overload the ShowDialog method to accept the object as a parameter and modify the method so that it returns the manipulated class data.4) On Form2, in the ShowDialog method, populate the textboxes with the class data that was passed in.Here's where I get stuck. If I press the OK button on Form2 (DialogResult.OK), it returns me to Form1, but what hook do I have in Form1 to receive the manipulated class data that the ShowDialog method is returning?Here's an example of what I'm thinking about:
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Public Class Form1
Dim clsController1 As New MotionController
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I'm sure it's probably a very elementary question, but every explanation I've found seems to be incomplete.