Do i need to add a reference to a third party control(DLL) before i can use it.When i go to project->add refernece ,i select the control but it didn't becomeavailable in toolbox to use it.Do i need to install that control?I just placed it inwindows/system32 dir.
View 6 RepliesDoes anyone know of a good 3rd party reference for Win32 API for .Net where VB.Net is the target language Most API references target C as the language of choice. Frankly, I hate C and all C like languages.
View 11 RepliesI am using Umbraco (a .NET CMS), and it has a reference to a specific version of a DLL (see 1 Umbraco Reference below). This is fine until I try to hook into the .NET MailChimp API which references a different vesion of the same DLL (see 2 PerceptiveMCAPI below).I can think of a couple of options for resolving this
a. Get either the Umbraco or PerceptiveMCAPI source and reference the same version of the DLL, really do not want to do this for compatibility reasons
b. Dump the 2 DLLs in the GAC, I want to avoid this as I see deployment issues arising if someone forgets (I know we should have an automated deployment but time is restricted)
I remember that there is a third option to specify what version of the DLL to use in the configuration. Is this possible and what is the code for it?
1 Umbraco Reference
// Assembly Reference CookComputing.XmlRpcV2
Version: 2.4.0.0
Name: CookComputing.XmlRpcV2, Version=2.4.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a7d6e17aa302004d
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I have a third party dll. I wish to create a variable to reference to one of the variable in it.so that the value in the class change, my value also change. The senario can be reproduce from the code below.For the code below i wish to get the form to display 2 instead of 1. How can i make my variable test2 always referencing test.testValue?
View 11 RepliesI am working with dev ex controls and on a menu bar item there isnt a property for setting the button to Visible or not Not Visible. Can you add properties like this to pre made controls? If so how would you do it?
View 2 RepliesMy goal is to control an application from VB.NET. There is no API, and I do not have the source, only the compiled EXE file. Is there a way to find the opened application, find a button within the application, click a button and know it was clicked? Is there a way to read the contents of a textbox within the application?
View 3 RepliesI migrated applcation form vb6 to vb.net. Tabpro third party controls are used in vb6.Tabpro have multiple tabs while I convert only first tab get all controls rest of all tabs are blanked. Please suggest what is problem Is Tabpro table control not compatablewith vb.net or is there any solution
View 1 Repliesi have 3rd party custom tab control , that does not have RTL support also no source code so i sub classed it and mirrored it like below
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Within VB.NET, trying to find an easy way to in a sense check the check-box "Use Windows to configure my Wireless Network Settings". This is an option that forces windows to use your wireless over third-party programs that may try to steal control. I am aware this requires to have WZC enabled within services and that's something that can be easily accomplished one way or another.
I doubt or rather cannot find a proper registry value or API call to check or initiate such a task.
I've completed projects similar to this in the past but this one has me stumped. Trying to retrieve text from a text box in a third party application. Using SPY++ I found that this control is the second control in the list so I coded the following: Dim parentWindow as integer = windows.ReturnWindowHandle({windowname})
If parentWindow > 0 then
Dim childWindow as integer = FindWindowEx(parentWindow, 0, Nothing, {child window name})
Dim field as integer = 0
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This worked great. Closed the app, came back the next day and this same code did not work. Used spy++ and found that the control had moved to the 4th position. Closed it, reopened it, this time it moved to the first. What is the best way to find this control each time when there are are 50+ controls on the screen and they all appear in spy++ like this:
Window 0022063A "" Edit
Window 00270652 "" Edit
Window 001A0630 "" Edit
and they continue to rearrange themselves each time the application is closed and reopened?
I have a UserControl named DataGridViewFilterAndSorter that I built using a SplitContainer. In each Panel of the SplitContainer contains a FlowLayoutPanel and in each FlowLayoutPanel contains a LinkLabel.
I have a procedure that accepts a reference to one of the FlowLayoutPanels in the UserControl. I want to get a reference to the UserControl (DataGridViewFilterAndSorter) using the FlowLayoutPanel reference. Currently, I have to use this[code]...
I have created a user control and am able to add it to a page with out any problems, but how to I reference a control that is inside of the user control For example if I have a text box inside the user control and want to set the text property through code or get the text property, How can I reference the control inside the user control. I have tried a few different things but nothing seems to work when I type the usercontrolname.control.property I just get an error.
View 3 RepliesNot sure why this is being so difficult..I want to reference a property of a control through code by its name. I should be able to use "Me.Controls("ControlName")", but this gives me an ArgumentNullReference exception, no matter how I try to do it.Here is what I'm doing:
I have several buttons on the form with standardized names (minExpandOSD, minExpandSettings, etc). All the buttons names start with "minExpand" and the last portion of the button name is always the same as its parent (a group box). Each of the group boxes also have a standard name (GroupOSD, GroupSettings, etc).Each groupbox has a minimize/maximize button. I have many group boxes. Rather than copy the same code block for each groupbox, I am trying to write a sub that can be called for each of the group boxes.
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I wont to add swf file to my Vb.net project. I'm using Visual Studio 2010. How can i insert swf file to vb.net project ?
View 7 RepliesI'm new to VB (and .net), just started taking an introductory class. One of the things we've done is set up a little form that does basic math. It looks something like this:
Code:
[txt1] = [txt1mod1] + [txt1mod2] [btn1]
[txt2] = [txt2mod1] - [txt2mod2] [btn2]
[txt3] = [txt3mod1] * [txt3mod2] [btn3]
[txt4] = [txt4mod1] / [txt4mod2] [btn4]
When you click btn1, it adds the values txt1mod1 and txt1mod2 and displays the answer in txt1. The same happens for buttons 2, 3, 4 on their respective lines. So the way we handle this is to have four subprocedures that handle the button clicks, one for each button. I was thinking it would make more sense to have one function handle all of the button clicks, since it's basically the same thing. Through my own research I've learned you can have multiple events call one procedure like so:
Private Sub btn1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btn1.Click, btn2.Click, btn3.Click, btn4.Click
'stuff
End Sub
But how do I determine which of the four buttons was clicked, and which text box values the user cares about? Then after doing so, how do I reference the relevant controls (txt[x]mod1, txt[x]mod2, txt[x])?
Code:
Dim b As Button = CType(sender, Button)
Dim t As String = b.Tag.ToString
But it gets a little fuzzy after that because I can't figure out how to reference the controls using the tags. I don't even know if I'm going down the right path. I can, for example, set some string to
Code:
strBox1 = String.Concat("txt",t,"mod1") 'string is "txt1mod1" for example
but trying to reference the control
Code:
...strBox1.Text...
gives me errors that, "Text is not a member of String."
Well, I don't know if this is correct or not, but it seems to work if I use "Controls()":
Code:
'if t = 1
Dim a As String = Controls(String.Concat("txt",t,"mod1")).Text 'value of txt1mod1
Dim b As String = Controls(String.Concat("txt",t,"mod1")).Text 'value of txt1mod2
Dim s As Integer = CInt(a) + CInt(b) 'im actually determing the operand elsewhere
Controls(String.Concat("txt",t)).Text = s.ToString
When I am working in a project I can reference the current form using "ME"...
Is there a way to reference the current control?
For example I am working in the button1_click subroutine. I can type button1.text but is there a MYCURRENTCONTROL.text that I can use?
If i have a check box in a groupbox on my form, and i wanted to get the "control" using its name, how would i do that?
The function below returns the control, but only if the control is on the form directly. It doesn't function if the control (in my case, the checkbox) is in a groupbox, or on a tab control, or both!
Private Function getControlFromName(ByVal controlName As String) As System.Windows.Forms.Control
Return Me.Controls(controlName)
End Function
I have some different controls (PictureBox, Label,Button...) that are created by code. The set number of these controls isnot fixed. So let me set this number ton. And I have the following lines of code to create some of these controls.
For i5 As Integer = 0 To n
dBoxArray(i5) = New PictureBox 'PictureBox
Panel1.Controls.Add(dBoxArray(i5))
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I have a MS Access database set up, with a Period field that has either values 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. I retrieve these values using a database connection and I would like to reference a particular control based on what period was grabbed from the database.
Here's example code, pseudo of course.
TextBox(dr(3)).Text = dr(0)
dr(3) contains the period, and dr(0) contains the content I would like to put into the text box. I have these text boxes on my form: TextBox1, TextBox2, TextBox3, TextBox4 and TextBox5.So if dr(3) contained 2 then I would want to reference TextBox2.
I have many textboxes that I need to reference dymanically. The controls themselves aren't dynamic, just the way I need to reference them.I've got several text boxes say:
txtMe1
txtMe2
txtMe3
...
txtMe100
I will need to randomly change one of the properties of the edit boxes. So lets say it picks a random number between 1-100 which is 56. So, I would want to change the background of my 56th edit box to:
txtMe56.Backcolour = Color.Gray
The only way I could think of doing this would be to have one giant select case statement to evaluate the random number. But, that is really dirty and not the best peformance wise (this could potentially get called hundreds of times) so was wondering what my options are?I tried to concatenate the random number to my generic control name 'txtMe' but it throws a wobbler. I essentially would want the following to worK:
dim iNum as integer = 56
txtMe & iNum & .Backcolour = Color.Gray
I'm writing a program that inserts controls onto a webform dynamically. Depending on a variable, I add either a textbox, a set of radio buttons, or a set of checkboxes. Later, after a user clicks a submit button I need to use the controls to determine if the user is submitting the correct answer, but when I try to reference the id of a control, I get "txtAnser is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to it's protections level. Here is the .aspx page (it's the standard content page of a master page):
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In THIS Thread:NickThissen Said:Quote:It will appear in the toolbox even if you put it in the current project, instead of a control library project.No, it does not have to be in a control library, nor does it have to be a UserControl, to appear in the Toolbox. Any class inheriting (either directly or indirectly) from Control or Component will appear in the Toolbox. Since RadioButton inherits from Control, and your control inherits from RadioButton, your control inherits from Control too, so it will appear in the Toolbox. I have successfully created a pretty cool custom control. I Built the project and have added the a reference to the .dll form a new Windows forms project. It works great, as long as I do something like THIS:
Dim ThisControl As New MyCustomControl
ThisControl.Top = 40
ThisCOntrol.Left = 40
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I have a few text boxes on my form (txt1, txt2, txt3...) and would like to assign values to them based on the index. I not sure how to describe but Something similiar to the following:
dim i as integer = 30
For n As Integer = 1 To i
[txt] & i.text = MyText" & i
Next
I have two FlowLayoutPanels in a Form. The first read images from a DIR and expose them generating so many PictureBoxes are necessary. The user can drag an image and drop into the second Panel. All works fine. Now the problem is how can I know the name of the image contained in the PictureBox in the dropped Panel so that I can save it? I tried to recover in a ListBox the name of the images during the population of the first Panel but I don�t know witch may be the reference with the dropped PictureBox.
View 4 RepliesI am attempting to move Visual Studio 2008 project from an XP Pro development environment to a Win 7 64-bit Ultimate environment. In the process of doing so, I have one ActiveX COM control that the project uses. I've installed that control using the maker's installer. Now, when I open the project, the project cannot find the control, etc. - "The system cannot find the reference specified." I also tried moving a particular file to the system32 directory, as per a possible fix they posted, but that didn't help either.
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I am writing this codes on classlibrary to make the changes of the text and I want to control the form as well. I have wrote the last if statement on the bottom of the code that if the form is on the right side, then set the form from righttoleft. I get an object reference which is not set to an instance of an object. Here is the list of the codes that I am writing to make changes of the text on each menu items and control the form. [Code]
View 5 RepliesIn vb.net 2005 how would one referance a control as variable and change it"s properties. Such as in control X visible = True. Tryed string manipulations that did't work.
View 1 RepliesI have a GUI that allows a user to add tabpages to a tab control. Everytime the user adds a tab, a user control is placed on the new tab. The user control has a background worker on it, as well as several other controls. My question is this: Can I access the backgroundworker specific to a tabpage? In other words, can I tell the program to use the backgroundworker found on tab index 0 to run a process, and then tell the backgroundworker on tab index 1 to run a different process?
View 1 RepliesUsing MDI in .net, how do you reference a control on a parent form from a child? Like, if on the parent I have a textbox called txtBox1, what could I do from the child form to read the contents? I've been googling unsuccessfully all day. The closest I've found is
Parent!ControlName.Property
I don't know what the ! is supposed to mean, but I get an error here: Class 'System.Windows.Forms.Control' cannot be indexed because it has no default property.
I have a program that allows the user to add steps to a process (tabpages in a control). All tabpages are generated on the fly by duplicating a "template" tabpage and consequently have the same control names such as textboxStepDesc. Here is the hierarchy of the controls to get to textboxStepDesc.[code]...
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