vb9

Can you control whether a variable's type is dynamic or static in VB9?

I would like to use VB9 but am not sure what syntax to use to say that I want a variable to be statically typed as in C#'s: var foo = new Whatever(); In previous versions of VB: Dim foo = New Whatever() created a dynamically typed variable. Is there a way to get static typing without actually writing the type in VB9? ...

convert sdf to mdf

I have this sql ce database which I would like to convert to SQL 2008 because I want it to be accessible through the network. I am using SQL 2008 express; and VB9. Any idea? ...

System.Data.OracleClient requires Oracle client software version 8.1.7

I have a web site that I developed on Vista using Vb.net9. It makes a connection to Oracle. for the connection I use System.Data.OracleClient. It works fine on my machine, and our test server, but it does not work on the production server. We installed the Oracle Client 11 on the server. The error is System.Data.OracleClient require...

VB9 New thread with multiple parameters

I'm trying to create a new thread and send multiple parameters as well as a delegate to report back. In VB8 I always hate to do this because it requires either introducing a new class/structure or a delegate. Is there any better way to do this in VB9 ? I'm looking for a solution something like this : Dim Th As New Thread(AddressO...

http post with vb 9.0 (2008)

Im coding in vb.net, and I havent in forever so im a little rusty now. Question is, I want to beable to post data to a website, it can be anything as long as it can call the url (without being in a browser). a url like http://website.com/login.php?username=USERNAME&password=PASS&rememberme=1 ...

Visual Basic 9 (or C# 3) with Visual Studio 2010

I'm working on a project started in VB9 (VS 2008) and now I've migrated to VS2010 (VB10) but on the production server the IDE is still VS 2008. On my developement enviroment the code compiles fine, but sometimes, - let's say - I forget an _ at the end of the line which causes the VB9 compiler to throw an error. So the question is, how c...