vb.net

How to get ElementHost control, given one of WPF control's content

Hello, I am trying to get a reference to ElementHost control. For example in the below code I need to initially use the “testImage” content of the WPF user control to lunch the event. The WPF control is added at run-time, so does the ElementHost control, so I can’t use the WPF control’s name or ElementHost’s name. My logic is to get the...

Does EOL == EOS in any other language besides BASIC?

BASIC and its variants Visual Basic and VB.NET are the only programming languages I know of that treat the end of line character as a statement terminator (I'm excluding batch files and command scripts from the domain of programming languages). I'm curious: is there any other language that uses this convention, or does BASIC stand alone...

Will statements or expressions execute after a return statement in VB.net?

Ok, I was rooting around in one of our company apps which is done in VB.net. I'm not familiar with VB.net (I do stuff in C#) so I'm asking this question: Does the code after the clean up comment execute? Public Function DoesUserHavePermission(ByVal UserID As Integer, ByVal ActionID As Integer) As Boolean ' some extra code re: gettin...

VB.NET - Debugging and DataSets?

Anyway to view the content of a dataset or datatable in debug? I don't mean looking up a specific element of the dataset but to view the hole thing. ...

vb.net BindingSource.Find ?

Anyway to use BS.Find with more than one column (like "ID",1 And "Name","Smith") ? ...

i need to put 10 radiobutton values in insert statement in vb.net with while loop

i have 10 radio buttons that have yes/no values. These are options to one question, so need to in the database under 1 record. so - question1 yes, question 1 no, question1 yes and so on. i want to use a while loop or some other loop to take all these values and insert them or update them in the database for that particular question. any ...

I just don't understand how to use Linq

I have a class as follows: Class Scan Delivered As Boolean ScanDate As Date State As String Facility As String End Class I then create a list and populate it with scans containing whatever. Dim Scans As New List(Of Scan) I need to mine the list to get various pieces of information. I would like to use LINQ to do ...

C#/vb.net type mismatch looking up a constructor by reflection (Integer() vs System.Int32[])

I'm passing a type name and some parameters from C# code into a navigation framework written in VB. The navigation framework looks for a constructor on the type that matches the parameters passed in using Type.GetConstructor(Types()). The constructor that I'm looking for expects an array of integers -- Integer() in vb. But it gets an ...

Referencing a control programatically with external source

Forgive me about the title, I have no idea what this is called. 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, p...

Crystal Reports: Is there a way to get effectively a subreport within a subreport?

UPDATE: I asked a more general question here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2166963/can-i-do-two-levels-of-linking-in-crystal-reports I'm using Crystal Reports within VB.NET and Visual Studio 2005. I have a report with several subreports. I'm setting List(Of MainStuff) as the data sources for the main report. I'm setting List(O...

Can I do two levels of linking in Crystal Reports?

Let's say I have three lists: Departments, Divisions, and Groups. A Department is made up of Divisions, which in turn is made up of Groups. The Divisions have the Department ID as a foreign key. The Groups have the Division ID as a foreign key. I'd like to produce a report that looks like this: Department 1 Division 1A ...

"Memory could not be written" error passing an HGLOBAL from VB.Net to a C DLL

We are using visual studio 2008-My requirement is to allocate some memory, store data into that allocated memory and pass the memory address to a DLL written in C. But when try to pass this memory address to a function in that DLL my application crashes and shows the message "The memory could not be written". ''//Memory allocation Code ...

VB.Net: Looping through all form items, including CommonDialogs

Hello everyone! I'm translating my VB.Net application, and I need to loop through all the controls on my form. Using a recursive function such as Public Sub TranslateControl(ByVal Ctrl As Control) For Each ChildCtrl As Control In Ctrl.Controls ChildCtrl.Text = Translate(ChildCtrl.Text) If TypeOf ChildCtrl Is Label...

In VB. Net how can i accumlate reading data from serial port on graph upto 10 minutes ?

I have written a simple program which receive data from serial port i.e (temperature) and display on a line graph. but i require accumlate the graph data upto 10 minutes on screen. after that it again accumlate next 10 minutes data. The Code of VB.Net program is below : Imports System.Drawing.Image Imports System.IO.Ports Public Class...

Messaging System in .net

Hello, We have a Message broker application in Java which accepts messages(XML). It validates the XML against XSD and calls a .net Webservice and passes the validated XML. We have a requirement to do the same in .net. Do we have any API's to do this one. I am looking for a system that takes care of logging in case of errors or some kind...

Store data in one variable or multiple?

I have a file which is opened and the bytes are loaded into a class. The file needs to be split into chunks, and there is a header which gives the locations and sizes of the chunks. Should I (upon opening the file) split the file into chunk sand store each chunk in an array of variables And then when I want to access the data in the chun...

Writing Lamdba Query Expressions in VB.Net using linq to sql provider

I'm just not understanding on how to create a lamdba expression instead of using a regular comprehension linq queries. All of the examples i see are not query a database using linq to sql. i want to able to construct a lambda expression that get my the orders from the northwind database where the country equals "us". I know how to constr...

How to reference a control from a module?

Forgive me about the title, I have no idea what this is called. 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, p...

Converting DayOfWeek enum to a string repesenting the day

I was wondering if there was a way to directly convert the integer DayOfWeek returns into a string representing the day like Monday, Tuesday etc. Sample code: MessageBox.Show(Date.Today.DayOfWeek) This will return 6 (as of today). Is there a way to directly convert this into Saturday, for example? I don't really care what it really c...

Surest way to detect if an application has been installed on a Windows PC in a VB.NET app?

I know the default install path of the app and the name of the .exe file, but is there a way to see if it is actually installed? I've seen suggestions for checking registry entries, but I don't know if this app uses any or if if varies for different users on different pc's. Many of the registy entries have no default values set. I pref...