vb.net

When the property get and set method has been called?

i have the following property declaration Public Property IsAreaSelected() As Integer Get Return If(ViewState("IsAreaSelected") Is Nothing, 0, Cint(ViewState("IsAreaSelected"))) End Get Set(ByVal value As Integer) ViewState("IsAreaSelected") = value End Set End Property i wa...

resort able items in listbox in vb.net

how can i turn my listbox to resort able by dragging and dropping in vb.net... ...

Uncheck all checkboxes in repeater except checkbox being checked

I know my question reads a bit like that 'how much wood can a woodchuck chuck' line, please excuse that... I have a repeater with checkboxes. There are numerous rows in this repeater - I never know how many - I want only one checkbox checked at any time. If the user changes the checked checkbox, any pre-existing checks are unchecked th...

Regular expression from font to span (size and colour) and back (VB.NET)

Hi, I am looking for a regular expression that can convert my font tags (only with size and colour attributes) into span tags with the relevant inline css. This will be done in VB.NET if that helps at all. I also need a regular expression to go the other way as well. To elaborate below is an example of the conversion I am looking for...

Async Socket Listener on separate thread - VB.net

I am trying to use the code from Microsoft for an Async Socket connection. It appears the listener runs in the main thread locking the GUI. I am new at both socket connections and multi-threading all at the same time. Having a hard time getting my mind wrapped around this all at once. The code used is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/...

Best solution for exporting Word documents to PDF programatically (without using a "software printer")?

I'm looking for a way to export a Word document as a PDF. I would like to do this without the use of a "software printer" (such as CutePDF, etc.) and stick to reference assemblies if at all possible. I'm using Microsoft Office Interop Assemblies to generate a Word Document which I save to a temporary directory. So its not necessary for t...

Datagridview - Focus on Cell that was right clicked

I have a datagridview that I have put a ContextMenuStrip1 on. I would like it to remove a row in the datagridview when the row is right clicked on and they click on "delete row". I have the delete working and the menu is showing up but this isn't firing when you right click on the datagridview. This is where I am setting the row to edi...

iTextSharp renders image with poor quality in PDF

Hello, I'm using iTextSharp to print a PDF document. Everything goes ok until I have to print the company logo in it. First I noticed that the logo had poor quality, but after testing with several images, I realize that was the iTextSharp rendering it poorly. The test I did to say this was to print the PDF using my code and then edit t...

How Do You Insert Large Blobs Into Oracle 10G Using System.Data.OracleClient?

Trying to insert 315K Gif files into an Oracle 10g database. Everytime I get this error "ora-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested" whe I run the stored procedure. It appears that there is a 32K limit if I use a stored procedure. I read online that this does not apply if you are doing a direct insert, but I do not ...

xml schema and vb.net

I have a xml schema file that was supplied by a vendor. At the root, the file has three main elements: Customer, ShipDate, and Items. Once I have added the XSD file to my project, I am not able to access the ShipDate attribute. I am not sure how to handle this. I tried creating a new element for the ShipDate similar to the other elements...

XPath select an attribute based on value

Using VB.Net, I have an XmlNode object, xNode. I need to select an attribute of this node if it has a particular value. e.g. xNode.SelectSingleNode(".[@attr1='1']") I would expect this statement to return the attribute "attr1", only if it has a value of "1". However, I get an error - Expression must evaluate to a node-set. When I tr...

How can I insert a variable into an XML Literals comment section and have it evaluated?

How can I get the variable My.Application.Info.Version.ToString to populate in the comments section? Dim Customers As XDocument = <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!--Application Version: <%= My.Application.Info.Version.ToString %>--> <customers>...

VB.Net 2008 IDE hanging - MSVB7.dll eating 100% CPU when editing code

Edit 1: Uninstalled & Reinstalled Edit 2: Same problem. Seriously? Yes. I am having a problem with msvb7.dll eating 50%+ cpu on my dual core system. This usually lasts 10-30 seconds or so, during which time the IDE is non-responsive. This occurs when I do pretty much anything in the text editor, and can be replicated by simply adding ...

Copy records from one MS Access database to another?

I have two MS Access databases (with identical table structures), and I'd like to use a SQL statement (programatically in VB.NET) to copy records from one to the other. Both databases are locally stored, in the same directory (and this will always be the case). Suggestions? Thanks! ...

first column value in a datatable

Hello, I have a dataset with just 1 datatable and 1 row but with 2 columns. I want to get the value of the 1st column. How can I get it in vb.net ...

Getting a set of elements using linq

I have the following piece of XML: <xml> <ObsCont xCampo="field1"> <xTexto>example1</xTexto> </ObsCont> <ObsCont xCampo="field2"> <xTexto>example2</xTexto> </ObsCont> <ObsCont xCampo="field3"> <xTexto>example3</xTexto> </ObsCont> </xml> How do I (using linq) get for example what is inside the xTexto...

Is there a way to implement Caliburn-like co-routines in VB.NET since there's no yield keyword

Note that I'm aware of other yield in vb.net questions here on SO. I'm playing around with Caliburn lately. Bunch of great stuff there, including co-routines implementation. Most of the work I'm doing is C# based, but now I'm also creating an architecture guideline for a VB.NET only shop, based on Rob's small MVVM framework. Everythin...

WPF -- How can I disable the default EditingCommands behavior on my custom richtextbox?

I want to disable the majority of the built-in functionality of the WPF Richtextbox that is found in "EditingCommands" How can I go about disabling them? ...

How do I determine if a value is an instance of a generic type, ignoring the type parameter, in vb.net?

I have a class C(Of T). I want to determine if some given value has type C, regardless of what T is. For example, I might want to determine if a value is a strongly-typed list, regardless what type of items the list stores. I just need to know how to do it in VB.net. In Java the syntax is like this: var result = obj instanceof Gen2<?>;...

Shared(Static) classes with events in C#

Here is an example of what i would do in vb: Public Class Class1 Public Shared WithEvents Something As New EventClass Public Shared Sub DoStuff() Handles Something.Test End Sub End Class Public Class EventClass Public Event Test() End Class Now how do i do this in c#. I know there is not handles clause in c# so i n...