Our application uses a custom DataAccessLayer class almost exclusively, and within that we do use Data Access Application Block (currently version 2). We are getting the infamous "GetOrdinal" error sporadically. We are not using out-of-method connections. We are using DAAB version 2. Below is a typical example of our DAL methods: Pu...
I'm having issues with returning a list of strings of the .Value of a Linq query: Dim details = <Details> <Vector size="5"> <Item>Syntactic Structures</Item> <Item>Introduction</Item> <Item>The Independence of Grammar</Item> ...
How do I convert the following? I'm porting a vb 6 app to vb .net. Public Property Get Width() As Long Width = m_lWidth End Property Public Property Let Width(ByVal value As Long) m_lWidth = value End Property Public Property Get Height() As Long Height = m_lHeight End Property Public Property Let Height(ByVal value As Long) ...
I'm playing around with an idea(never played with TypeDescriptors before), and managed to get it to work nicely. But I'm concerned about some "best practice" decisions I made during my little experiment. I use a CustomTypeDescriptor, that receives an event from its PropertyDescriptors indicating that the values are changing or being que...
I'm trying to migrate from an Access db to a MySql and don't have much experience with the latter. I wrote some sample code to write data that works one way, but not another and I'm not seeing the difference. Basically, the way that WORKS connects to the MySql database, extracts a dataset, creates a new row of data, adds it to the datas...
We have an VB.net application that is being moved from one box to another. It runs great on the old box. The new box is configured the same as the old one but is on newer hardware. When I run the application on the new server it complains that the adobe toolkit that we use can not be found. The error message is. Compiler Error Message...
How could I create a bitmap which is initially completely transparent. I would then like to do some drawing to it, like g.drawImage() and then I would like to save it as a png. How could I do this? Thanks ...
The application I support is creating an amalgamted Word document by copying couple of Word documents in one document right after each other. The problem is the format of the some of the fields of the document that gets appended is changed in amalgamated document while the amalgamated document is the copy of AppendDocument (imagine if w...
I have made an application that can render and save a given element. With windowElements .Add("statusBar", _ VisualStyleElement.Window.CloseButton.Normal) 'need each element End With 'calculate rect Dim heightMinusFrame As Integer = _ ClientRectangle.Height - frameThickness ' Calculate...
I am working with a SQL data source that has duplicate data in multiple tables. I have no control over the database. For my project, I've created an EF model and an ADO.NET data service (using VS 2008) that exposes it. I also have a .NET client application that consumes the service. Now, these db tables have a large number of fields co...
I'm trying to figure out how to add an enumeration to an object with Linq. For example: Dim thingBlock = <Things> <Thing Name="Ish"> <SmallThing>Jibber</SmallThing> <SmallThing>Jabber</SmallThing> </Thing> <Thing Name="U...
hello, i am doing an project it needs office word as a part of it and is it is possible to add office word in my vb.net 2008 application ..please explain with example... ...
My new office project is based on an MVP design and is in VB.NET (.NET 3.5), using multiple libraries (like EntLib, internal corporate framework, etc.). The number of DLLs used as references is so huge (almost 50) that when I try to build/debug the application in VS2008, it takes almost 3-4 minutes to get the website running successfully...
I know VB is still very popular, but does Microsoft put the same effort into developing VB as they do for C#? Will VB eventually fade away? ...
I'm trying to find a simple way of checking user stats via FTP, wininet seems to be the best option. How do I get the output from the command though? Private Declare Function InternetCloseHandle Lib "wininet.dll" (ByVal HINet As Integer) As Integer Private Declare Function InternetOpen Lib "wininet.dll" Alias "InternetOpenA" (ByVal sAge...
Is it possible to use variables like <%=person.LastName %> in XML string this way? XElement letters = new XElement("Letters"); XElement xperson = XElement.Parse("<Table><Row><Cell><Text> <Segment>Dear <%=person.Title%> <%=person.FirstName%> <%=person.LastName%>, </Segment></Text></Cell></Row>..."); foreach (Person person in pers...
Hello; I am trying to create an app that will perform actions on specific times (much like the Windows Task Scheduler). I am currently using Process.Start() to lunch the file (or exe) required by the task. I am initiating a process by calling a file (an .mp3) and the process starts WMP (since it is the default application), so far so g...
In the past few weeks, to speed up our database freshening process, I've created a couple of extra programs, basically copies of the exe file. The program itself, accesses web pages, images etc and uses threads to do so. The second program uses LIMIT 300,100 and the third LIMIT 600,100, to make sure they don't work on the same records. ...
If I use "using" construct, I know that the object gets automatically disposed. What happens if a statement inside an "using" construct raises an exception. Is the "using" object still disposed? If so, when? ...
hello, how can i add the tinyMCE editor in my vb.net desktop application ..please explain ...