thanks. will try.
bill p.

Thanks for the tip but it didn't work. The field it fails to initialize is bound to a database table. When I try it on a plain text box, it works without the .select stuff.

Any thoughts?
...

Thank you so much. I will try it.

Regards,
Bill P.

I have a datetimepicker field with properties format set to time. I can find no reference anywhere on how to set the value of the time. i.e. today at 5 pm. it either defaults to 12:00:00 or I can set...

Okay, someone explain this one. I retrieve the environment variable USERNAME and assign it to a string variable. I can even show it in a MSGBOX and it shows "Owner". In my code I want to assign the...

Thanks for your response, I did look at the connection string and it appears to have no path specified, which to me would imply the current folder, no?
Thanks,
Bill Purkins

THANK you! That was it ...

Hi,

Using VB 2008 Express with Compact SQL .sdf database.

I have a form that at form load fills the form with a single record as selected by double clicking row header on a datagrid. This...

Hi,

I am using Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition and published an application, and when I run the setup, it seems to install okay but when you run the program get an error message that the .sdf...

Thanks.

[QUOTE=jbennet;755134]Its basically the same except it has more advanced features. Speed and stability wise its the same
The features the pro version has over it:
Better database tools

YAY! I...

Hi,

I am a full time freelancer who works primarily in Visual Basic 2008 using the Express Edition. I love the fact that it is free, but I find it slow and somewhat quirky, even buggy in some...

Hi,

I recently have gone through some life changes where I have switched platforms and languages, from IBM's RPG series of languages RPG2, RPG3, RPG3, RPG-ile, of which I was on the IBM Toronto...

Hi,

I am getting a BUILD FAILED error as such:

Error 1 Comma, ')', or a valid expression continuation

referring to code:

Private Sub Crawler_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e...

Nope. Didn't work.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Best,
Bill P.

Using Visual Basic 2008 Express, this has happened to me twice now. I have emailed projects as zipped email attachments, and then when I restore them and open the project, when I click on the VIEW...

That'll work too.

try



'ADD LINE
FOR X = 1 to 45

if (x <=20 and >=25 ) then
print x

SQL Server Browser was stopped. I started it. Now I get:

An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the...

When I use

Data Source=MyData.sdf;Persist Security Info=False;Data Source=MyData.sdf;Persist Security Info=False;

I get error:
An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the...

I find my connection string saved in my application configuration file, but when I refer to it by name I get this error message:

Error 1 Reference to a non-shared member requires an object...

Martin,

I agree, and see your point, especially as I am a heads down typist and am a long suffering victim of exactly what you speak of, "STOLEN FOCUS." I never knew what to call it.

I might...

Martin,
Excellent link regarding the modal message box. Point well taken, though neither approach is perfect. In the GREEN SCREEN (egads!) world, we show a bright eye catching message at the bottom...

Martin,

But the errorhandler requires the user to position the cursor over the red ! to even see what the error is, which is also extra work, plus the error message is limited by not allowing...

Consider using a database file to store all scores. The following might work.
1) Create data dictionary SCORES using database explorer
2) Create table scores with 2 fields, NAME and SCORE, maybe...

Might you try utilizing the mid left and right functions? Hope this helps,
Bill P.

Hmm... no comments and it works, so I guess I'll just shut up. Ha.

Using VB 2008 Express, this is not a problem but a philosophical question. Which is preferred method of providing user with error messages on forms, errorhandler or message boxes? Error handler seems...

Hi, using VB 2008 Express, I have a button on a form which is to use a datareader to loop through all the records in a file. When I try to run it I get a message indicating it could not connect. I...

Thanks for your reply. That is basically what I am doing. My problem is that I want to use the value of COUNT in code, i.e.


if count = 0 then
' do something
end if


How do I refence it?

Using VB 2008, I am stumped. I have a fillby and getdataby table adapter query that does a SELECT COUNT from FILENAME where fieldname = textbox and I want to use the number of rows returned, but...

New to VB 2008, I was discouraged to Google results that said, "printing is not easy in VB," and found only baffling examples I could not understand until I found and tweaked this simple example....

In playing around, I tried filter with a wildcard on a new textbox field and it works great:



Private Sub TextBox2_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)...

Thanks, this looks like it will work. In the interim, I have another solution which I came up with and will stick with in this case, as if it ain't broke, etc...
What I did was loop through the rows...

Hi, using VB 2008, I have a datagridview bound to a datasource and want to position to a row based on the value keyed by the user in a textbox. I can sort of accomplish this with one line of code on...

Using VB 2008. I have a form with a text box and a button on it. The button displays another form with a datagridview from which I want the user to select from to populate the text box. On...

This is not a problem but a question. I am new to VB and am curious as to the "Gestalt" (temper of the times) on this in terms of general practice. I come from an AS/400 (green screen) and also...

Well, I found a way around it, but I'm not sure it makes sense. Instead of closing form2 I hide it, and the value remains in the Form1 textbox field. Is this the way to do it? It doesn't seem that...

VB2008.I have a form which has a textbox and a button on it. the button shows another form, which has a listbox bound to a datasource on it. When the user selects a list item, i have code that sets...

I am new to VB 2008 Express and have built a few simple database applications, one with two tables, oth table have a primary key and one has a secondary key which I have added a relation to the other...