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I thought it would be a straight forward API call of the shell32.dll but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to use shell32.dll to do what I need it to do. Part of this is due to the fact that I can't find any code that …

I am experimenting with sendmessage from a simple form to control the various buttons in iTunes. The problem is some sendmessages appear to work just fine and others don't. Now before we get into "do you have the right handles child windows etc." Heres whats weird, I can take my …

I've been able to write a thread into my app which basically does a loop in the background perfroming detection for a device being added or removed. works great! i am trying to implement another thread to check for a file on the found device...but i still haven't figured out …

Hello, I am using XMLReader to look thru and XML file that I have. While I have been able to play around with it and get it to pull some of the information I want, I am wondering what commands to use to do what I really want. For example, …

hey source pal out there i need your help guys. im currently working on a project called Computerized Examination System and i dont know how can i get question from database and display it in a form randomly and generate a result in terms of the ff: - no. of …

I believe I may have already posted a much longer explanation of this , but its driving me spare!!! I have several pieces of code that click buttons thru sendmessage commands, all the code works fine in Windows 7! But I put the app on WindowsXP and only some of …

Hi, I have been trying to wrap my head around how to control child windows in other applications. I have several examples of code from various sources and some of it works to control the main windows but im at a loss to figure out how to get control of …

Hi there, I am currently working on an application that prints out several labels from 2 different printers. The printers use the same 3rd party software though so currently i am just passing command line arguments to the 3rd party application to print the labels. However there is very little …

I am currently working with a vb2010 front end with access as the database. everything works for accessing the information adding information. But when I try to edit/update the contents of a row I find that the update is being applied to the first row of the table rather than …

So I created a subroutine to do some work but now i have no idea how to pass the results on to another stage in the process. [CODE] Private Sub CheckDates() Handles MyBase.Load Dim Duedate As Date = INFDateLabel1.Text Dim Duedate2 As Date = INFDateLabel2.Text Dim Duedate3 As Date = …

so perhaps someone can tell me if what i want to do is possible. i have a bunch of radio buttons which can have different text displayed depending on whats retrieved from the database. however i want to add code that hides any radio button that would have a 'zero' …

Hi, I am trying to get the value from a field in my Access DB.Once the value is retrieved I need to be able to compare it to a condition I set. I still haven't figured out the right code to make this happen....i don't know if I should convert …

Hi there, Im new to vb and i am using visual basic express 2010. i have put together a database and can do quite a lot with the app i have created. i am not very familiar with detailed programming so i have created my update query thru the dataset …