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Remove Filter  | Can anyone recommend a free flv to avi converter? There is a lot of free software out there so I have choices but can anyone recommend one that is free of trojans, viruses, malware, etc.? I've already got the DivX codec and converter but the DivX converter will not do … |
| | My wife got a VeryfitPro fitness monitor for Christmas. I have the app loaded on my Android (6) phone and was hoping to install a companion app on my Windows 10 laptop but the only thing available is to install an Android emulator on Windows 10 then load the phone …  |
| | Because Microsoft will be removing vbScript in the next version of Windows, I have been busy converting my utility vbScripts into Python. Part of this is a library of functions that I keep in `D:\include`. I'd like to maintain this system in Python, but the import process is rather clumsy. …  |
| | I have been wrestling with this for two days now and getting nowhere. Something is broken, either the GridSizer control or me. I'm hoping it's me and someone can show me the problem. I've stripped my app of non-essentials. What I am building is a Sudoku app which consists of … |
| | I'm having a problem with my python installation. The packages that came with the installation work just fine but when I try to use other installed packages I run into problems. For example, I installed a package `pymsgbox` using pip from an admin shell. When I run a sample script … |
| | After saying for the last 10 years that I would never own a cell phone (I had enough of that spending many years on call), I finally broke down and got one. It is a Figo (Speak Out) Android (Marshmallow) phone that allows me to buy a block of minutes … |
| | When I retired in 2008 after carrying a cell phone for years on standby for our control centre I swore I would never get another cell phone. I was wrong. It took ten years but I finally broke down and got a SpeakOut pay-as-you-go FiGO Ultra. It's got everything I … |
| | I have been using my HOSTS file for years to dummy out ad sites by adding entries like 127.0.0.1 www.ukbanners.com A while back I installed [Unchecky](https://unchecky.com/), a program which automatically unchecks all of those software extras that some installers like to enable by default (like McAfee). Today I noticed nthat … |
| | I have been having a problem for a few months with the video driver for my Dell laptop. The hardware/driver are from Intel. The driver from 2016-09-29 works just fine. It has a feature that I use regularly to rotate the display via hotkeys - very convenient for document reading. … |
| | I'm having issues with my TrendMicro anti-virus software where my disk activity hits 100% for 10-15 minute periods randomly throughout the day. TM tech support has made a few suggestions but in order to track their effectiveness I have to monitor my disk activity in such a way that I … |
| | When I type code directly into a post I realize that I must indent four spaces/tab in order for the text to be recognized as code. But when I insert code using the code tool I would expect (as it did in the "old" DaniWeb) the first indent to be … |
| | I thought I'd install the newest Visual Studio (2013) but all that happens is this (see below). I have all available updates installed plus the latest C++ runtimes. Does anyone have any suggestions? Attempts to get the referenced update result in downloading Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 and when I …  |
| | Dani: I've started getting duplicate notifications by email. I forwarded them to your regular email address. |
| | I have a Dell Inspiron 1720 running Windows 7 Pro. At random times throughout the day it says "boop" (a short, mellow toned beep). It is not associated with any particular action or program and doesn't seem to be a Windows sound. I've run diagnostics twice and nothing shows up. … |
| | This is just too good not to share with everyone. >The only reason coders' computers work better than non-coders' computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don't beat them when they're bad. From [Programming Sucks](http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks). A must-read. |
| | I created an app to view and tag all of my home movie files. To play back the video I embedded Windows Media Player in the form. It also allows me to add comments to videos and search based on the comments. While it is functional, I would prefer to … |
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| | Here's my current setup Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop 42" digital TV with just about every input imaginable Wired/wireless router What I want to do is stream audio/video from my laptop to the TV wirelessly. Is there a device I can connect between the router and the TV, along with software … |
| | I did an edit on [this code snippet](http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/vbnet/code/339714/simple-way-to-add-a-fade-effect) to coect the code formatting but it isn't working. What gets displayed is not what I edited. Please see the two attached snaps to compare what I edited and what is being displayed.    |
| | Freakin' awesome. Canadian men and women rock it again!  |
| | I've been having a problem for (I'm guessing) a few months that I finally resolved and I'm posting it here as a warning. The problem occurs in Outlook 2003 but may also occur in later versions. **Symptoms** I'd start composing an email in Outlook 2003 and save it to the … |
| | I posted a sample project for a user by uploading a zipped project folder. After I made the post I thought of a small change. I could edit the post but saw no way to "edit" the attachment. I was hoping to be able to delete it then upload a … |
| | I've rewritten this question a half dozen times and each time it makes less sense. In a nutshell, I want to populate a listview with large icons representing image files but I can't get them to come out unstretched. They are always stretched along the x or y axis because … |
| | Silent Circle (co-founded by Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP) has shut down its encrypted email service, Silent Mail, over fears that the NSA will force them to turn over customer data. Read the full story [here](http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/08/silent-circle-preemptively-shuts-down-encrypted-email-service-to-prevent-nsa-spying/). |
| | I haven't seen this confirmed anywhere else yet. The article starts with >According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for …  |
| | I recently had to send my laptop back to Dell for some warranty work and when I got it back it had the same problem as before it went in. I was told that they replaced the system board but I am having my doubts. I'm going to send it … |
| | Thanks to diafol for putting me wise to the imdb api. Unfortunately, due to my ignorance of all things related to web programming I am stuck. I fetch my information via the following Dim url As String = "http://mymovieapi.com/?title=@title&type=xml&plot=full&episode=0&limit=1&year=@year&yg=1&mt=M&lang=en-US&offset=&aka=simple&release=simple&business=0&tech=0" url = Replace(url, "@title", "Star+Trek") url = Replace(url, "@year", "1979") WebBrowser1.Navigate(url) … |
| | I tried to upload a sample project in zip form at 10:00 CDT today (around 150K) and all I get is **The file could not be written to disk**. |
| | It's broken again. I've completely cleared the cache and still there are no text entry/browse buttons.  |
| | I am used to seeing the categories such as Tutorials, Interviews, Code Snippets, etc at the top of the thread lists. I recently posted some code in the VB.NET forum showing how to used parameterized queries to avoid SQL injection. I wanted to categorize it as a tutorial but my …  |
| | At the time of the writing of Charles Dickens', A Christmas Carol, "scrooge" was a slang word synonymous with the word, "squeeze". And "a humbug" was a person who put on false airs as in a person who behaves as if everything is rosy when his life is anything but. … |
| | Has anyone looked at why I can't attach files to posts using FireFox? I'm currently on FireFox 16.0.2 but I had the same problem with previous versions. |
| | Anyone care to recommend a good file split/join utility? I want to use TeamViewer's file transfer feature to send files to my son in Long Island and I want to split large files into smaller chunks so that if there is an error/dropout I don't have to resend the entire … |
| | I just submitted a code snippet for the competition [here](http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/vbnet/code/428716/using-detached-recordsets-to-sort-data). I entered my description/documentation, then entered the code after clicking on "Code" and pasting in the code window. I submitted the post and was then presented with another window saying "a fully working code snippet must be entered". So I … |
| | Web Site Not Responding I was trying to go to a thread this morning (06:20 Winnipeg time) and DaniWeb wouldn't display it. All I got was >The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading. I tried several times with the same result. In order to determine … |
| | I was trying to find a code snippet so I used the advanced search with the following parameters: Query String = encryption Forum = --VB.NET Type of Article = Code Snippet It came back with "No Results" When I did a manual search of code snippets under vb.net I found … |
| | I have a form that consists of only a TableLayoutPanel (which fills the entire form) containing a vertical stack of buttons. The resulting app is used in conjunction with another app. What I would like is to have the vb app do something when the mouse enters the form. Unfortunately, … |
| | When I copy vb code from a post to try locally, pasting the code always results in the removal of blank lines. It doesn't matter if I paste into Visual Studio or TextPad. Blank lines are never maintained. If I paste into VB, indentation is recreated based on the code … |
| | You'll undoubtedly get a lot of postings on this, but none of the buttons (Bold, Italic, Code, etc) controls on the forum are doing anything. I click and nothing happens. |
| | REF: http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/vbnet/threads/422252/retrieve-and-save-to-another-excel-workbook I submitted a post recently. The post did not appear, even when I refreshed, then closed and reloaded the page. This has happened before so, fortunately, I had copied my post text to the clipboard. I submitted the post again. This time is was accepted and displayed. When … |
| | Here is a question I do not recall being addressed. In the last week I have had to completely rebuild my system. Following a lengthy install and configuration I had to look for the locatiuon of a settings file for an application (to make a backup). Being a dinosaur, I … |
| | I have a form with a TableLayoutPanel with the following properties changed from default: Dock = Fill AutoSize = True AutoSizeMode = GrowAndShrink ColumnCount = 1 Margin.All = 0 one row set to AutoSize This is a stripped-to-the-basics version of part of my app. I want to generate a vertical, … |
| | By a strange (and fortunate) coincidence, while DanaWeb was down for the upgrade I had to completely rebuiild my system due to a hard drive failure (fortunately I had warning so I had complete backups). However, I've noticed some odd behaviour since then that I don't know is the result … |
| | I would like to see a "Subscribe to Thread" feature added. There are occasions when I want to be notified if there are new postings to a thread, even when I feel I have nothing to contribute. I (generally) don't like posting unless I can make a contribution to the …  |
| | Could someone please undo the negative vote I made on [url]http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/vbnet/threads/411073[/url] I didn't intend to ding the OP and I can't see any way of undoing it myself. |
| | Could somebody please put a sticky post like [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/threads/366794"]this[/URL] at the top of the VB.NET forum? It's gotten to the point where people are now posting blocks of uncommented code and no actual question. It might help if the first thing at the top of the page was [B][COLOR="Red"]"Read This …  |
| | I've noticed an appalling number of first time posters who post threads with titles like "Help! Urgent!!!!". The posts can be almost as useless as "I'm trying to program something and I'm getting an error. What am I doing wrong?". It would seem that few people are reading and following … |
| | In the last few days I have lost the ability to render certain images on DaniWeb. For example, the icons to the left of the threads now show only as text. Likewise with the "buttons" in the edit window. Any ideas what might have caused this or how to fix …  |
| | I download a lot of articles for offline reading and archiving. When I download an article, it gets saved as AuthorFirstName AuthorLastName - title.ext Once I have read the article (assuming I want to keep it) I rename it to AuthorLastName, AuthorFirstName - title.ext I wrote a python script (swapnames.pyw) … |
| | Well, this is embarrassing. I had to completely rebuild my laptop from scratch. I usually keep 3 or 4 items pinned to the taskbar and launch them with WINKEY-1, WINKEY-2, etc but somehow or other this no longer works. I really should know how to do this but I just … |
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