toomutch

Hi, Having a real trouble getting a form to launch, which has previously worked. I have a series of buttons set up on a menu screen, each button launches a different form in the same project. For each 'click' event there are two lines of code: a DIM statement to …

HI, We used to have a Win 7 Pro pc running as a file server in our small office - 4 or 5 client PC's attached, all running Windows variants. This was fine, but after 5 years I decided to replace the file server before problems started developing. This is …

Hi All, The problem I have is that the port on my laptop NIC is meant to have gigabit capability, but I am only connecting at 100.0Mbps and I don't know where the bottleneck is. My Cat 5 ethernet cable connects my laptop to the RJ45 wall socket. The cable …

Hi, I have a menu strip with a dropdown in which the user can select (check/uncheck) from a list of 6 options. Slightly annoying feature is that after the user checks one item, the dropdown closes so they then have to click the menu to open the dropdown before they …

Hi, I have a dgv displaying records from an SQL database. On load, the dgv is filled, the dgv selection cleared and the 'action' buttons set to enabled=false. When the user selects a row (cellclick action) the 'action' buttons are enabled. When the action button is clicked the dgv is …

Hi all, As title, need to connect a home worker to our LAN in the office. We need to him to connect his PC (running Win 7) to the office File Server PC (folder shares on a windows 7 PC) and to a mySQL database running on a second Windows …

Hi All, I have a DOS batch script file that is scheduled to run hourly, to move any PDF files from a bunch of folders, and put them in one folder. When I view the target folder in Windows Explorer, all of the PDF files have a padlock icon on …

Hi All, My boss has an Asus K53e laptop running pre-installed Windows 7 Home premium. This connects wirelessley to the router at work, and also to his router at home. When ever ANY USB device is plugged in (printer, iPhone, memory stick etc), or is unplugged from the laptop, a …

Hi, I have a hotswap sata drive that I use for backups on a PC running Ubuntu 12.04LTS. When I insert the drive it shows correctly on the desktop and I can double click the icon to show the contents of the device. I want to write a script to …

Hi All, Have written a script file as follows: mysqldump -u xxx -pxxx dbase1 > backup.sql DATETIME=`date +%Y-%m-%d--%H-%M-%S` mv backup.sql /home/user01/dumps/Backup_${DATETIME}.sql read -p "Backup Complete. Press a Enter to exit" If I run the script by typing it's name at a terminal prompt it runs fine, but if I use …

Hi, I have a PC running Windows 8. Every time it boots up it tries to 'Scan and repair disk errors on C:' but never gets above 0% - i.e. it hangs at the very start of the process. The 'circle' icon rotates so it is not that the whole …

Hi All, I have a 128GB SSD that I use daily for off-site backups from our server. How many times can I expect to insert / remove it from the hot-swap drive bay before the connectors wear out? According to the SATA spec, the expected durability is 50 'matings' for …

I have a PC with 2 GB of RAM as 2x 1 GB RAM Chips. Now, I want to add more RAM, can I just add 1x 2 GB RAM Chip.? I have 4 RAM slots on my motherboard. Thank You..!!

Hi All, I am trying to store a link to a document in a mysql database using VB.NET. I open a file browser for the user to select the file, and if I output the returned filename to a messagebox it looks fine, but when I write that filename string …

Hi All, I have a home-built PC running W7 pro with a Sata drive as the primary drive, and a second PATA drive for general file storage. This has been running fine for a couple of years. I have recently installed a hot swap sata drive bay into the pc, …

Am interested in developing a mobile app for work - want to send our engineers some job details to the calendar on their mobile device, then have them 'tick a box' when it is complete and log an entry back to the server in the office. I've been doing some …

Following on from my post yesterday (how to anchor buttons/controls to various sides of the current form when the form is resized) I have run into another problem. I am setting the width of my datagrid to be 80% of the form width on a 'form resize' event with 10% …

Hi All, I would like my 'quit' button to appear in the bottom right hand corner of my menu screen, but it seems that every computer in the office has a different sized screen, different size ration (some are widescreen), and different resolution. When I deploy my program, the quit …

Hi All, Don't know if this is the right forum for this query, but couldn't find anything more suitable. I have written a new app in VB.net as a front end to a mySQL database held on a PC on the LAN running Windows XP. This worked fine for a …

Hi All, I need to show a map, plotting addresses that are held on a sql database. Has any one come across any software suitable for this task (i.e. can be built into vb.net). I have tried using MS MapPoint, which according to the write up says it will do …

Hey i am just a little confused. I am creating a system where customers order items and i have just realized that i cannot add more than one item per order how do i get around this i am using sql and vb thanks

Hi all, What seems like a fairly straightforward process has got me stumped! How do I show a MapPoint map on a VB Net form? I have MapPoint 2011 (Europe) installed on my dev pc, and have added the references "Microsoft MapPoint 18.0 Object Library (Europe)" and "Microsoft MapPoint Utilities …

hi every one i am trying to save data from vb.net form in sql server 2008 below is the code which i am using but the only problem is . i am not getting any error instead the data which is being saved in sql server in my First Name …

Hi all, my current project shows a single page tabcontrol with a datagridview. I read names from a mysql table, and create an additional tab page for each person (there's only ever going to be half a dozen or so, so it should be manageable). I want to duplicate the …

Hi all, Having problems with null dates in a mysql table. Have eventually found out that I can store a 'null' date in mysql as "0000-00-00" and I can run the 'insert' command to add a record to the mysql table. When I check on mysql workbench I can see …

Hi All, I have a vb net program that shows a datagridview which pulls data from a mySQL database. When the user clicks on a row (I am checking for a 'cellclick' event), a text box is filled with data from a hidden column in the datagridview. This works fine …

Hi Coders, Once again I feel I need your help/assistance. I have been trawling the net and forums for a simple way of automatically updating a newer version of my application from a network share. Everything I have read pertains to an update from a web site. This is possibly …