VBForums - General Developer Forum http://www.vbforums.com/ Discuss issues important to developers, ask for career advice, debate over which new technology is going to take over the software scene, ponder certifications, and contemplate over the meaning of all things technical. en Sun, 19 May 2013 18:18:10 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.vbforums.com/images/misc/rss.png VBForums - General Developer Forum http://www.vbforums.com/ Weird icon behavior.... http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?722151-Weird-icon-behavior&goto=newpost Sun, 19 May 2013 09:43:11 GMT I made an icon for my program and I used http://www.icoconverter.com/ to convert my icon into a .ico file so I could use it in my program. I built the program and I got the program from my release folder and I put it on my desktop and the icon looks like this
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But, if I rename the file something like "afsadgubdgu" then the icon changes to the proper icon. HOWEVER, if I rename the program to the original name. the icon goes back to looking like this
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I AM SO CONFUSED!
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]]> General Developer Forum Flavor Flav http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?722151-Weird-icon-behavior A programming assignment. http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?722023-A-programming-assignment&goto=newpost Fri, 17 May 2013 17:32:33 GMT I have to make things fall From the sky. When they land on a line they are teleported to the top and you lose a life. I need to know how to add points to a caption when you catch them with a net. The caption is labeled "Label1" and all of the images are labeled Image1-7. They are all from a different form. ]]> General Developer Forum phantoms77 http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?722023-A-programming-assignment After a long time http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?721449-After-a-long-time&goto=newpost Mon, 13 May 2013 08:38:29 GMT Hello guys after a long time i am again here, with my new queries? Hello guys after a long time i am again here, with my new queries? ]]> General Developer Forum aleen2323 http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?721449-After-a-long-time Discussion regarding gregorian calender http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?721133-Discussion-regarding-gregorian-calender&goto=newpost Fri, 10 May 2013 08:22:10 GMT Hi
im not asking for help here, im just creating a discussion

its about the gregorian calender

i got bored one night and was thinking about the hype surrounding year 2000 worldwide system crash, and the predicted system crash coming in the year 10000.

so i was thinking about a calender project i had in a book years ago when i first started learning vb and decided to create my own gregorian calender class.

after a little research trying to find out when christ was born exactly i found it was not likely he was born on dec 25 and i decided well if the church cant even decide when he was born then basing a calender on that is pointless so i decided to find out what day was 01\01\00. just for all you guys who might want to know, the first day of the gregorian calender is sunday.

anyway with this information i found that instead of a class containing hundreds of lines of code i could find out what day, month, year, even time( although i didnt implement that, i used the leap year) with a couple of really simple functions. using modulus.

so why is it that something so simple was not and even today is not implemented in systems worldwide, i can even find the day 10000000000 days bc, find the month 25000000000 years 1 month 5 days using a simple function which is a couple of lines long.

i'm not sure if excel uses the same methods i came to make, but they use a number to calculate days and months etc.

what do you think? ]]> General Developer Forum GBeats http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?721133-Discussion-regarding-gregorian-calender Is this opening a door for hackers? http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?720947-Is-this-opening-a-door-for-hackers&goto=newpost Wed, 08 May 2013 19:00:13 GMT I'm mainly just an applications programmer where our projects are on internal servers and the user just runs the exe so I'm out of my league on this. Part of something I'm assigned to, but really am just involved in, is allowing access to some documents from outside the company. The plan is to put the PDF documents on a server the public can get to, password protect the documents, and provide the password to the people intended to see them.

In other words:

I'll send you a letter with a URL and a password in it. You'll key in the URL and it will bring up the document prompting for the password. If it matches the document will be displayed as a PDF.

I'm so out of my league on this that I don't know the right questions to ask. Is this an industry norm? I view PDFs from web sites quite a bit when surfing. Are there some security considerations to look into? ]]> General Developer Forum TysonLPrice http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?720947-Is-this-opening-a-door-for-hackers Creating a data show tool using VB6 http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?720707-Creating-a-data-show-tool-using-VB6&goto=newpost Mon, 06 May 2013 17:32:26 GMT Hi All
not sure if I am posting on the right place but I am looking to create a search tool that show me a data. Please look on below info:

I created a combobox1 that had 3 selection which is "MSN" , "RNC" and "RBS"
Next I created a text input that we can type in the site ID
last I created a button called "Get data"

And I have more than 1000 data related info:

The run will be as following:
When I select "MSN" and type in "NBU001" in the text input should get below info after hitting "get data"

Site ID=NBU0001
IP=0.0.0.0 (Or any digits)
OSS=SouthEast

Same thing with others

When I select "RNC" and type in "SBC0001" in the text input should get below info after hitting "get data"

Site ID=SBC0001
IP=1.1.1.1 (Or any digits)
OSS=Northeast

and same with NodeB


I have a list of all info required to add to the tool as excel sheet:see below example, remember I had more than 1000 line like below:

MSN NBU0001 0.0.0.0 SouthEast
RNC SBC0001 1.1.1.1 NorthEast

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My skype ID for faster help
methaq77


I really appreciate your help as I am beginner and trying to learn more and this is the first post.

My skype ID for faster help
methaq77
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]]> General Developer Forum NSS_ENGINEER http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?720707-Creating-a-data-show-tool-using-VB6 Alternative to VB.net ? http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?720461-Alternative-to-VB-net&goto=newpost Sat, 04 May 2013 07:10:26 GMT Hi everyone.

I absolutely rocked in VB6, I wrote application after application with ease. It was easy and intuitive and I could crank out the code.

So now I'm looking to learn a language more updated to the internet age. I'm trying Visual Basic 2010 but I'm simply not picking it up. I know it's called Basic but it's not, well, Basic. Looking around the net I see some people saying C# worked better for them so I'm thinking of trying that. I have some experience with the original C language (still have my copy of Kernighan and Ritchie's book) so I'm hoping I have better luck with C#.

Anybody else tried C#? Is it easier to learn?

Thanks. ]]> General Developer Forum Larry Hinklestein http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?720461-Alternative-to-VB-net Mandatory BYOD? http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?720395-Mandatory-BYOD&goto=newpost Fri, 03 May 2013 17:26:52 GMT I don't have a regular "wage slave" job myself anymore, so for most of my contract work BYOD is a given. But the majority of people actively programming for pay probably have a fairly standard full work week on the premises.


Ramifications of mandatory BYOD on workers and employers was interesting to read. Does anyone expect to run into this soon? Are you seeing it already?

Or is this more likely to be an issue for people doing entirely different kinds of work? Perhaps limited to non productive ;) occupations such as managers, administrators, handlers ("Project Managers"), and other Big Idea folks who are normally either on the phone or warming a seat in some conference room?


Another side of this coin:

Quote:
Most likely, most companies that will mandate BYOD, will restrict employee-supplied gear to a short list of phones, tablets, and notebooks. This is much the same as they did when the company was supplying the gear. It is practically impossible for IT staff to adequately support all brands and models of gear that employees will bring to work if left to their own devices. This short list of acceptable gear will require new hires to buy new equipment to qualify, even if they already own their own non-supported equivalents.
I can see people suing successfully over this kind of employment discrimination. If such specific device limitations are eventually legally eroded the "IT Boys" standing out on the loading dock smoking may end up jumping to accomodate a free-for-all device ecosystem.


As some commenters pointed out there are lots of trades where you are required to arrive with tools purchased out-of-pocket. Maybe BYOD is inevitable? ]]> General Developer Forum dilettante http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?720395-Mandatory-BYOD Deploying My Website http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?719987-Deploying-My-Website&goto=newpost Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:26:35 GMT Hi guys, I think this is the right place where I should post this topic and hope you can give me some tips, comments and suggestion as my learning.

Ok so what I'm basically want to know is how to deploy my website in actual internet domain. I don't have any experience regarding this so please bare with me if I ask the right question or not. So is there a website where I can deploy my Website and do my maintenance there? Is there any fees need to for the hosting? Is it monthly or yearly? or is there any free hosting? What I need to do? What I need to edit my website or do maintenance?

Such things I want to know hope you can help me. Thank you guys in advance. ]]> General Developer Forum aNubies http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?719987-Deploying-My-Website Adding Files to DataGridView then exporting it into excel. http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?719733-Adding-Files-to-DataGridView-then-exporting-it-into-excel&goto=newpost Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:20:31 GMT Hi I just finished my firs program and now I want to upgrade it. I need the program to take info from the text inserted and calculated and transfer it to a DataGridView. From there all the items in the DataGridView should be transferred to a excel document.
This is the code fro my program:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim num1, num2, num3, num4, num5, num6, num7, num8, product As Single, weight As Single, quantity As Single, total As Single
num1 = TextBox1.Text
num2 = TextBox2.Text
num3 = TextBox3.Text
num4 = TextBox4.Text
num5 = TextBox5.Text
num6 = Val(8.3)
num7 = Val(1000000)
num8 = Val(7.85)
weight = num1 * num2 * num3 * num8 / num7
product = num1 * num2 * num3 * num4 * num6 / num7
total = quantity * product
quantity = product * num5
MaskedTextBox1.Text = weight
MaskedTextBox2.Text = product
MaskedTextBox3.Text = quantity
MaskedTextBox1.Text = CStr(weight) + " kg"

Now when you click button 2 it should send the data too the DataGridView.
The data should be in this format:
Quantity(textbox5) Length(textbox1) x(just an x) Width(textbox2) x Thickness (textbox3) R(Currency in rand)product (maskedTextbox2) R Total(MaskedTextbox3). This Should Look Like This:

10 300x200x12 R74.70 R747.00
Then once all the items are there they should be transferred to an excel sheet in almost the same sequence.
10 300 300 12 R74.70 R747.00

Any help would be appreciated as I know basically nothing about coding. ]]> General Developer Forum Chris450 http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?719733-Adding-Files-to-DataGridView-then-exporting-it-into-excel <![CDATA[SortableBindingList<T> -- SortableBindingList(Of T)]]> http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?718731-SortableBindingList-lt-T-gt-SortableBindingList(Of-T)&goto=newpost Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:00:28 GMT I found this SortableBindingList(Of T) at the following site listed below, thought it might be on interest.

http://www.timvw.be/2007/02/22/prese...ebindinglistt/

The web site above has a C# downloadable project. I converted the C# project into a VS2010 solution (Class library for Tim's classes and a Windows form project to try it out).

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resi...GsBunPN88j8oNE ]]> General Developer Forum kevininstructor http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?718731-SortableBindingList-lt-T-gt-SortableBindingList(Of-T) OpenXML Wrapper library for C# (and easy to convert to VB.NET) for Excel 2007 up http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?718699-OpenXML-Wrapper-library-for-C-(and-easy-to-convert-to-VB-NET)-for-Excel-2007-up&goto=newpost Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:42:39 GMT *Project Description* ClosedXML makes it easier for developers to create Excel 2007/2010 files. It provides a nice object oriented way to manipulate the files (similar to VBA) without dealing with the hassles of XML Documents. It can be used by any .NET language like C# and Visual Basic (VB). * Home http://closedxml.codeplex.com/ * Caveats: read thru the documentation and issue tracker to see if this library is right for you Project Description

ClosedXML makes it easier for developers to create Excel 2007/2010 files. It provides a nice object oriented way to manipulate the files (similar to VBA) without dealing with the hassles of XML Documents. It can be used by any .NET language like C# and Visual Basic (VB).

]]> General Developer Forum kevininstructor http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?718699-OpenXML-Wrapper-library-for-C-(and-easy-to-convert-to-VB-NET)-for-Excel-2007-up