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Hello,
I'm working on a program that overlays bitmaps and they require transparency.
I know I can use MakeTransparent to make a certain color transparent but it's giving very ugly results.
...

Hey,
I have a small problem with sockets (I'm new to sockets).
Below is the code I'm using.
The problem is that when the client closes, the server closes aswell. How do I stop it from doing that?...

Sorry, I think I didnt explain properly.
I want two physical buttons connected to a PC by USB or any other means.
One has the function of OK, the other of Cancel.
There is no keyboard or mouse...

Hey,
I'm wondering if there are any external buttons I can control with VB.NET.

I want a Ok and Cancel button that the user can physically press.
These are the only commands required to interact...

Hey,
I've spend ages looking into the problem, but I cant find it.

This is my page code


Protected Sub btnLogin_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnLogin.Click
...

Hey,
I want to use speech-to-text in my application, but for some reason after dictating one thing and it the Windows Speech toolbar (top of screen) goes back to "Listening" it doesnt input anything...

Hello,
I've search high and low but I can't find anything.
I want my app to be able to search Wikipedia and display the first paragraph of the article.

Can someone put me on the right track?

Fixed it.
I copied the connection string from ASP

Data Source=PC3\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog="C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT SQL SERVER\MSSQL10_50.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\ZAPFI4SQL - KOPIE -...

I am using an sql connection (pc3\sqlexpress.C:\....dbo)

But in VB.NET I have to choose a local file, it doesn't show me the servers (and corresponding available databases) like it does in ASP.
...

Hey,
I have a database is SQL Server 2008 Express.
I have added this database to an ASP.NET project, now I want to add the same database to a VB.NET project, however, when I try to set it up it...

Well, when I clicked a certain LinkButton it was supposed to create new objects in a panel, including a button.
Problem was, when the button was clicked the page got refreshed and the controls were...

Hey,

I have the following setup:
-Default.aspx
-Page1.aspx
-Page2.aspx

Default.aspx contains an iFrame, called "frame1"
Upon the loading of Default.aspx, Page1.aspx gets loaded into the...

Hey,
I decided this way was way too complicated.
So I decided to rewrite the code and now it's more effecient and there's no need for a double addHandler.

Thanks for the help anyway!

Hello,
I'm trying to get a AddHandler to work, which is already in a AddHandler.

So a button, generated by code is link to the following event:

AddHandler lblAddComment.Click, AddressOf...

Hey, I know I can set the program to require administrator privileges in the manifest file.
However, I don't need the whole program to have these privileges.

I only need admin when I want to...

Hello,

As part of a project I'm working on I'd like to display a user's wall.
I found that you can log in using this code


...

yes, thats what I used to create the file.
Thanks anyway :)

I'll just dump the stream to a temporary file and delete it when the program closes.
Thanks for letting me know.

Hello,

I'm trying to play music from a memorystream in a WMP control.
I can succesfully stream music with MediaPlayer, but this is limited to .wav and can't pause and so.


Dim mPlayer As New...

Hey,
I have two labels on my form
Label1
Label2

In the form load I generate a radiobutton for each label, with the text property being the name of the label.

So two radiobuttons are made...

I can't wrap my head around it.
Everything seems ok.

The zip file simply contains a jpg therefore I use index 0.
I tested if it could be read, so I requested the filename and it showed up fine....

Sorry, I forgot to mention I was using DotNetZip.

I tried this code, but it gives an error:

Dim ZipF As New ZipFile(ZipFile)
Dim Input As Stream
Dim Mem As...

Hey,
Is it possible to open a ZIP file and use afile, but not unpack it.

Example
MyFile.Zip
Contents:
-TextFile.txt
-MusicFile.mp3
-Image.jpg

Hey,
I'm trying to embed a form, which works, but it's under all my controls.
It should appear on top of everything.


Dim frmEmbedded As New frmLogin()
frmEmbedded.TopLevel = False
...

Okay, I figured it out

You need to have the Post New Reply page loaded in the webbrowser.
This works for vBulletin.


Public Sub PasteText(ByVal wb As WebBrowser)
elements =...

This is the lnik for this thread:
http://www.vbforums.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=3876765

I need to copy a report from a richtextbox into this field (so where you type to submit a...

Hello,
As it doesn't seem possible to make a new reply to a vBulletin thread, I'm trying something different.

A link to a New Reply page is like this...

Hello,
Is it possible to post to a certain thread on a vBulletin forum?

I have a tool to diagnose some data on one's pc and I'd like to implement a function to directly post it in a certain...

Hey,
I know I can use the Split function to split things, but that works with chars.
I want to split pieces of text by a word, namely:
[ CODE ]
(without spaces)
I tried entering that into the...

This is the complete search code


Public Class FileSearcher
Dim Dirs As Boolean
Dim SString As String
Dim FilesFound As New Specialized.StringCollection
Private Const...

I'm stuck on this line


Try
MyFiles.AddRange(IO.Directory.GetFiles(Path))
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.Message)
End Try

It says...

I tried

Dim searchResults As String() = Directory.GetFiles(cboDrives.Text, "*.exe", SearchOption.AllDirectories)
For Each File In searchResults
Try
'...

I've tried various methods to search for files, but each time I encounter a "acces denied" error, which stops the search.

Is there a way to scan for files, and skip the files it doesn't have...

Okay, I now saw it was my bad.
I had a system to convert paths, from a loaded file
Let's say the file was in


The file contained a reference to an other file.
.. means it has to go up one path...

Thanks, I kinda sorted it.
I moved the listview to the current form, I put the listbox items in an array and called the UI changes from a different sub :)

I just tried it out, working great ;)

It happens to every file after a certain amount of files.

This caused it to throw the exception immediately.

Hey,
I'm getting a strange error.
I can copy about 15 files, and then it says "Illegal characters in path".
However, I can't see any ilelgal characters.

http://i28.tinypic.com/bdh0x.jpg

To...

Hey,
I don't have muc experience with backgroundworkers, but this is basicalmly what I want it to do:
- Copy files from a list
- Add Succes/Fail to a listview
- Report Progress


Private...

I have this code

Public Shared Function IsEntryCDRM(bigfile000Name As String, entry As BigfileEntry) As Boolean
If entry.length < 4 Then
Return False
End If
Dim bigfileName As String...