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ok i think i have an idea of where you're coming from. quick question. in vb6 theres'
a vbbackspace option. is there any similar option for v.net

Thanks for the prompt reply wes. i'll be quite honest, your reply confused me. Like i said earlier i'm a new vb.net user. I'm just trying to put together some simple script. You're obviously a...

hi guys, i'm not sure it the subject for this post is right but i'll try.

basically i have a piece of code i need to delete the last characters in a textbox. this is what i have so far:



...

i figured it out. i was loading the wrong form. thank you so much for your help!

Using frm = New Form2()
frm.ShowDialog()
End Using

just keeps bringing up the original form.

Let me explain, i have a form with a dropdown.box with form2 as an item
i need to Load form2...

hi guys. i have a quick question. I have a form with a command button that when i click i want to load a new form. it was easy in vb6 but i can't figure it out in vb.net

I'd love some help with...

sorry wes4dbt, i'm new to this. what you gave me works. What i had written did nothing. there were no error messages it just didn't do anything

nothing happens., i just tried

TextBox1.Focus()
TextBox1.SelectionStart = TextBox1.SelectionStart + 1
TextBox1.SelectionLength = 1

but that failed too!

ok..... I tried TextBox1.SelectionStart(0, 1)
but that doesn;t work

yes wes!!! is it possible to highlight the first character?

hi! i'm trying to select the first character in a textbox. is this doable?

Thank you wes4dbt!! That's EXACTLY what i was looking for. I have a related question again using the string

abcedfg@hijkmnnop@qrstuvwxyz

now that i can trim everything before the first @ is it...

Thanks plausiblydamp. I tried looking at the links you gave me but to be honest i didn't quite understand it. Today is my first day to use vb.net I'll keep trying. Thanks again for your help. Love...

hi. I have a question. I have a form with a textbox which contains a line of text like this

abcdefg@hijklmnop.

Is it possible to use Ltrim to remove everything up to the @ symbol I've googled...

Hi. I'm messing about with a pet project. Part of it requires that I set a dword value to 1. I've tried looking it up but all the answers are vague and to be quite honest non-descript. Can anyone...

Hi! Quick question, I'm trying to set a reg key for Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run but i keep getting an error message saying access is denied. I read...

I know this command sorts this error:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
but how do i issue the command?

OK now I'm getting a security issue:

Errors:
-------
C:\mountiso.ps1 : File C:\mountiso.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system. For more
information, see...

Never mind i figured it out! I'm still getting error messages but I'll figure them out!

When I copy and paste your solution i get the following error:
179002
Can you help me out?

would you believe but I already came across that but to be honest it's a bit above my head, i was hoping for something a little more newbie friendly.

Hi! I'm having quite a bit of trouble running powershell scripts through vb.net. Here's what I have so far:


Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo() ' initialize processstartinfo (psi)
...

Hi! I'm a relative newbie so please bare with me.

I'm trying to run multiple commands from a vb form.

Here's what I have


Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo() ' initialize processstartinfo...

Got it!

Console.Beep(900, 3000)

Hi! I'm not sure if i'm in the right forum but I'm going to ask anyway.

I was wondering if it's possible to play a tone in vb.net like you could in the original basic programming language. I want...

Sorry Paul! I was using the wrong colour, your solution worked perfectly. Thanks!

Hi Paul!
I tried that


but I can't click on the icons below the form, if you get me?

Hey people! Can anyone help me out. I'm trying to put together a simple form where the form itself is transparent but the controls are visible and the desktop shortcuts beneath the form can still be...

got it

Hi whats the simplest way to kill a running process?
I've tried


Dim proc() as process = nothing
proc = Process.GetProcessesByName("mytestfile.exe")
For i As Integer = 0 To proc.Count - 1...

got it


PSI.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Maximized

Hi! Quick question that I hope someone can answer.
Basically I have a bit of code which when runs opens a cmd window. What I'm wondering is would it be possible to run the cmd window minimimzed?
...

jmcilhinney Thanks so so much! It's people like you that make forums like this so good!

Thank you a million times!

Hi!
I'm trying to run the following command from a VB project:


adb shell "service call iphonesubinfo 1 | toybox cut -d \"'\" -f2 | toybox grep -Eo '[0-9]' | toybox xargs | toybox sed 's/\...

Thats perfect Si_The_geek! Thanks a million!

Came up with this. Seems to be working:

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
TextBox2.Text = "2019/07/10"
Dim a As String
...

Hi! Trying to put together an app that will give me a popup message if the current date goes beyond a certain point? I've been messing around with it but I'm going nowhere fast.
Thanks
TheYikes

I know the user will be prompted to run it as it's being run as admin but I just don't want the final cmd window to be displayed....... If you get me?

Hey again! I'm trying to figure out how to run the following as hidden:


Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo() ' Initialize ProcessStartInfo (psi)

psi.Verb = "runas" ' runas = Run As...

Hi! This is a real newbie question but I'm trying to do an infinite loop.

Say for example i want to issue a command repeatedly until the program is closed.

I'd appreciate any help.
Thanks...