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I'm looking to find the most efficient way to handle (what I could consider) to be large amounts of temporary data in VB.NET.

I'm looking to store 300,000 strings of data, each string can have up...

http://www.josscrowcroft.com/demos/motioncaptcha/

:D Superb. What do you guys think to it?

Hello All,

I was having a debate with a colleague today re: best practice when it comes to handling connections to online databases.
Imagine a situation like this:


We connect to the...

I cannot even see the basis of your argument. I hate having to get anal like this but i'm not going to be spoken to like that. The description in the forum states; " or anything to do with VB .NET...

Hello All,

The title says it all really. Looking to shell out $399 on Mono but really reticent to do this if it isn't up to the job. How often have you encountered problems with it? Is it...

I've been dealing with quite a difficult software problem all day and was looking at various options.
I have come to the conclusion that there is something better than breakpoints, stack tracing...

Fair point. This is part of what I am trying to establish. I cannot work out how to send a HTTP request asynchronously and receive back a response.

My application stores data which needs sending to a server. However, if a phone is in a bad coverage area or temporarily does not have internet access, I need to know about it so that the data can be...

I've been trying to work on this using various online sources for about 6 hours and can't get my head around it.

I'm building a Windows 8 phone application using VS2012 and simply trying to send a...

An annoying problem.

I am looping through a HTML email flyer, iterating the images in the HTML document, uploading these images to a server and then using the setattribute() method to rewrite the...

Thanks Joacim,

I've been reading into this and wrongly believed that ASP.net was a language unto itself. I think i'll start to teach myself how to use it. Extremely relieved quite honestly that...

I have had to have a serious discussion with myself today regarding my future career and choice of programming language. Being self-employed, I am most often asked to develop cloud-based systems....

Afternoon All,

I have a niggly difficulty that I could do with some guidance on. Basically, I have a report which I am showing in a report viewer - no problem. I am also passing parameters to that...

Thanks for your reply.

The difficulty I am having is that certain elements of the form have a fixed left / top location and I have no idea how to have that changed dependent on the screen...

Having a bit of a nightmare with my application. I have developed my application in 1366 x 768. When moving onto other resolutions, the form looks totally wrong. Is there a way to have the...

Great, thanks. In this case, I am using a REST API and so need to carefully structure my GET headers with API keys / handshake details etc. Thanks for your help!

Thanks for your help cicatrix, is this class able to support the sending of header data?

Okay, i've tried httpwebrequest, webclient, and a couple of others methods; using the headers parameter of each to set headers and then either opening a response stream or simply setting the...

This SQL query is throwing up an error. It is pretty obvious what I am trying to achieve. Any ideas? I'm quite new to conditional SQL queries.

IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM bank_data WHERE ContactID =...

I'm not 100% sure what you are asking for, this may be of use.



Dim sepstrings() as string
Dim stringname as string = ""
Dim substring as string = ""
Dim newstring as string = ""
...

A quick one for you. Is there any way to push the left padding on a multi-line text box to the left to be in line with the left justified padding on a single line text box? It is frustrating as it...

Cheers Matt. Great help.
I really should become versed in LINQ.

Simple one really. I'm more than happy to do this manually but I was wondering whether or not there are any nifty in-built .net methods that can essentially return either the number of occurrences of...

I shout positive discrimination. Which I hate.

Set up 25 lists then? This really isn't rocket science mate.
Can't have 25 lists per account? Set up more accounts?

Everyday should feel like a Friday for a software developer namrekka! ;)

I for one am totally fed up with them. ;)

Just an update. After a play around I just solved this. :)
Basically, when Thread 1 is finished doing its work, I have it close the form itself. Thanks for your help.

Dick,

Thanks for getting back.

I'm using two separate threads one for the loading form and one for the main form as the main form thread activity causes the animated GIF on the loading form to...

Okay, so here is the difficulty. I have a main form on which there are controls I need to manipulate. This manipulation is quite resource intensive for a few seconds as it makes call to API's of...

Is ptColor set to anything before the loop begins?
If not ptColor = Panel1.BackColor will equate to Null = Panel1.BackColor which will equal false causing the do while loop to not even fire at all....

A really simple problem here but one that I can't see to get my head around.
I have an MS report created in VS as an embedded resource within my application. I have a form with a report viewer on...

Hello,

I have decided to go down the MAPI / CDO or Winsock route in my application. Sending emails is easy enough. However, I need to retrieve and display emails.

The slight twist in the tail...

Hello,

I have searched far and wide to try to work out how to implement a few seemingly simple things using VB.net 2010 within a particular application I am writing. I am trying to:


Read...

We write software. We don't understand sexuality or social relationships. We are only just human. ;) (and that is debateable in some cases)

Why computers are like men:

In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
They have a lot of data, but are still clueless.
They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the...

Unless I have grossly misunderstood, you are pretty much there. Try this on for size.

http://pastebin.com/7F0U41mF

(If you need to enter values through text boxes on a form. Try something like...

Not quite your standard engine but give this a try.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Thanks Gents. I'll probably do a bit of a hybrid jobby between these two solutions. :)

Just a quick one really folks. Has anyone come across any VB.net control that acts similarly to a kind of slide out panel. I'm thinking a form in which there is a little tab at the side which can be...