Active window
Hey, I’m making a chat program that should give a “signal” if someone writes something, but the form is not active. So does anyone know how to get it work like if form isn’t active then e.g. it change label1 text to 1 =D

Answer Question   |  December 26, 2012  2:28 PM
Visual Basic 2008, Visual Basic program

About looping through combo boxes
I want to loop through my combo box text so that when the same phone number shows up in both of them I can get an alert

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2012  6:12 PM
Visual Basic 2008, Visual Basic commands

VB Property question
What si the data type for the Selectionstart prop?

Answer Question   |  September 27, 2012  8:15 PM
Visual Basic 2008

MS VB.NET 2008
how to copy a form from one project to another in VB.Net 2008

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2012  6:27 AM
Visual Basic 2008, Visual Basic forms

Connecting visual basic with SQL server
i want to connect visual basic with mysql server

Answer Question   |  February 27, 2012  10:14 AM
SQL Server, Visual Basic 2008

VB 2008.NET multi language program support
i am trying to find out how to code vb 2008 programs in foreign languages. and there seems to be little in the way of info on the subject any help pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Answer Question   |  October 18, 2011  9:39 PM
.NET, VB 2008, Visual Basic 2008

Adding Combo Boxes with numbers in their collection.
I have two combo boxes, each with a collection from 0 – 10. A number has been generated using the randomize() function – between 1 – 20 and is shown in a label.text. My problem involves the combo boxes not actually ‘adding up’ like numbers should. Maybe because they aren’t actually number at all, I’m [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  10:59 AM
ComboBox, Visual Basic, Visual Basic 2008, Visual Basic 2008 Express, Visual Basic 2008/2010 Express

Limiting character input in specific cells on a DataGridView in Visual Basic.
I’m making a gradebook program (for a project) but I haven’t touched VB in years. Given it is a simple language, there’s still plenty of things I don’t know about it.  At the moment I’m trying to figure out how to limit the characters a user is allowed to input in each specific cell (20) in a [...]

Answer Question   |  February 21, 2011  3:34 AM
DataGridView, VB 2008, Visual Basic, Visual Basic 2008

Visual Basic 2008 – combo box and text file. How to display relevant data
I have a text file with a hundred employees.  The text has been read in line by line. I have set up two function to getemployeename and getdepartment. I have a combo box with departments When user selects relevant department I want the corresponding names to display in a messagebox I can’t figure out how to [...]

Answer Question   |  January 10, 2011  12:33 AM
ComboBox, VB 2008, Visual Basic 2008, Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition

cannot connect vb program with sql server 2005 in local machine
the simple program of fetching the data of table through vb.net program. i am retriving the data into DatagridView . i am writing following String str for connection :  Dim str As String = ” Data Source=COMP1SQLEXPRESS ; Initial Catalog=Atuldb; User Id=COMP1comp11;Password= ” my database name is “Atuldb”, I am using SQL SERVER MGT STDIO. [...]

Answer Question   |  January 21, 2012  2:34 PM
SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Management Studio 2005, VB.NET 2008, Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic 2008

How do I delete a file that I created at run time when my program closes? VB.NET
I’m using vb 2008 express, during runtime, a temporary file is created and used, but I’d like my application to delete all the temp files when it closes, I’ve tried using:             System.IO.File.Delete(“TempFile” & i.ToString) but it keeps telling me access is denied.  How can I fix this? The files are [...]

Answer Question   |  June 7, 2010  8:34 AM
File management, Visual Basic 2008, Visual Basic 2008 Express, Windows 7

vb.net 2008 File Access
hi, i try to access the pdf file in server thru vb.net 2008 code.

Answer Question   |  May 12, 2010  3:18 AM
PDF, PDF conversion, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic 2008

Finding File Author in vb 2008
How do you find the author (creator) of a file using vb 2008? Using fileinfo does not seem to capture that info. Thanks, Steve

Answer Question   |  March 3, 2010  8:39 PM
VB, VB 2008, Visual Basic 2008

VB ?
First VB class, can someone tell me the error in this code? Dim sngNum1 As Single Dim sngNum2 As Single Dim sngSum As Single sngNum1 = txtNum1.Text sngNum2 = txtNum2.Text sngSum = sngNum1 + sngNum2 lblSum.Text = sngSum.ToString

Answer Question   |  February 23, 2010  12:24 AM
VB, VB 2008, Visual Basic, Visual Basic 2008

Can VB 6.0 be installed after installing VB 2008 ?
I installed the Visual Studio 2008 version of Visual Basic on my new Windows 7 machine.  I would now like to add Visual Basic 6.0.   Can this be done without first uninstalling Visual Studio 2008?  

Answer Question   |  March 10, 2010  4:57 PM
VB 6.0, VB Installation, Visual Basic 2008, Visual Basic Installation, Visual Studio 2008

how do i make a button with more than one use in visual basic?
i want a button to do one thing the first time i click it then do something different when i click it the second time. how do i do this?

Answer Question   |  January 2, 2010  5:21 PM
Visual Basic, Visual Basic 2008

How to check which window is focused
How can I check if the focus is on a specific window(program). For example: My program should do something only if the focus is on notepad. If the focus is on something else it should do nothing. So.. I have the PID and the image name of the progam to check… but i don’t know [...]

Answer Question   |  December 17, 2009  7:40 PM
Focus, Visual Basic, Visual Basic 2008

Toggle between check boxes
Without useing a If statement who do you write the code to toggle from one checkbox to another.

Answer Question   |  January 22, 2010  1:38 PM
Toggle buttons, Visual Basic 2008, Visual Basic developers

End of statement Expected error?
Hello All:    I am writing a program to calculate a tax rate based on a few simple income levels, but I am getting bogged down with the End of Statement error.  I have tried numerous endings except the obvious  am sure.  Can anyone offer some suggestions?  Here is what I have so far! Private [...]

Answer Question   |  August 17, 2009  2:00 AM
Developement, Visual Basic 2008, Visual Basic 2008 debugging

creating procedure for searching in oracle 8.0.6
how can i create a procedure to search records in oracle 8.0.6…i m using vb.net 2008 as frontend application

Answer Question   |  July 6, 2009  7:56 AM
Oracle 8.0.6, Oracle development, VB.NET, Visual Basic 2008