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Re: Connecting to Access Database on remote server

Dave Kreskowiak14-Jan-07 18:26

Dave Kreskowiak

14-Jan-07 18:26

Did you password protect your Access database or enable workgroup security in it?

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Re: Connecting to Access Database on remote server

fatali815-Jan-07 3:53

fatali8

15-Jan-07 3:53

I did a while ago, but I wasn't able to get connection strings to work with it so I removed them.

Re: Connecting to Access Database on remote server

Dave Kreskowiak15-Jan-07 5:29

Dave Kreskowiak

15-Jan-07 5:29

fatali8 wrote:
so I removed them.

Something got missed because that's where the security failure is comming from.

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Re: Connecting to Access Database on remote server

fatali815-Jan-07 5:40

fatali8

15-Jan-07 5:40

No, I got them all. I figured out what happened. For some reason my connection to the server got messed up somehow.. I could Remote Desktop to it, but I couldn't map any shared drives/folders and I couldn't access any of my previously mapped drives. I've had it happen before, and I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the fact that when I turn off my PC I Hibernate it, mainly because I have work open and don't want to wait for them to all open up again. As well as that, I missed a part in my connection string that had username and password information from when I was trying to connect to a DB with a DB password. That kind of mistake makes you want to say "idiot" doesn't it? lol.

Anyway, now after a restart I got it to work. Thanks for all the help. I got more help from you than I did in all of the other 4-5 forums I've asked in combined. From now on I'll just come here when I need to ask a question. Again, thanks.

Simple question on text?

rudemusik14-Jan-07 6:59

rudemusik

14-Jan-07 6:59

Hello All!

I have two forms in a project. vb.net. I just want to take the value from 1 textbox on a form, and put it in a string in another from.
My code.

 Public Sub frmGoodLuck_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load<br />
        Dim MainFrm As New Mainfrm<br />
<br />
        lblGoodLuck.Text = ("$" & MainFrm.txtTblID.Text.ToString & " has been added. & Good Luck!!")<br />
<br />
    End Sub<br />
End Class

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks! Rudy

Re: Simple question on text?

MatrixCoder14-Jan-07 8:01

MatrixCoder

14-Jan-07 8:01

2 quick questions. Did you get an error message? And does the label txtTblID exist on MainFrm?

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Re: Simple question on text?

rudemusik14-Jan-07 9:23

rudemusik

14-Jan-07 9:23

Hi Matrix!

No error. and lblTblID does exsisit on Mainfrm.

Thanks!

Rudy Big Grin | :-D

Re: Simple question on text?

MatrixCoder14-Jan-07 11:17

MatrixCoder

14-Jan-07 11:17

Well, I'm not sure what the problem is. But here are a few steps that might fix it:

1. Make sure that there's pre or otherwise set text in txtTblID.
2. Try saving your text to a variable, then reading the variable from your label.

And, what exactly happens when you try to set text to your label? Is the label just blank?

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Re: Simple question on text?

Christian Graus14-Jan-07 11:58

Christian Graus

14-Jan-07 11:58

It's blank, because he's getting his value from a newly created instance of the form.

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Re: Simple question on text?

Guffa14-Jan-07 11:39

Guffa

14-Jan-07 11:39

You are creating a new instance of the Mainfrm class. That instance will work independently from the one that already exists.

You have to use a reference to the form that already exists in order to access it's controls.

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Re: Simple question on text?

rudemusik14-Jan-07 12:33

rudemusik

14-Jan-07 12:33

Hi Guffa!

Could you give me a quick example.

1) myMainfrm.Show()
myMainfrm.GetTblID(Me) NAME OF FORM <"loggonfrm">

2)Public Sub GetTblID(ByVal TblID As Loginfrm)
txtTblID.Text = TblID.txtTableid.Text
End Sub NAME OF FORM<"Mainfrm">

Something like this?

Thanks!
Rudy

Re: Simple question on text?

Christian Graus14-Jan-07 12:36

Christian Graus

14-Jan-07 12:36

No - do NOT do this. Do NOT make your form elements public.

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Re: Simple question on text?

Christian Graus14-Jan-07 11:57

Christian Graus

14-Jan-07 11:57

Well, your whole approach is wrong, your controls should not be made public. Instead, expose a property called TblId, or whatever.

rudemusik wrote:
Dim MainFrm As New Mainfrm

This is your problem. You're creating a new MainFrm instance, which as no text on it. It's a different instance to the one that contains the text you want. You could get around this with a static property, or you can set up delegates to pass the info. It looks to me in this instance that you should either pass the value of the text to a constructor, or set a property that sets the GoodLuck label on this form, as MainFrm is obviously the class creating this one, and as you're handling the load event, it's obvious you want to set the text when the form opens.

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Re: Simple question on text?

rudemusik14-Jan-07 18:08

rudemusik

14-Jan-07 18:08

Thanks Chris!

I see where my problem is. So what are some of the reasons I don't want to use Public? I never gave it much thought. What harm could it do?

Thanks!

Rudy Smile | :)

Re: Simple question on text?

Christian Graus14-Jan-07 18:18

Christian Graus

14-Jan-07 18:18

It's just bad practise. The whole point of OO is to write objects that hide their inner workings. Expose only what you need to, which in this case, is a string, not a textbox.

IT's not that your program won't work, just that it's better to form good habits.

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communication between forms

klakero14-Jan-07 3:51

klakero

14-Jan-07 3:51

i'm using VB 2003, i want to make form with a button that open another form and in do some processes, and close the form, but i want my first form to know when it's done so i can do another process.
anyone have any ideas on how to do it ?

Re: communication between forms

Colin Angus Mackay14-Jan-07 3:58

Colin Angus Mackay

14-Jan-07 3:58

You can read this article on passing data between forms[^]

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To attach to a Com+ Application

tamasu14-Jan-07 3:08

tamasu

14-Jan-07 3:08

How can I make my application attach to multiple com application? I would like to provide a list of com applications installed on the user's pc.

For this reason I can't create a reference to the com object during runtime. It should be dynamic as per user selection. It could be an Excel, Word or other com application.

Summary

1) To get a list of all com applications available on the user's pc

2) To create a reference dynamical to what the user chose.

Thanks

some Components it's location is changing by themselfs vb.net 2005

kindman_nb13-Jan-07 16:24

kindman_nb

13-Jan-07 16:24

Hi ..
It's funny problem that the components of the form is changing it's location by themselfs ,
I'm wondered D'Oh! | :doh:

jooooo

Re: some Components it's location is changing by themselfs vb.net 2005

nlarson1113-Jan-07 17:19

nlarson11

13-Jan-07 17:19

Have you changed the property of the "anchor"?

Re: some Components it's location is changing by themselfs vb.net 2005

kindman_nb13-Jan-07 17:49

kindman_nb

13-Jan-07 17:49

Yes I changed it ,
Is any problem on that .?

thanks for reply Rose | [Rose]

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Re: some Components it's location is changing by themselfs vb.net 2005

Christian Graus13-Jan-07 18:12

Christian Graus

13-Jan-07 18:12

What did you think it did ? It moves the control.

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Re: some Components it's location is changing by themselfs vb.net 2005

kindman_nb13-Jan-07 18:16

kindman_nb

13-Jan-07 18:16

I think that Anchor propery is keep a constante distanse between a certain aidge of the form , like Top:Left ,,
I think that is useful on resizing the form ,,
it's it ,,,
if that is true then why the location of components is changing but themselfes ,, really Confused | :confused:

jooooo

Re: some Components it's location is changing by themselfs vb.net 2005

nlarson1114-Jan-07 4:27

nlarson11

14-Jan-07 4:27

you are correct. the anchor will also resize the control if you have both either off the opposite sides of the anchor set top/bottom or left/right.

if you have the windowstate set to maximize in design time, when you run the app, it could possibly move the controls depending on how you have the anchor set. if you have everything set as top/left (default) then none of the controls should be moved around...

Re: some Components it's location is changing by themselfs vb.net 2005

kindman_nb14-Jan-07 16:53

kindman_nb

14-Jan-07 16:53

Thanks for reply
I mean that the controls is changeing it's location at design time not at run time ,,

on every time I open the project I found that the location of controls is cahnged , on every time I found that the items is go to the right and bottom may be 2 point , on my project I'm using some components whick is designed by some friends like panels ,,
I'm installing vb.net 2005 service pack 1 ,
and the prlblem is still ,,

Really it's a thing make me wondered Confused | :confused:

jooooo

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