Visual Basic

11-Apr-07 10:53

Zaegra wrote:
is there no simple way in VB.NET to compare images

What the other guys said, plus, what you wrote above is the only way in VB.NET, and it's slow.

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SQL SERVER

Socheat.Net10-Apr-07 22:43

Socheat.Net

10-Apr-07 22:43

I currently using Visual Studio.Net 2005, I want to create database for SQL but I don't have tool, so please anyone give me address to download it.

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Re: SQL SERVER

Colin Angus Mackay10-Apr-07 22:49

Colin Angus Mackay

10-Apr-07 22:49

If you put SQL Server 2005 download[^] in to a search engine the first hit will be what you are looking for.

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Re: SQL SERVER

_mubashir10-Apr-07 22:49

_mubashir

10-Apr-07 22:49

go and buy a cd for Ms SQL server 2000/2005

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Re: SQL SERVER

Christian Graus10-Apr-07 22:52

10-Apr-07 22:52

This means one of two things:

1 - I can't work out how to use google
2 - I'm asking for help in stealing software

If 1, it's pretty simple. If 2, we're not going to help you. SQL Express is free, and easy to find online. SS2005 is not free, and you need to buy it.

Help with reports

Jats_4ru10-Apr-07 22:08

Jats_4ru

10-Apr-07 22:08

Hi,

I am working with a project where there is a need of report generation.

I had developed the report in crystal reports.
All the data is view properly but the only problem is images.

Images i am accepting the data through richtextbox.rtf into the data base and displaying the data back to crystal report using the data object with setting the property o display rtf data.

But it only loads the text data from the database but not the images between the text.

Any help would be great...

Thankx

Jats

Re: Help with reports

Dave Kreskowiak11-Apr-07 4:54

again stumped with arraylists

11-Apr-07 4:54

You might want to ask this question with BusinessObjects support. I don't know if CrystalReports supports inline images in RTF fields.

[EDIT]
Well, my Google-Fu has failed me but briefly. CrystalReports doesn't support any image tags in RTF data. You can find more on it here[^].

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srikanthdevsql10-Apr-07 21:58

srikanthdevsql

10-Apr-07 21:58

This is the code:
1.Dim mm As ArrayList = New ArrayList
2.Dim i As Integer
3. For i = 0 To intTotParam - 1
mm.Add(arrInputFileData(arrPosition(i)))
Next
4. Dim ss As String() = mm.Item(0)
5. MessageBox.Show(ss(0))

I am getting the error "Specified cast is not valid" at line 4.
Actually i need to sort the arraylist and find the largest element.
Retrieving the strings that has been added in the arraylists is of primary importance in my project and needed at many places.
Please help me out

Zaegra10-Apr-07 22:04

Zaegra

10-Apr-07 22:04

You can't convert an object to a string just like that.
Try converting it to string format first.

srikanthdevsql10-Apr-07 22:09

srikanthdevsql

10-Apr-07 22:09

can you give me the code
for converting the object to string format
and displaying in message box

Christian Graus10-Apr-07 22:37

Re: to string cannot be used

10-Apr-07 22:37

This is why arraylist totally sucks. You can't use VB.NET 2.0 ?

object has a ToString() method, that's the best way to convert to string.

to string cannot be used

srikanthdevsql10-Apr-07 23:52

srikanthdevsql

10-Apr-07 23:52

I tried the following
Dim ob as object
for each ob in tempArray
dim m as string
m=ob Frown | :(

next
if ob had ToString Method it should have shown...but it only has to
GetType method.
Seems there is no way to retrieve strings from the arraylists Frown | :(

_mubashir11-Apr-07 1:37

_mubashir

11-Apr-07 1:37

Try Cstr(ob)

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Re: to string cannot be used

Christian Graus11-Apr-07 2:00

11-Apr-07 2:00

EVERYTHING in .NET has a ToString() method. It's guarenteed.

srikanth_nair wrote:
Seems there is no way to retrieve strings from the arraylists

Rubbish. If it's a string, you can cast it to string. The issue is, the ArrayList is nasty, it stores objects, ToString would not crash, no matter what the object is.

Dave Kreskowiak11-Apr-07 4:48

Comparing images using the GetPixel method

11-Apr-07 4:48

srikanth_nair wrote:
Dim ss As String() = mm.Item(0)

It doesn't work because you tried to convert an object (you didn't say what was stored in arrPosition()), stored in element 0, to an Array of Strings as specified by your String() declaration.

I believe it should have been:

Dim ss As String = mm.Item(0).ToString()

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Microsoft MVP
Visual Developer - Visual Basic
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database and VB.Net

Mshapis10-Apr-07 21:57

Mshapis

10-Apr-07 21:57

How do you validate users input against access database using select statement on vb.net.

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Re: database and VB.Net

Colin Angus Mackay10-Apr-07 22:17

Colin Angus Mackay

10-Apr-07 22:17

It depends how the data is structured.

Zaegra10-Apr-07 21:56

Zaegra

10-Apr-07 21:56

hello,
i have 2 images, both loaded into pictreboxes. Now, i want to compare the pixels using System.Drawing.Bitmap.GetPixel, but i don't know how to do this i tried several things like a for.. next but that didnt work so can someone please give me a code snippet on how to compare 2 images using the GetPixel method??
Thanks in advance, Zaegra

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Re: Comparing images using the GetPixel method

Christian Graus10-Apr-07 22:39

how to play Url through window media player

10-Apr-07 22:39

You need a nested loop to compare the x and y directions. You need to post your code for us to understand where you're failing in what is a pretty straightforward task.

onrivman10-Apr-07 21:41

onrivman

10-Apr-07 21:41

I have encorporated Window media Player in my Vb.net Project. I am getting the different different Urls and want to play through my media player. But I am not able to play these Urls through media player.Please help me .

I am storing the url in string like str
and then giving the command

windowmedia1.url=str
but it is not playing anything

namita

Re: how to play Url through window media player

Dave Kreskowiak11-Apr-07 4:46

Prevent Certain EXE program from running

11-Apr-07 4:46

I don't use MediaPlayer at all, but it would appear that you have to set the URL property, then call the Play method of the CtrlControls collection.

myPlayer.URL = "some URL..."
myPlayer.Ctlcontrols.play()

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP
Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007

chitzdacs10-Apr-07 21:38

chitzdacs

10-Apr-07 21:38

Guys,
Does anyone here can help me to create a utility program in vb6 that will prevent certain exe program from running? Can anyone give me code snippets.

Thanks!
Chito

Re: Prevent Certain EXE program from running

Christian Graus10-Apr-07 22:39

Re: Prevent Certain EXE program from running

10-Apr-07 22:39

That's physically not possible. How would you hope it would work ? If it were possible, VB6 isn't going to do it.

Dave Kreskowiak11-Apr-07 4:41