Visual Basic

Vimalsoft(Pty) Ltd19-Feb-09 21:18

19-Feb-09 21:18

In 1994 i used think how will the Computing world be in 2010. I lived in times of VS2002, VS2003, VS2005, VS2008 and there is VS2010 Comming and to my suprise there are still people using VB6.

VB6 is dead wake up

Vuyiswa Maseko,

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations.... They now need more and more expensive clerks even though they call them "Developers" or "Programmers."

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Brian W King20-Feb-09 9:55

Brian W King

20-Feb-09 9:55

Try this MSDN article out. ListView Class[^]It has some sample code in it for you. Pretty straight forward stuff.

Dave Kreskowiak20-Feb-09 10:22

Dave Kreskowiak

20-Feb-09 10:22

Yeah, but he's using VB6, not VB.NET.

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How to End Process That Shows in Task Manager

Samir Ibrahim20-Feb-09 21:42

Samir Ibrahim

20-Feb-09 21:42

saprva wrote:
i have to add items in list view from a string variable 'filename'

You mean, you have a variable FileName, and this variable contain one value like
FileName = "Somthing"
and you want to add the content of FileName which is 1 word to list view?

Me.ListView1.ListItems.Add , , FileName

Try to get a book or Press F1 or Search google.

Samir R. Ibrahim

Transparent Video

Daniel Galvez19-Feb-09 11:46

Daniel Galvez

19-Feb-09 11:46

Hi!!

Im tryingo to make a transparent video, i mean i want to add the fade effect to a panel where im playing a video with directx.

its like a video mixer or mix two videos with some kind of effect.

Im working on Vb.net. Thanks.

Spell Checking

Ocean4719-Feb-09 11:20

Ocean47

19-Feb-09 11:20

Is there a tool or application to spell check a vb.net application

Re: Spell Checking

EliottA19-Feb-09 12:16

EliottA

19-Feb-09 12:16

Copy and paste it into word lol?

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dan!sh 19-Feb-09 18:16

dan!sh

19-Feb-09 18:16

Yes[^].

Although you can make one of your own.

The word "politics" describes the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures."

जय हिंद

Mike Naughton19-Feb-09 11:05

Mike Naughton

19-Feb-09 11:05

I'm pretty new to coding to the Win32 API, so this may be a newbie question:

I've got an application writen in VB6 that opens a PDF document in Adobe Acrobat Reader with the /p switch, so that it shows the print dialog window. When the user clicks "ok", I want the document to print and Acrobat Reader to close.

I open Acrobat Reader using the Shell command, and I close it by sending WM_CLOSE messages to the process (following examples I found online).

This all worked fine when I was using Acrobat Reader version 7, but I recently upgraded to version 9, and now I'm finding that the task manager shows AcroRd32 running even after all the windows have closed. This is a problem, since if the user tries to print a second document, a new window doesn't open and no print dialog window appears.

I can get the process id, and I've tried using TerminateProcess to end it, using code:

lngResult = TerminateProcess(lngProcessId, 0&)

This returns a zero, which I understand means that an error has occurred, but GetLastError also returns a zero, which seems to mean no error was trapped.

Can anyone help me understand what's going on, or what I'm missing here? Thanks very much for your help!

Vimalsoft(Pty) Ltd20-Feb-09 1:00

20-Feb-09 1:00

see this

http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article191.aspx[^][^]

Hope it Helps

Mike Naughton23-Feb-09 11:37

Mike Naughton

23-Feb-09 11:37

Thanks Vuyiswa, but that solution uses dot net, and I'm using VB6.

For those interested, I did find a solution:

Private Const PROCESS_TERMINATE = 1
Dim lProcessHandle As Long, lResult As Long, lMyProcessID as Long

lProcessHandle = OpenProcess(PROCESS_TERMINATE, True, lMyProcessID )
lResult = TerminateProcess(lProcessHandle, 0&)

which seems to work. I think my problem was that I was trying to send TerminateProcess lMyProcessID instead of lProcessHandle ...

Vimalsoft(Pty) Ltd23-Feb-09 19:23

23-Feb-09 19:23

Welcome, Did you consider moving to .NET ?

Mike Naughton24-Feb-09 3:20

Mike Naughton

24-Feb-09 3:20

I have considered it, but I am not primarily a VB programmer. I spend most of my time in the Notes/Domino web world -- LotusScript, JavaScript, HTML, and some of the rest on the iSeries (RPG). The VB apps we have are just oddball little things -- this one prints a PDF file automatically from an RPG program -- and since I'm reasonably comfortable in VB6 that's what I did it in.

I've heard that moving to .NET is a big learning curve, so up to now I've stayed away from it ...

Vimalsoft(Pty) Ltd24-Feb-09 4:09

How to put date and time?

24-Feb-09 4:09

Then when you get Stuck you wont get help Smile | :)

ShayanTanwir19-Feb-09 6:04

19-Feb-09 6:04

Hello once again guys.
I used this coding for the showing of date and time. this is supposed to appear when i press a command button named "new record".

text1=date

text2=time

But this doesn't work! Any better one for time and date?

Dave Kreskowiak19-Feb-09 6:07

Dave Kreskowiak

19-Feb-09 6:07

How about DateTime.Now()?

Dim currentTime As DateTime = DateTime.Now()

TextBox1.Text = currentTime.ToShortDateString()
TextBox2.Text = currentTime.ToShortTimeString()

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ShayanTanwir19-Feb-09 6:10

19-Feb-09 6:10

Well, i don't know much but does this show the current time on your computer in a textbox?
Thankyou

Dave Kreskowiak19-Feb-09 6:15

Dave Kreskowiak

19-Feb-09 6:15

Did you try it???

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ShayanTanwir19-Feb-09 6:15

19-Feb-09 6:15

Well, i tried it but it is giving a compile error: syntax error and this gets highlighted Frown | :(

Dim currentTime As DateTime = DateTime.Now()

What could the problem be?
Thankyou!

Jay Royall19-Feb-09 6:18

Jay Royall

19-Feb-09 6:18

I think you're using VB6, that is the problem.

ShayanTanwir19-Feb-09 6:21

19-Feb-09 6:21

you are right. i am using vb6. is there any better way of doing this?
Regards Sigh | :sigh:

Jay Royall19-Feb-09 6:25

Jay Royall

19-Feb-09 6:25

I've never used VB6 but I have used Google Smile | :)

Take a look at this http://www.vb6.us/tutorials/date-time-functions-visual-basic[^]

riced19-Feb-09 6:27

riced

19-Feb-09 6:27

Use VB.Net? If I remember correctly there is a Date type in VB and you just need to do something like:

Dim myDate as Date
myDate = Now()

I could be wrong it's over 5 years since I last used VB6 and my memory's not what it was.
If you are using VB6 then my suggestion (for your previous question) to use the ErrorProvider won't help you (it's a VB.Net control).

Regards
David R

Luc Pattyn19-Feb-09 6:28

Luc Pattyn

19-Feb-09 6:28

ShayanTanwir wrote:
is there any better way of doing this?

yes there is.

For one, choose a modern language. VB6 is 20 years old and obsolete; today's Basic is called VB.NET

Once you are sure about the language choice, learn it in a decent way: follow a course, or buy and study a book (a physical book, not an e-book, and no I am not recommending any particular one, go browse some in a book store).

Then read some of the articles here on CodeProject and start experimenting.
Don't try and do it without good fundamentals, it does not work.

Smile | :)

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