VS 2008 keyboard controlling arduino rc car with UDP packets (VB 2008)
Hi, this is my first post on these forums. Doing a college project where we control an rc car wired into an Arduino over the network from a computer. It's been brilliant doing this project and all the...
View ArticleBasic confusion over using classes...
Sigh... VB newbie here. I have a form that successfully uses a class I made (AddLabel) that created label objects on that form. It is launched by a button on THAT form. Works great. However, I have a...
View ArticleVS 2010 some kind of tooltip with opacity
I have a regular form and if a certain condition comes up I want to pop up a small form/tooltip/message to the user. My first thought was to do a borderless form and have its opacity set to 80% and...
View ArticleVS 2010 Problem with HTTPWebRequest VS2010 Ultimate
Hello, I'm new at this forum, I signed up because I have a question :D I'm creating a program that automatically login to a game, and selects the server, but after I logged in, I don't know how to...
View ArticleVS 2008 Cannot star app. with Process.Start ?
I am able to start all other apps with this code except this one. I have double check the spelling look for spaces and still getting an error ' Open Failed ! ' . Can anyone think what could be the...
View ArticleVS 2010 Auto crop-out white space surrounding an image in a PDF file using...
I'm looking for an automatic way to crop out the white space surrounding an image in a PDF document. I often write papers using Latex for which the images are saved as individual .pdf files. However,...
View Article[VS 2010] Problems with Telnet Emulation
Hello, I have been trying to write something in VB.net 2010 that would allow me to log into several fiber channel switches over a telnet connection and perform some commands. After doing some research,...
View ArticleVS 2010 Make VB Correctly Output Foreign Characters
I have realized, just recently, that when you type a foreign character (i.e., ñ) it comes out as either a diamond with a question mark or a blank square. My application will receive information from a...
View ArticleError: Resources.resources !
Hi, Where should I look to find where this error is ? Quote: Error 1 The item "obj\x86\Debug\Pirate2.Resources.resources" was specified more than once in the "Resources" parameter. Duplicate items are...
View ArticleVS 2010 WaitforExit - need help to add
Hi need to add a WAITFOREXIT to my code before it can move on, my code; Code: Public Class Form1 Dim file_name As String = "./Start/PostInstall.txt" Dim stream_reader As New...
View ArticleHow to convert a date in a textbox to a date in vb 2010
This can't be this hard but here's my problem I have a date in a TextBox in this format "03081960". I need to convert the date in the textbox into a date format to use in a DateDiff instruction. The...
View ArticleVS 2010 Number Guessing Game?
So I need to generate a new random number after its completed and I've already gotten the number to be correct and clear the form but I don't get how to create a new random number because whenever I...
View ArticleProgram Setup Screens
When a program first installs, it sometimes goes through multiple screens/pages with prompts & requests for configuration. Ex: Screen 1: Step 1 of 4 Screen 2: Step 2 of 4 Screen 3: Step 3 of 4...
View ArticleVS 2010 Visual Basic 2010 Error (Visual Studio 2010)
I get the following error message when I run the code I have included below "Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM" {"Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM...
View ArticleVS 2010 [RESOLVED] Problem with datareader
I have a login form which is connected to a database, and i currently have a data reader to make sure that i enter the correct username and password, by using this code: Dim dr As OleDbDataReader Try...
View ArticleKeypress Event not firing
I currently have a form with a panel on it and then 100 pictureboxes inside the panel. I was using the keydown event to 'move' my map, which worked. I was doing something like this: vb.net Code:...
View ArticleVS 2010 [RESOLVED] Fix Excel late binding errors
This code is straight from Microsoft's pages Code: Dim oExcel As Object Dim oBook As Object Dim oSheet As Object 'Start a new workbook in Excel. oExcel =...
View ArticleRunning a VB compiled .exe silently
Rookie here :) Hoping someone might be able to assist. Long story, however, the short of it is that I need to delete a file using a compiled .exe. I've done a fair amount of VB scripting over the...
View ArticleVS 2010 Checking values in a Do Loop
I have written code for a class. The code works as written, but I am trying to enhance it by verifying the results of an Integer.TryParse. I can't figure out how to do either an If...Then...Else or...
View ArticleVS 2010 Extracting Image from Larger Image
Hi everyone. I'm having trouble with the below function that i wrote. It is supposed to extract a new bitmap (of the specified size) from the supplied bitmap and return it. But the problem is, every...
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