Introduction In my experience I found that people starting to learn a new programming language find it hard to accomplish this by reading “complicated and sophisticated” books written by the experts that developed or helped maintain the respective language. They find easier to...

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I used below code to lock the hardware public static extern IntPtr GetCapture(); private static extern uint SHFullScreen(IntPtr hwndRequester, uint dwState); private void HideStartButton()

OK I am just starting to learn C# I have made a basic form that has 2 values input1 and input2 a button below when clicked sends the 2 text field values via URL to a PHP file on my server, what I need it to do is send the text field values automatically every so many seconds? I also need a button...

I'm currently programming in VS .NET 2005 (C++) on an XP Pro system. I seem to be having a problem where the contents of windows seem to randomly shift right and down (about 20 pixels each way) for a moment, then back to their normal location. This occurs whether or not the program is idle. The...

Hello I am using “\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight“ registry setting to set the brightness of device through my C# application. It is working fine for 38xx and 22xx series devices but it is not working for 2495 device. Again for DELL X51 device, I need to do soft reset to reflect the...

Right now I am using VS 2005 extension with .NET framework 3.0. I want to try on silverlight programming. What else I need to use the silverlight feature in VS 2005 and is everything need to be done step by step?

ok i have an Access project with a form named ''Menu'' and within that have a 'ComboBox' named "Equipment". How do I go about retrieving that 'selectedValue' through a module you can make in vb. here is what I have so far.... Option Compare Database Function runThisStuff()

Hello! Hope everyone is well. I'm trying to figure out how to code the following: I need to compare the 1st 5 characters in field1 to the 1st 5 characters in field2. If they are equal, then I need to insert the result in SecondaryName field ELSE put in Name1 field. However, the comparision has to...

is there an existing C# .chm file that can be downloaded over the net?

I am just learning VB 2008 XE. I need code to open, edit & read random access files. does anybody here have code for this purpose??

I am having two radio buttons on the page with Yes/No option and a payment received button right next to the radio buttons. First time when the page is loaded, one of the two radio buttons is selected based on the boolean type field value in the database 0 OR 1. when the user decides to change the...

I'm interested in Windows Mobile Application using C#. Is there any link where i can get most of the basic source? Thanks alot.

what does it do? is it different from C, C++, and Java? what's the difference of C++ to C++.net / C# to C#.net? thanks in advance

hello, I want people can send messages to each other on an asp .net web site without postbacks. So I am trying to find an instant messaging program for customizing it for my web site and use it on my web site. But generally products are not free. Do you know or use any instant message program...

Hi All, I have a two dimensional array of string carrying Name, Date & Amount of customers. The Names in the array are repeating; now want to collect all the distinct Names in the array and store it in another array (obviously one dimensional). I am using VB6. It may look like a stupid question,...

Hi Everyone, I have a C/C++ code and i have to convert it to vb .net and i did not create the original C/C++ program so while doing that i came across typedef which allows you to create type aliases so you can rename a type as something else now is there anything in vb .net that allows you to do...

Hi I am using VC++.Net to create the static library, however, i would like to use that static library to run in Borland C++. So I would like to ask: Can I use static library that I created from VC++.Net? Or i must do another ways. If someone has any ways that it do successfully, please tell me,...

Does anyone know how to embed text into pictures ( usually done at registration to prevent automatic registration, when a user has to type the number one sees in the picture)? Please explain the main idea or even better provide link to source code. Providing common name ( the way it is called in...

Hi all, I have a static library, but I cannot use it, so I want to change it to dynamic library. Any advice, any instructions, and nay ideas are great! Someone know please help, thanks best Regards

I'm doing a maintenance work on a website and have problem when i try to view the website on mozilla firefox . I fix all the errors in w3c(html cod) and now having problem with w3c (css) THIS IS MY PROBLEM

I was wondering.Is it safe to say vb .net is narrowing the gap on c++? vb .net provides a lot of functionality for windows api and shell programming. The intptr(pointers) type is really usefull. What does anybody think of this?Has Vb .net caught up to c++ yet?