Visual Basic

Delete Picture in MS Word

14-Jun-05 17:48

Basically, you need to rewrite it, from what I've been told. The reason some MVPs are asking Microsoft to still support VB6 is that they find the process of importing a VB6 app into VB.NET to be less than stable, and less than complete.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Re: .NET Porting

jonathan1515-Jun-05 3:01

jonathan15

15-Jun-05 3:01

Porting vb6 to vb.net simply isnt worth it. For a project of any real size you would need to spend weeks/months implementing the stuff that did not port and testing the stuff that LOOKS LIKE it did import. Then at best you would have an under performing vb.net application coded in the same crappy style as a vb6 application. The truth is that its applications like this that give vb.net a bad name.

The correct way to go is the following:
1. Take a good look at the vb6 app and evaluate whats good / bad about it.
2. Start from scratch in VB.net using all the nice new OO methods now available to you.

Jon

IvanChang14-Jun-05 17:22

IvanChang

14-Jun-05 17:22

i have 2 picture in my MS Word. I need to delete the second picture. Anyone knows how to delete it using vb.net??

thanks..

how to skip used mailing labels and print duplicates in vb.net with Crystal Reports?

Lisana14-Jun-05 8:17

Lisana

14-Jun-05 8:17

Is anyone know about Crystal Reports with vb? I created a mailing label in crystal reports 8.5, but I don't know how to skip used mailing labels and print duplicate. any idea?

Lisa

Using Font.strikeout

hollymax14-Jun-05 5:42

hollymax

14-Jun-05 5:42

Can anyone help. I'm trying to set the font of a label property to 'strikeout' by clicking on a command button. When I do this I get "Property Strikeout is read only". I've put in this code

Public ReadOnly Property Strikeout() As Boolean
Get

End Get
End Property

but whatever I put in between the Get & End Get statement isn't an accepted value. All MSDN info is only general not specific. This is probably simple but I just can't get passed it.

Robert Rohde14-Jun-05 3:24

Robert Rohde

14-Jun-05 3:24

You will have to create a new Font instance:

label1.Font = new Font(label1.Font, FontStyle.Strikeout)

hollymax14-Jun-05 11:56

hollymax

14-Jun-05 11:56

Thank you very much that works well. The next step is to apply the strikeout to a checkedlistbox line when it is checked. Can certainly determine if the line has been checked but need to apply strikeout to only one line at a time.

Robert Rohde14-Jun-05 19:41

Robert Rohde

14-Jun-05 19:41

This is a bit more tricky, because the CheckedListBox doesn't support this by default. First you will have make your own CheckedListBox by inheriting from the normal CheckedListBox class. Then override the OnDrawItem method and implement it the way you want.
The easiest way to implement it should be to call the base implementation and just draw a line over the whole item when it is checked. Other possibility would be to get Reflector and look into the default implementation to get a feeling for what has to be implemented.

hollymax14-Jun-05 22:59

hollymax

14-Jun-05 22:59

Thank you for the info so far. I had a quick look at creating a custom control but I'm a bit lost ( haven't had much experience with Visual Studio yet, mainly VB6). I don't have to have the strikeout, even a color change might do, as long as it is more noticable than the check box but I will try different ways.

Forcing numeric-only textboxes

Dave Kreskowiak15-Jun-05 3:34

Dave Kreskowiak

15-Jun-05 3:34

If you want the text of any item of a CheckedListBox to look different, in any way!, from the others, you'll have to ownerdraw the list items, just like Christian said.

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

Trey549814-Jun-05 2:22

Trey5498

14-Jun-05 2:22

I am currently attempting to design an easy to use Order for about 24 different pruducts using Visual Basic 6.0. I am planning on using a database to keep track of previous orders and to hold the pruduct list. However, I am having trouble toring to making the 24 different text boxes to only allow the user to enter numbers only. I have tried going through the different properties and cant figure it out. Can anyone help me with the code or provide me a link with a detailed example? Also, if anyone happens to know where I can go to get a good example of a database driven order form that allow easy changes to pruduct numbers?

Re: Forcing numeric-only textboxes

Christian Graus14-Jun-05 14:31

Re: Forcing numeric-only textboxes

14-Jun-05 14:31

Does VB6 allow you to catch the WM_CHAR message ? If so, you can check if it's a number, and ignore it if it's not.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Yulianto.14-Jun-05 17:04

Yulianto.

14-Jun-05 17:04

Public Function procNumOnly(KeyAscii) As Integer
    If ((KeyAscii < Asc("0")) Or KeyAscii > Asc("9")) _
       And (KeyAscii <> 8) And (KeyAscii <> 13) And (KeyAscii <> 46) Then
        procNumOnly = 0
    Else
        procNumOnly = KeyAscii
    End If
End Function

Private Sub txtPrice_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
    KeyAscii = procNumOnly(KeyAscii)
End Sub

<italic>Work hard, Work effectively.

Re: Forcing numeric-only textboxes

Christian Graus14-Jun-05 23:54

Free software for UI Designing

14-Jun-05 23:54

Yulianto. wrote:
And (KeyAscii <> 8) And (KeyAscii <> 13) And (KeyAscii <> 46) Then

Wow - VB6 doesn't have IsNumeric, or IsControlKey ? Assuming you're safe to use hard coded ascii values, wouldn't it be better to accept the entire control range ?

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

automating excel in vb

marclenoir200514-Jun-05 5:00

marclenoir2005

14-Jun-05 5:00

good morning guys.

i get a problem automatind excel in vb6. when i'm working with Range Property everything is alright. but each time i use with the ActiveCell or ActiveSheet in my codes, compiler return error 91; Object Not Set. Plus, i make sure that i activate the sheet i'm working with. here's some codes i use:

Wks.Activate

ActiveCell.Value="Visual Basic"
-------------------------------------

thank you for your help

misspoo2214-Jun-05 2:29

14-Jun-05 2:29

Is thr any free software available on net for designing toolbar and UI controls like button ect.;)

Christian Graus14-Jun-05 14:31

14-Jun-05 14:31

Doesn't the IDE let you do that ?

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

misspoo2214-Jun-05 17:40

14-Jun-05 17:40

IDE allows me to de it but i want some thing more attractive, like buttons and pictures on it...scrollbar grid ect. My toolbar's (application vb.net )
depend on the windows installed..io want to make it os indpendent...

Christian Graus14-Jun-05 17:43

14-Jun-05 17:43

misspoo22 wrote:
My toolbar's (application vb.net )
depend on the windows installed..io want to make it os indpendent...

You can't write an OS indepentent application in VB.NET, at least I don't think you can.

If you want your buttons, etc to be pretty, you need to write your own.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

misspoo2214-Jun-05 18:49

14-Jun-05 18:49

What abt the tools available for designing toolbar, but thr a all payed...

Christian Graus14-Jun-05 23:43

14-Jun-05 23:43

I assume the English translation is 'there are commercial tools for designing toolbars, but I want a free one'.

I have no idea what tools you mean - VS.NET will show your controls as they are, you may be thinking of commercial libraries to offer UI components that are not standard ( i.e. make your app look like Office or Visual Studio ), there are free components on this very site, but the commercial ones are obviously more extensive and better supported.

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

misspoo2215-Jun-05 0:23