I am trying to make Crystal Reports work with my updated .Net applications. Everything has worked well with Crystal reports and my .net 1.1 apps and then I updated my app to .Net 2.0. Now no Crystal reports run at all. I created a new .MSI as per info I got from MSN (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms227349.aspx). I removed all of the Crystal reports merge files from the setup project and then built a new .msi but that didn't solve the problem. Has anyone run into that situation and solved it or can anyone tell me what I amd doing wrong and what I should do to correct this problem? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Does anyone know how to create an IF...THEN statement in the ASP.NET datagrid HTML code. Within the code that creates the datagrid I need to display data in a cell IF a certain condition is met. And that is where the IF THEN comes in to play. I realize I could do this in Code Behind but I need to do it within the HTML code in order to allow an HTML designer to work with it also.

Can someone tell me how to loop through a string array using a FOR..NEXT or DO UNTIL loop? Public Sub Update(ByVal Product_Category As String, ByVal Percentage As Decimal, ByVal ParamArray Location_Codes() As String) End sub The above is my subroutine and I want to loop through the ParamArray Location_Codes(). So that I can then run some additional code for each item in that array. Kinda like this: For each XXXX in Location_codes() Make some decisions Next Can this be done? Thanks

I've never done it through Crystal but I did using ComponentOne Reports and I just used a font. I am at home right now, but I have the code at work and I will send it to you tomorrow and you can see if it will work for you.

Thank you. I will give it a try and get back to you.

Does anyone know how I might be able to have a VB.Net program automatically recognize that a USB drive has been plugged into a computer. File watcher is the only way I can think of but I was wondering if anyone might know of another way.

I've written some very impressive vb.net apps over the last 9 months, which is when I started to learn vb.net. I have an app that works with a web site that allows Radiologists to view images from remote Ultrasound, MRI, etc systems, and then dictate their opinions to a .wav file which is then automatically (through a webservice) copy those .wav files to a server where a transcriptionist can start Word and do the transcribing. I created a Word toolbar (using vb.net) to download the Dr's study list to Word and display it through a dropdown combobox on my Word toolbar, so the transcriptionist can select the study to transcribe. Once selected, my Word toolbar downloads a template (via a webservice) and the .wav file starts to play automatically. When the doc is done, the user presses a SAVE DOC button and the Word doc is sent to a server (via a webservice) so the doctor can review the finished document. All of this is done in vb.net. And there is far more going on in these programs than I can really list here.

Unless you have added some new components, 3rd party assemblies, etc, you don't have to do a new install. You simply replace the .exe. But even if you have added some new components, most of the time you can simply copy those .dlls, etc to the users machine along with the new vb.net .exe. I have an update site on the web that is checked by my client's app each time they start it, If a new version is available, then it (and any other supporting files) are downloaded to the client's system and they are immediately updated without uninstalling and the installing the app.

I knew some people who lived in Berlin in the 60's and 70's and they lived liked doomsday was tommorrow. They partied, drank and lived a very hedonistic existance. But after the wall came down that motivation was gone. Maybe that was part of the reason. Of course it may also be this: There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Just like statistics, surveys can show you anything you want.

French Legionnaires that are buried in foreign countries are usually buried standing up and facing France. The hole is then filled with lye so the body will decompose quicker and to keep animals from trying to dig into the hole. This also means no grass will grow where the hole was dug and therefore the gravesite will always be known. "If you find yourself wounded and lying on Afghanistan's plains, Before the women come out to carve up your remains, Roll over on your rifle and blow out your brains, And go to your God like a soldier." -- Kipling

From most of your reply's I've read on this message board you seem to be constantly looking for someone to get you "started". Let's hear what you have to say about C# being so superior. We are all bowed at your feet and waiting for you to toss all of us ignorant, unwashed masses a few precious nuggets of your infinite wisdom.

A company called Axis Communications has both video servers which you can attach a camera to and also video cameras with Pan, & Tilt which you can control through VB.net. They also have some very good sample VB.net code that shows how to do all of this. You can't use the parallel port though, but you can access them through a URL address.

I don't know if you ever got an answer you can use or if you finally figured out what to do, but if you want a form to start out invisible you set the Opacity = 0. If you want to see it again, set Opacity=100, I have an app that I start with an "invisible form" (Opacity=0) and then I have it start another program which is visible. It works fine and has lasted a long time.

The one at www.rustemsoft.com works very well but you do have to pay for it, $35.00, but it does more than just single column comboboxes. It also does multicolumn combo boxes, datepicker, button control on the grid and some others. I found a number of free, single column comboboxes when I did a web search for datagrid combobox. Actually they were projects that showed how to use the standard vb.net combo box in a datagrid.

Does the process class not work in an mdi form? I've never tried it on an MDI form, but I thought you could use process.start just about anywhere.

Yes there is.

I have a web site that displays a table of records and each line has a microphone icon on it. When the user clicks on that mic icon another web page is opened and it tells the user they may create a dictation. (We have special dictation mics running from a vb.net app that runs from the user's local machine.) We also have an image display program running at the same time and it also runs from the user's machine. The web app knows what the StudyID is but the vb.net apps don't and I need to be able to pass that StudyID to the users machine so it can be used by the image display program to find the correct images to display while the user is dictating. I wrote a "faux" activeX (dll) in vb.net that could be placed on the web site and run when the 2nd page is displayed and the studyID could be passed to it and then it would use the study ID and the Process class to cause the image display program to display the correct images, but that would require each user's machine to have the correct security manually setup in .Net Configuration and we don't want to have to do that. So I am trying to determine if there is a solution to this situation that would require very little security setup on the users machine. So basically I need a program (probably an ActiveX) that can be run from my web page but then it would start a program on my user's system using data from the web page. Does this make sense? Could this be done and if so, would it be as easily done as I think it might be. I'm looking for working suggestions, so any opinions are welcomed.

Believe me, if I figure this out there will be an article. It just doesn't seem like it should be this difficult.

I would suggest you go to this project and use it. It is a great combobox and is easy to work with. I also think it will let you do all of the things you are asking about. http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/MultiColumnFlatCombo.asp It also has a 3D setting so don't let the title fool you.

Create a class module and stick this code in it: Imports System Imports System.Data Imports System.Windows.Forms Imports System.Drawing Namespace ComboBoxCode Public Class DataGridComboBoxColumn Inherits DataGridTextBoxColumn Private _comboBox As DataGridComboBox Private _sorce As CurrencyManager Private _rowNumber As Integer Private _editing As Boolean Public Sub New(ByVal dataSource As DataView, _ ByVal displayMember As String, _ ByVal valueMember As String) _sorce = Nothing _editing = False _comboBox = New DataGridComboBox _comboBox.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList _comboBox.Visible = False _comboBox.DataSource = dataSource _comboBox.DisplayMember = displayMember _comboBox.ValueMember = valueMember AddHandler _comboBox.Leave, AddressOf _comboBox_Leave AddHandler _comboBox.SelectionChangeCommitted, _ AddressOf _comboBox_SelectionChangeCommitted End Sub Public ReadOnly Property ComboBox() As DataGridComboBox Get Return _comboBox End Get End Property Private Sub _comboBox_Leave(ByVal sender As Object, _ ByVal e As EventArgs) If _editing Then _editing = False SetColumnValueAtRow(_sorce, _rowNumber, _ _comboBox.Text) Invalidate() End If _comboBox.Visible = False AddHandler DataGridTableStyle.DataGrid.Scroll, _ AddressOf DataGrid_Scroll End Sub Private Sub DataGrid_Scroll(ByVal sender As Object, _ ByVal e As EventArgs) If _comboBox.Visible Then _comboBox.Visible = False End If End Sub Private Sub _comboBox_SelectionChangeCommitted( _ ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) _editing = True MyBase.ColumnStartedEditing(CType(sender, Control)) End Sub Protected Overrides Function GetMinimumHeight() As Integer Return _comboBox.PreferredHeight End Function Protected Overrides Sub SetDataGridInColumn( _ ByVal value As DataGrid) MyBase.SetDataGridInColumn(value) _comboBox.Parent = CType(v