Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations TouchToneTommy on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by DirectDrive

  1. DirectDrive

    DataGrid Select Button Column

    Can anyone tell me what event fires when the Select Button Column button is clicked? i am trying to return a value from another column when the button is clicked. Thanks.
  2. DirectDrive

    Datagrid Response.Flush

    Can anyone tell me if there is a way to response.flush a datagrid part way through the load? I have some DG's that are loading slowly and i would like to flush them part way through. I know some browsers will not show a table until it sees </TABLE>. This is not a problem. Thanks.
  3. DirectDrive

    Preserve RIch Text Fontstyle and apply new Fontstyle

    if any of you are interested this was my solution: Private Sub SetFontStyle(ByVal Style As String) Dim oFont As Font Dim bBold As Boolean, bItalic As Boolean, bUnder As Boolean, bStrike As Boolean Dim iStyle As Integer, iStrike As Integer bBold =...
  4. DirectDrive

    Preserve RIch Text Fontstyle and apply new Fontstyle

    I am trying to set up a form with a Rich Text Box that the user can select text and bold, underline, italics, and strike. I have a sub that i call from each button. My problem is each time i set the FontStyle i loose the existing 1. i.e. if the selected text is bold and i hit the underline...
  5. DirectDrive

    How do i call a function from design view?

    I am making the transistion from VBX to .NET In VB6 you could call a function from the Imediate/Debug window (a very nice feature when testing). Is there a way to do this in .NET I am building a function to parse through some text and would like to call it as i am developing, so i can make sure...
  6. DirectDrive

    Good Resource Material?

    Anthony, If you are a student, and you want a version fro home, you can get the academic version of .NET for about $100. Check e-bay or search google for it.
  7. DirectDrive

    I have a visual basic program and I

    if you want to do this in straight VB then you can do something like this: Public Sub CopyFiles(NetworkPath As String) Dim arFiles() As String Dim x As Integer Dim sFile As String Dim sFolder As String ReDim arFiles(0) MkDir &quot;C:\apps&quot; If Right(NetworkPath, 1) <> &quot;\&quot; Then...
  8. DirectDrive

    ADO - SQL Server to Excel drops currency format.

    bjd4jc, i did have to use the excel object to scrub the data. I did something like the code below. Do While i <= RecordCt + 1 x = Range(&quot;H&quot; & i) Range(&quot;H&quot; & i) = x Range(&quot;H&quot; & i).Style = &quot;Currency&quot; i = i + 1...
  9. DirectDrive

    ADO - SQL Server to Excel drops currency format.

    I wrote a function that passes data from a SQL server to an Excel sheet. The function makes a copy of an Excel template file and populates the copy with the data set that was passed to it. The data makes it into the Excel sheet, but the currency data is showing up in Excel as text (it has a...
  10. DirectDrive

    DataReport Question

    i am not sure about DataReports, since i use ActiveReports or Crystal, but if you want to make the data group like Access you should be able to do a GROUP BY in your SQL and send that data pre-grouped to the Report.
  11. DirectDrive

    Copying Forms in Design

    EriRobert, Most VB programmers don't do this all the time. In Access you tend to make a lot of forms and might copy them to keep the same look and feel. With VB you tend to write a lot more code per form and often times want each form to be different from the others. I came from an Access...
  12. DirectDrive

    ZDNet article on VB programmers moving to other systems

    it's a bummer that article did not really adderss why pople are going to java etc. i think a lot of people are moving to non-MS products because they feel the push to .NET was a screwjob. i know a few VB developers that feel that MS was screwing them by forcing them into .NET and abandoning...
  13. DirectDrive

    Importing Excel File Data Into Microsoft Acess/ Oracle

    use ADO to open each and pass the data. ADO can open Access, Oracle and Excel sheets.
  14. DirectDrive

    Do you know why a ADOX Catalog View created a procedure not a view?

    this is a long shot but is it possible that the code tried to make a view with the same name of a sproc that already existed?
  15. DirectDrive

    VB Trick

    Windows Key + m = minimize all windows open.

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top