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    System.Net.Mail MailMessage - detecting email size

    Thanks for your input. My calculations on the email size was a first attempt/experiment - I will do it more rigorously (as you suggest) if there is no other way. H
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    System.Net.Mail MailMessage - detecting email size

    I have written a VB.Net program which generates emails via SmtpClient creating a mailmessage with a html formatted body with no attachments. All OK so far. However I would like to detect in the code what the size of the generated email message is - Mailmessage class doesnt seem to have a size...
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    Control to run window application in on a form

    Good point - i discovered that way of doing it just after i posted. Thanks for your input - i will tweak the program when i have a moment.
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    Control to run window application in on a form

    Just a follow-up to the previous post ... I eventually got it to work after solving a few small wrinkles ... the application i was running was expecting to be run in its own folder (to check some kind of registration / licence file) so i had to create the process then Process.StartInfo.FileName...
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    Control to run window application in on a form

    A simple windows form application written in vb.net seemed to work ok - havent got the actual program yet - it is a program that monitors & controls machinery using a dedicated panel but runs under windows. As long as the program get get a windows handle from the application then it should work...
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    Control to run window application in on a form

    On the 8th page of Google results i managed to find the answer - start the program as a process then set a panel control on the form to its parent - the example below runs windows calculator and doesnt need the sleep however when i created a .net windows app and called it instead the process...
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    Control to run window application in on a form

    Thanks Sorwen for your reply - i will describe in a bit more detail. I have been asked to create a form with buttons down the left hand side with an area on the right - depending which button is clicked different things appear on the right eg internet, display pdf document (can do those with a...
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    Control to run window application in on a form

    I am looking for a suitable control to place on my form to run a windows application (.exe) in, working in a similar way to the webbrowser object 'runs' IE inside it. I have a feeling I may be missing something obvious here. Anybody got any starting points? Is some kind of custom control the...
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    Compile Error

    If rs.RecordCount > 0 Then Checkload = True Else Checkload = False End If You will find an example of a function in the help (well it is in access 2000 the version i am using)
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    How do I user fontbold in vba e-mail from ms access

    I have found the easiest way to format email messages is to create the string as if it is a HTML document strmsg="<html><body> Hello <b>FRIEND</b> </body></html>" then set objOutlookmsg.HTMLBody = strMsg when you come to add to the message object before sending - probably need to amend your...
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    Conditional Formatting based upon the color of a cell

    As Skip said - post it on the VBA forum and let the clever people there have a look at it - if you havent done any programming it would be a start recording a macro and looking at the vba it produces - record changing the background colour of a cell - thats what the vba will have to do
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    Conditional Formatting based upon the color of a cell

    Are you still interested in solving this problem via the programming route?
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    Conditional Formatting based upon the color of a cell

    Might help if you posted the workbook you have done already. If it were my problem I would be writing some VBA to do it - because you have a relationship between the gate and the matrix via the relationship between the gate and the values - probably not something you can do via conditional...
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    Interpretation of date field in csv file by excel

    Excellent - thanks for your input
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    Interpretation of date field in csv file by excel

    Indeed - looks like the only dependable way around this on. Thanks for everybodies comments As a final parting shot csv file ... 2009-08-20,yyyy-mm-dd 2009/08/20,yyyy/mm/dd 2009-Aug-20,yyyy-mmm-dd 2009/Aug/20,yyyy/mmm/dd opened in excel ... 20/08/2009 yyyy-mm-dd 20/08/2009 yyyy/mm/dd...
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