Recent content by kjedwards

Thanks again - I'll have a good read and then try to set up something simple and build it up from there

Hi Thanks for that and I will have a look at the IO namespace. I guess that will handle the read in as well? Ideally the way I see this working is that the .txt or .html files are read in, the tags are recognised and substituted for values from a db and then the whole lot is written out...

Hi Don't really know how to categorise this request but I am looking for some kind of way to generate html files from text files that incorporating template/directives that will be auto filled by values stored in a db. It is a win forms app. To give a very crude example. File head.txt has...

Hi I am looking to develop my first app in VB.Net using objects and I have a really basic question! The app I am looking at keeps information about several categories of users - Individual, Sole Trader, Partnership, Limited Company, etc. With the exception of the Name - ie First, Last name...

Hi I have a Linux RedHat box connected to a win2k box. I have Samba set up and it looks good - I can see the required files on Linux from Windows - great However I do have a problem.... When I drag/Drop files from windows to a folder on the Linux box they copy ok BUT when I look at the copied...

Hi Thanks for that. I got it working ok. I was just unsure about which event to put the code Yours Kevin

Is there a way you can show the images in a Form? Thanks Kevin

Hi Thanks for the example - it seems to work ok Yours Kevin

Hi Thanks for the replies. Can you please give a coding example how how to use the Top Values property - I am not familiar with this. I am used to using the mySQL database and returning records in small sets is a breeze. I have linked Access via ODBC to the mySQL database. I guess there...

Hi I would be grateful if anyone can tell me if there is a way to limit the number of records returned by a query. I have a database with approx 4000 records. I wish to do a search and the print out say the first 50 records which meet the search criteria. A general search will result in about...

Hi I tried something like this and it didn't work. I have now tried - Private Sub Detail_Format(Cancel As Integer, FormatCount As Integer) Me!Pic.Picture = "c:\members\pics\" & Me![id] & ".jpg" End Sub Where Pic is an image object This seems to work ok, except in...

Hi I am very new to Access and need some help - please! I have written a query to extract data from a database and I want to use this in a report. One field is called id and holds a unique member id On my hard drive I have a directory c:\members\pics in which I hold pictures of the members...