Recent content by smanny

I am starting to move up in my VB programming and would like to have my application go to the System Tray (near the clock) when minimized. Users could then use a right-click on the icon to bring up a menu. Examples of such types of things - AOL IM, Trillian, etc. Any information would be helpful...

I tried the EID dProvider dll and connected! :) Locally anyway. I was also able to do an INSERT. Can't seem to get a remote connection to work for some reason. Anyway, I am curious why your code didn't work. If you have an thoughts, drop me a message. Thanks! - Shane

With your code, I get the following error: An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in system.data.dll Additional information: An OLE DB Provider was not specified in the ConnectionString. An example would be, 'Provider=SQLOLEDB;'. As you can tell I am a total...

Need additional help. How can you test to see if the connection to the db was successful or not? Any advice would be appreciated.

Kris, I gave you a star for that one. Your code and the links you provided are what I need I think. Best information I have found yet. Thanks! If I need more information, I will more specific where I am getting stuck. For now, I just needed a frame of reference on where to even begin. I think...

Thanks for the link! Looks interesting, but unfortunately I have NO idea how to use it. :) I am looking into it, but would appreciate additional information. Thanks again! - Shane

I am writing a desktop application that needs to connect to a linux machine running mySQL. I basically want to be able to add data to a table. Any assistance would be appreciated. I have a ton of tidbits on how to do this, but no complete pictures. Anyone who has done this, I could use some...