Recent content by SteveShanks

Just a thought but is there anyway to over ride this annoying feature automatically within VB.NET so that the shortcuts always appear in the application, regardless of the XP setting? Thanks Steve

Hi I am using vb.net 2003 with framework 1.1 Thanks Steve

Hi all Is there away I can warn the user if they are opening up a new instance of my application while another is running on the same pc? Many Thanks Steve

Thanks mate...works a treat! Cheers Steve

Hi everyone Is there an easy way to fire up an instance of IE with a preferred web page from within my VB.NET app? I am aware of the AxBrowse COM control but this means having to create a form and a sort of mini viewer with the control I believe? I just want to have a direct link to my...

HI everyone I am using the standard deployment project with .NET and have it all installing as expected. Does anyone know how I can get the screen to default to 'Install for " 'Everyone' as the default option selected instead of 'Just this user' during he install? Many Thanks Steve

If I was half awake I would have realised I had a previous thread on this. Ignore me while I go back to sleep! Thanks Steve

Hi all Is there anyway to stop Excel from showing/printing the square box that it displays after you have inserted a multi line string into a cell via Excel COM object Thanks Steve

An update... It's still a problem. I have tried the same code using ODBC and same problem. As for the direc tory permsissions, I am able to browse to that directory and copy/edit/delete files from it no problem Any other thoughts? I should have noted before that the first error that comes...

Thanks, I will give it a go and see what happens with ODBC Cheers Steve

Hi The error occurs on this line dbConnection.Open() and happens everytime on this one particular machine, every other machine it is installed on works fine for all database access My original code has Try-Catch blocks that catch the error ok Thanks Steve

Hi all I have a vb.net 2003 app on v1.1 framework that runs on all computers except one. I get error E_UNEXPECTED(0x8000FFFF) No error information avilable when I try and open a connection to the Access 2000 database with OLEDB e.g ------------------------------------------- Dim dbConnection...

Thanks, I will give it a try later Cheers Steve

Hi I have an app and a .hlp file has been generated for the help system as a standard windows style help. What is the easiest way to trigger this help file from within my app? Many Thanks Steve

Brilliant Thanks! Mild panic over! Steve