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Hi, I need to parse a float from a textbox that may be formatted like "150000" or like "150.000,00"--Dutch Locale. If I use parseFloat on "150.000,00" what I get is 150. What I need is 150000. Using Locale in parsing would be good, but parseFloat doesn't take Locale as a parameter. Does...

Hi, I have a asp:image control in one of my user controls and it loads a source depending on the page it is on. The image control is in a table cell, in a single-row table that has its width set to 950. The source of the image control is also always 950 pixels wide. Whatever I try, asp.net...

Hi, My Windows application has a startup object defined in the properties of its project. This startup object has a public constructor that has a simple singleton implementation. The application has been running fine for almost a year. Right now I'm in the middle of changing database-access...

Hi, In the ItemDataBound event of my datagrid, I want to change the text on the select ButtonColumn for some rows, depending on the value of some of the cells in that row. The text I want to put on the ButtonColumn is not always the same and also depends on those same values; basically it will...

Hi, I need to connect to a mysql database with the mysql connector from mysql.com. My webserver admin has given me a logon name and password to connect to the database, and for some reason there's a period in the logon name: "hoorspelfabriek.nl" When I try to connect, I get the error message...

Hi, I have a connectionstring in my configfile which points to a local (Access) database. When I initialize my connection, I read the string from the config file. This works fine. However, I want to change the data source to a database that's in the application folder. I thought I'd do this by...

I need to copy & paste text to and from the clipboard, but there is no clipboard class that I can find for the pocket pc (e.g. system.windows.forms.clipboard). How do I do this? __________________ code is enduring

Hi, I cannot figure out why there is an "ArgumentNullException" error for the following code. I get the error on the line that adds the first child's value to the listbox. The listbox is there. Dim objXMLDocument As New XmlDocument Dim objXMLRootElement As XmlElement...

I have an application that resides in the system tray and checks every so often whether pop3 servers have received new mail via a winsock control. The only way to exit this appllication is to right click the icon and select 'Exit'. This works without a problem in the IDE, but when run as a...

Hi, i am currently reading Tyson Gill's "Error Coding & Layering" for Visual Basic 6 and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with his model of VB development... what he says seems to make sense and I'm wondering if anyone with hands-one experience agrees with that. Thanks in advance...

Hello, I have a rich text box with a play manuscript, and in a separate window the structure of the manuscript in a treeview (acts and scenes). In the RTF I show one scene at a time, so if the actor learning his lines wants to see the next scene he or she has to select that scene in the...

Before I get into the entire situation, let me ask first if anyone has seen a scrollbar behaving this way: when I re-calculate values for .max, sometimes my scrollbar completely disappears without any chance of reappearing again. When I resize the form (and with that the scrollbar) the...

Hi, is there a (simple) way to determine how many lines there are in a rich text box that has multiline set to true and only one fontsize (though it may have some styles like bold and italic)? If I use the RichTextBox.TextHeight property, it seems to return the number of paragraphs *...

Hi, is there any parameter or property that holds the date of the last compile-run? If I were to compile my application on December 8th, it would say something like '12-08-2003', and if I compile a newer version on December 10th it would automatically change to '12-10-2003', so that it's...

Hi, when i try to put an Inet component on my form, the ide tells me "license information for this component not found. you do not have an appropriate license to use this functionality in the design environment." I can add the component, though. I am using vb6 enterprise--but I'm not...