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I need to be able to get the position of the mouse (or cursor) when it is outside of the program's VB form. I have tried using Cursor.Position and display the X,Y values on the form. But when the cursor leaves the boundaries of the Form, no values are returned. ( BTW, what is the difference...

I am trying to draw something on a Picturebox and save the drawing with the PB.Image.Save. But I get the shown near the end of the following code. Imports System.Drawing Imports System.Drawing.Drawing2D Imports System.Drawing.Imaging Imports System.Text Public Class Form1 Private Sub...

When I started working on a program today, suddenly the debug checkpoints (Red dot on left by linenumbers) DONT'T WORK. I am trying to find the cause of "Argument out of range exception was unhandled" error, but without the checkpoint I can't find the cause. How can I turn the debug checkpoints...

I want to use MSCHART to plot some data in a VB 2008 program. When I click on the Toolbox tab, and then right-click on the Toolbox, then click on Choose Items, the Choose Toolbox Items windows is display. But when I click on the COM Components tab, MSCHART is NOT included in the list. I have...

I am using the following code to color certain parts of the text in a RichTexbox. Private Sub SetRed() Dim I, L As Integer, S As String L = 106 For I = 2 To nStk + 2 With RTB .SelectionStart = I * L + 14 .SelectionLength =...

I can manually do a Control-A to select all the text on a WebBrowser control, and a Control-C to copy it to the clipboard. But... How can I get my VB.NET program to send AUTOMATICALLY a command (such as Control-A or Control-C) to the WebBrowser control?

I have several data files where the first 8 characters on each line is the date in YYYYMMDD format. Immediately following the date is a one-letter code. For example: 20100531P Some data 20100531n Some more data When I add these two lines to the listbox, I want them in the sequence shown in the...

I have some programs that use a webbrowser control. All were working fine...until one day I inadvertently changed something (I don't what) on the desktop and since then ALL the programs are displayed with enlarged controls and textsize. Could someone tell me what it was that I changed? (My...

I am drawing basic shapes on a Form. To draw a line (1)mouse down to start the line (2)with mouse down, drag to lengthen the line (3) mouse up. Same procedure for rectangle, circles, ellipses,etc. I am using: Dim bm As Bitmap Dim g As Graphics and bm = New Bitmap(Me.Width, Me.Height...

I just downloaded and installed DirectX SDK. That seemed to go well. But now VB2008 does not recognize "Imports Microsoft.DirectX". In the Toolbox, I right-clicked on Components and selected "Choose Items", but Microsoft.DirectX does not appear in any of the 3 lists there. How do I get my...

I am drawing a chart on a bitmap which I save as a .bmp file. I need to be able to draw a string on the bitmap which is very tiny but readable when the viewer zooms in on the chart. Using Arial with fontsize 6 is good, fontsize 5 is barely readable, and fontsize 4 is not readable at all. Is...

I have a listbox that contains many names in the form Lastname, Firstname Middlename. The list is sorted. I want to be able to type a part of a name in a textbox and the program will select the first name in the listbox that matches. For example, if the listbox contains: Baker, Larry T...

In 2005 I could set a breakpoint in the code and when the program reached the breakpoint I could click on a preceding line of code and restart execution of the program from that selected line (by hitting Ctrl-F9, I think). In 2008, how can I start execution at a line other than the breakpoint line?

I have just installed VB2008 express on a computer with XP system. When I run VB2008 and create a new application, I can edit the VB source code - but when I click on the 'Form' icon to add controls to the form, I get the message "Missing editor for file Form1. make sure the editor for file...

After I "Build" a .exe file, how can I create a desktop shortcut with an existing icon file to run the program? (I am using VB2008 Express on Vista system.)

In the IDE, when we click on a control, little squares appear around the control. (Are these called handles?) Is there any way for this type of control to be provided to the user of a program? We can always draw these squares and the dashed outline on the screen using Drawline, DrawRectangle...

I am trying to control an instance of a Notepad program which has some data in it - I want to save the data into a file. I am trying this code: Dim AllProcess() As Process = GetProcessesByName("notepad") Dim MyProcess As Process = AllProcess(0) ' use the first one found...

I have a Project with a Main form and four other Forms. I want to add a fifth Form to the Project. I tried selecting "Project" and then "Add Windows Form" which added the blank Form (called "Daily") to "Main" form. Since "Daily" already existed as a separate Project (called "DayTask"), I...

How can I open a file as FileStream in one Sub and then read bytes from the file with ReadByte in another Sub? Here is the code I'm trying: Private Sub btnGetfile_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnGetfile.Click Path = txtFilename.Text...

When my program reads a JPG file, draws some text on the picturebox, and saves the file, the saved file is not readable by MS Photo Editor. It IS readable by MS Explorer, MS Word, & PhotoImpact. When I copied the saved files to a USB thumbdrive and tried to print the pics at CVS, they were not...