VB.NET

acrobat distiller
Dear all, I have vb.net program which export excel to pdf format. I am using acrobat distiller but find the problem in the below statement. dim ddt as new ACRODISTXLib.PdfDistiller ddt.filetopdf("tempfilename.xls", "C:\PDF", "") In first time, it works but when run again, it cannot convert to pdf. Do you know... 27 Jun 2008 05:59

getting the total RGB value
I would like to get the total rgb value, but this does not seem to work. Can anybody help me find the values as integers? playerRGB = (Me.BackColor.Red + Me.BackColor.Green + Me.BackColor.Blue) Thanks -- Jeff Ciaccio Physics and AP Physics Teacher Sprayberry High School; Marietta, GA Blog: http://sprayb... 28 Jun 2008 09:37

Turning a radio button into a toggle button
I would like to create a toggle button, so I chose a radio and set its apperance to button. Is seems my method always makes this .checked = false. Can somebody help me to see the error in my ways? I'm guessing that I just need an event that triggers before it actually changes the value of the button. Pr... 26 Jun 2008 23:53

Mapping or Imaging Control for Hotspots
Does anyone know of a component where a end user can import a picture and then draw out hotspots on that image but then be able to save the sizes and locations of those hotspots relative to their location and size on the image? I need the end users to be able to define these hotspots and then be able to link th... 26 Jun 2008 14:38

Need help with reports
I want to create reports and I don't care if I use crystal reports or vb.net reports. I am using vb.net 2005 and the app pulls data from user created access db's and compact 2005 sdf's. Here is where things get a bit tricky for me. I don't want to open any datasets to create my reports. All of the data I need is ... 30 Jun 2008 20:58

Delegates for VB
I don't think there are delegates for VB as there is for C#. Why is that and are they planning to add this? This seems to be the only thing that VB doesn't have that C# does. Thanks, Tom ... 27 Jun 2008 08:02

"Inheriting" from a structure (or macros)?
Hello all... I have a method which returns a KeyValuePair(Of Long, String). I would like to make an alias for that, so instead of typing KeyValuePair(Of Long, String) everywhere I could just type my alias instead. First I thought inheritance, ... Structure MyPair Inherits KeyValuePair(Of Long, String), but ... 26 Jun 2008 23:53

How can I get the time of the last input event (key and mouse activity) in VISTA?
Works fine here. The ugly sample code below was quickly hacked together from pinvoke.net. It has been tested on XP SP3 and Vista x64. The question is whether you are running this as a normal application or as a service. The latter might cause some problems, according to discussions on the web. Regards, Jo... 26 Jun 2008 11:32

Maintaining Activer Directory
Does anyone know if there is an idiots guide to maintaining Active Directory using VB.NET. I have found bits and pieces about ldap_add, ldap_modify etc on the web but I could do with more hand holding. -- Derek ... 26 Jun 2008 09:27

detecting mouse click in MCI window
Hi all, I have a window that displays video. The video is shown by using a wrapper provided by the kind folks at http://www.mentalis.org/. The way the wrapper work is by calling MCI API (Multimedia Control Interface) to open a child window within my window. Now what I want is to capture click event in the chil... 26 Jun 2008 07:24