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    Shortcut to program flashes when double-clicked but then nothing happens.

    Just to add to the above. We have several local users who run the programs from their PC and none are having this issue. It is only happening on the Terminal Servers. Also, I created a bat file to run the program in compatibility mode for XPSP2 and that didn't work (XPSP2 was the...
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    Shortcut to program flashes when double-clicked but then nothing happens.

    I have a few programs that users from outside of our company access via Terminal Server. We have a shortcut on their desktop to the Setup.exe where I compile the program when I make changes so that they are always running the latest version. On Monday, all of the users on those servers are...
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    Managing subscriptions for Office 365 Merger

    We have several affiliates that are on Office 365 currently with their own account but would like to consolidate their accounts into our primary account. There's quite a bit of online support regarding migration tools and methods but I don't see anything regarding the subscription costs. What...
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    Server Advice

    My company recently invested in 2 NAS drives to use as file servers for roughly 2TB of data. One is the primary server and the other we use for backing up the data from the first. This was done by my IT person a month or so before he left and I now have a new IT person in his place. We've had...
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    Users unable to view Public Calendars

    We recently converted to Office 365 and copied our public calendars across to a public calendar in Exchange 2013. We granted permissions to all users who should be able to see it. Our users working from within the domain can see these calendars but those using OWA or any user using the...
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    Problem using Stored Procedure with report

    I've got a vb.net program that opens a report that is linked to a MS SQL stored procedure. The program & report work fine on the production machine but when run on a typical user's machine they get an error message states something like "Procedure or function 'spccsSpiffSheet' expects...
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    Deleting Multiple Columns in Excel via macro

    I've got a spreadsheet template where I want the user to be able to click on a button and have it delete a series of columns. Something Columns "A:D", "F:G", "K:M" etc. I tried the following code which deleted the first series but not the next. Any help would be appreciated. Sub...
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    Handling "box" characters in a string

    Just tried it and get the same error. Conversions from type 'DBNull' to type 'String' is not valid.
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    Handling "box" characters in a string

    I'm trying to put together a program that allows a user to copy data from Excel and then paste it into a datagrid in VB.net. The problem I'm running into is that there is a field where users have typed something in which causes a box in the text field (I'm assuming it's a 'return'). This field...
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    PDF files on a webbrowser object

    I've got a simple document viewing program that lists a group of files in a folder (mostly PDF's) and when the user clicks on a file in the list it shows on a webbrowser object. I want to put in a utility to delete the file but I keep getting an error message (only on the PDF files) that "the...
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    Removing permissions to see a file list

    I'm trying to create a program that will add directories and assign permissions to those directories based on who the directory belongs to. The root directories all have no files in them and I don't mind if a user browses to the final directory in an extension but I only want them to be able to...
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    Error trying to set directory permissions

    I found the issue. The variable given to the sub didn't have a type assigned to it. I changed "Private Sub userperm(ByVal userid)" to "Private Sub userperm(ByVal userid as String) " and it worked.
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    Error trying to set directory permissions

    I tried to replicate some code I found on the web regarding setting directory permissions but am having an error. The code is below and all of the code inside the parenthesis of "folderacl.AccessRule(".... to the ")" at the end is underlined as error. Private Sub userperm(ByVal userid)...
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    Sort Datagridview by multiple columns

    I have a detached datagrid that gets populated through a SQL statement but then gets manipulated by the end user who will changes some of the column values and delete some rows. In the end I need to sort that datagrid by 3 of the columns before processing the data in it. Nevermind just...
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    Issues with [ and ] in data

    Very nice. Thanks

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