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  1. SteveShanks

    Weird! - Keyboard shortcuts disappear

    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
  2. SteveShanks

    Multiple Instance of same app - warning

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

    Multiple Instance of same app - warning

    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
  4. SteveShanks

    Automating Internet Explorer

    Thanks mate...works a treat! Cheers Steve
  5. SteveShanks

    Automating Internet Explorer

    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...
  6. SteveShanks

    VB.NET Deployment

    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
  7. SteveShanks

    Control Chars in Excel

    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
  8. SteveShanks

    Control Chars in Excel

    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
  9. SteveShanks

    ADO.NET - Error: E_UNEXPECTED(0x8000FFFF)

    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...
  10. SteveShanks

    ADO.NET - Error: E_UNEXPECTED(0x8000FFFF)

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

    ADO.NET - Error: E_UNEXPECTED(0x8000FFFF)

    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
  12. SteveShanks

    ADO.NET - Error: E_UNEXPECTED(0x8000FFFF)

    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...
  13. SteveShanks

    Opening a windows .hlp file

    Thanks, I will give it a try later Cheers Steve
  14. SteveShanks

    Opening a windows .hlp file

    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
  15. SteveShanks

    Weird! - Keyboard shortcuts disappear

    Brilliant Thanks! Mild panic over! Steve
  16. SteveShanks

    Weird! - Keyboard shortcuts disappear

    Is it right that this is possibly something to do with versions of Internet Explorer and nothing to do with my app? Cheers Steve
  17. SteveShanks

    Weird! - Keyboard shortcuts disappear

    Hi All Noticed something strange when running my app on different machines. On some machines, either on the menu system or on a form, all the keyboard shortcut indicator underlines are missing from the captions. They toggle on/off whenever <ALT> is pressed. On other machines they are always...
  18. SteveShanks

    Jet 4.0 - Make part of deployment?

    Hi all It has become apparent that some machines are requiring the Jet 4.0 patches (different ones per o/s) to allow my app to connect to an Access 2003 database using JET 4.0 OLEDB otherwise I get errors when quering the database. Is there no way to include these JET files as part of the...
  19. SteveShanks

    Error setting EXCEL Page Orientation via COM

    Hi We have patched office a bit and it seems to have got past the Page Orientation area but now errirs with 'Bad variable Type' when assigning a string to a cell. Plan is to remove office and reinstall and take it from there. Thanks Steve
  20. SteveShanks

    Error running a query against an Access 2003 database

    Its framwork v1.1.4322 which is what is on all the other machines. This machine does however also have framework v2 on it Thanks Steve

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