Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualBasic, InputBox is in the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction namespace: using Microsoft.VisualBasic; string input = Interaction.InputBox(“Prompt”, “Title”, “Default”, x_coordinate, y_coordinate); Only the first argument for prompt is mandatory
In VB you’ll need to create your sub main by hand as it were so what I generally do is create a new Module named Program. Within that as a very basic setup you’ll need to add the following code. Public Sub Main() Application.EnableVisualStyles() Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(False) Application.Run(New Form1) End Sub Once you’ve done that go to … Read more
You can do this with the use of Ascii integers. Put this code in the Textbox’s Keypress event. e.KeyChar represents the key that’s pressed. And the the built-in function Asc() converts it into its Ascii integer. Private Sub TextBox1_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyPress ’97 – 122 = Ascii codes for … Read more
The settings in <system.ServiceModel> in the app.config file will tell the component how to connect to the external web service. The xml is simply a textual representation of the necessary classes and enumerations required to make the default connection to the web service. For example, this is the code that was generated for the web … Read more
By setting the values <mailSettings> section of the in the web.config you can just new up an SmtpClient and the client will use those settings. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.mail.smtpclient.-ctor?view=net-6.0#system-net-mail-smtpclient-ctor Web.Config file: <configuration> <system.net> <mailSettings> <smtp from=”yourmail@gmail.com”> <network host=”smtp.gmail.com” port=”587″ userName=”yourmail@gmail.com” password=”yourpassword” enableSsl=”true”/> </smtp> </mailSettings> </system.net> </configuration> C#: SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient(); smtpClient.Send(msgMail); However, if authentication is needed, … Read more
It seems like not supporting Extension methods on Object was a design decision in VB. As a result, the only way we could prevent extension methods from completely breaking existing late bound code was to prevent them from being used on anything typed as object. Link
The correct way to escape double-quotes in VB is by doubling the double-quotes: <TestCase(“FirstNode”, “<node id=””FirstNode””>”)>
allegedly, System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.TerminalServerSession will be true for a remote desktop session (or VNC session) but i’d test it to be sure 😉
Overrides is the more normal qualifier. If the child class redefines a base class function in this way, then regardless of how a child object is referenced (using either a base class or a child class reference) it is the child function that is called. On the other hand, if the child class function Shadows … Read more
You can add the following to your exe’s .config file. <?xml version=”1.0″?> <configuration> <system.diagnostics> <trace autoflush=”true”> <listeners> <add name=”logListener” type=”System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener” initializeData=”cat.log” /> <add name=”consoleListener” type=”System.Diagnostics.ConsoleTraceListener”/> </listeners> </trace> </system.diagnostics> </configuration> I included the TextWriter as well, in case you’re interested in logging to a file.