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.NET Forum / Languages / VB.NET / December 2005HELP! Trying to migrate from VB6 to dotnet 2003.... with MUCH frustration...
Hey - I know a bit about vb, written a few progs, upgraded to .net 2003 but can't figure it out. Where has everything gone? Am I missing something really obvious? I'm trying to create a song-lyrics editing tool, pretty simple - a couple of textboxes and a button or 2 to save/load from text files, but I want something along the lines of a drivelistbox/dirlistbox/filelistbox combo down the side to easily open saved files. Also - how the hell would I do this in .net? sub command1_click form2.visible = true end sub ??? seems im-bloodey-possible... Any help much appreciated > Hey - I know a bit about vb, written a few progs, upgraded to .net 2003 > but can't figure it out. Where has everything gone? Am I missing [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > something along the lines of a drivelistbox/dirlistbox/filelistbox combo > down the side to easily open saved files. Can't you use the FileOpen Dialog? Well - I'm not exactly sure how that works.... and what I'm looking for is a permanent box on the left side of the screen sorta like the 'folders' window in windows explorer... >> Hey - I know a bit about vb, written a few progs, upgraded to .net 2003 >> but can't figure it out. Where has everything gone? Am I missing [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Can't you use the FileOpen Dialog? > Well - I'm not exactly sure how that works.... and what I'm looking for is > a > permanent box on the left side of the screen sorta like the 'folders' > window > in windows explorer... Like a tree control? But modified to handle folders? Yeah - but, well... I'm a VB6 guru and have nobody to help me understand .net, so how the hell a tree control works I dont know... Maybe it's just a lost cause - thanks for your help anyway. I need to find somebody who can walk me through a simple project and teach me how to switch between forms. >> Well - I'm not exactly sure how that works.... and what I'm looking for >> is a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Like a tree control? But modified to handle folders? > Yeah - but, well... I'm a VB6 guru and have nobody to help me understand > .net, so how the hell a tree control works I dont know... VB6 had a tree control. > Maybe it's just a lost cause - thanks for your help anyway. I need to > find somebody who can walk me through a simple project and teach me how to > switch between forms. https://connect.microsoft.com/downloads/downloads.aspx?SiteID=40 Microsoft® Visual BasicT 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! This fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete programming project-a desktop weather-reporting application-from start to finish. You'll learn how to put the lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual Basic Express to work right away-creating, compiling, testing, and delivering your first ready-to-use program. You'll get expert tips, coaching, and visual examples at each step of the way, along with pointers to additional learning resources. Alex, Like homer said you can use the File and folder dialog boxes. You can drag those from the toolbox on your form and than enter the properties to shart with. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlr fsystemwindowsformsfiledialogclasstopic.asp Your question shows that you misses a lot of basic knowledge about VBNet, maybe is this somethingh for you. http://www.vb-tips.com/default.aspx?ID=1b31f4f7-0596-4b8e-aaf5-e16db864a414 I hope this helps, Cor THANKYOU thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!!!!! I've been hunting for something like that for a couple of days now - all I get is stuff I gotta buy, and living in New Zealand make's it nearly impossible to buy a book from (e.g.) amazon.com - 'You must be a U.S. resident to apply for an account' grrr Thankyou more than anything!!! Alex > Alex, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Cor > THANKYOU thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!!!!! > > I've been hunting for something like that for a couple of days now - all I > get is stuff I gotta buy, and living in New Zealand make's it nearly > impossible to buy a book from (e.g.) amazon.com - 'You must be a U.S. > resident to apply for an account' grrr Tried Gordon and Gotch? Mind you, I remember it taking a year for them to special order a book for me. But there's https://connect.microsoft.com/downloads/downloads.aspx?SiteID=40 if you've registered VB. Microsoft® Visual BasicT 2005 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! This fun and highly visual guide walks you through a complete programming project-a desktop weather-reporting application-from start to finish. You'll learn how to put the lightweight, easy-to-use tools in Visual Basic Express to work right away-creating, compiling, testing, and delivering your first ready-to-use program. You'll get expert tips, coaching, and visual examples at each step of the way, along with pointers to additional learning resources. > Also - how the hell would I do this in .net? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > ??? seems im-bloodey-possible... The global, auto-instancing, invisible variables, often causing much trouble because people sometimes don't know what classes and objects are, and that you couldn't get rid of (not the people but the variables...) in VB6 are now gone - they are back in VB 2005. Do it like with all the other thousands of classes: Declare a variable and assign a new object. Armin >> Also - how the hell would I do this in .net? >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> >> ??? seems im-bloodey-possible... > The global, auto-instancing, invisible variables, often causing much > trouble [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Armin Okay - here's where I become a newbie again... Could you post a little bit of code so I can try and follow it? At the moment I'm just writing a kinda 'notepad' lookalike - Ive added menu's and want to open 'frmAbout' when the user clicks on Help-->About. I can't understand how. In VB6 I would have just done it as above.. frmAbout.visible = True... > Okay - here's where I become a newbie again... > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > done it as above.. > frmAbout.visible = True... In VB6 I would have done it the same way I do it now: dim f as new frmAbout f.showdialog 'in VB6: f.show vbmodal In general, if you want to access an object, you need a reference. If you don't have it, you need to pass it. Using global variables was already bad practice in VB6 because it works against the recommendation of encapsulation. Passing variables is clearer because could simply pick some classes and put them in a library without the need of unscrambling the relations of the classes to modules (having relations to other classes (having relations to modules (having relations to other classes....))). see also: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vbcn7/html/vbconProgrammingWithObjects.asp Armin showdialog!! there we go... now I understand... Thanks a lot Armin - much appreciated. Too bad I got impatient and uninstalled .net - replaced with VB6... Didnt try, but would it be possible to have them both installed without any 'bad things' happening? Am installing .net again now - just couldnt handle sitting at my computer unable to code :-) Thanks again, Alex >> Okay - here's where I become a newbie again... >> [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Armin > Didnt try, but would it be possible to have them both installed without > any 'bad things' happening? You can forever be the first after all those years that nothing happened :-) Cor Hi, Take a look at the vb power packs folder viewer and file viewer controls. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/ht ml/vbpowerpack.asp Ken ----------------------- > Hey - I know a bit about vb, written a few progs, upgraded to .net 2003 > but can't figure it out. Where has everything gone? Am I missing [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Any help much appreciated "Alex McMillan" <BR4INZ@orcon.net.nz> schrieb: > Hey - I know a bit about vb, written a few progs, upgraded to .net 2003 > but can't figure it out. Where has everything gone? 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