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Hi, I am wanting to write an application which opens a delimited text file (either comma, pipe, colon, semi colon) and displays the file on the form. The same feature is in Excel when you import a data file. After selecting the file it shows the contents and you can choose the delimiter. Once...

Hi Trying to upgrade my trial copy of Visual Studio 2008 on a windows 7 PC but there is no "upgrade" box in the maintenance mode. Apparently its a bug, something which only affects Windows 7 machines. Does anyone know how I can get around this please? Thank you.

Hi I have an application (written in VB.net 2008) which reads a text file. Parses the record and uses the second field (a UK postcode) to match an Access database (SQL - Select * from Table1 ......), then writes a text file back out with the original input postcode plus several fields taken...

Hi guys Looking to try and write an application which will read an input file (textfile, excel, access file), search an access database on one particular field (from the input file) and then append upto 10 fields (from access) to the input file, then re-write out. The access database I am...

Hi When writing to an Access file with one of the fields indexed (NO dupes allowed), I am getting the following message in the Immediate Window "A first chance exception of type 'System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException' occurred in System.Data.dll", when I enter a dupe. I have put in a TRY, CATCH to...

Hi Could someone please offer some advice on how to retrieve the number of records (rows) in an access database and display on a form please (vb.net)? Also, is it possible to display (in a label) the last record in the database, which will then update when another record is added? Thank you.

Hi I am writing a simple application which has two text boxes for user input (textbox1 and textbox2). Textbox1 has tabindex set to 1, textbox2 has tabindex set to 2. There is also a label which for some reason is set to 3. Obviously only want the tab to work between the text boxes. Does...

Hi all I am an absolute newbie in vb.net. I have created an Access database which consists of just 2 fields, Barcode 1 and Barcode 2. I have also created a form in VB.net which has 2 text boxes. I want to add the user input from the 2 text boxes into the access database - 1 textbox into...

Hi I am wanting to read in an access database which consists of every postcode in the country. The database is approx 1.9 million records. The database consists of 11 fields although I am only really interested in two of the, the postcode and one other. Initially I would like to get user...

Hi, as you can tell I am new to VB.net (first post so be gentle). I am wanting to create an application to read a csv file (chosen by the user) and then display the contents in text boxes. I would also like navigation buttons allowing the user to navigate through the csv (textboxes to reflect...