Hector-Jorge
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- Jan 20, 2006
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Here's my problem.
I recently have been developing a small application that simply reads excel files and converts them to a tab delimited text file for use in an oracle database. I was working on a machine running windows 2000 pro, and everything was working fine. Then my employer decided to get me a new pc. I then copied all of my vb related work to my network drive while my new pc was setup.
So, the first thing i do on my new pc, which runs xp pro with sp2, is install my copy of vb.net 2003 edition. At the end of the installation, the setup application advised me to check the microsoft site for updates. I did this, and 38 different updates were recommended. I completed all of these 38 updates.
Now, when i try work on my converter application, very weird things are happening.
1) When i use a message box in the program, none of the buttons have any text on them, and the user messages do not show on the message box. for example, if i use the following line of code:
MessageBox.Show("This should be the user message.", "This should be the caption", MessageBoxButtons.AbortRetryIgnore)
The first parameter which sets the user message will not be visible, and none of the three buttons on this messagebox would have text. I am not using any other lines of code that would alter the default messagebox object.
2)Combo boxes have invisible items. Only the currently selected item will appear in the combobox. When you bring down the drop-down list, all of the items are invisible except for the currently selected one. All of the items are present in memory, by this i mean the combo box is getting instantiated with values, but they aren't physically visible until you select them.
Does anybody have a clue what may be the problem here? Or what caused it? My guess is it's something to do with the updates i downloaded from microsoft.
I recently have been developing a small application that simply reads excel files and converts them to a tab delimited text file for use in an oracle database. I was working on a machine running windows 2000 pro, and everything was working fine. Then my employer decided to get me a new pc. I then copied all of my vb related work to my network drive while my new pc was setup.
So, the first thing i do on my new pc, which runs xp pro with sp2, is install my copy of vb.net 2003 edition. At the end of the installation, the setup application advised me to check the microsoft site for updates. I did this, and 38 different updates were recommended. I completed all of these 38 updates.
Now, when i try work on my converter application, very weird things are happening.
1) When i use a message box in the program, none of the buttons have any text on them, and the user messages do not show on the message box. for example, if i use the following line of code:
MessageBox.Show("This should be the user message.", "This should be the caption", MessageBoxButtons.AbortRetryIgnore)
The first parameter which sets the user message will not be visible, and none of the three buttons on this messagebox would have text. I am not using any other lines of code that would alter the default messagebox object.
2)Combo boxes have invisible items. Only the currently selected item will appear in the combobox. When you bring down the drop-down list, all of the items are invisible except for the currently selected one. All of the items are present in memory, by this i mean the combo box is getting instantiated with values, but they aren't physically visible until you select them.
Does anybody have a clue what may be the problem here? Or what caused it? My guess is it's something to do with the updates i downloaded from microsoft.