I am having some problems with creating a "Find" dialog for my text editor in Visual Studio 2017. I want this dialog to take input from the user, then scan a RichTextBox control, and highlight matches. The user might press "Find Next" if there are more than one match. Basically what I am looking for is a Notepad "Find" function. I did a lot of research but none fixed my problem. Thanks!
P.S.I would like some basic code to accomplish this function.
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I'm looking for a form in a company program, the only clues I have are the texts that are displayed in the form. I tried using ctrl+shift+f to search for all clues but did not find any.
Note: the code comments regarding the location of the form is that the form is an executable command.
I'm having a hard time looking for it, please help.
I am working on a old project of vb6 which has hundreds if forms. I am able to run the application and have to fix a runtime error in a form which pop up. I don't know the name of the form and only have visual reference. I tried using debug but It has continues SQL statements running in a loop. Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks.
Search the code for the form caption, or the labels of controls on the form, using visual studio's "find in files" or simlar function of your favourite editor.
If the caption is set in the form design, this will take you to the .frm file the form is stored in. You can open this in Notepad or another editor to get the name of the class (which is usually the same as the filename).
If the caption is set in code, you can place a breakpoint on that line. Again, this will lead you to the code which instantiates the form.
I'm digging through a program that contains a lot of forms with names that aren't as descriptive as I'd like them to be. I am trying to edit some motor control functions, and in the GUI I am able to reach the form that contains buttons controlling the motor, but I'm not sure where the code is that controls this form. Is there a way to open up the code block corresponding to the form I navigate to from the GUI in debug mode?
Or, alternatively, how can I navigate through the GUI without running it? I know I can right click and do "View Code", so if I could navigate to the form I'd be able to that.
I am using VB.NET in Visual Studio 2010
Go by button text. In visual studio search(Ctrl+F) using the text, visual studio will find the designer.vb file holding the button with the text, once it is done try to look at the design of particular then you can figure out which form you need to look at.
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I wondering if its possible to use Microsoft Word as a text editor in a VB.Net project?
My project currently uses a Rich Text Box to allow the user to right a report which is then saved and a report generated. I was wondering if i could switch to Word for better formatting and layout options, be it embedded in the actual form or in another form thats called (if that makes it easier to assign the control).
I have worked on opening Word itself via a button click but would like to have it incorporated in the project. All users that would actually use the program would have one of the more recent versions of word installed.
Any pointers to websites would be great as i'm constantly searching but not getting very far
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I need to know how to paste text in MS Word from vb.net program with short keys.
My goals:
making a simple vb.net form and enter text and short key combination by user. And store both in an access database table.
In Microsoft Word or any other word processor, user can press the shortkey for the text which he already entered in vb.net program. And the same text sholud be displayed in word. How to do this. I only know to save the text in any database and retrieve it.
Please help me to find the rest.
Thanks in advance
Most Windows controls, including VB.Net forms and Microsoft Word, let you copy text using the CTRL+C keyboard shortcut, and paste using the CTRL+V shortcut. This requires no additional programming.
Add the Microsoft Word Interop namepsace. MS access has a similar namespace.
Go to the project dropdown menu and select 'Add reference' then under the 'Com' tab select the access and word interop assemblies.
Paste this to the top of your code:
Import microsoft.office.interop.word
Import Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access
Here is the list of classes and a good help guide.
http://www.dotnetspider.com/resources/43746-Word-Automation-using-VB-NET.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.word.aspx
As far as the hotkeys, pick an event such as a button click and use a conditional statement such as
If Keys.shift + Keys.A Then
Statements here
End If