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how do you connect to the cash drawer mechanism? maybe the SerialPort class can help you?
you are not givvin' us much info to work with.
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First, stop what you are doing, chuck VB6 out and download VB.Net express, IT IS FREE. It may be a bit of a learning curve but at least it is a supported platform. VB6 is a DEAD platform.
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What makes you think anyone can help you, without knowing what sort of cash register you have, how it works, and how you hope to interact with it ? As someone else said, VB6 is rubbish, you'd have to be insane to start a project with it today.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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As others have comment, VB6! history!
I would add, dot matrix printer? equally history.
In fact, a "program to open a cash drawer when you print", surely all cash registers come with that functionality built in!
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
www.JacksonSoft.co.uk
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. wrote: As others have comment, VB6! history!
I would add, dot matrix printer? equally history.
There are quite some developing countries who are still living in that history. The world isn't upgrading as a whole, and it'll take a while before everyone saved enough money to buy Windows 7 and a new dual-core.
We're talking developing countries, where the companies aren't interested in the support that Microsoft isn't giving on VB6. Think computers that run Windows 98 without automatic updates. You don't want to install .NET on such a machine 
I are Troll
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I have a friend here in UK who only upgraded from Windows 98 last year, and only then because he wanted to go to broadband.
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In that case, they should use C++, surely ? VB6 was NEVER a good option.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote: In that case, they should use C++, surely ? VB6 was NEVER a good option.
+5
To answer; that depends on my role vs. them 
I'd go for Delphi off course, and would recommend them a UI around the "cash-drawer-opening-interface" in Microsoft Access. Cheaper, easier to modify, and not much real chance of breaking important code.
Since that would need be compiled separately. Nicely decoupled from the UI, just as best practices prescribe.
But in their case? Well, VB6 is available, and there might not be that many C++ developers available o'er there.
"Where there's muck there's brass"
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: As others have comment, VB6! history!
I would add, dot matrix printer? equally history.
Dot matrix printers still have a big share in ticket printer market.
About vb6, I agree, it is totally deprecated. For serial communications you need an OCX component, while .net has it in the Base Class Library.
Best regards,
Jaime.
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Brand and model is always a helpful
Best regards,
Jaime.
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Thanks for all of your comments. Only one has given a helpful word. Anyway I like to explain you. I am not a professional software developer. But I was a VB developer 10 years ago. Now it is too late to learn a new language. Because now I am in a differant field. and also I am in a developing country. These days I am developing a small software and I am using a cash drawer. But the problem is it has no serial interface. It has a cable with a RJ11 connector.
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mwith wrote: But the problem is it has no serial interface. It has a cable with a RJ11 connector.
Which fact you did not mention in your first post.
So what protocol does it use to communicate with its host? You have also not given any clue as to what software interface is available with this machine. For example what character sequence do you need to send to the cash drawer to make it open?
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Hello everyone,
Can someone guide me how to create a setup & deployment project in Visual Studio 2005 for my VB.net application with sqlserver 2005 express database & crystal report?
What will be the system requirement for this and what pre-requisite s/w installations are required before installing this setup?
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Thanks, I have created the setup project. But one thing I am missing, i think. I am using sql server 2005 express edition as .mdf database file. My client machine doesnt have sql installed. Do I need to install separately or there is any option while creating setup project to include sql server files?
Can You/someone help me on this?
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mates,
sorry if i misplace the post. i dont know where to post this crystal report issue but anyway i create this in vb2005.
here's my problem. how to load a multiple report in crystal report? what i did is i add crystalreportviewer in a form and i call the rpt file which is smoothly working but i add another crystalreportviewer let say i have 3. so i make also 3 forms and 3 rpt. when click button all 3 report should load but it takes 7-8 minutes. very very slow.
thanks in advance,
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If your reports are taking 7-8 mins to load, it's more likely to do with your query/stored procedure that is selecting the data... how many pages long are your reports? Are you loading a full set of data then using Crystal to filter records? This will be monumentally slow if you are...
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_Damian S_ wrote: how many pages long are your reports?
1 page per report but there are 2 - 3 subreports on every report and different has tables.
Report1 → subreport1 →table1
--------→ subreport2 →table2
_Damian S_ wrote: Are you loading a full set of data then using Crystal to filter records?
no, i just create a working table then load on that report. i did not use storedprocedures.
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I am trying to create a dictionary in Visual Basic 2008.
I have a list of words in a text file and need to get the definitions for them.
I am trying to make a program which reads the text file, line by line, taking out the words.
Then I want it to go to "http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/" and download the definition only, without adds, menus, etc.
Then I need it to save the definition, line by line, into another text file and repeat the process for each word.
So far I have got the opening and saving part sorted but I have no idea how to isolate the definition and download it.
I have googled it but couldn't find anything helpful.
All and any assistance is appreciated.
modified on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:13 PM
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You'll first need to download the page[^]. Then you'll end up with a HTML-page in a string, or a file. Then you start stripping everything that you don't want. That could be done via regular expressions, or the string-handling routines from .NET.
I are Troll
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Thank you very much for your assistance.
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Hi Everyone,
Here is an interesting problem. I am trying to add an expression column to a dataset that already contains data. The expression involves coverting the string data in a specific column into numeric data.
The MS help system says I should use the following example to perform this operation: myDataColumn.Expression="Convert(total, 'System.Int32')"
In having incorporated this into my code, I get the following error:
"Input string was not in a correct format."
Here is the actual code:
Dim tmpCol As New DataColumn<br />
tmpCol.DataType = System.Type.GetType("System.Single")<br />
tmpCol.AllowDBNull = False<br />
tmpCol.Caption = "nResult"<br />
tmpCol.ColumnName = "nResult"<br />
tmpCol.DefaultValue = 0.0<br />
tmpCol.Expression = "Convert(Item01, 'System.Single')"<br />
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tmpDS.Tables(0).Columns.Add(tmpCol)
I have tried several different ways of using the Convert function, but nothing I've tried works.
Has anyone else had experiences with using the Convert function that might help???
Thanks,
cb
Additional Info:
1. The column, Item01, in the tmpDS dataset is a varchar field that contains only numeric data.
2. The tmpDS dataset is obtained from an XML data file.
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Curtbroo wrote: , but nothing I've tried works.
Perhaps if you told us what happens when it 'doesn't work' ???
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Sorry,
Perhaps if I had put this in bold earlier...
In having incorporated this into my code, I get the following error:
"Input string was not in a correct format."
cb
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