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<address> is not a valid remote file address

A delimiter cannot be Nothing or an empty String

A double quote is not a valid comment token for delimited fields where EscapeQuote is set to True

A log has already been created with this name on this machine

A property or method call cannot include a reference to a private object, either as an argument or as a return value

A startup form has not been specified

Access denied to '<name>'

Add failed. Duplicate key value supplied

All field widths, except the last element, must be greater than zero

An invalid name was specified for the event log

An unexpected error has occurred because an operating system resource required for single instance startup cannot be acquired

Another event log has already registered a source with this name

Application-defined or object-defined error

Argument '<argument1>' must be less than or equal to the length of argument '<argument2>'

Argument '<argumentname>' cannot be a multidimensional array

Argument <argumentname> cannot be an empty string or Nothing

Argument '<argumentname>' cannot be converted to a numeric value

Argument '<argumentname>' cannot be converted to type '<typename>'

Argument '<argumentname>' cannot be converted to type 'Date'

Argument '<argumentname>' is not a valid value

Argument '<argumentname>' is not valid for the array

Argument '<argumentname>' is Nothing

Argument '<argumentname>' is Nothing or empty

Argument '<argumentname>' must be greater than 0 or equal to -1

Argument '<argumentname>' must be greater than or equal to 1

Argument '<argumentname>' must be greater than or equal to -1

Argument <argumentname> must be greater than or equal to zero

Argument '<argumentname>' must be greater than or equal to zero

Argument '<argumentname>' must be greater than zero

Argument '<argumentname>' must be in the range of -32768 to 65535

Argument '<argumentname>' must be within the range 0 to 99

Argument '<argumentname>' must be within the range 1 to 255

Argument '<argumentname1>' must be less than or equal the length of argument '<argumentname2>'

Argument 'Access' is not valid. Valid values for Append mode are 'OpenAccess.Write' and 'OpenAccess.Default'

Argument 'Access' is not valid. Valid values for Input mode are 'OpenAccess.Read' and 'OpenAccess.Default'

Argument 'Access' is not valid. Valid values for Output mode are 'OpenAccess.Write' and 'OpenAccess.Default'

Argument BasePath must be a path to a folder

Argument 'Life' cannot be zero

Argument 'Conversion' is not valid

Argument cannot be Nothing

Argument cannot be less than zero

Argument cannot be an empty string

Argument not optional (Visual Basic)

Arguments are not valid

Argument value '<pathname>' contains characters that are not valid in a path name

Argument 'Period' must be less than or equal to argument 'Life'

Argument 'Per' is not valid

Argument 'Path' is Nothing or empty

Argument 'NPer' must be greater than zero

Array dimensions do not match those specified in the 'VBFixedArray' attribute

Automation object does not have a default value

Automation error

Bad DLL calling convention

Bad file mode

Bad file name or number

Bad record length

Bad record number

BaseLogName cannot be Nothing or an empty String

BaudRate must be greater than 0

'Before' and 'After' arguments cannot be combined

Cannot convert start value of type '<type1>', limit value of '<type2>' and step value of '<type3>' to a common type

Cannot convert start value of type '<type1>' and step value of type '<type2>' to a common type

Cannot convert argument '<argumentname>' of type '<type1>' to type '<type2>'

Cannot call friend function on object which is not an instance of defining class

Cannot calculate rate using the arguments provided

Cannot calculate number of periods using the arguments provided

Cannot create ActiveX Component

Cannot delete a registry hive

Cannot determine array type because it is Nothing

Cannot rename with different drive

Cannot save file to TEMP

Can't create necessary temporary file

Can't perform requested operation (Visual Basic)

Cast from string "<string>" to type '<typename>' is not valid

Cast from type '<typename1>' to type '<typename2>' is not valid

Class '<classname>' does not implement the System.Collections.ICollection interface

Class does not support Automation or does not support expected interface

Class not registered on local machine

Code resource not found

Code resource lock error

Clipboard format is not valid

Collection index must be in the range 1 to the size of the collection

Connection to type library or object library for remote process has been lost

Could not complete operation since target directory is under source directory

Could not obtain memory information due to internal error

Could not obtain full operation system name due to internal error

DataBits must be greater than 0

Division by zero (Visual Basic Run-Time Error)

Division by zero (Visual Basic Error)

Disk full (Visual Basic)

'Dir' function must first be called with a 'PathName' argument

Device unavailable

Device I/O error

Drive '<drivename>' not found

Encoding cannot be set to Nothing

Error in loading DLL (Visual Basic)

Error number must be within the range 0 and 65535

Expression '<name>' is not a procedure, but occurs as the target of a procedure call

Feature not yet implemented

Expression too complex

Field '<fieldname>' of type '<typename>' is 'ReadOnly'

File '<filename>' cannot be deleted because it is open

File '<filename>' is write protected

File '<filename>' not found

File already exists

File already open

File format not valid

File I/O of a structure with field '<fieldname>' of type '<typename>' is not valid

File I/O with type '<typename>' is not valid

File information cannot be queried if the file does not exist

File information cannot be queried while open for writing

File is too large to read into a byte array

File name or class name not found during Automation operation (Visual Basic)

File not found (Visual Basic Run-Time Error)

File specified by FileName does not use the encoding specified by FileEncoding

File specified in FileName is not a valid XML file

File's open mode wasn't set to a valid value

For loop not initialized (Visual Basic)

Format not valid in resource file

Get not supported (write-only property)

Get not supported at run time

Implicit reference to object under construction is not valid when calling another constructor

Insufficient security permissions to set the system time

Insufficient security permissions to set the system date

Input past end of file

Internal error (Visual Basic)

Internal error happened at <location>

Internal error in the Microsoft Visual Basic runtime

Invalid pattern string

Key cannot be deleted because it has subkeys

Late-bound assignment to a field of value type '<typename>' is not valid when '<name>' is the result of a late-bound expression

Length of argument '<argumentname>' must be greater than zero

Line <number> cannot be parsed using the current Delimiters

Line <number> cannot be parsed using the current FieldWidths

Line <number> cannot be read because it exceeds the maximum line size.

Locale ID '<name>' is not supported on this system

Loop control variable of type '<typename>' does not implement the 'System.IComparable' interface

Managed classes derived from a COM class cannot be called late-bound.

Method '<methodname>' cannot be called with <number> arguments

Method '<methodname>' has no parameter named '<parametername>'

Method or data member not found

My.Application.Log cannot determine the amount of free disk space

Named argument '<argumentname>' specified multiple times

Named argument not found (Visual Basic)

Named arguments cannot match ParamArray parameters

Need property array index

No accessible overloaded '<methodname>' can be called with these arguments without a narrowing conversion

No accessible overloaded '<methodname>' can be called with these arguments without a narrowing conversion: <list>

No accessible overloaded '<methodname>' can be called with these arguments without a widening conversion: <list>

No accessible overloaded '<methodname>' can be called with these arguments: <list>

No default member found for type '<typename>'

No files found matching '<filename>'

No method '<methodname>' can accept an argument of type '<typename>' for parameter '<parametername>'

No mouse is present

No mouse wheel is present

NumberOfChars must be greater than zero

Object doesn't support current locale setting (Visual Basic)

Object doesn't support named arguments

Object doesn't support this action (Visual Basic)

Object doesn't support this property or method (Visual Basic)

Object or class does not support the set of events

Object required (Visual Basic)

Object variable or With block variable not set

One or more folders in the target path do not exist

Only the first eight characters of a custom log name are significant

Operator is not valid for type '<typename>'

Operator is not valid for '<name1>' and '<name2>'

Overflow (Visual Basic Run-Time Error)

Out of string space (Visual Basic)

Out of stack space (Visual Basic)

Out of memory (Visual Basic Run-Time Error)

Ordinal is not valid

Path '<pathname>' not found

Path/File access error

Permission denied (Visual Basic)

Picture is not valid

Printer error

Procedure call or argument is not valid (Visual Basic)

Process '<processname>' was not found

Property <propertyname> cannot be set to an empty string or Nothing

Property <propertyname> cannot be set to Nothing

Property array index is not valid

Property let procedure not defined and property get procedure did not return an object

Property not found

Property or method not found

Property value is not valid

Public member '<membername>' on type '<typename>' not found

'ReDim' cannot change the number of dimensions

'ReDim' can only change the right-most dimension

'ReDim' Preserve operand cannot be Nothing

Registry key '<keyname>' could not be found

Registry key '<keyname>' could not be created

Replacements too long

Resume without error

Root folder cannot be renamed

Search text not found

Set not supported at run time

Set not supported (read-only property)

Set not permitted

SimplifiedChinese and VbStrConv.TraditionalChinese cannot be combined

Some files and folders caused exceptions during the operation

Some subkeys cannot be deleted

Source folder and target folder are the same

Source name specified in EventLogSource is registered to a log other than that specified in EventLogName

Specified DLL function not found

Specified event log does not exist on this machine

Specified registry key does not exist

Specified registry key is not valid because it contains two or more consecutive backslashes

Specified registry path does not start with a valid hive name

Stop statement encountered

'StrConv.LinguisticCasing' requires 'StrConv.LowerCase' or 'StrConv.UpperCase'

String length exceeds maximum length of 32767 characters for 'FileSystem' APIs

Sub or Function not defined (Visual Basic)

Subscript out of range (Visual Basic)

System event log cannot be deleted

Target folder is a file

TargetFilePath specifies an existing folder

TextFieldParser does not support comment tokens that contain whitespace

TextFieldParser does not support delimiters that contain endline characters

TextFieldParser is unable to complete the read operation because maximum buffer size has been exceeded

The address for UploadFile needs to include a filename

The file is already open

The file is currently closed

The file is currently open for reading

The file is currently open for writing

The folder cannot be created since a file already exists with the same path

The input path refers to a file but ends with a directory separator character

The path has not been set

The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable (Visual Basic)

The source folder does not exist

The specified path does not exist

The stream passed to TextFieldParser cannot be read

The value of <argumentname> must be a positive number

The value of <argumentname> must be greater than or equal to 1000

This array is fixed or temporarily locked (Visual Basic)

This key is already associated with an element of this collection

This operation can only be done when the File is closed

This single-instance application could not connect to the original instance

This system does not contain support for the Japanese locale.

This system does not contain support for the Locale specified.

This system does not contain support for the SimplifiedChinese locale

This system does not contain support for the Traditional Chinese locale

Too many DLL application clients

Type mismatch (Visual Basic)

Type of argument '<argumentname>' is '<typename>', which is not numeric

Unable to get serial port names because of an internal system error

Unable to obtain a stream for the log

Unable to read fixed width fields because FieldWidths is Nothing or empty

Unable to read delimited fields because Delimiters is Nothing or empty

Unable to read delimited fields because a double quote is not a legal delimiter when EscapeQuotes is set to True

Unable to ping because a network connection is not available

Unable to sink events of object because the object is already firing events to the maximum number of event receivers it supports

Unable to write to log file because writing to it would cause it to exceed MaximumSize value

Unable to write to log file because writing to it would reduce free disk space below ReservedSpace value

User interrupt occurred

Use of Default Instance of a class in the class constructor could lead to infinite recursive call

Use 'FilePutObject' instead of 'FilePut' when using argument of type 'Object'

Use 'FileGetObject' instead of 'FileGet' when using argument of type 'Object'

VbStrConv.Wide and VbStrConv.Narrow cannot be combined

VbStrConv.Wide and VbStrConv.Narrow are not applicable to the locale specified

Wrong number of arguments or property assignment not valid

You must specify a file name

You must specify a name

You must specify a path that is under the current folder or one of its sub-folders

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Argument '<argumentname>' cannot be converted to type '<typename>'

Visual Studio 2005

Visual Studio 2008

A conversion attempts to change an argument to a type that is not valid.

To correct this error

Change the type to one that is valid.

See Also

Reference

Conversion Functions (Visual Basic)

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