Code Newsgroups: Visual Basic General Discussion

ICON HELP????

Steve - 1 Oct 2005 2:46 PM - 6 messages

Hi... I created a small little vb6 app... I just finished making a little icon for it. How do I assign the icon to my .exe?? I just want THIS exe to associate to this specific icon... I do NOT want to change ALL .exe's. ...

Load Different Forms!

Arpan - 1 Oct 2005 8:37 AM - 5 messages

I am making a calculator in VB6. When the calculator loads for the 1st time, it is in the "Standard" mode. Users can change it to the "Scientific" mode by going to the "View" menu & selecting the menu item ...

Kodak imaging controls

News @ Charter - 1 Oct 2005 4:15 AM - 2 messages

Hi All, Due to some unfortunate events, I no longer have the Kodak imaging controls that used to be available from Microsofts site that I need to rebuild a commercial application. If anyone could help me out and send me the Kodak ...

Weird problem with DSN

Luiz Horacio - 1 Oct 2005 3:06 AM - 7 messages

Hi, I have an app written in VB6 that uses a DSN to connect to the database. Worked fine and perfect at home and at my work. Each place has a DSN with a different name. Well, made some changes in the app, compiled and took it to work. It did not ...

Pattern Property in FileListBox

Mike Simpson - 1 Oct 2005 2:54 AM - 3 messages

The VB6 Help files says that the pattern property for FileListBoxes can be either a single parameter "*.doc" or multiple entries separated by semi colons, "*.doc; *.txt" However whenever I try this, as soon as I introduce the semi colon in a ...

Windows XP/Win2K Client Privileges Issue

DirOps - 30 Sep 2005 11:46 PM - 2 messages

We have an issue with Micorsoft Windows (XP, Win2K) with respect to using an API within a VisualBASIC 6.0 application. The API we are using is requires access to several 3rd party installed programs. The problem we are having ...

help needed for a Runtime error 6 overflow

farmer - 30 Sep 2005 7:30 PM - 11 messages

Hello, I'm trying to make a small programm in which users can transpose one column to multiple columns. from this format field1 name1 address1 zipcode1 name2 address2 zipcode2 etc. to this format field1 field2 field3 ...

generate all subsets (2^n) - knapsack problem

Robert Reid - 30 Sep 2005 5:54 PM - 4 messages

Additionally, I've only been able to find solution in C language. One of them uses bitfields (and bitwise operations) to generate array ( as represented in previous thread). Can one create something similar to the following C pseudo code in VBA ? ...

Visual SourceSafe

Charlie - 30 Sep 2005 5:19 PM - 5 messages

I was asked to find a tutorial on Visual SourceSafe. Any suggestions? ...

Add tool tips to the menu bar?

Stan Hilliard - 30 Sep 2005 5:13 PM - 3 messages

Is it possible to add tool tips to the menu bar menus with VB6? Stan Hilliard ...

Displaying the MonthView Cotrol's text based on the OS language!

Mishi - 30 Sep 2005 3:45 PM - 2 messages

Hi, How can I make my MonthView control display text based on the OS language? e.g. if the OS is french then the months should appear in french. Thanks Mishi ...

help with crystal report formula

L Black - 30 Sep 2005 3:16 PM - 4 messages

I have a report where I want to print all records for labels. For those records that have a balance, I want to print 'Balance: 5.00' where 5.00 is whatever balance they have. This is what I tried, and it prints ...

Mailbox size

Alastair MacFarlane - 30 Sep 2005 3:01 PM - 5 messages

Dear All I am a VB program and I am trying to use the following file: (on the client pc we have Windoxs XP professional). Library CDO C:\WINDOWS\System32\cdosys.dll Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Library ...

Printing Reports

Arnie - 30 Sep 2005 2:26 PM - 3 messages

Hi..this might be the wrong place to ask but any response would be appreciated.. Scenario Currently I am building a vb. net app, web...with a sql server backend..a fairly standard inventory management system..invoices, po's, etc... ...

Set Time

kpg - 30 Sep 2005 1:58 PM - 11 messages

Well, I fell dumb having to ask this. but... How do you set the system time from VB6? An API call I assume... TIA kpg ...

Object browser

Martin D. Jones - 30 Sep 2005 1:18 PM - 7 messages

Is there anyway I can dump all the text etc from object browser (VB 6) to word or notepad for documentation purposes ??. ...

Format a number using TextBox

Robertico - 30 Sep 2005 12:58 PM - 8 messages

I need to format a number to this format ###-## using a TextBox including leading zeros. I can't use the MaskEdit box, because my TextBox is part of a control array. Already tried some formating, but it doesn't work. (e.g. ###-##000-00, ...

Customerize data display from MSFlexgrid

Reds@Office - 30 Sep 2005 8:38 AM - 7 messages

Hi, Can someone give me advice on how to extract the data from MSFlexgrid and diaply them in textboxes in a customized form? Actually, it will be easy to do so if there is one reocrd in the MSFlexGrid. However, if I perform a query and get over hundred rows of results, how can ...

Other app window size

RT - 30 Sep 2005 7:47 AM - 2 messages

Hello! Is possible, to get from VB.Net size of window other application? For example, how to get size of Word window? How to get state of this window (minimized, maximized,...)? Mayby is any component with thise functions? Ragards R ...

3D Integer Array to String

frankamendola - 30 Sep 2005 4:15 AM - 5 messages

Hi, I am a newbie trying to convert a 3 dimentional array to a string so that I may write (and eventually read) the string to and from a text file. The values stored in the array can range from 0 to 127 (I guess I could ...

Saving a file using CommonDialog

inquirer - 30 Sep 2005 2:57 AM - 5 messages

I use the following to save a file but it overwrites a file if it already exists. Could someone tell me the code to give a warning if the file to be saved already exists please? Thanks Chris CommonDialog1.InitDir = "d:\" ...

Window State!

Arpan - 30 Sep 2005 1:14 AM - 4 messages

I want a VB6 application to always open in the "Restored" state when it is accessed. To do this, I set the "WindowState" property of the Form to "0 - Normal". It's working fine but when I added this application to ...

MDI Child Forms sizes

Guillermo - 30 Sep 2005 12:18 AM - 7 messages

I'm trying a simple MDI. Just the Toolbar on the MDI main form. No controls on Child Forms yet. All Child Forms have same properties. Their sizes get smaller as I make them Visible, and then large again, and so ...

VB6 to Word, saving as Word Perfect format?

Dave - 29 Sep 2005 9:49 PM - 5 messages

Is there a way to have VB6 create a Word document, and then save it in Word Perfect format? I need to create a WP document for a client (nothing fancy, just text) but I don't have WP. I know Word can save as a WP doc, but is it ...

UTC

George - 29 Sep 2005 8:45 PM - 7 messages

Hi, I have been googling a few days trying to find how I can have vb6 go out and get the UTC. GMT, world clock. I want to get the correct time and notify the user if their PC has an ...

DCOM and Window firewall

Charlie - 29 Sep 2005 7:43 PM - 15 messages

I have written a small client and a server apps that appear to work fine. When I move the server app to another PC on my network, the client fails to communicate. Turning off Windows firewall on the server solves the issue. ...

Send current Access record to Word & print to specific printer. Newbie HELP!!!

fishy - 29 Sep 2005 6:46 PM - 2 messages

I am trying to set up code for access to select the current record and send this to word where it will automatically print to a specific printer. Certain fields have to be in a specific font and size as this ...

OK - MdiParent/Child issues - Argh

PDP-8E - 29 Sep 2005 5:55 PM - 31 messages

I'm new to VB.Net 2003 - (2 weeks in) so this MAY be straightforward... (Things changed since Octal Assembler I see !!!) I'll try to lay this out in a way that makes sense I created a MdiParent form ...

Automatically launch VB App when device is connected?

TCook - 29 Sep 2005 5:19 PM - 5 messages

Hello, I have a simple VB app that resides on an external hard drive. I want to the app to automatically launch when the hard drive is connected. How do I accomplish this? Thanks & Regards, TC ...

How to unpack a binary stream?

sam.s.kong - 29 Sep 2005 4:49 PM - 2 messages

Hello! I'm a newbie to VB6. I need to parse a binary file which contains records of various data types (like employees' information). Is there a easy way to do it like pack/unpack functions? Thanks. Sam ...

Setting the value of a bount textBox

mjw - 29 Sep 2005 4:20 PM - 2 messages

I am new to VB.Net 2005 and would like to thank anybody in advance who may help me out. In my windows form application I am using a BindingNavagator tool strip to display values of my database fields which are bound to my ...

VB deletes .CTX file from VSS?

Robert William Vesterman - 29 Sep 2005 2:54 PM - 6 messages

I have a VB6 project stored in Visual Source Safe 6.0. As of yesterday, something strange started happening: For one particular user control: I check it out of VSS via the builtin VB6 interface, which really causes both the *.CTL and the *.CTX files ...

PrinterProperties API in Windows XP

Danilo - 29 Sep 2005 2:05 PM - 7 messages

Dear Friends, I have had a problem when trying to display the printer settings dialog using PrinterProperties in Windwos XP. The only page displayed is an about page. Does somebody knows some workaround for this problem? I need to display ...

KeyPreview & Focus!

Arpan - 29 Sep 2005 1:51 PM - 3 messages

I have created a small VB 6.0 application where in the KeyPreview is set to True. As such the application works fine when executed but a petty problem has come up. Assume that 3-4 windows are open along with the VB application & the ...

MSDN c++ defination in vb6

jack - 29 Sep 2005 10:33 AM - 2 messages

Now this is one question by which people may think i am stupid , Wheneve i have a look at MSDN help i have all the function which is in c or c++ . does any one know . what is the method through which a I can ...

Move an object along a sin wave

Ames111 - 29 Sep 2005 10:18 AM - 11 messages

Ok, i imagine this is prettu simple but trying to get my head around waves is frustrating me. Lets just say i wanted to move an object, be it a command button, picture box whatever, along a sine wave, what would the formula be? ...

Cloning objects

Keith Sheppard - 29 Sep 2005 9:16 AM - 9 messages

I have probably been spoiled by C++ in which you can access non public members of another instance of your own class. In VB I have a problem I have a class module which has private members of user defined types. Like ...

Ctrl+Alt+Del

Enoch Chan - 29 Sep 2005 7:53 AM - 5 messages

How can I write a vb program to enable/disable popping up Windows Security form when users attemping to enter Ctrl+Alt+Del. We are using W2K and XP ...

Issue with CDO objects

Enric - 29 Sep 2005 6:46 AM - 2 messages

Dear folks, We have got an issue with the aforementioned set of objects. After have been a reinstalling about CDOSYS.DLL using regsvr32, later when we try install again appears a dialobox with the following error: DllRegisterServer failed on c:\windows\system32\cdosys.dll ...

Problem with displaying text in Meassage Box, and List Box

N5XWD - 29 Sep 2005 4:48 AM - 5 messages

I am new to Visual Basic, and trying to work the expamle problems in the book, and I am running into a problem. The text in Meassage Boxes, List Boxes and combo boxes, is not visable, or is not there. It will do it every ...

Maximum Textbox in 1 Form

Phoon Chee Keong - 29 Sep 2005 3:42 AM - 7 messages

Hi, anyone know about this? I current build a program which a lot of textbox, more than 1500 textbox and i face this kind of error: - "An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidProgramException' occurred in XXX.exe What sould I resolve this program or any other choice? ...

cmd.exe shell

tslu69 - 29 Sep 2005 2:44 AM - 3 messages

I want to monitor users when they use cmd.exe shell under win9X/WinXP. Is it possible to know more details, like what is going on inside cmd.exe shell ...

mscomm

mscir - 28 Sep 2005 11:31 PM - 3 messages

I'm trying to use the MSComm control to send Big Endian 32 bit words, the MSB of the word is sent first. Any pointers or web sites where I can read up on this would be appreciated. TIA, Mike ...

Decompress UNIX archive

wxforecaster - 28 Sep 2005 9:09 PM - 3 messages

I have a fairly large set of data files in .tar.gz (or .tar.Z) format that I'd like to open through an existing VB interface through the use of an .ocx or .dll. I've downloaded and tested several to no avail. ...

Still have multiple instances of Excel in Task Manager

Aimster - 28 Sep 2005 5:59 PM - 8 messages

I've searched and read all the comments on this subject. I've been at this for a VERY long time. My code used to work with Excel 2000; when we upgraded to Office 2003, the multiple instances problem cropped up. BTW, I am running ...

Duplex printing

CycloneTS - 28 Sep 2005 5:06 PM - 4 messages

I can duplex print a multiple page document using the code in [link] However, I need to print on the backside of a piece of paper that I print from an ocx in ...

VB MMC Snapin

Alfetta159 - 28 Sep 2005 4:33 PM - 2 messages

I'm trying to create a MMC Snapin using the old VB Snapin SDK. However, I can't seem to find the help file anywhere. Anyone have VBSnapInsGuide.chm laying around? ...

Interface question

YYZ - 28 Sep 2005 2:53 PM - 58 messages

Sorry, but this might be long. My company wants a new app that I'm going to build to have an Outlook style interface -- treeview on the left, "data" pane on the right. I don't want to add 10-20 frames and ...

manipulate text file

chieko - 28 Sep 2005 2:35 PM - 6 messages

Hello, Thank you for taking the time to read my question. I'm trying to learn the syntax for reading a text file and then converting each character's hexidecimal value to it's corresponding decimal value. I found that I could use CLNG(&hthecharacter) to do the conversion and i can ...

Getting microprocessor's serial number

Ahed - 28 Sep 2005 1:59 PM - 2 messages

how i can retrive the microprocessor serial number in visual basic 6, and how i can retrive any specified hardware information? thanks for help ...

2 or more databases in one datagrid?

¢Ù¢×¢Ü¢Õ¢Ò¢Ý¢Û - 28 Sep 2005 12:36 PM - 5 messages

how can it be done?? assumption: all databases have same tables i don't know how to combine them can anyone teach me?? i am using VB6.0 thanks ...

Can someone recommend a good .hlp file creation software

A. Ahola - 28 Sep 2005 12:33 PM - 15 messages

Even though no-one ever uses the helps, I guess I still have to make 'em. Does a vb6 embedded help file creator exist, or what are you using? -Amos ...

How to automate web login?

RB Smissaert - 28 Sep 2005 12:26 PM - 11 messages

Trying to automate a web login (username and password) to a Yahoo group. The purpose is to automate the download of a setup file. I have tried with a reference to MS Internet controls and it is no trouble to ...

Toggle Button Control

Trent Argante - 28 Sep 2005 12:13 PM - 3 messages

VB6 : Windows XP Uh, I can't remeber which library the Toggle Button control is in. Can anyone refresh my memory? Thanks, ...

Saving mozilla firefox current page url address in txt file through vb6

jack - 28 Sep 2005 10:46 AM - 9 messages

Hi Im struggling from a while but not able to find the way out. If i want to save just an url how should i do this . i done want any external form to be displayed or any messagebox to be popd up. the bese ...

VB <-> IE question

fisherofsouls - 28 Sep 2005 9:05 AM - 3 messages

I wonder if some kind person would help me with a newbie query ? I am trying to write a simple VBA routine in Excel 2003 to find an Internet Explorer window by its unique title, then send a sequence of ...

Set variable to property or call property

MP - 28 Sep 2005 5:17 AM - 15 messages

Hi Say I have a class1 with a property which is an instance of class2 In a method in class1 'should i do Sub Method1() Set Me.Class2.Prop1 = val Set Me.Class2.Prop2 = val2 ...

Registry question for Vb6

Patrick Keenan - 28 Sep 2005 3:24 AM - 7 messages

Hello All, I'm in the midst of and app and for various reasons need to store information related to the current state of the app in the registry. My needs are simple - store and retrieve values in the registry- character, ...

Is Class_Initialize as bad as Form_Initialize?

MP - 28 Sep 2005 12:18 AM - 9 messages

Hi I recently learned here that Form_Initialize was not the "right" place for initialization code.(maybe I should say "best" place) Does the same hold true for classes? eg: is this wrong? Sub Class1_Initialize() 'do initialization stuff here, create objects, set properties etc ...

Translucency

anon - 27 Sep 2005 11:33 PM - 3 messages

I would like to make a visual basic frame have a translucent effect. I know that it is possible to make forms translucent but I have not seen any code to make another control, such as a frame, have this effect. Does anyone here have any ideas ? ...

Intellisense

Dragon - 27 Sep 2005 3:53 PM - 5 messages

Hi, I have started using long (descriptive) variable names in my VB.Net (2003) projects. I would like to know how to turn on typing assistance in the IDE. I have seen somewhere that as you start to type, the predictive text (be it ...

Ask for install or update during setup

Shailesh Patel - 27 Sep 2005 3:09 PM - 11 messages

Hi, I am using Visual Studio Installer to create new setup project and works fine for new installation. Now, I want to make changes so if client has program installed on his computer then it detects and ask if reinstall or update the current program. ...

VB6 Gravity type code

Ames111 - 27 Sep 2005 2:52 PM - 15 messages

Hi I wanna do something very simple but cant figure out how. i want a button to jump up the form like something actually jumping and float back down. So it will jump up so basically changing the top value via a timer id ...

Remote Registry Read

Tony Spratt - 27 Sep 2005 12:45 PM - 6 messages

All, In order to track down which servers have potentially been infected by a Trojan, I need to remotely scan a lot of registries. The problem I have is that the entry will be under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, which isn't available to ...

OCX not registered correctly

Alastair MacFarlane - 27 Sep 2005 11:46 AM - 4 messages

Ken, When I add an OCX (Microsoft designed OCX) to my project VB won't allow it. VB says that the "Component is not correctly registered". When I look at the dll throught Dependency Walker I see the error message in red: ...

Print white on black

Keith Sheppard - 27 Sep 2005 11:07 AM - 9 messages

I cannot find a way to print white text on a black background using the Printer object (monochrome printer). Basically I can't see how you set the text background colour. I have tried various combinations including, for example: ...

ADO, Access, check if a table exists

smith - 27 Sep 2005 11:05 AM - 11 messages

Hi, I have found on Google various pieces of code that check wether a table exists or not but they all seem to also make VB return an error after a TRUE or FALSE statement. I was wondering if anyone has a "clean" function/method that would check and ...

hash

PC - 27 Sep 2005 10:12 AM - 32 messages

could anyone give me an algorithm that for every different string generates a unique number but the same number for the same string ...

randomize

PC - 27 Sep 2005 9:58 AM - 4 messages

i understand that the randomize statement initializes the rnd() function by experimenting i found that for each different argument i give the randomize statement, a different sequence is generated by the rnd() function, but for the same argument always the same sequence ...

Newbie: ADO reference ocx etc.

smith - 27 Sep 2005 9:44 AM - 3 messages

Hi, I have been trying to connect to a databse (Access) using ADO and learn it at the same time. When I Dim a connection in my "regular" project Intellisense shows me an ADODB option and things work fine for now. ...

Can't open a file in Word in VB6

inquirer - 27 Sep 2005 7:21 AM - 6 messages

I have a small VB6 application which shells to a program that will decrypt an encrypted file and then open the decrypted file in Word 2003. The program was working without a problem until a few days ago when it ...

Changing the pattern of a filelist box

Kevin J Prince - 27 Sep 2005 4:33 AM - 6 messages

I have a filelistbox (srcFILE) which starts of at compile time with a pattern of *.txt;*.doc. However I want to add the following.... 3 check boxes (control array ckFT) one caption .txt one caption .doc and the final caption .rtf ...

Scrolling text

RUDI HARSONO - 27 Sep 2005 2:02 AM - 3 messages

hai...guys..can you help me? how to make scrolling text but free from screen flickers?. I have been download many snippet code from any site but I have not satiesfied because it show flickers text when is running. I had try made it with label and Text control but even the resulting was ...

Is it possible to read registry from the SYSTEM?

Jack - 27 Sep 2005 1:54 AM - 6 messages

SYSTEM is listed in Task Manager under User Name. I understand that it is referred to the service. Normally my program makes some entries in the Windows registry under Current User account. But what can I do when it is run as sevice and shown as a SYSTEM in Task ...

UNC path validation problem

Martin Nemzow - 27 Sep 2005 1:03 AM - 6 messages

example: \\systemname\partition\subdir\subdir\temp exists on my network and if that is plugged into the path in Windows will yield that directory in VB DIR fails. MVPS.ORG routines for shlapi.dll fail unless that UNC is mapped to a drive letter. Need to validate that the path is valid with ...

Properties for DataList control

netsurfer802 - 26 Sep 2005 10:01 PM - 4 messages

Hello: I am getting some what frustrated trying to follow along with a book called Sams Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual Basic 6 in 24 Hours, and there is a section of it having to do with the DataList control pg. 103 that reads: ...

ActiveX server problem

Dan Ritchie - 26 Sep 2005 6:38 PM - 3 messages

I have created an ActiveX server exe and all is well, except, when the application starts, it's curdir is the System folder, and not the folder where the prorgram resides. I put a "ChDir App.Path" in my startup code, but sometimes I still get the ...

VB6 exe is slow on Machine with Win XP SP2

Mishi - 26 Sep 2005 6:33 PM - 8 messages

Hi, I am working on a VB6 Application which is working with MSAccess 2000. This application has been working for several years with Win98 and Win Xp Sp1. When we upgraded the OS to Win XP SP2 , the application's exe is running ...

Word automation questions (Using from VB6)

Robertico - 26 Sep 2005 5:19 PM - 11 messages

I'd like to create a new Ms Word document from my VB6 application using a template. I'am new using automation, so i have some questions. 1) I set a reference to my project "Microsoft Word 11.0 Object Library". ...

Help-debug problem after installing .net framework 1.1 SP1

ying - 26 Sep 2005 5:18 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I'm running VB6 SP6. After installing .net Framwork 1.1 SP1, any activity in vb debug mode becomes extremely slow - cannot insert breakpoint during debug, cannot highlight and add watch, cannot type in anything in the step-in code. ...

A word of caution about the \ operator

Dave - 26 Sep 2005 2:40 PM - 14 messages

I was fiddling around in the immediate window and found that the \ operator did not work in the way I had thought for example: 7.5 / 0.6 = 12.5 while: 7.5 \ 0.6 = 8 ...

Outlook 2003

Barry - 26 Sep 2005 2:17 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I developed an Application that sends email notifications using the current users mailbox. When this application was developed we were using Outlook 2000 and there was no problem. Now we have upgraded to Outlook 2003 and I can't get round the stupid ...

placing database connection in a class

steven scaife - 26 Sep 2005 12:31 PM - 4 messages

i am playing around with classes as its something i havent used before and would like a grounding in it before continuing to learn .net so i thought why not place all my database conenction details in a class so i can just include ...

End is bad, mmkay?

A. Ahola - 26 Sep 2005 12:09 PM - 15 messages

I was searching for something in this newsgroup and stumbled on an old thread of the end statement usage. The thread banned the use of End, but didnt explain throughly why. I learned VB6 only from reading code from a previous ...

Can someone please see what's wrong with my program?

Parker - 26 Sep 2005 12:06 PM - 3 messages

Hello all, I need to enumerate registry values and my program is not working. I am getting a good hkey, but my problems start with RegEnumValues. Firstly, this value crashes vb with a memory exception when I use the Ansi ...

Tracking down a memory leak

Griff - 26 Sep 2005 10:28 AM - 7 messages

We have a DTS package (VBScript) that contains an iterative loop. Within this loop, it will instantiate a DLL (VB6), call a method on this DLL and then set the instance to nothing. Within the DLL I have studiously tidied up all the in-memory objects; ...

cursor in text box

Kevin J Prince - 26 Sep 2005 7:12 AM - 4 messages

Can someone please remind me how to point at a particular point in a text box, (multiline). E.g. I have say 12000 words in a text file in a text box, how would I get the cursor to point at 8235th word and display in the current ...

populating the files to listview in dotnet(window app)

sreenuksr - 26 Sep 2005 5:59 AM - 2 messages

hi here i am sending some coding which is woking for web application. for web:- if (!IsPostBack) { String[] FileCollection; ...

calling function with dll files

angela_q - 26 Sep 2005 5:48 AM - 8 messages

i'm doin vb and smart card reader project. i.ve paste gsdkpcsc.dll on the my vb project folder also at c/windows.system32/drivers folder. i made my program but can't call the function. can u check my codes? ...

**calling function address**

R-M - 26 Sep 2005 4:57 AM - 12 messages

Hi Is it possible in VB6 to pass an address of a function to another function(like C)? Example: Y=F1(x) Z=F2(address of F1) any help would be thankful. ...

How do I create a VB dll this is usable in MS Access

Gary - 26 Sep 2005 12:57 AM - 4 messages

I thought this would have been easy. I've created a DLL with a couple of public and friend functions. I add reference to the dll in Access and then declare a variable as to that datatype. However, when I try and use it I ...

DictionaryBase stackoverflow

Andrew E Chapman - 26 Sep 2005 12:40 AM - 3 messages

Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong. A = a dictionarybase object of type B entries C = a class with a member of type B Class C .... private m_Bthing as B .... property Bthing as B .... end class I write: ...

Importing forms from Microsoft Access to VB .NET

Thelonious Monk - 25 Sep 2005 11:06 PM - 6 messages

Is it possible to convert Microsoft Access 2000 forms and import them into a Visual Basic .NET project? This may be a far-fetched question, but it sure would be nice to do. Thanks! ...

Please help me to debug the following routine

Jack - 25 Sep 2005 10:23 PM - 4 messages

The problem is that variable: oWaveFile is cleared in this code and I cannot find where. When I set watch value: oWaveFile = "" debugger stops at End If (marked below) but still I cannot see what makes oWaveFile an empty string. ...

How to access variables of Project1 from Project2

Nilkanth Desai - 25 Sep 2005 8:33 AM - 4 messages

Hi, I want a solution where I want to access project1's Purlic variables from project2. And both projects are from same solution. But as both the projects have their own memory stack I am not able to share memory variables ...

Unicode from XML - is it possible in VB6?

Emily - 25 Sep 2005 6:41 AM - 7 messages

Hi All, I have a unicode XML file - and I'm wondering, is it possible to display those strings, ANYWHERE, in VB6? They all end up garbled and odd characters. Can it be done? ...

Accessing password protected page

Steve - 25 Sep 2005 12:11 AM - 3 messages

I am after some asp code to access a password protected web page, navigate to a certain page and display the part of the contense of a table. Thanks Steve ...