Code Newsgroups: Visual Basic General Discussion

GetLastError returns value 6

Jack - 19 Nov 2005 9:44 PM - 3 messages

Hello, My code looks like that: rtn = ReadFile(ComHwnd, indata(1), 65536, nbr, ByVal 0&) rtn = GetLastError Function GetLastError returns 6. What is the meaning of that? Where can I find the all list of errors? ...

Directory Folder question

Les - 19 Nov 2005 9:23 PM - 7 messages

If I want to look for a bunch of files and they may exist in several folders under one folder, or they may all exist in one folder, is there an easy way of searching these out? I will have the end user select on the main folder ...

VB5.0 to VB6.0, And Access2000 Compability

Mattews - 19 Nov 2005 1:27 PM - 21 messages

I have a project about 90% done in VB 5.0 Im thinking about converting it to VB6.0 Is it worth the trouble? What advantages could I ger using 6.0 instead of 5.0?? And I want to use Access2000 for my database, so is it comaptible with ...

EPSON 2480 - DLL/OCX for VB

Marujju - 19 Nov 2005 12:55 PM - 3 messages

Hi there, to any one I'm developing a small program in Visual BASIC 6, to manage and control my collection of post-cards of ships. I own an EPSON 2840 Photo Scanner, and I was planing to use it to scan my ...

Windows Sokets (tcpclient) problem.

mulham.haffar - 19 Nov 2005 12:35 PM - 2 messages

hi.. im writing an application that uses tcpclient/tcplistener to send file via network, what im doing is dividing the file into small parts each part equals the buffer size (8192) and send the parts sequentialy. the problem is : the listener is detecting a stream to be read once every two times the ...

listview refresh problems

.:alex:. - 19 Nov 2005 11:09 AM - 7 messages

Hello, I got some problems. I'm having a ListView inside a PictureBox. Everything works Ok most of the time. But now and then Windows forgets to refresh the ListView. For instance this will happen if I place any window over my application and then remove/minimize it. I ...

Caching a ADODB.Connection

Alastair MacFarlane - 19 Nov 2005 11:05 AM - 3 messages

Dear All, I am creating a single user VB/ Jet Database and I was wondering if anyone had any advice on whether it is better to cache a connection object for the duration of the application or is it better to open and close when needed. ...

restric internet browsing

Cmaz - 19 Nov 2005 7:42 AM - 7 messages

How to restrict user to browse (using any browser,IE,FF....) only specified sites in the internet using VB6.( :) apart from using fire walls). ...

** User-Defined DLL**

R-M - 19 Nov 2005 7:15 AM - 2 messages

Hi I defined a DLL project and in design mode I have no problem in using it after having both in a group project and the program execute successfully. Is there anyway to have this .DLL in runtime (after compiling) without ...

Default printer being changed with Common dialog

Kjell - 18 Nov 2005 11:23 PM - 10 messages

Hi I'm having problem using the Common dialog (Printing dialog) If the user is picking another printer for the print job it also affects "Default printer" selection wich is not very nice. I'm sure I have seen an article about this long time ago but I cannot find ...

Returning an error code from a console application.

Grant Smith - 18 Nov 2005 10:29 PM - 3 messages

OK... I need a simple way to throw an error code to the operating system in a VB.NET Console application. Return is not allowed. Any ideas? Thanks, ...

OT: Is a newsgroup for...

Ben - 18 Nov 2005 10:22 PM - 5 messages

Hi all, I was wondering is there a newsgroup specifically for each of the following: VBScript JScript If there is, please share with me the url. Thanks. Ben ...

VB Front End App - Street Index Query with file opening triggers or Hyperlinks

Diesel_Ted - 18 Nov 2005 9:16 PM - 2 messages

I am trying to create a VB application front end that reads an Access MDB database. It must allow the user to query buy typing in the House Number, Street Name and City and interactively filter through the database and display the record. The House Numbers are stored as a ...

Small Visual Basic Program to export data from dbf files

allenflame - 18 Nov 2005 8:51 PM - 2 messages

I'm trying to save some old information in old dbf files. The files have different information but they have one common field, customerid. Is there a way I can join these two files, say give me this data from ...

Rundll32.exe To Send Mail?

Arpan - 18 Nov 2005 8:33 PM - 2 messages

Before proceeding, please note that I had posted another question on this very topic about 2-3 days back but as already said, this post is somewhat different though it's related to the same topic. I am using the following code to open a new message window of the ...

Side-by-side execution.

Frank Rizzo - 18 Nov 2005 8:16 PM - 3 messages

Windows 2000/Win98SE and up support the concept of side-by-side execution, where you can dump all the DLLs into the application directory and the application will just use them from there. This means that I don't have to register DLLs in windows/system32 folder, thus ...

2 modem with Mscomm

alireza - 18 Nov 2005 7:39 PM - 3 messages

I install two modem on my pc in (port 3,4) and i want to work with Mscomm on them But its impossible or (i cant) open them on one time (together) please if you can descriaip for me... thenks ...

Form Events hidden by RichEditBox Control

Eric - 18 Nov 2005 7:11 PM - 4 messages

I changed a TextBox control to a RichTextBox (RTB) control when some text we were using exceeded the 64k limitation. Now, the form no longer responds to key events. I have four combo boxes, three text boxes, the new RTB and three buttons on the form. When am in any ...

FTP-ing files using vb6 codes

Ben - 18 Nov 2005 6:18 PM - 6 messages

This was posted earlier in October by another user using dotNet. But I am running into a similar situation but I am using VB6. I have need to make my Windows Application be able to 1) login and authenticate to an FTP site 2) upload a (series of ) files to that site ...

Common dialog .Flags values

Kjell - 18 Nov 2005 4:36 PM - 6 messages

Hi Regarding the .Flags property when using Common Dialog. How can I evaluate the returned value in best practice? For example: let say I set the .Flags = cdlPDReturnDC Or cdlPDNoPageNums which is &H108 (264) and the user selects "Print to file" option; ...

want VB6 to edits Excel in background and not become visible when I open another excel file

Zee - 18 Nov 2005 2:53 PM - 7 messages

I currently load an excel file using VB6 as below: Set oExcel = CreateObject("excel.application") Set oBook = oExcel.Workbooks.Open(sMyFile) Set oSheet = oBook.Sheets(1) oSheet.cells(1,1)=... ...

ActiveX Documents + Terminal Services

Steelpac Support - 18 Nov 2005 12:39 PM - 7 messages

Some time ago (years now) i developed an internal project management tool using ActiveX documents (VBD Files) for a customer of mine. Until recently all was working fine as all users were based at the office and accessed the system through a mapped drive. We have since moved them into accessing the ...

Enum Help

Alastair MacFarlane - 18 Nov 2005 9:31 AM - 9 messages

Dear All, I have created a basic Public Enum in a Public module with a function that uses this Enum in the same Module. I then called this Function as below (setupMainFormDimens(Big)) and sometimes VB says that this variable i.e. Big ...

Early-bound

Wagon - 18 Nov 2005 7:38 AM - 11 messages

I must be a dumb newbie. I read help three time and do not understand the concept of early and late bound objects . I use use MS fixit to verify that I have followed "good programing practices" and get the ...

about api ??

angelito tan - 18 Nov 2005 5:21 AM - 4 messages

hi to all !! i just want to ask what / where site can i get the list of the meaning of all api function ?? i'm been searching it in the net but no site satisfied my needs .. hope someone will give me a good answer ...

Combo Box Question

Alastair MacFarlane - 18 Nov 2005 5:05 AM - 5 messages

Dear All, I have added a combo Box to the Datagrid and I was wondering if there was a way of increasing the width of the combobox dropdown area to expand to fit the length of the longest value (by calculation or by me setting the value). ...

Size of userform

inquirer - 18 Nov 2005 3:42 AM - 5 messages

I have a userform which I designed on a 19" screen and it is fine - it takes up nearly all the screen height. When I put it on my 15" laptop screen, the form does not fit - I can not ...

Other NGs?

Kevin Provance - 18 Nov 2005 12:30 AM - 12 messages

Hey troops, What other VB type boards are there off MS's server that you guys frequent? - Kev ...

How to set directory to current directoy

Bob Richardson - 18 Nov 2005 12:12 AM - 5 messages

I want to Shell to another application. The other app is in the same folder as my MDB Access DB, which is the "BW" subfolder of "My Documents" When I msgbox curdir, it prints out the path to "My Documents", not "My ...

End a taks by its exe name

Abhishek - 17 Nov 2005 11:32 PM - 7 messages

hi, how can i end a task by its exe name, for example if i send "notepad.exe" as parameter it will close notepad. thanks, AB ...

Kick off job on-the-fly

Test Test - 17 Nov 2005 10:17 PM - 3 messages

Hello! I have a scheduled job that executes a DTS package. The job is scheduled to run at midnight everyday. This process is working fine. We want users to be able to run this process at real time. What it means that we are ...

Converting Access 2003 to VB 2005 Express

TwinDad - 17 Nov 2005 8:09 PM - 6 messages

Does anyone have a tool(s) that can allow me to Convert all of the stuff that I worked on in Access and push to VB2K5? I have VB scripts that Link and query numerous thisng and to Re-Write them ...

Continuous Forms

TwinDad - 17 Nov 2005 8:06 PM - 4 messages

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to create Continuous Forms in VB 2005? I was able to do them in Access, but it seems that I cannot figure it out in VB2K5. any help is appreciated. -The Novice ...

VB6 Generating Lots of Network Traffic

Rodrigo - 17 Nov 2005 6:43 PM - 8 messages

Hello all. I have a software written in VB6, running in about 80 machines at the same time. The EXEs are located in a file server, and all the machines run the software via a network share. The main EXE is about 3MB, and it uses a couple ...

copying string "A" to string "B" using a pointer to string B

caroline - 17 Nov 2005 5:14 PM - 4 messages

Hi, I have a pointer to a string which is in form of a long retuned from StrPtr() function (not a variable to which the string has been assigned),, and I need to assign another string to the original string ...

What behind DoEvents?

Andrew - 17 Nov 2005 5:00 PM - 3 messages

Hello, friends, I am very curious about what behind DoEvents? It call WINAPI Sleep() to wait, or it temporarily releases CPU for other threads (and how?), or something else? Any reference paper/articles? Thanks a lot. ...

conditional expressions?

Les Stockton - 17 Nov 2005 4:16 PM - 5 messages

How can I do a conditional assignment in VB6, like the following one that can be done in C/C++? j = (i < 0) ? (-i) : (i) This essentially does an Abs(i), but I want the same ability to do this type ...

ProgId Too Long

madfisher - 17 Nov 2005 4:05 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I am trying to get access to A COM object where the ProgId is longer than the max of 39 characters. Is there a way around this? I don't have access to change the name. Can I access it using the GUID instead? ...

Get Warnings because of Virus Prot S/W while running .vbs script f

Dipin Chandra - 17 Nov 2005 2:27 PM - 4 messages

Hi, We are getting warning popups while running .vbs scripts in Windows XP because of the Virus protection software. Can you please advise, if signing the .vsb scripts will get rid of the warning popups. If so, what signing tool ...

Automation error calling in-process DLL

Chris - 17 Nov 2005 1:21 PM - 5 messages

"The callee (server [not server application]) is not available and disappeared; all connections are invalid. The call may have executed. " I have a VB6 ActiveX EXE (Thread pool=1) that randomly encounters the above error calling any method of a particular late bound object. The object is ...

How do I set the PictureBox Background to Transparent? VB6.0

Mattews - 17 Nov 2005 10:39 AM - 8 messages

I got this image that is a mug, and its background is alpha. But when I use it in a picture box, it background is Grey, or black.. of the color I choose. It needs to be transparent, to show any stuff behind it. ...

Do we have Sleep() in VB?

Andrew - 17 Nov 2005 3:43 AM - 2 messages

Hello, friends, I need to have VB code to stop execution for 1 second, not only DoEvents. Do we have a Sleep() function in VB like in C++? Thanks. ...

VB6 to Vb.net

Wagon - 17 Nov 2005 3:02 AM - 11 messages

I have an old vb6 application that I would like to convert to .net. It had a number (ie A LOT) of for loops that start at 1 instead of 0. Is there a program that can help me automate the processs of rewring ...

text substitution function

eli silverman - 17 Nov 2005 2:45 AM - 4 messages

Is there a function wthin VB6 such as substiute(str1, str2, str3) that can search str1 and replace all instances of str2 with str3? ex substitute("hello mr %client%. How are you?","%client%","silverman") would return "hello mr silverman. How are you?" ...

Passing ComboBox as Argument produces errors

Elmo Watson - 17 Nov 2005 2:20 AM - 3 messages

I've got this sub - Public Sub GetSettings(sApp as String, AppCmbo as ComboBox, CSCmbo as ComboBox) .......blah blah blah End Sub then, I try to call it: GetSettings "myString", "CmbName", "OtherCmbName" But I get Type Mismatch errors - I change the cmbobox arguments to ByRef - and still get it ...

Creating, Deleting and Set as Defualt printers in VB .Net

Lokiarmos - 17 Nov 2005 2:06 AM - 2 messages

I was wondering how in .net you can create printers, delete printers and set a printer as defualt. i am looking at a ways i can simplify a few things within my workplace and i am wanting to make a application that could communicate to a sql data and ...

Access NewsGroups in MS-Outlook using VB!

Arpan - 16 Nov 2005 11:03 PM - 8 messages

A VB6 Form has a ComboBox with 2 options - Outlook Express & MS-Outlook & a CommandButton. What I want to do is if a user selects Outlook Express from the ComboBox & then clicks the CommandButton, Outlook Express should open & the user should be directly taken to the ...

Creating VB-like programming interface

spyd3r - 16 Nov 2005 10:40 PM - 4 messages

This may be too general of a question, but... What I'd like to do is, using VB6, create a programming interface for a proprietary programming language that I use. I'd like an interface very similar to VB's interface, the key items being: ...

Resource File Question

Mike - 16 Nov 2005 9:33 PM - 3 messages

Hello, I have a resource file with custom data in custom sections (not bitmaps, icons, cursors, etc). Is there a way to enumerate everything in a resource file. I would like to make an automated routine that lists everything in the resource ...

Open MS-Outlook's New Message Window!

Arpan - 16 Nov 2005 9:25 PM - 3 messages

ShellExecute hWnd, "open", "mailto:", vbNullString, vbNullString, vbMaximizedFocus The above code opens the 'New Message' window of OUTLOOK EXPRESS so that one can compose & send a message. NOTE THAT THE ABOVE CODE DOESN'T OPEN THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK EXPRESS APPLICATION (where one can see the ...

Post to a web page via VB

joltman - 16 Nov 2005 8:57 PM - 3 messages

I looked around and didn't really find what I was looking for, so hopefully someone here can help. What I want to do is push a button a VB app which will post data to a webpage and show me that webpage in a web browser. In other words, I ...

Karl Peterson - Help with previous post?

Ed - 16 Nov 2005 8:03 PM - 14 messages

Karl - you responded to me in word.vba.general about finding every instance of Word. The thread is [link] I set up FindPart5 as a VB6 project, but am having great difficulty making it work, due to the fact that I am a complete novice. The form launches and ...

Component for extract files from a multitiff

Cesar Ronchese - 16 Nov 2005 7:37 PM - 4 messages

Hello All. Someone knows any component I can use (free or no) to extract the tiff files from a multitiff file? Must be a component, so I can use a full error handling. Thx for advance! []s Cesar ...

Serial Port In Uuse

Lorin - 16 Nov 2005 6:20 PM - 4 messages

VB app works fine on one PC. Another PC reports Serial Port in use by another device. Each PC has only one serial port. How do I find who/what has the serial port? Can I find this thru VB? ...

project anlyzer for VB6

Cmaz - 16 Nov 2005 4:59 PM - 3 messages

which is the best project anlyzer for VB6 (Gui with "connection lines" for statements (IF-ELSE-ENDIF,FOR-NEXT........etc) hope this explains Thank you ...

ADO Recordlocking not working

Marvin van Dongen - 16 Nov 2005 4:05 PM - 7 messages

Hello, I'm connecting to an Acces DB, in a Multi user environment. I've set up a basic example shown below, to test my recordlocking. The rs2 connection SHOULD fail, because that same record is already opened. However, i'm still ...

VB6 Error Handling Strategy

Peter Plumber - 16 Nov 2005 2:01 PM - 6 messages

Hi, We have a rather large VB6-Application with unsatisfying Error-Handling. It is a mixture of countinouos err.Raise and Return-Values the indicate Error Trying to get it right, we found that we want to include automatic logging of the error (which shall be possible to disable with one flag) ...

Pre-defined code in vb6?

hfnet - 16 Nov 2005 10:50 AM - 2 messages

I saw someone paste some pre-defined code into a module in vb6, but can't remember how they got the code to come up in the first place. How is this done? Thanks ...

read Excel xls file without running Excel

mscir - 16 Nov 2005 9:32 AM - 5 messages

I'd like to read the data starting at a specified row in 2 specified columns in an xls file, without running Excel. Is it possible to do this with just a reference to the Excel Object Library? ...

Adodc1_RecordsetChangeComplete

jack - 16 Nov 2005 7:16 AM - 2 messages

I want to use this event but dont know how to do this as this is showing some error Adodc1_RecordsetChangeComplete I wanted to updated another recordset as soon as the theupdate is done to this one i.e the one which is there in this Adodc1 object ...

Can I get this discussions in my OUTLOOK

Amit Mohod - 16 Nov 2005 5:10 AM - 8 messages

Hi all Can any one tell me how can i get the discussions in this gruop to my outlook express? Is it possible at all ? and if yes how can I do that? thnx in advance. ...

Cannot Embed excel file with OLE (vb6)

potvin - 15 Nov 2005 11:07 PM - 4 messages

Hi, I am trying to read an excel file (one sheet only) with about 70 lines and 6 columns of data using OLE. My problem is that I cannot read all the 70 lines, it stops reading around the line 50 or so. Is anybody ...

Loop Nodes

Alastair MacFarlane - 15 Nov 2005 9:05 PM - 4 messages

Dear All, I apologise if the layout of this function is "all over the place" but it did not paste in very well. I am trying to create a function that will loop through all the nodes and set focus on the node that has the desired ...

Serial Dates and Averaging Values

ChrisM - 15 Nov 2005 8:05 PM - 2 messages

Hi all, I have two spreadsheets. The first spreadsheet contains two columns, one for start date/time (in serial format) and the second for stop date/time (in serial format). The second spreadsheet contains two columns. One containing a serial ...

Line Numbers

Alastair MacFarlane - 15 Nov 2005 7:28 PM - 10 messages

Dear All, Thanks Tony for the "Error Call Stack" reply but this post is on a related though different subject, so I felt it merited another Message Trail. I would like to add line numbers to my test application but is there a way ...

Concvert Hex value to 32 bit value

Jeanine - 15 Nov 2005 6:22 PM - 9 messages

How can i convert a hex value e.g. 91 to a 32 bit value and vv. Jeanine ...

WaitForSingleObject timesout after Mutex is released

guxu - 15 Nov 2005 5:34 PM - 5 messages

I thought WaitForSingleObject should succeed after the mutex is released, however, it kept returning error 258 (timeout). I was wondering why? One copy of .exe creates a mutex and stays running. Then I start a 2nd copy which opens the mutex and waits for the mutex ...

Exporting Crystal Reports 8.0 to PDF

Test Test - 15 Nov 2005 4:52 PM - 5 messages

Hello! Is there a way to export Crystal Report 8.0 to PDF format? I know Crystal 8.0 does not support PDF but I was wondering if I can copy DLL files (from Crystal 9.0) that support PDF and try to make it work. Is ...

How to sort Scandinavian letters using recordsets

nostradamus - 15 Nov 2005 4:27 PM - 2 messages

Hi! We're using independent recordsets for various tasks in ASP/VBScript. Set rsRecords = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset") rsRecords.Fields.Append "Name" , adVarChar, 255, adFldUpdatable rsRecords.Fields.Append "Country", adVarChar, 255, adFldUpdatable rstRecords.Open , , adOpenDynamic After populating the recordset with values we apply the Sort method: ...

How to display Unicode character?

Andrew - 15 Nov 2005 3:12 PM - 5 messages

Hello, friends, We hava serveral forms used for by our Asian offices in our app. How do I display those Asian Unicode characters in VB if I know their Unicode values already? Any sample source code, and reference papers? Thanks a lot. ...

How do i make this function recursive?

Chris Asaipillai - 15 Nov 2005 3:02 PM - 4 messages

I have a function which I want to use to go through a list of folders on a network drive and list all MS Access databases stored. The function starts ok at the root folder ie (\\woody\e$) but it searchs the top level folders as follows: ...

Out of memory error system.drawing.dll

Mike Voissem - 15 Nov 2005 2:26 PM - 3 messages

I'm trying to create thumbnails from an image. The following code throws a "out of memory" error in the "system.drawing.dll". The file that it's trying to work with is only 3kb. I have rebooted the machine, but still throws ...

program too big to fit in memory

Abdhul Saleem - 15 Nov 2005 2:12 PM - 2 messages

Hi, When I execute an exe from Dos prompt, I receive a message / error "program too big to fit in memory". I have some frm files alone along with the exe. But when opening them, they open in a module and I couldn't find any coding. ...

run Time Error 91 for MSFlexGrid1.DataSource = rst

jack - 15 Nov 2005 9:08 AM - 3 messages

Guys Guys Guys This might be not new for you all out there neither for me but. still not able to carck this one when im trying to asign the recoprdset to the flex grid this is givign ...

How do I Set Windows Logon User in VB 6.0

chin_yen83 - 15 Nov 2005 9:05 AM - 6 messages

I want to develop a program to read some file in certain directory... but I don't want anyone could access those directory... For Example Station A - for User A Station B - for user B A could access those file but B is forbiden. ...

Counter in DataReport

jack - 15 Nov 2005 6:38 AM - 6 messages

Hi guys in working with datareport I facing a difficulty in accessign thetext boxes of the datareport i think the datareport textboxes cant be accessed indivisually what i actually want is im creating a report for the list of the particulat category ...

Payroll Calculations

wendy - 15 Nov 2005 3:12 AM - 4 messages

There are different pay rates for different employees. Each employee inputs their Time In and Time Out and the dates worked. Standard rate is from 8 am - 4 pm Monday to Friday. Outside of this window is Overtime Hours including Holidays. ...

How to handle a DWORD data type in VB?

Andrew - 15 Nov 2005 1:57 AM - 8 messages

Hello, friends, In a Text field of our Access DB, we have DWORD (unsigned integer) data stored in Hex as a string. e.g. "&HD2BB" We need to assign it to an integer variable in VB code. However, in VB, the ...

MSForms in VB6.0 Project - Cannot Quit

Gman - 15 Nov 2005 1:30 AM - 16 messages

Hi, I have a application developed in VB6.0 that incorporates some MSForms (originally created in Excel) - they appear as ActiveX Designers in Project Explorer. I have suddenly noticed that if I shutdown or logoff my Windows session (both XP and win2K) the application will not close. I ...

How to pass a 2-D array into a function?

Andrew - 15 Nov 2005 1:20 AM - 22 messages

Hello, friends, I have a 2-D array: Dim bcdeptID(24, 99) As Integer Now I need to pass it into a function defined as: Function GetNewValue(strVal As String, mBcdeptID() As Integer) As Boolean where mBcdeptID() is a 1-D array. However, when I programmed as: ...

Problem reading from a text file

Ian Davies - 15 Nov 2005 12:50 AM - 7 messages

Hello I have the following code which reads lines from a text file The text file's lines are in two sections (sql statements and image file names) eg Insert into table bla bla bla; Insert into table bla bla bla; ...

Menus always need resetting

Jim - 14 Nov 2005 11:02 PM - 8 messages

My VB6 pulldown menus constantly need resetting by right clicking the tool bar, then Customize and then I select the standard and menu toolbar to reset and they come back. I do have MZ Tools and SmartIndenter installed. Maybe ...

evaluating simple mathematical expressions

Suz - 14 Nov 2005 8:54 PM - 11 messages

I've got a bunch of truly fractional expressions, i.e. "5/16" that are Strings (be it from a database lookup or a user interface object such as a listbox). What is the simplest way of converting a fractional string like "5/16" to a ...

PrintForm not printing shapes/graphics

ronstone - 14 Nov 2005 6:33 PM - 4 messages

Hello, I have a form with multiple text boxes and a some shapes used to plot a graph. when the printform method is called, the form prints with the textbox controls, but the lines and circles plotted on the ...

Permission errors in DCOM - app appears twice

Maury Markowitz - 14 Nov 2005 4:49 PM - 22 messages

I have written a small data collection application in VA which we call remotely via DCOM from a number of VBA apps in Access and Excel. I installed a new version of the application on Friday, and since then any attempt to ...

Error Call Stack

Alastair MacFarlane - 14 Nov 2005 4:39 PM - 2 messages

Dear All, I like a feature in a another piece of software that logs not only the errors but the call stack, displaying the sub-routines called from a client action to the moment the error was called. Is there a simple way to do this ...

Applications of Datediff Function

ChrisM - 14 Nov 2005 4:14 PM - 2 messages

Hi all, My spreadsheet contains a matrix of data in four columns by approximately 600 rows. The data is structured as follows: column A = start date column B = start time column c = stop date column d = stop time Each one of the 600 hundred rows contains a different set of start/stop ...

System Time Bomb

Alastair MacFarlane - 14 Nov 2005 4:11 PM - 10 messages

Dear All, What is the recommendation of the group for building in a time bomb into a system (out on test/approval) that requires a client key to be entered to allow the system operate after 90 days? This will be used to ensure the ...

Way to handle logic test...could be OT

YYZ - 14 Nov 2005 3:36 PM - 8 messages

I'm the lone IT guy in a company right now, and I'm sorely missing the ability to bounce ideas off of my peers. Can someone help me out if you have time? I'm writing a "Decision Engine" -- basically, you input a set of values ...

Mail in Stand Alone C# Application

psathishreddy - 14 Nov 2005 3:21 PM - 2 messages

hi I am working on a C# console application to send mails. In ASP.NET i could use System.Web.Mail. What can i use here to work on mailing. Can any one please advice me or post some sample code on how to send mails in C# console application. ...

Re: SharpZipLib & Blocked File

westleyl - 14 Nov 2005 2:58 PM - 2 messages

I have posted this on a few sites including the SharpDevelop forums, so forgive me if this is a repetition; ------------------------ The free C# ZIP library ([link]) is ...

Instr equivalent with wildcards

Dave - 14 Nov 2005 2:10 PM - 8 messages

Hi I don't particually want to waste time re-inventing the wheel so does anybody know of an Instr equivalent which supports wildcards? Best Regards Dave O. ...

Run-Time error 7(Out of Memory)

harshaprabhu - 14 Nov 2005 12:26 PM - 4 messages

Hi friends I am working on VB6 application. I am getting runtime error 7(out of Memory) when I tried to click open the Button. Following are the info I can give for reference. #1. when I run it through source code there wont be problem. ...

Hide Reader window when printing from command line

fedespillo - 14 Nov 2005 10:25 AM - 5 messages

When I try to print a pdf from VB using shell with /t option, Reader (AcroRd32) opens, his window come on top for a few second, launch the print process, then disappear. But since my VB program is used to print many PDF without user ...

How to set printer.........

Bpk. Adi Wira Kusuma - 14 Nov 2005 9:55 AM - 3 messages

How to set printer of my list printer at my computer so the printer is default printer? ...

VB Source code in 98 vs. XP

Amit Mohod - 14 Nov 2005 8:31 AM - 63 messages

My problem is with Source code it self and not in installation. I developed an application using VB6 on windows XP machine. Later I installed SP6 for VB6. The Application is running fine. But now I want to open the Porject on the machine having Windows 98. And ...

Run VB6 .exe on server from a remote machine on same network; db is SQL Server 2000

L Mehl - 14 Nov 2005 5:26 AM - 6 messages

Hello -- Please advise if there is a more appropriate group for this post. I don't have the networking skills to solve this problem, and need some help. The exe and the SQL Server 2000 db are both located on the server (Win 2003 ...

I'd like a programmer's perspective on this Internet Explorer error

Bookreader - 14 Nov 2005 3:01 AM - 7 messages

I've just upgraded my IE 6.0 with all updates from Microsoft. On almost every page I visit now, I get an error message about objects, generally that an object is expected. Does anybody else get this a lot? ...

Datagrid and wordwrap on a column

Larry - 13 Nov 2005 10:19 PM - 4 messages

How do I set up the datagrid on a line by line code basis to determine which columns that should have wordwrap capabilities? I want column 2, 4, and 6 to have wordwrap capabilities. how do I code it up? ...

Redraw problem

Alastair MacFarlane - 13 Nov 2005 7:56 PM - 4 messages

Dear All, I have created a popup menu on a Treeview and after it has been display and cleared it leaves a grey rectangular un-redrawn area. Is there any way to force the redraw of the treeview control? Private Sub tvwFees_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, x As ...

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