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Score VB App fails when log reaches 65536
CrownMan - 14 Mar 2009 10:08 PM - 28 messages
Greetings, We purchased a VB tool that reads records from SQL Server for reporting purposes, but the tool fails, due to restriction in writing to the log file – which appears that it can only accommodate only 65536 rows only. ...
Score http request
tourerukcom - 14 Mar 2009 8:17 PM - 2 messages
Hi Im developing an active x control for web site that reads data from a serial port. I want to then send the data field to a web page using the post method is there away of doing this from within the active x ...
Score HOW IS Memory Used by a VB App
David - 14 Mar 2009 3:24 PM - 22 messages
How is memory used by a compiled VB application? For example: 1) Is the entire program (Forms, Module, Classes, DLL;s loaded into memory when the application is initially started? -- OR - 2) Is just the StartUp Form, Modules, and Classes loaded into memory and all ...
Score vb.net executing on
douglas - 14 Mar 2009 2:54 AM - 21 messages
Can Visual Basic.net professional  2005 edition (Visual Studio.Net 2005 professional edition be installed on a Vista Home computer operating system? If so, is there anything) I should be aware of?   If not, can you tell me why Visual Basic.net professional  2005 edition  ...
Score moving controls around on a form
Scott Baxter - 14 Mar 2009 2:49 AM - 3 messages
Hello, I put a web browser control and a label on a form in visual studio 8. How do I put them in the locations I want without having to write code? They take up the whole screen (webbrowser) and won't budge. ...
Score Internal String Visibility
Lorin - 14 Mar 2009 12:50 AM - 12 messages
I would like to garble a const string so that someone cannot search for and change the string in the .exe easily. Is here an easy way to generate the garbled string outside of the IDE to copy into a const string, then ungarble it in the app when I am about to ...
Score ShellExecute - What is the hwnd for?
Ulf Christenson - 13 Mar 2009 11:11 PM - 3 messages
Hello! Can somebody tell me what the Hwnd parameter is good for? I tried to call the ShellExecute function so that is doesn't have anything to do with my application. I use a function to bring my application to the foreground and have it ...
Score IDE Control Sizes
Bee - 13 Mar 2009 10:53 PM - 2 messages
I see that my toolbar and listbox change size on the form in the IDE from time to time without my understanding why. The toolbar seems to get correct when running, but the listbox does not. I know that the listbox size is in increments of line height. ...
Score Help with Binary Compatibility
Al Reid - 13 Mar 2009 6:25 PM - 21 messages
Visual Basic 6 SP 5 I have a DLL project that was compiled in December 2008.  At that time a copy of the DLL was put into a "Reference Build" folder and binary compatibility was set in the project properties "components" tab.  I needed ...
Score Fonts
Bee - 13 Mar 2009 3:44 PM - 20 messages
What fonts are universal? e.g. if I want to use Arial or Lucida (monospaced) font, will it be there on all PCs? If a font is not there will it default to some other similar font with the same size and style? ...
Score Simple VB6 App in Windows XP, Runs great as Admin, but Faults as User
bitpusher1010 - 13 Mar 2009 3:27 PM - 4 messages
I'm trying to see if I can make my extremely simple vb6 app install/run smoothly in XP as a USER not an ADMINISTRATOR.  I first want to focus on simply running the vb6 app.  I install it by first installing as an admin. ...
Score References Missing:yadda
Bee - 13 Mar 2009 2:12 PM - 3 messages
I work on my VB6 app on my home Vista Ultimate PC and also take it on the road with my XP laptop. I copy all project files over via a pen drive. I have a reference to a file in the project C:\Program Files\Debug\Debug.exe ...
Score How to preview text file like DOS command TYPE
John S - 13 Mar 2009 11:45 AM - 4 messages
Hello All, How to preview text file so that every characters have the same width. Like using DOS command TYPE Could you help me Thanks John *** Sent via Developersdex [link] *** ...
Score Can I loop through only SELECTED items in a multi-select FileListBox?
MM - 13 Mar 2009 10:39 AM - 9 messages
At present I'm looping through all files and testing if File1.Selected(i) But if only a few files are selected, that's a lot of redundant testing wasted. It would be much better if I could loop through ONLY the selected ...
Score (OT) false positives on my files
Eduardo - 13 Mar 2009 4:04 AM - 15 messages
OT or not OT, I don't know. Antivirus, malware scanners and Google are driving me crazy. I'm having problems because Google is showing a warning page when the people try to download my products from my site (this is an attacker site, in big ...
Score Crypto
Lorin - 13 Mar 2009 1:56 AM - 2 messages
Using VB6 to develope a program that uses Window Crypto functionality. Do all Windows, foreign and domestic have that functionality? What are the limitations? I do not believe that there is anything added to the Packager that would provide Crypto if Windows does not already have it. ...
Score Multiple user textbox updates (real-time)
Cappy - 13 Mar 2009 1:07 AM - 2 messages
Is it possible to update textbox text from 2 or more users (seamlessly)? If needed, can anyone recommend a good starting point for writing a custom control that can do this? I tried using setScrollPosition after updating my text but the text doesn't seem to scroll (only the bar moves).  I'd like to ...
Score Should I distribute Winsock?
Kathy - 13 Mar 2009 12:17 AM - 10 messages
Hello,              I have assumed that Winsock.ocx is an integral part of Windows, but apparently it is not, I have received this message from the user: Run-time error '339': ...
Score Source code path info embeded in compiled dll?
Jirong Hu - 12 Mar 2009 8:58 PM - 2 messages
Hi Please take a look at the image in this link. This is a huge problem for build. The path in green is where the build picks up the source code. The C:\build_views\build_v70r3\ is a path to a ClearCase view, different projects ...
Score Help an old timer's failing memory...
Rick Rothstein - 12 Mar 2009 7:47 PM - 4 messages
I'm in the process of reinstalling everything after a total failure of my system (my warranty replaced my motherboard, both hard drives and both optical drives in order to solve the problems). Anyway, I just reinstalled VB6 and I remember there was something I did to my old system which I can't ...
Score Visual Basic Express 2008 Custom Error Message
Cass - 12 Mar 2009 5:01 PM - 5 messages
I've programmed an autorun program. I would like to create a custom error message when a person clicks on a button & the file is not in the directory. For example, the code for a button looks like this: ...
Score Dynamic function calls
Roland Grothe - 12 Mar 2009 10:36 AM - 7 messages
Hello. I'm anewbie to .Net, but I work with Access and VB6 for quite a while. Following Problem: How can I call a funktion dymacally, something like this Public Function Test1() Returns 1 End Function Public Function Test2() Returns 2 ...
Score converting from basic to vb6
Viper900 - 12 Mar 2009 1:00 AM - 10 messages
Hi Can someone convert this code to vb6 Please data 153, 150, 102 105,102,150,153,105 for a=1 to4:read var1(a):next for a=1 to4:read var2(a):next some code for a = 1to 12 ...
Score Problem with Display information in Labels
Privado - 11 Mar 2009 11:26 PM - 2 messages
Hi there, I have develop an utility to scan through all the icons I have in my computer in order to iliminate the ones that are identical. The utility has a file control which holds the icon filenames. Then it runs ...
Score Copying array elements
Chris D - 11 Mar 2009 9:14 PM - 33 messages
Hi all, In my app, I use an array (one dimension) to store a lot of variables during processing. the number of variables may rise to 100000. Now during that process, I have to pass variables from one range to ...
Score Convert statements from VB 2008 to 2003?
Frank - 11 Mar 2009 8:59 PM - 7 messages
How do I convert these statements from Visual Basic 2008 to Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2003? Namespace IVSSEventHandlerxx      <ProgId("SourceSafe.Changes")> _      <Guid("eeeeeeee-ffff-1111-2222-cccccccccccc")> _ ...
Score Learning VBA
PSULionRP - 11 Mar 2009 6:46 PM - 2 messages
I am new to the VB and VBA world. Does anyone have any good web sites or books that they have read and would recommend for ramping up on VB and VBA fairly quickly? Any help or suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. ...
Score Where to store database login information in VB6
IVP - 11 Mar 2009 6:35 PM - 6 messages
I am new to development and I am looking for some pointers. I have a sql 2000 database and a vb6 app although the answer could still apply to sql 2008 and vb.net I suppose. Right now the SQL username and password to connect to the ...
Score MS To VB6 Devs 'shame on you'
Abhishek - 11 Mar 2009 5:40 PM - 3 messages
[link] "If you haven't converted all your apps to .Net, shame on you" ...
Score VB6 - How to convert PDF to text ?
Tom - 11 Mar 2009 4:40 PM - 2 messages
Hi I want to write a VB6 application that would get all the text buffers from a pdf file. {without buying a 3rd party control} Can anyone help ? 10x, Dan ...
Score Monitor Reg
Bee - 11 Mar 2009 3:42 PM - 3 messages
I have some code that monitors file operations, create etc, but how do I monitor Reg operations? I would like to record changes to the Reg from any Windows application. And if possible, I might like to intercept a change and deny it like Spybot ...
Score Option buttons become black - no text shown
chris - 11 Mar 2009 2:39 PM - 7 messages
I created an activeX DLL in VB6 with a form having checkboxes & option buttons. When opeing this form (of DLL) in MSAccess 2007, option buttons on frames became black. If I change their style to be Graphical it is ok. ...
Score Is one color brighter than the other one?
Ulf Christenson - 11 Mar 2009 12:02 PM - 7 messages
Hello! In my application (it's a very graphic related application for children) the user can set the colors of the buttons by himself. The user can set two colors which will fade into each other from top to bottom. My initial idea was that the upper color should be brighter than ...
Score Procedure limit for Form?
C Kevin Provance - 10 Mar 2009 9:49 PM - 11 messages
I've got a strange thing going on here.  Occasionally I have a form that will not load, kicking back a runtime error 0 in the IDE.  Here is the odd part, it triggers on the call to load (or show, it doesn't matter) that form ...
Score The blessed Office 2007 pre-install trial version!
Laphan - 10 Mar 2009 9:16 PM - 2 messages
Hi All I'm using a VB6 app to connect to MS Word and produce/populate a lovely doc of Word type origins. This worked fine when the user simply installed Office 2000, 2003, etc onto their laptop, but a number of laptops are coming with an Office 2007 trial ...
Score Save a Worksheet in Excel to a Master Workbook
Bobzter100 - 10 Mar 2009 7:06 PM - 4 messages
Hi Can anyone supply the macro VB code to save a weekly excel worksheet to a Master Workbook? The worksheet is created weekly on my C: drive and I want to append each weekly sheet to the Master Workbook on the Network drive. ...
Score config file
Mike - 10 Mar 2009 6:13 PM - 7 messages
I am trying to develop a small app that will populate a pulldown from information that is stored in a application config or settings file. This info can be stored in XML but I need to get it to poulate my ...
Score PaintPicture
Claus Centrino - 10 Mar 2009 5:36 PM - 12 messages
I'm just playing around copying some pictures from one picturebox into others and back where pictures are laoded by LoadPicture() function and edited by some prints and lines. So far so good, in most cases it works fine as expected. But ...
Score ActiveX Control Crashes - VB6
Jonathan - 10 Mar 2009 3:25 PM - 6 messages
I have an ActiveX control I custom made. It has an event that is handled by the application that uses the ActiveX control. The application that uses the ActiveX control uses END to stop the application if a certain condition ...
Score My concept for a very basic stripboard layouter in VB6
MM - 10 Mar 2009 3:04 PM - 11 messages
Please take a look at [link] This is an example of using the Visual Basic design environment *as a tool in its own right*. I have set the grid matrix to 144 x 144 twips, which corresponds to a ...
Score Designing a keypad (form)
Geo - 10 Mar 2009 2:48 PM - 2 messages
I would like to create a form (using VB5) containing a 100 key keypad layout. This is to enable design/movement of the key legends and their associated functions. The data would eventually be used to create a template for the keys and a file ...
Score Copy protection and license management programs
chris - 10 Mar 2009 1:44 PM - 6 messages
Can you recommend any copy protection and license management solutions for protecting my softwares ? Users should have license for using programs according to their contract days. ex. 180 days. Thanks a lot in advance! ...
Score Visual Basic Bartender Problem
hon123456 - 10 Mar 2009 4:03 AM - 3 messages
Dear all,             I have try to find forum about Seagull Scientific Bartender VB Activex problem. But I cannot find it in Internet. So I think the closest newsgroup is Here. I have a label format with ...
Score Put Date/Time on Right Side of Form.Caption
David - 9 Mar 2009 8:22 PM - 21 messages
I have an MDIForm and want to put Date/Time on Right Side of MDIForm.Caption next to the buttons.   Any suggestions? Thanks David ...
Score Days and Years - Data Comparing
Webbiz - 9 Mar 2009 7:18 PM - 6 messages
I'm assuming this is a basic question. I'm interested in all your opinions. Suppose, for example, that your program loads in stock price data into an array of type STOCKDATA. Private Type STOCKDATA     dDate as Date ...
Score Re: FYI
C Kevin Provance - 9 Mar 2009 12:33 PM - 6 messages
The point being....what?  Spam? ...
Score Fuzzy logic algorythm
Enric - 9 Mar 2009 11:17 AM - 2 messages
Hi all of you, I'm looking for real samples which are using this technology. I'd need to look inside large string lots of probabilities Thanks in advance for any link or further information, Enric ...
Score With .... End With - Speed
Ed - 9 Mar 2009 12:43 AM - 58 messages
Does using With .... End With speed up code any or is just to make programming easier? Thanks, Ed ...
Score For All VB6 Fans
VB6 Forever - 8 Mar 2009 11:06 PM - 4 messages
hehe enjoy ;) [link] [link] ...
Score Need a Friend, Maybe
Bee - 8 Mar 2009 9:28 PM - 5 messages
Using VB6 with SP If I use Friend instead of Public, what does it do for me for: (1) classes etc within a project (2) ActiveX.dll (3) ActiveX.exe I am confused. I think I understand that it impacts visibility, but when and where? ...
Score Public Thank You To Microsoft
Lorin - 8 Mar 2009 5:20 PM - 17 messages
I wish to thank Microsoft for changing all the dates on my PC so that the Pen Drive I use to carry around applications to and from my laptop are now one hour out of sync and my compare utility says they are not the same.  OK ...
Score Does anybody know how to translate this C# code to VB6?
Ulf Christenson - 8 Mar 2009 4:46 PM - 7 messages
I have this code, but I don't know how to translate these IEnumerable and other tricky code to VB6. If anybody could help me it would really make my day. I cannot do it yet. Ulf          private class StringReplacementPermuter ...
Score New to Vb, listbox & DataGrid help
jcoon - 8 Mar 2009 3:17 PM - 3 messages
All, I'm new to VB 2008, I'm trying to load data into two colunms of a list box or datagrid. I'm not sure how to get my data into the second colunms of the list box and If I can post this type of data into a data grid view.  any ...
Score Error 6 Overflow when multiply
Goerge Tikakis - 8 Mar 2009 7:39 AM - 4 messages
When i'm multiply the values 1024 * 12000 i get the error Overflow I take the same error even in Immediate window Any ideas? *** Sent via Developersdex [link] *** ...
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