Visual Basic General Discussion

Visual Basic 6.0 has added support for HTML Help files?

MM - 21 Feb 2009 6:06 PM - 6 messages

According to MS KB 189086, "Visual Basic 6.0 has added support for HTML Help files that eliminates the need for calling the API directly. See Visual Basic's online help for more information." Well, I've looked at VB's online help and I can find zilch on the ...

Updating SQL fields with vb6

DorkyGrin - 21 Feb 2009 6:01 PM - 4 messages

Using VB6, I'm trying to pass a local variable to the SQL field but I keeping the following error: 'invalid column name RollNoValue'. I can see that the SQL statement is not right - it's looking for a column instead of using my local variable. I can't figure out how to ...

PropertyBag and settings

mayayana - 21 Feb 2009 4:57 PM - 17 messages

I've just been looking into an idea for a convenient way to save program settings. I'm wondering if anyone has done this and might have comments or thoughts about it: Write a DLL with a window for changing settings. ...

Visual Basic 6.0 on 64-Bit system

Ted Mercer - 21 Feb 2009 5:20 AM - 11 messages

I would like to purchase a Dell XPS 430 computer. It comes only with Windows Vista 64-Bit OS. Can anyone tell me if I will be able to run VB 6.0 ? This is a must requirement for me. Thanks for help. ...

VB6 with SQLite: Is there a report generator/viewer?

Sarah M. Weinberger - 20 Feb 2009 9:54 PM - 5 messages

Hi, I am (was?) using the report designer/viewer that comes with VB6, but that is rather clunky and works with the Microsoft Jet Database, which I am in the process of phasing out in favor of SQLite with Olaf's dhRichclient ...

Test (yeah, I know)

Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB) - 20 Feb 2009 5:57 PM - 16 messages

If this message gets through, then I apologize for sending a test message here, My desktop crashed (they replaced the motherboard, but problems still persist) and I am using my laptop, but for some reason I am having trouble sending email from it... so I thought I would see if I could send anything ...

Shell Function: task ID

Syed Zeeshan Haider - 20 Feb 2009 6:28 AM - 6 messages

Hello Everybody, I am working with VB6 EE on a WinXP SP2 machine. What is the use of task ID returned by Shell function of VB? Can it be used to access or manipulate the new window that is opened by using Shell ...

ADO Recordset Find method Problem

hon123456 - 20 Feb 2009 4:37 AM - 8 messages

Dear all, I have a Recordset RST with two rows with the same Data like follows: Company ...

Graphic Time Labeling

David - 19 Feb 2009 10:27 PM - 11 messages

I have my own graph routine which labels time on the X Axis. The problem I'm having is labeling different compression periods based on the time of the compression period. The amount of space between X points is variable, so I need to somehow ...

vb60 listviewcontrol: items not visible

Rob - 19 Feb 2009 9:31 PM - 3 messages

Dear, i'm experiencing a weird problem with the listview control 6 within an application written in VB60. One of my modal forms uses 3 listview controls. All 3 of them are filled with some items. So far so good, everything goes fine here. ...

how to reposition desktop icons

Jeff - 19 Feb 2009 5:46 PM - 33 messages

Can a VB app reposition desktop icons, move them to different places on the screen? How? Thanks, Jeff ...

Shortcut Underlines Don't Show Up With Manifest??

Rick Raisley - 19 Feb 2009 4:38 PM - 15 messages

I'd never noticed this before, but the underlined shortcuts placed onto command buttons (like with &Print for Print with the P underscored, indicating a hot key) don't show up on my WinXP PC when running the EXE ...

New Micrsoft o/s

MoiInAust - 19 Feb 2009 4:33 PM - 8 messages

I see Microsoft is alread beta testing the new System 7, and is apparently admitting that Vista was a failure? Does anyone know if vb6 applications will now finally fall over? ...

Anybody done a 2 checkboxes per row dropdown list

Laphan - 19 Feb 2009 3:24 PM - 10 messages

Hi All I'm open to design suggestions on this! Basically I have a dropdown list of say attirbutes and I want to give the user the ability to tick the ones that they want and the ones they want to ...

Center Text using printer object

jpBless - 19 Feb 2009 12:59 PM - 18 messages

I am stomped on this one... I am trying to center text using printer object. I am printing to a receipt printer. I have tried many things; sometimes it centers the text sometimes it "gets confused" and print just about at any ...

Treating NULL database values in classes and Form fields.

YaHozna - 19 Feb 2009 12:25 PM - 11 messages

Been wondering about this one for a while so I thought I'd see what other people do about it. When I read numeric data from a database into a class object and then display the data on a Form what are the different ways out there for dealing ...

datagridview and bindingnavigator add/delete item strange behaviou

NetNewbie - 18 Feb 2009 10:39 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I noticed the following behaviour with datagridview. I am hoping someone can suggest me the solution. I have several DGV's in my application through which data can be entered/modified/deleted. All the DGV are database bound. I also have binding navigators for each og the DGV's. From my testing I ...

How to know what files to redistribute?

Jalil - 18 Feb 2009 5:00 PM - 28 messages

Is there anyway to know what files have to be included in a VB6 aapplication installer ? Here is the list of files we used to have but I don't think they all need to be distributed: - msvbvm60.dll - msvcrt.dll ...

MSCHRT20.ocx can no longer be used on web pages after security upd

Adrian-P - 18 Feb 2009 11:16 AM - 2 messages

Since the security update of old VB6 controls KB957924, our intranet web pages can no longer display charts using mschrt20.ocx. It appears to be a licensing issue with the new object. ----- On a client computer... a) If you use the CLSID of 3A2B370C-BA0A-11D1-B137-0000F8753F5D in the ...

How difficult is to add my menu to Windows Explorer?

Kathy - 17 Feb 2009 12:47 AM - 8 messages

Hello group, I need some pointers where to start. I would like to add my own menu to Windows Explorer popup menu depending on the object clicked on by the user. How difficult is it? ...

How to embed a Manifest File?

Jalil - 16 Feb 2009 8:43 PM - 13 messages

How could I embed a manifest file into my executable? Is there any support for that in VB 6? Thanks, -Jalil ...

VB 6 with SP5 or SP6

LondonLad - 15 Feb 2009 4:41 PM - 6 messages

Hi After a bad virus attack I have had to re-build my computer, I seem to remember reading somewhere on this forum that is was better not to use SP6 can anyone help me on this issue before I update my VB6 ...