VB Forum / Enterprise Development / April 2005

I never compare floating point numbers but... it is easy said and done.
I have a bunch of numbers that has at least 6 decimal places.
I am thinking to convert these numbers to Integer and compare the integer
numbers.

I think I can buy Visiual Basic.net for $100 bucks but I don't want to spend
that much money right now.
I have a textbook on Visual Basic 6, but I only have Visual Basic 5. I took
a course in Visual Basic 6 but one of the examples (The  'Find' routine in

Can anyone tell me how I can change the name of the XP desktop icon from the
running Visual Basic 6.0 program that is called by that icon?

My application runs on a server
From workstation i have shortcut to \\server\c\myApp\MyProgram.exe
Start in \\server\c\myApp\
So far no problem.

A weird one (for me at least)
I have VB6, SP5 enterprise edition installed. I note from dllhell that this
installs DAO350.dll (3.51.1608) and if I unregister it VB will not start.
I also have dao360.dll installed  (3.60.8618).

I have a small vb exe running on a regular basis on a local server. It
checks over night a internet location for newer versions of other exe's. So
far no problems.
However when a newer version is found, my small exe download the new version

I'm exporting the result of a recordset into an excel sheet using the
following.
oConn.Open strconnection
rst.Open ssql, oConn, adOpenForwardOnly, adLockReadOnly, adCmdText

I am working in VB6 and need to create a group "My Achievements" in
Start\Program menu. I wish to provide access to my applications from
within this newly created group "My Achievements".
I searched this on Internet and most of the people recommend

Just got an MSDN Flash with the following information:

I have a software package that use frequent network connections. The SP2
firewall prevents the connections that worked under SP1. I'm using api's and
shelling to Net Use. How should I redesign so I do not have to tell the user
to turn off their firewall so my package will run.  ...

EXE calls a .vbs file that updates the EXE with another, updated version.
However, the EXE needs to close so the VB script can overwrite it.
Can the EXE call the script without the script dying once the EXE closes?
TIA

   I've the following problem. I've created a simple VB6 EXE program which
is only call a Shell command which is calling a batch file. For some reason
it didn't do anything. However it was working on a different PC though. The
only differences are the first one is sp6 and the ...

I've some excel sheets which contains too much data in it. All I need to do
is to import relevant data from those excel sheets into Sql database through
VB
If anyone can suggest me the way to recognise the relevant data from those

Hi people,
   I have a database Access with ole field. In this field i have images
(bitmap). I want to save this images in a file bmp or jpeg. It's possible???

I would like to give users the ability to save a simple comma delimited
array of arguments without having to use a database or text file. I
don't want to use an external file.
I thought there was a way to do this in the "Project-->Properties"