VB Forum / Enterprise Development / August 2005

Running VB6 and want a text entry field that has a transparent bg.  Noticed
that this isn't a problem for a label, but text boxes seem to have to have a
matt bg.
All I want is a flashing text cursor, no bg, so that the user knows that

Hai,
I have placed a TabControl in VB.NET windows form and added two
tabpages to it.I have placed 6 Command Buttons for
ADD,EDIT,DELETE,SAVE,CANCEL,QUIT on each page and some other controls.

I have 200 users of my vb6 program, on one of the forms when the user clicks
'OK' i hide the form for further use then close it.  I have only 1 user that
from time to time (maybe twice a week) will get the error 'Must close or hide
topmost modal form first'.  i understand what ...

Thanks Ralph for that elegant solution for recognizing whether the IDE
is running. Now, for my new problem de jour:
The following two lines SHOULD produce identical results. However, the
second one blows off on an Error 438 "Object doesn't support this

I have an app that works ok in the VB6 (VS SP6) IDE but fails when compiled
and run as an EXE. It fails with a can't read memory error on line that says:
Set Object1 = Object2
I'm trying to track down the reason for this and I was wondering if anyone

I'm posting this across many VB groups, hoping for an answer.
I was looking into employing a VB-unit testing tool for helping in
test-driven development.
I came across-

I am looking to make a standalone machine to test hardware.  I am having a
hard time finding software and hardware requirements for my VB.net
application.
HELP!!!!!

I want to make a certain command button visible by calling a Variable,
example
if user selects  function1(var)   "variable being 2"  then I want to  enable
command button 2 , if he selects function1(var)   "3" then enable command

Could you please help me understand how a client-server application can be
accomplished in VB.Net or C# (Windows application)?
Traditionally, in VB6 a Client-Server application required two separate
applications:

I have try to set col(4) date form from mm/dd/yyyy to dd-mm-yyyy or
dd-mmm-yyyy(1-jan-2005)
but also fail.Pls help me to change it.