VB Forum / Enterprise Development / May 2006

I am using NullSoft Install to build a custom setup installation for a
VB application - short of checking the references dialog box to see
which Dlls and components, desihgners etc the project is using, is there
anyway I can check the required dependise - so that I can include ...

I'm currently maintaining a VB6 application that was written by somebody
else and has been modified by several different developers.
The application references 3 components that are installeded in a COM+
application on a server.

Anyone knows how to create an activex library that uses a license?. I
know how to create ActiveX libraries in VB6, but I need to know how to
restrict them so that they require a license

I am loading all the records from a database table to a single string.  I
have noticed that as the string get longer and longer, it takes longer and
longer time to add to the end of the string.
If I use a Collection object instead of one single string, will this make

I want to be a ble to validate all the input that a user has entered on
a form before processing. I am carrying out validation for each of the
input (text boxe) - but I also allow a text box to be blank so that a
user can cancel the dialog box without being forced to enter valid ...

The program is my conversational speech coordinator that everyone here
has helped me so much with in recent months. It now works GREAT and will
be demonstrated at the upcoming AI conference in Las Vegas in late June
as the first computational link between conversational speech ...

I am in the process of changing all the
CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
to
Dim xxx As ADODB.Recordset

I doubt it, but is there a setting in MsgBox to turn on a vertical
scrollbar?  Otherwise, I guess I'll have to create a dialog form to do that.
Extra work.  I just want a down and dirty little report that the user clicks
OK to close.  I know how to make a little form do that, but ...

How i know the time elapsed between the last move of mouse or the last press
of key and now ??
Exists an api ??
The concept is similar an screensaver.

Really pretty reports usually need data-dependent formatting, e.g. not
leaving enough white space to hold the largest possible descriptions,
putting variable-sized boxes around the variable-sized fields, etc.
Of course, the ULTIMATE method is composing by hand, which is how my

guys,
Environment: VB6, Sheridan controls( now Infragistics)
All i want to do is Globalize this application by reading the cultureinfo
from the the database. I can do all this in .NET real fast but how shoudl i

I have to use VSS because it's the standard at the office.
My VB source, class libs, & custom controls are in 3 separate top-level
branches in my hard drive.
You can sense where this is going - whenever I want to include a common

I have a problem with a VSFLEXGRID (7.0) control, the ObjectEvent(Info
As EventInfo)  is not launch, I' dont´t know if I can use a similar
control without this problem, I have tested with similar controls like
MSFLEXGRID,DataGrid etc, but I have the some problem, the event is not

I am setting up a question and answer database to prepare quizzes.
Within each category and subcategory there are various questions, each
with a date of last usage. I just want to retrieve the longest since
last usage question from each subcategory as a recordset to generate the

Doesn't VB6 come with some sort of built-in sorting function?
This is the problem of mine.
I have a bunch of stuffs using a number as the index... like:
1. Apple