VB Forum / Enterprise Development / September 2007

I've done a blank form to show a splash screen whilst I load the other stuff
at startup, but it doesn't display quick enough.
What I get is a blank box for about 5 seconds (the transparent form) and
then the app kicks in, which is nice but I'd rather see the splash screen

Dear Sir,
I am storing errors in Log Events for that I want to find all calling
procedures from start.
Please help me.

I'm having real problems dropping an object that I create at the beginning
of my app to make sure a certain component is available.  My function is:
Public Function CheckWordInstalled() As Boolean
Dim obj As Object, bolCheck As Boolean

I have created a sub routine for programmatically add an indefinite number of
combo boxes to a form.  The combo boxes are bound in code to a view for
displaying the available options.  This routine works good until you add the
second combo box.  At that point it changes the first ...

What are le property names for
MSSOAPLIB.CONNECTORPROPERTY ("xxx")
I have found Timeout, what else ??
I am looking if the max message length can be specified

I've always been a bit hairy-fairy on this subject so I would appreciate any
help you can give.
1) I want an app whereby I pick a picture, it allows me to set a
transparency area (the icon is a circle so I need to take the corners off

I know this is a big ask, but I could really do with some help making the
below reliable and as fast as possible.
In essence I have a word doc consisting of 1 table, which has about 20 cols
and 6 rows.

I'm using the xml.selectnodes(etc.... etc..) command in my VB app to
retrieve data, but I need to put a check in to make sure that the nodes that
I've asked for exist in the xml file and have come back.
My first thought was if I could do some form of count of nodes retrieved so

I'm basically using a VB6 listview and a button and I want the user to
choose an item on the listview and then click the button to initiate the
button code for that specific selection.
At the moment, when the user enters the form (form activate stage), no

Looking for some pointers on this one.
Basically I'm given an XML file that I don't have control over and my VB6
app has to read this data in.
Because I don't have control over the XML tree structure and it might change

Mike Sutton kindly gave me a great code chunk in relation to this, but I
need to get only the first instance of a particular node - is this possible?
To explain, I'm using:
Set oLst =

I'm using VB6 for my app.
I get the idea about loading my bg pic into a var and then in code
referencing this var for each form's bg rather than using the Picture param
of each form, but I have a few forms that only use a particular bg so they

Hi
I'm trying to find out how to tranfer a file to a ftp-cataloug located in an
UNIX server.
My app is a Win service (without UI).

I need to update a VB caption, with textual information - detailing
progress of processing being carried out in a C DLL.
Basically, I want my C function to be able to write messages back to VB,
which will then display the message in a label.