VB Forum / VB Syntax / January 2004

I need my application to return a parameter
I reach to (with the help fo someone in this forum) send a
parameter to an exe file...
Now i need that exe file to return a value...

Anyone know of a way (asides from PostMessage and PostQuitMessage(or maybe
the correct usage of PQM)) to emulate the TaskManager -> End Task on a
program?
Tried PostMessage, but it's not working if this program has another window

I am writing an application that needs to send data to a
second application (an off the shelf accounting system), i
have no control over the code in this app.
I need to be able to find out if the app is already open,

I have an array of strings, filenames with extensions really.
How would one go about AlphaSorting the list based off the Extension of the
file, or - if there's no extension, using the Right(myFiles(index),1) char?
Does anyone have an alpha sort routine already? or know where i can ...

hi group,
Can anyone explain what they are talking about in this paragraph?
   Note: When you access an element of the Categories array, whether to
read it or write it, you must

I wonder how to set only one part of Date, such as the Year value, the Month
value, or the Second value, and keep the other part of the Date intact. Are
there any available library functions existing? Or how to write these
functions by myself? These functions would be much better if ...

I want to show a commum VB msgbox but I want part of the
text to be in Bold (not all the text!), does anyone know
if it's possible to do it using the function msgbox??
Thanks!

I came accross a strange problem, where I had the
following declaration and usage in my code:
Dim xaAB As String
....

Please pardon me if this is the wrong group.
Here is my problem:
I have a remote IBM AS/400 Client Access session that keeps loosing it's
connection with the AS/400.  To the best of my knowledge, it is either the

I have the following function defined in the header-file of a c++ project
struct DataType
{
   ...

I've learned how to use for and while on vb
If i need to break one of them i use Exit (Do or For)
Is there a way on vb to cancel the rest of the For and continue?
On C the Exit was break;

I don't normally do any programming, but I'm trying to get dragon naturally
speaking to open word and it doesn't work natively.  Is there a command to
run C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\winword.exe ?

I wonder how to create a program which allows me to add new features to my
existing program. For example, I created a program which can Add, Amend and
Delete. Few months later, I would like to add one new function - Query to my
existing program. How am I going to do it. One way I ...