VB Forum / VB Syntax / February 2004

I'd like to write a function that returns a boolean value of whether a given string is alphanumeric.  I want to use this to verify if a password matches our password rules.  Does anybody have any ideas on how I can write the most efficient function to accomplish this
Thanks
Brad

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I'm trying to read and write to a text file. I have been able to read a file, line by line using the "line Input" method. Writing to a file is more difficult however, since I will need to close the file b/w successive writes. I will need to be able to write to the end of the ...

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if there is no way of declaring an unsigned integer in VB. Is it possible to call and run a C routine from VB and get some values returned
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Farsad Nasseri

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I am trying to translate a C routine into VB6. Is there an equivilant to Unsigned Int in VB? I need to somehow find an unsigned type and I'm having a lot of problems
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Farsad

I have an class which is a collection of objects. I would like to serialize
(or cache) the collection and all objects to disk. Is there an easy way to
do it??
Ivan

I need to send a program (.exe) parameters that it then will use within the
program. What is the coding for this. Can this be done???
Please Help
Mike

The controls on my VB form arent refreshing when i call a certain function.
I find when i minimise and then Maximise my form that everything comes right
and the form is repainted properly.
How do i fix this problem in code ?  Ive tried:

Hi, alll...
I am here trying to help a frend, since I am not really a VB programmer. This gentleman wrote a piece of code that creates and save an Excel workbook.  The line that actually saves the workbook is like that
         <workbookdata>.SAVEAS <filename
Is there anyway that ...

   I'm using vb6 and SQL 7.0.  I need to declare a string variable from a
text file(file1.txt). How can I do this?
J

If a program is run under an administrator account, could we set permissions
on certain files in the system?  Basically we have a lot of little programs
our company uses that need special permissions set (ie Modify permission in
system32 but only on that specific file), and we'd ...

Does VB.NET support overloaded operators?  For instance, if I create a
complex number class, Complex, can I do code like this?
Dim a As New Complex(1.2, 3.4)
Dim b As New Complex(5.6, 7.89)

I like to start my VB program vith parameters like "myprogram.exe /myvalue
/nextvalue"
How can I read the parameters from VB ?
Lars

Where might I find info or examples of sending an application to the
Notification area of the Windows task bar(automatically on startup and or
when X-Closed)?
Thanks

I am using 2 standard listbox controls and one independent vertical
scroller.  I want to move the independent vertical scroller to move the
other two listboxes accordingly. Each listbox has identical row counts but
different data which are associated to each row.

In my VB6 program, I have to check whether a form is loaded and visible (to
be able to refresh it if it is there).
When I use the following statement:
   If myForm.Visible Then