VB Forum / VB Syntax / April 2004

Has anyone else been bitten by the following...?
It is a long-standing issue that wildcards in a DOS context (e.g. DIR.EXE)
do not behave in a reliable manner. For instance '*' should be 0-or-more
characters, and '?' should be any single character. However, if you type the

I understand that Visual Basic's strings have the size of the string
embedded as part of the string data.  I need to pass a string from a DLL
written in C to a VB program.
Do I need to craft the string specially for VB?  Do I need to put the

I have an excel .csv file generated by getting external data from a SQL
server database. If the data in a column contains a comma, the data will be
enclosed in double quotes. I tried to use the Split command to split apart
the comma delimited fields, but evidently the Split command ...

What is the correct way to execute a windows shortcut via the SHELL command
I need to take advantage of the fact that the shortcut sets the "Execute In" property for the program I am trying to execute via SHELL
Thanks for any help you may have to offer
Paul

I wonder whterh somebody can help me with this
I am exporting data to Excel from a VB6 application. No problems.
However, I want to change the backcolor of certain cells, to be determined
at run-time.

Hey, got a question about adding custom icons to my program. I had a picture that I shrunk and saved as an icon file, the size is 32*32. But when I add it to the poject in the Project Properties menu, I get an error that says there was "an error creating ALink Win 32 Resources". ...

There are 2 radio buttons in the form, when the user switch from option1 to
option2, it will prompt a confirm dialog. I have 2 questions:
1) Here's the code I wrote, but the problem is when the user select no or
cancel, it will trigger the click event again, and prompt the message ...

If I have several radio buttons in the form, should I group it together? If
so, how to do that? Or I should use have one name for each radio button?
such as Option1, Option2, etc...

I would like to launch an application from within VB. I've read somewhere
that you could accomplish this with the shell statement. But, how could I
know where is the program files or if the application is installed in the
computer, for example, Internet Explorer. Any clue?

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I am trying to randomly pair up elements in an array. The array would only have an even number of elements. I have no idea if vb has a random function and if yes, whether I am able to give it a range of numbers to randomly spit out. It is also important that the random function ...