VB Forum / VB Syntax / January 2005

i have two questions
what is the syntax to run another app?
i have a button and when i click it i want it to run app2.exe
now

I need to check if a date entered is within a date range specified by two
MonthView controls - MonthView(0), which controls the beginning of the
range, and MonthView(1), which controls the end of the range.  Also, if the
date entered is +1 day from the end of the range, it's okay ...

I am trying to convert a Hex value into a Signed Short or Unsigned Short.
Here are a couple of examples (I have a program that converts it...I just
need to know how in VB).
HEX VALUE: 3913

How can I extract a substring from a string?  Specifically ...
Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME") returns a string of the form
www.domain.com
Given ...

I want a program to open when Windows first starts up on any particular day.
To accomplish this, when the program does open, I store the current date in
an Excel file.
Next time the program gets the signal to open, the program checks the date

when every text control reveces focus it must change the background
color to vbred and when it looses focus it must change the color back to
vbwhite
is there a way to do this without writeing

When trying to read a line from a text file with:
open <path\> & "File.txt" for input as #FreeFile len=120
the input record is truncated as soon as there is a comma in the record.
Does somebody know a way of coping with comma's in text files?

I would like to build a simple program that parses a database and allows a
user to filter records by various
search terms.
ie

In Visual Studio (Visual Basic) .NET 2002, I noticed that this:
Dim Elapsed as DateTime = Now - Now    [or Now() - Now()]
gives a "compile time" error (error in the IDE), saying that the '-'
operator is not defined for the Date datatype.  On the other hand,

Hi to all,
I need in my app to make some simple text editor
and I have a problem with limiting number of characters in a row.
I know how to do that but also I know that my solution is non elegant,

I created a program using VB 6 that included several lines of code checking a
point for color. Generally, the lines looked like this:
IF POINT(X, Y) = &HFFOOFF THEN
operations

I use the following code to open an Excel file:
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim xlBook As Excel.Workbook
Set xlApp = New Excel.Application

I have a textbox that I want to become active based on the option selected
in a frame.
In access I would you the AfterUpate event of the frame but this doesn't
seem to be the case for vb6

I have VB6 as my front end, SQL2000 as my database and an Access Project for
my report tool.
I have a report that is based on a stored procedure with 2 parameters.  How,
when calling this report from VB6 can I send the required parameters?

I'm looking for a VB 6 Programmer to write a TAPI compliant program to do
the following.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
 1.. Open a ASCII File