VB Forum / VB Syntax / February 2005

My VB.NET program displays a system tray icon. It works fine and when I
start app it appears and when shutdown app it disappears.
However, when my app crashes the icon stays and only it gets removed
when I point my mouse on it.

how to prevent second instance of the program
actually i want to detect if the program is allready running and if so
give it focus else run program
Thanks

i have two applications (located on the same  computer) and they must
exchange information
souch as
app1: asks app2 - who is authenticated?

Hi, I'm wondering how to create a string that includes double quotations to
be used to pass to a recordset. Part of the string is as follows:
strSQL = "<CheckItem FirstValue = "B" SecondValue = "2"/>"
Each time the compiler gets to a double quote, it thinks that's the end of

I am new to VB6 and started learning.
I have three Picture box. A timer. What I wanted is when timer is running I
want mouse click false or disable. Here is my code which is not working and
error. Pls help Thanks in advance.

VB.NET Regex object has RegexOptions.RightToLeft property to search for the
pattern from right to left. VB6 regular expression object does not have this
property. How can I achieve the RightToLeft search using VB6 RegExp object?
Thanks,

I have a quick question.
My project contains several standard modules, each module contains
procedures that are related. I understand that the entire module is only
activated when a procedure that it contains is called...hence my grouping of

How do you set a default value to a text box when opening a form for adding a
new record. Such as putting a dae stamp ornd/or time stamp on a record.

As a new commer to VB, I am having difficulty in writing code to calculate
someones' age form a date input from drop down pick lists in the form Year,
Month, Day. Can anyone please help?
Thanks.

Guys -
I keep getting "object required" when running this code.
All the variables are defined, cant understand why the set command would
fail.

I'm not saying i'm a good programmer, in fact i'm rather new at Visual Basic.
But I did do night-school for Delphi for a year and i have made little
programs for about 20 years.
I think I'm overlooking something very basic, but I can't find the problem.

W98 & VB6
Public Type TestType
  Long1 As Long
  Long2 As Long

Dear Group,
i would like to explain me if you could how i cold make a server in visual
basic with multiplt sockets. I use the included winsock compoment. I would
like to load about 100 free socket. Any ideas?

Hi to all
I would a bit of help here. I have a server client simpler application but
seems could not connected. I do not know why. I am not an expert in visual
basic so I would like to understand what happening here. I try to transmit a

Can I create an ACCESS make-table query using VB 6?