VB Forum / VB Syntax / February 2005

Hi, guys. I don't have VB yet, but need an answer to this sooner than I
can get it. I'm expert in Corel Script, which is used to automate Corel
Ventura, and is very similar to VB.
Could someone please be kind enough to tell me how the following

I know that this is a VB forum, but I need help with dynamically creating a
date in a special format "yymmdd" but not in VB but in VBScript. I though
somebody might know. E.g 050208 would be today's date. Is there any way to do
this in VBScript? The Date function returns ...

I bought a program that populates data in a excel spreadsheet.   I
have numerous calculations and often the spreadsheet has certain
fields that do not calculate on occasion causing all my totals to be
wrong.  

I have one program that creates a Visual FoxPro Database file, that is a
single record with a table in it.  Then, my Word uses it as a merge source.
The only thing is - the guy who programmed the Foxpro part is a real jerk
and left in an angry storm.  So, guess who got stuck with it ...

Hi,
I have the following problem:
I read a numeric (double) value stored in simple text file (i.e "2.25") and
convert it to a double using CDbl. Works fine until used on a client with

Hi!, i'm looking for a way to delete a certain field from a random access
file, but can't find any function that can accomplish this... maybe i search
with eyes of a woman so i didn't find it but any1, u would be very helpful if
some1 knew! thanks a lot

How would I write a function that would return the age of a person given
their date of birth??  I'm assuming this isn't an uncommon request, and I'm
sure there is a quicker way to write it than how I would.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

I am new to VB6. I have 2 picture box. I want to load different picture in
pic box 1 when pic box 2 is click.  with my following code I am getting type
mismatch error. help pls!
Private Sub Form_Load()

I'm looking for some assistance with a script.  The script
requests a username, then displays the user's group
memberships along with each group's "Description".  I've
been searching for a way to include the groups "Notes" (or

    I am trying to print some variables on the default printer.
The app is multi user and my problem is that when i print from one
computer then the document looks just fine, but when i print from
another comp, the document is on two pages because margins are different...

In the code below I'm trying to get File Version number and everything
works except the very last step: VerQueryValue (bRetCode returns
False, and both output variables are 0).
I examined the string returned by GetFileVersionInfo and it looks

In Delphi you can do this : String[5]
Witch means the string is max 5 Char
How do you do this in VB?
Thanks,

I need to "clone" a user defined structure variable. Easiest explained
with an example. Given this:
Public Type UDS
  Something As Long