VB Forum / VB Syntax / April 2005

I am working on something that is going to be burned to a CD and users
will
use it from their CD drive.  I need to have some macros that will print
certain files from the CD when they click a button.  How do I get the

I have searched all over to do this but cannot find it so ....
What i am doing is im creating a custom Excel Spreadsheet from a load
of data i have which is stored into an array. I can write the spread
sheet etc and it all looks good except for one thing i want to force

I don't want my user's to use this X to exit from a program.  Is there a
way to remove it?
I'm sure this has been asked a million times plus 2....
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I have taken over a VB6 application, but since I'm no VB6 expert I'm gonna
need a little help here.
The application is creating a directory with some files when it starts up.
It creates 2 files in C:\LT.  The path (C:\LT) is defined in a public const

computer can't find main identity file
so I lost all my setting on most programs including outlook and internet
sites  and I am loaded on all users.
help

      As will be evident from my question, I am fairly new to the VB
languages.  My question is this:
Assume you've got a variable referring to some object, for e.g
Dim oServer

Q1) How can I Click a command button from code in another form?
Say that Command1 is on SSTab1 which is on Form1.
I have determined the address (f) of Form1 from the forms collection.
I have tried "Call f.SSTab1.Command1_Click" and that didn't work.

How can I Click a menu item from code in another form?
I have tried these but they didn't work:
1)  MDIForm1.mnuDesign(1) = True
2)  Call MDIForm1.mnuDesign(1)

I need to align data (structures) on 8-byte boundaries. How does one
go about doing that in VB?
Are there any VB compiler directives or switches to do that?
Thanks!

I have been wading through the mountains of documentation for WMI scripting,
and trying to figure out how to implement the "JoinDomainOrWorkgroup" method
of Win32_ComputerSystem in a regular VB6 application.
There are two problems that I am having.

Does anyone know how to make the above call from VB6 (under W98)?
Long story, but I'm trying to access kernel-mode drivers for still
image devices (a USB scanner) so I can talk to the device directly. (I
*don't* want to use TWAIN!)

Can anyone please show me what the VB would look like to get CheckBoxList
form results into a oMessage.Body for sending in email?
This is an example of my CheckBoxList:
<asp:CheckBoxList ID="ckbThings" runat="server">

In VBA, you can use IsNumeric to return True or False if the value being
tested is numeric. Is there an equivalent to this in VB.NET?

I'm receiving a fixed length string with fixed length fields that I need to
break apart.  Ideally I'd like to take the string and put it into a Structure
and then access the individual fields from there.  
I tried converting the string to a byte array and then used a

Is there a way to make the "Enter" key work like a "Tab" key for certain
fields? I have few numeric fields which the user will be typing numbers in
using the keypad. What my client wants is that when they hit "Enter" after
typing in a value, the cursor moves to next field.