VB Forum / General / July 2004

Are there any good tools to help diagnose resource / memory leaks in VB 6
apps ?
Thnks
Bruce

I downloaded the vbsetup.exe file for VB express for VS 2005 beta, and ran
it. It downloaded all the components and tried to install but failed.
At the end, there was a check box (that I left ticked) to keep the
installation files to avoid having to download them again.

im running VB6 (sp6) and SQL 2000. I using a MDI project and am trying to find out about the controlbox on the 'Main' form.  I have looked in the properties of the form but it doesnt have a controlbox property.
All i want on the form is the Max and Min options.. is this possible ...

i notice that label backstyle contained 2 options, one is TRANSPARENT while
another one is OPAQUE.
my question is, which one use less resource?
my guess is TRANSPARENT coz system no need to draw the transparent part, so

let say i got a form with one textbox,
what should i set to prevent the keyboard cursor (that blink always) being
shown on the DISABLED textbox? the logic is, when that particular textbox is
disabled, nothing should be able to put itself in that textbox (including

Any idea on why the VB 6.0 label background color change to WHITE when
there's a do loop processing for about 10 seconds?
Any solution to this?

Can i make View Thumbnails option set by default when i call ShowOpen in a
Common Dialog?
thanks in advance,
Gonçalo Boléo

Is there a way to search the VB IDE for  codes such as search for
carriage retruns or tabs? In Word you cab search using a ^p or ^t
code.  IS there a dll avaialble to modified the VB IDE?

Is there a limit to how big a recordset can be (1 M, 10M, 100M)?
TIA,

In VC++ MFC there is  a CArchive class used to serialize data in and out of
CFile class. Is there anyway for VB 6 to read these data  and  generate the
data that can be deserialized by CArchive?
The reason I have to ask is, I am converting a project from VC++ to VB, and

I'm printing an Excel workbook/sheet from a VB front-end (MDI form w/menu).
   Note: This problem only occurs in the compiled application. It does not
happen
   when the program is run from the IDE.

I need to write a vb APP that calls other VB EXE.  This VB APP should be a
windows Service.  How would I do that?
What I am trying to do is execute some EXE's from the windows scheduler.
The problem is that in order to do that, I would have to be logged onto the

how do i get windows xp style controls for visual basic 6?
i run windows xp professional

Can any tell me whether Windows ME has theme like Windows XP or not.  I have
it installed before but not quite remembered it.
Thanks

Recently we have develop an application with VB 6. This application able to display Chinese character correctly but it display "?????" for Thai language.
I have searching the information on this. it seems like VB 6 doesn't support Thai language? is that so?
Does anyone encounter ...