VB Forum / General / July 2004

I would like to have a form which allows minimizing, disallows
maximizing, and is not resizable. I can set the .MaxButton property to
false to prevent maximizing, but if I set the .BorderStyle to "fixed",
I lose the minimize button. Is this possible at design-time or do I

I have a an activex dll I'm using from asp, I'd like to send a string from
my dll to a standard exe I've written. How is this done? I can't seem to add
my exe as a reference without getting an error. Is this possible?
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I see from the Visual Studio documents that I can use the "STRICT" in
VC/VC++ but there does not seem to be a VB equivalent.
I have been trying to be very careful with not using implicit type
conversions and rarely use the "Variant" type. I would like the compiler to

Im running VB6 ( SP 6) and SQL 2000
On one of the my forms i have a MSHFlexgrid containing x number of rows and 6 Coloums. This grid is only for displaying data.
What i would like to do is search the grid cells for a given value, and if found, highlight that row. Is this possible, ...

Is there an easier way to fill 4 combo box's with the same .additem
(information) with an array procedure? rather than my way below...
   Form4.Combo1.AddItem "No"
   Form4.Combo1.AddItem "3MM"

I need to use SOAP in my VB application to send and receive messages
beteween 2 server.
My Query is what all should i need to use it?
Do i require SOAP server ?

Can someone tell me how to get an array from a function?  ie my function
generates an array that I want to get back into the calling routine.  I know
I could use a sub and perhaps global the array but I prefer if possible to
use the function.

I've decided my app will greatly benefit by upgrading to classes (presumably
not using UDTs) and using a collection to manage the many instantiations of
the classes.  I've ran the VB Class Builder but I'm not following the logic
very well (lots of whys?) and some code samples I ...

Hi one and all,
I am having a problem with a form that has invisable frames on it, that
become visible under certian circumstances and then with a movement of the
mouse frame1.visible = false.

I want to ask this question before I start just in case it is not possible:
Is it possible to [kill / stop / delete] a print job by using a program and
not "manually" using the print manager?
Any help would be greatly appreciated

I have posted this question in another group but I have received no
response.  I am not really sure where this question should be asked.
I have an ActiveX DLL written in VC++ 6.0.  That dll is using the
standard treeview control that came with VC++ for use in ActiveX

I have to develop a program that will transmit a file to the serial port of the PC as well as read responses from the device connected to this port.  Because the file to be transmitted will depend on certain entries in a spreadsheet, Excel VBA seems a natural choice.  I am quite ...

I have used the shell to run a .bat file before but I can't figure out why this .bat won't run from VB. It runs when I double-click it in windows explorer. The VB code to call the shell is as follows:
Shell "c:\FFTOEDI.BAT", vbHide
and the contents of the FFTOEDI.BAT file are as ...

I've read around the web that a GUID approach can be used as a moderately
secure way of protecting software. I have an application that needs only
moderate protection (it has a fairly limited market) and wanted to try my
hand at a GUID based security approach.

There are a lot of file compare utilities. Can anyone recommend one
that is particularly good for comparing .bas modules?
A long time ago, when I was working on mainframes, we had a utility
that would compare BAL source files. It was absolutely uncanny. If it