VB Forum / General / July 2004

i'v created a setup package for my application and try to
insatll it on a computer that dont have visual studio
instaled.
during the setup i get an error msg saying it cant

Hi to all of you!
I apologize in advance for this question, but the fact is that I am
migrating "back" to vb after some time spent with C++.
Well my question is what type of variab\bles can i use in procedure call.

Why does Visual Basic .NET reserve two bytes for the boolean data type
while one byte is enough to store a "0" or a "1"? I was told that this
is due to the architecture of 32 bit processors and that they would have
to expand 8 bit instructions to at least 16 bit to be able to ...

I have developed a program using VB6, did the package and deployment, and
then installed it on a Win98 and Win2000Pro systems.  The program runs fine.
I then try to install it on an XP system and I get the following error:
"Cannot start main setup program! (CreateProcess() returned ...

Can somebody tell me how to start an access runtime with a specific database
from vb-code ???
thanks

I'm going to rephrase my original question so its easy to understand
without all of the waffle
say I have this string
NICK¤¶£DanNICK¤¶£PeteNICK¤¶£JoanNICK¤¶£Bill

I'd like to be able to have a VB(.Net) program wake up the computer from
standby and/or hibernation.
Anybody know how to achieve this?
TIA,

I'm getting an invalid use of null error when I try to run a bit of code.  I
suspect it's a problem with scope, but I'm a little lost.
I'm attempting to implement a search form that searches a grid.
So, I've got a class "findspec" which has some properties such as

I have an MDI app that has a child form with lots of listboxes on it. When
the MDI form is restored from being minimised the listboxes on the child
form are a mess. A click anywhere on the form straightens it out but I don't
expect my users to have to do that. The child form has ...

Hi  *.*
somewhat edifying for the weekend...
from june 4 to june 7 there was the seventh programming contest to compare
different languages the "non-bashing-way" (winner gets "unlimited bragging

 HI guys... I am having a serious bug with my program called Neowin
Messenger which I have only been able to get around with delay hacks,
which seem to cause more problems than fix. I will try and explain the
problem:

This is probably basic and simple, but I'm not sure how to do this.  I'd
like to create a file list by browsing, like using the Windows Explorer.
I'd want to be able to add the full file path for any file or folder
selected to a list of some kind (Word, Excel, .txt file?).  I'd also ...

Hi, i'm making and application for a Touchscreen and i have a problem and
is that the scrollbars on my comboboxes are hard to scroll when using
touchscreens because they are small, there is any way ( API or anything )
that will let me set the width of the scrollbar inside a ...

Some recent change somewhere in my App is causing it to totally hang. No
redraws, no mouse, no focus, etc...
I can't even Break it from the IDE to see where it's hung up. Of course
being Mr. Programmer, I made numerous changes before testing, and stupidly

I'm trying to make a simple button control as a user control. I have two
image controls placed on the usercontrol surface which has it's backstyle
set to transparent. In the two image controls I have tried gif files and
icon files with transparency that work fine in image controls ...