VB Forum / General / July 2004

I have developed an EXE project wherein I have to refer .dbf files through
dtatenviroment to retrieve data. It works well but .dbf file does not have
privacy as it can be opened with Notepad and all data will be visible e.g.
password to execute EXE file.

What is the best way to save a program's window position between runs?
For example, is it better to write Top, Left, Height, and Width to the
registry or to a file?
Advice will be appreciated, Stan Hilliard

Is it possible, and if so can you direct me to some example source, to save
out the bitmap image from a form?  I am working on an old project that is
being updated but we are missing some items.. One of them happens to be the
background image using on the main form.  If possible I ...

Dears,
I am using API function sendmessage to capture image of form client area to
Picyurebox and then saving as picture file by function SavePicture. But this
produces a file of 1.78MB, however when I open this file with photo editor

any one know the max records for MSFLEXGRID i am currently using 8000-
10000  records. while testing but i will need to go as high as 400,000
records.

I am used to languages with built-in min/max functions. I miss them in
VB. Does anyone have or know of a min/max function I can have or buy?
What would it take to write one? The problem is the data types (not
the logic).

I need to create a start menu entry and I am looking for an API call to
create a few .lnk's to my program folder.
I have found an old example I made based on code on vbnet (thanks Randy!)
that creates a shortcut in the MRU and then copies it to the start menu.

Has any1 written an application which monitors Windows Security Patches
installed on workstations on an NT4 network and then applies all the
necessary patches automatically?
I'm having a hell of a time trying to manage the workstations on my network

I was looking throught the groups, and I couldn't puzzle out the answer to this
one.  First I'll just ask the straight dope programming question, then I'll give
the reasoning for anyone who wants to know.
I have a single dimension string array.  I need to be able to make a copy of

I have a code in form's mouse move event. Code fires Ok when form is open
(normally) but mouse event will not fire if form is hidden and set in system
tray. This code is supposed to show pop-up menu when user clicks my app icon
on the system tray. But the mouse event won't fire ...

I am trying to do a directory traversal of my local drives.  Question:
1) How do obtain a list of the directories of each drive, so I can traversal?
2) How do I traverse nested directory paths?  Do I have to use recursion?
   or is there an iterative algorithm?  Can you share a ...

I compiled a program , it workes on Win XP and some Win 2000, the last error
I got is this
*** ERROR: LoadLibrary() failed while registering file
'C:\WINNT\system32\wshom.ocx'

Everytime I recompile my code and it runs I get a virus alert when it
attempts to write to the default settings for the program to the
registry.  IS this normal behavior and what happens if I distribute
the program...people will think I am writing malicious code?  Is it

I presume there is no difference in the code the compiler generates
between
    Call MySub(p1,p2,p3)
and

In the last day or three someone mentioned they would like to have a BAS Module
Sub/Function Sorting routine... [I think it was here... LOL]
Part of my Document Processing has a vary similar routine in it so I snipped out
that part and did a little re-write and created a new project ...