VB Forum / General / July 2004

Hey all
I have just given my students a problem to solve from start to finish
ie. write definition / design algorithm in NS diagrams and build but have
been having major problems building it myself since i lost solution

Does anyone know of a way that you can make the computer shutdown?
Scott

I am working on a project that has several modules that have a large
number of variables. The logic is fairly complex and difficult to
debug. I would like to write a few debug utility functions that could
be called from various routines in these modules and have them have

I have an application in which I need to give the user the ability to backup
their data.  The data for one user over the course of a year is typically
50Mb and comprises around 50 files.
At present I have a funtion that makes a copy of all of these files to a

My VB6 project suddenly can not be compiled to native code.
The IDE terminated abnormally asking me if I would like to
debug or send error report.
But compiling to P-Code is OK.

Seems that some people in Europe are having trouble
accessing the database in my application.
Anyone have any information on this?
The entry in the access database shows up in the DB itself

I've got an Icon File that has a transparent background and I need to set
this icon like the icon's form in run time. Whe I do this with LoadImage
function, the transparent background is replaced with black. I can't use a
resource file, I need to set the icon from an icon file, ...

I am faily new to using Visual Basic to do much more than using the form editor and query databases. My code is downloading a file from the internet, then using ShellExecute to open the file with the appropriate application. My goal is to upload the file after the user is done ...

i know the show images option for IE can be set from the Register under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Display Inline
Images = yes|no
the problem is, once i set it to yes|no, the effect only starter after i

Hello --
Does anyone know of a utility or code module which captures the data
presented in Performance tab of Windows Task Manager ... the "CPU Usage
History" and "Memory Usage History" data?  We want to save the data in a

Sorry, this is nothing to do with the Control Array posting earlier
today.
Part of the app. I'm working on requires that I have two frames on a
form, each containing a picture box.  (The picture boxes contain

I have a Form that displays a list of services that were provided, like a service bill, This list is displayed in a frame using textboxes that are loaded dynamically according to how much info is being displayed. All the information is coming from a database. What I would like to ...

Can someone please explain the following Immediate window behavior?
First of all, I have a little function FmtInt defined as follows:
Public Function FmtInt(interval As Double) as String
I am trying to test it from the Immediate window:

I have made a program in VB6 which displays lots of information as a
text.
I have used labels all places, which is giving me not good facilities.
can anybody tell me some control which allows me to put fancier text

Has anyone ever come up with an answer to the old question of how to
create a console app in VB that writes to stdout?
I'm currently testing a CGI interface and need to write lots of quick &
dirty test programs. This is just the sort of thing that I usually find