VB Forum / General / August 2004

I am trying to get my app to draw the XP style controls for users that are
running XP. After carefully following the instructions at
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Libraries/XP_Visual_Styles/Using_XP_Vi
sual_Styles_in_VB/article.asp
I had some success with some controls ...

Is it not possible to convert directly from xls to pdf? and I only wan
to convert specific sheets.
jonx wrote:

I'm writing a VB6 program using ADO against an SQL server.  I'm using the
BeginTrans and CommitTrans methods to move records around.  I don't know of
any way to test what happens if the CommitTrans fails (it always works OK).
So I'm wondering if anyone out there knows if it's too ...

My VB knowledge is basic.  I need to write a program that will take an XML
file read it and let the user change some settings in a text box then write
those changes.  I have read a ton of the postings on the newsgroups but I am
confused if I should try to use VB 6 or VB .Net.  I ...

I have a problem with modal forms that's very easy to reproduce, and
practically locks up the application:
When closing Form1 I display a modal from (Form2), more or less to request
the user if he's sure, etc. That works fine if Form1 is in normal window

hello, I would like to copy a worksheet from one workbook to anothe
worksheet on another workbook. Here is my code for both attempts that
made:
Public Function copyWorksheet(ByVal SrcSheet As Excel.Worksheet, ByVa

Hi group,
Last week, I had run into debugging a run-time error in an application I
support.  The hardest part of this error was that it would occur only in the
compiled version of the code (EXE) and not in the development environment

Hello, I am creating a program that uses Excel COM library in VB .Net .
What it does is it copies and pastes large amounts of data to othe
cells, and every time I run my program and exit, it asks me if I wan
to keep the data that I copied onto the clip board.  Is there a way t

I would like to store a VB6 Form Control object in a class.  Can this be
done?
for example.  I want to be able to store a textbox object and a combobox
object in a class.

I've looked through the archives and I haven't been able to find a good
solution that will match what I'm trying to do.
I would like to create a license file generator that will take a two strings
and two integers.  It will then produce a reversible encrypted string which

When I'm saving a file (Save As) - - how (programmatically), can I check to
see if the existing file is Read-Only?

I need to copy some text from Clipboard to Notepad in VB 6 and save the file
as "xyz.idx", and close the notepad.
Can anyone help. Thanks!

I want to know how to use crystal report without crystal report viewer
component. What component or references should I use? Thx alot ...

Is it possible to dynamically load an OS's drive icons into a listview
control. I want to display a list of drives with the same icons that
appear in Explorer. I don't want to use a imagelist as the icons are
different for each version of Windows.

how can i automaticly execute a batch File before opening
my vb apllication .
i.e - every time i run my application it will automaticly
execute my batch file.