VB Forum / General / August 2004

I would like to use the winsock control in an application wiyh the
following scenario. My application would listen for UDP requests on a
specific port and return data to the requesting computer. The MSDN
article I read "Using the Winsock Control" states the .RemoteHost

In a program I'm writing, the command Docmd.OpenForm takes 15-30 seconds for
some forms, while other forms (with approximately the same amount of
controls, labels, etc.) open in 2-3 seconds.
Does anybody know the things that may be influencing this the most?

In a program I wrote, I get an error message every time I quit the program,
as follows:
The table 'TempMSysAccessObjects' already exists
This error message did not appear at the beginning, and it suddenly started

I have in the past written a few programs in VB5. My daughter is taking a
VB6 course at school and I am trying to locate somewhere to buy an upgrade
from 5 to 6. I honestly do not do enough to justify going to .Net, but am
not having any luck locating a copy of VB6 (upgrade).

How can I open for reading a file I do not know the name, but only
extension?
Is it possible to use a wildcard (*.csv)  or should I enumerate all files in
the folder?

I'm using a random access file to store records and have run into a
snag.  For some reason a string always overwrites the one before it
even though I named them differently.  
Here's my Type statement that I put in a module:

Dear Friends
Hope you all doing great.
I was working on this project which requires me to break alpha-numeric
strings and put them in separate lines, i.e. insert linebreak before

I am unable to Find the GST Total.  I am trying to find form Jan to the
Current Month.
I am using VB6.0 SP5.
I have the following

At one point in time, I read somewhere, that when you are done with a VB
Collection, that you should loop thru the collection and remove every item
before setting it to Nothing.  This helped with possible memory corruption.
We still do that in our current VB6 code.

I am using vbSendMaill.dll for a program  that emails out reports.
The problem I am having is that I get an error: "Invalid or missing
SMTP Host name"
Any ideas are relevant comments or ideas appreciated

During Form_Load when there is loaded a different checkbox value than
default then the chkbox_Click routine is automatically executed by Windows.
How can I avoid that?

Is there a way using the traditional (i.e. not the FSO objects) fundtionality
to traverse all of the drives on a PC and then traverse all of the
directories within a drive to locate a file?
TIA,

Are there problems with instaling Service Pak 6?

BEfore using Binary Compatibility, when I would distribute an app with
supporting ActiveX DLLs, I would have to ask the user to uninstall the app
(and thus unregister the ActiveX DLLs) and then install the new app (w/
corresponding ActiveX DLLs).  Now that I use Binary ...

I just got Windows Update today from Micrcosoft that states Windows Service
Pack 2 is ready for download.
Is this safe?  What I mean is this:
1) Am I going to have any troubles resulting from SP2 that would interrupt