VB Forum / General / September 2004

I am making a project for wireless sending of files with NetComm, and I
want the reciever to be able to accept or decline the file, and the byte
sending must wait for it.
I'de use the control signals of the rs232 protocol but my wireless

I'm confused. Of the number of ppl selling VS Net 2003 Pro Academic, one
persons says there are 2 CDs, another 4, another 7 and yet another 9!!??
They all claim to be selling the Academic Pro version. How is this different
from the FULL version.

I want to print my designed form. but when printed from VB. it goes to upper
left of paper. is there any other way to do that. I want it to be at least
in upper center of paper. is there any way beside print screen to put it on
a word document. because on that way I will have the ...

Can someone tell me if you can shell out to a command and have the vb
program wait for that shell program to finish before it continues with the
next line of code in the vb program.
Thanks Mark

I can't view my Project Explorer Window in VB 6.0 using the SDE Environment.
Does anyone have a solution?
Thanks

anyone know, how to make preview of doc, xls and ppt documents in vb6
without opening Word, Excel and PPT?
tnx

Hi, I have a problem I think
I wanna use the visual styles but .....
I'm using VB Express 2005 and I want to use the visual styles,but in the
property aplication  is check (Start up with custom subname) when I uncheck

Can I get the file name of a file I recieve through a serial port after
it had been sent in Binary mode?
For now, I use OpenFile(1, "any name", mode.binary),
but I would like to have the original name just like with Kazaa (on the

I am facing a problem in  OpenDatabase procedure.
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1 Sub ChangeDBPassword (LocalPath as string,Password as string)
2 Dim Db As Database

I've got the classic file date/timestamp editing stuff from Randy's
VBnet pages, and also some other similar code (I forget where from)
which uses CreateFileA()
Neither is able to touch an MSWord document for me.

Hi all gurus
Suppose i have a string like "function func1(50)" then i want to change it
to "function funct1 (50)"
means add space before (

What do I need to backup in order to secure my customized IDE toolbars in
the event I need to restore a system or re-install VB6 on a new machine. I
know of the two areas in the registry but they don't seem to get everything.
TIA - Fred

I *really* like Excel's HTML Parser, cause I'm trying to view an HTML
page that is already in table format and Excel grabs the data and
cellifies it perfectly.
BUT...

What is the limitation (array size) of a Collection.
dim MyCollection as new collection
How many items can I add to this collection ? Can I insert 10000 items?
Thanks you!

I have recently had to rebuild my pc and am in the process of recreating my
VB projects from SS v6.0c
I have tried a to do this a couple of ways but the end result is always the
same.