VB Forum / General / September 2004

I have a small app and have set up the help file which can be accessed
through the F1 key.  I would also like to supply a button that would
also open the help file.  I have serched the net and cannot find
anything that helps.  The help file will be in the application

For years, I've been using On Error Goto for error handling. I recently came
across a sample which uses the syntax On Local Error Goto. I'm searching the
2000 MSDN for a reference to On Local Error but I can't find it. What if
anything is the difference between On Error and On ...

I had a problem using the multimedia control in a VB6 program. I have
Windows 98 on my computer and it runs fine but gives "Component MCI32.OCX or
one of its dependencies not correctly registered. A file is missing or
invalid" error when I try to run the program on some Windows XP ...

I want my application to be able to open (execute) locally a file
located at a specific URL (ex: http://www.myURL.com/setup.exe)
I used the code on this page: http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Tip/18339
But my problem is that with Netscape7.2 it doesn't open the file, it

I have a HTC in a web page.  It's just a slider.  It uses JavaScript but the idea of Put and Set for Properties I can understand better in VB than in JavaScript so I am asking here.  Here is a portion of the HTC:
<public:property name="visible" id="propVisible" put="setVisible" ...

I'm wondering if there's a way to hide the
"Version 3.0 of MyOCX.ocx is not registered. The control will be upgraded to
version 4.0"
message when loading VB.

Using my VB5 Program with Win98 to send eMails and open Internet sites works
fine. However using the same program with WIN X causes a runtime error in
case of the mail and does not work calling the Internet.
Is there any difference in programme these routines between Win98 and

It seems that since installing XPSP2 I can no longer get VB to connect
to a running instance of Internet Explorer, as outlined here on MSDN
Q176792: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/s
upport/kb/articles/Q176/7/92.ASP&NoWebContent=1
Can ...

Is there a way to have "ShowFileDialog" open the dialog in a specific
folder?
Thanks

I'm using VB6 and quite new to VB and need a bit of help.
I've got a small userform with a textbox, a combobox and another 2 textboxes
(in that order).
I've also got an excel file with 3 collumns for name, address and fax number.

New to vb.net
I need to know how to talk to a calling form from a called form. I want to
change various properties of the form as well as properties of objects on
that form, Ie pushbuttons texts, label texts etx. I also need to be able to

Hello - In VB.NET, how do I control product version, and access it for
reporting on my splash form? This is a simple .exe solution with a project
built out of a few forms and modules, and contains a setup project.
My vbproj file contains ProductVersion = "7.10.3077" . When I ...

How can I "call" functions in a 3rd-party DLL from my VB6 program?
In a separate project, I'm using some functionality provided as part
of PHP (server-side scripting) to create graphics files (.png and
.jpg). For those of you that might be familiar with it, it's called

I have a question about windows registry registration.
During an installation procedure for my application:
If I copy for example DAO360.dll to a unique folder under c:\ and adds the
DAO360.dll to the registry with REGSVR32.EXE will that override any existing

When looking at window objects in the object browser, at the
bottom of the object browser window you see thing like
summary information, descriptions of the input and output
etc.  How do I add these items in a class I create myself?