VB Forum / General / September 2004

There's any way to explicitly assign a value to erl ?
Dim lngErl As Long
lngErl = Erl
...

In a VB page, when I use the OpenDSObject to connect to LDAP, it works when
I use the complete user name.
For example:
If I use "John A Smith" or "Paul B Allen" and set strUserName = "cn=John A

I need to use the reseditor.exe to create some resource
files, but I only have Visual Basic 2003 Standard
Edition.  The source files are in C# and every time I try
to compile them I get an error msg.  Can someone post the

First of all I haven't done any programming since the mid 70's and
that was Basic and assembly.
I want to take weather data (wind direction ,speed, temp and etc.),
from a couple of popular web sites and automatically populate my excel

looking for help with this query.   I am using vb6.0 and storing data in
access 2000 db.  I need to select records from a table where FIELD A in REC 1
is equivalent to FIELD b in REC2.   If these fields match, I need to
combine(sum) up the numeric fields and create 1 "total" ...

I'm developing an OCX project. I've a testbed as a standard exe. I'm wanting
to debug as I'm getting a run-time error (I think on teardown I'm trying to
execute code on an object that doesn't exist so am getting "the callee is
not available and disappeared" error )

I am trying to filter a recordset to bring back a result related to a certain date which has been entered, when it tries to filter it though I get "Filter cannot be opened", it doesn't seem to like the date as it will filter on Forename, Surname, Address etc etc but not on Date; ...

I have a problem with a script I wrote in VBS. I am trying to upload a file
through FTP to a server! I made follwing script but the script always hung!
Here is the script:
dim url,rdir,user,pass,fname

I'd like to create a function that will find/replace portions of code in my
VB project
For example all network paths with local drive destinations. I'd like
however to supply these Search/Replace paramtersw from code myself. For

I use vb6 and "listview" object to show record from database, SQL Server.
I find that no. of displayed character in each fields is limited in around
256 characters. but I need to show more and more because I use text field in
database. Is there any method to show more? I don't want ...

Here is what my program should do:
1- "filecopy strSourcePath strDestinationPath" of myDB.MDB file
2- Delete several row in myDB located at strSourcePath and close MyDB
recordset through the DataEnvironment variable.

is it posible to run mdac v2.0 on windows 2003 or on a server with .net
framework installed?

I would like to group a number of controls together, similar to an Access
subform or asp.net's web user control.  Is there an approximation in vb6?  I
know I can use frames to keep controls together, but is there a way to
encapuslate these controls?  Perhaps using an ActiveX ...

Hello Sir/Madam,
I have used fixed lenght files plenty of times but I have this file that has
different sets of record length types and I have been able to read them all
without a problem except there is one record type that has a fixed length of

I'm looking to pull a list of errors from the Errors object.
Private Function ErrCount() As Long
 Dim ErrType As DAO.Error, i As Long
 i = 0&