VB Forum / General / October 2004

I'm attempting to generate a preformatted email out of my application
but run into a problem where the text in the body of the email appears
to be limited about 1000 characters.
To do this I use the "ShellExecute" function.

I wrote an exe binder. How do I let the output file have
an icon?

        VB6 no TAB keyup event?
Best regards,
Boki.

This newsgroup is an excelent source of information that I frequently
visit... so here goes my question.
I'd like to design my own custom VB forms, the default grey boxes just do
not do it for me anylonger.  Can anyone please direct me to the appropriate

i try to install the msxml.msi file (xml4.0) from vb6. i am getting this error
Invalid procedure call or argument.
Call Shell("C:\Temp\unzipped\xml\msxml.msi")
How to solve this problem?

I have a directory with about 5000 files in it.
I need to create a text file of all the files ending in a given extention.
How can I do this?
Thanks

I know that this is probably a fairly lame request but does anybody know
of any good sites that I can download free to use icons from, for
inclusion in my VB project?
I've had a look on Google and frankly the number of hits that it returns

List:
I need to test whether or not a variant is of numeric type.
My solution so far is:
if VarType(aVariant) = vbInt _

I have looked at the project that Ken Halter suggested, but can not seem to
get the thing to work correctly.
On my dev machine i start up a form as maximised and have placed an extra
label in each corner as a reference. Screen settings in my Dev machine is

List:
I've a container that "has a" Dictionary.
I'd like to define iteration in terms of the dictionary's keys.
I tried these, none of which work:

Im trying to find out how to remove all spaces from within a string
how can i turn  "This is a test" in to "Thisisatest"

I need to extract jpg images embedded inside of email messages. What is the
best way to go about this? I'm using a third party pop3 component which is
able to save attachments without a problem, but images inside of messages
are ignored.

How to print into a cash printer from VB?
Thank you!

        I use VB6 SP6 to programming simple DSR detection, it works
fine in Win2000, but MSCOMM never response(event) in WinXP.
Something wrong?
Best regards,

I recently had to upgrade my OS to XP and reinstall VB 6.0.  I have a
project that I need to make a setup program for but now when I click on
"Package" in the "Package and Deployment Wizard", it runs for a little bit
and then gives me the error:  "Unexpected error number 429 has ...