VB Forum / General / October 2004

Hi, I am looking for a function which returns only long or integer part of a
number.
For example:
input 396.5, it returns 396

I am using windows-xp.
For some reason I don't know,
I cannot see the date and time icon on the taskbar
(so, I cannot change the date & time)

I am trying to convert the last modified timestamp on a file to a VB
Date type. I have posted the code below. It does not work if my locale
setting is d/m/y. According to the documentation "The code locale is
always English/U.S. in Visual Basic", even though I am giving it a US

I'm used to working in Access (97-2003). I often use continuous forms where
multiple records are shown in a single window, but not in a grid.) I'm
wondering how to accomplish this in VB6. Any suggestions?
TIA

I have an Excel spreadsheet that updates time/date cells when opened and then
saved.  I want to automate that process and wondered if a VB6 program could
do this.  I assume the Shell command can be used to open the Excel file, but
I’m not sure how I would then save the file and ...

I'm not trying to be lazy, I honestly just don't know what I'm looking for.
Here's a situation.  Give 3 points on an arc, I need to be able to calculate the
resulting circle (or ellipse).
What I'm doing is this:  I'm creating a kind of drawing program.  Imaging a

I have to get this done today... please help and appreciate very much
Got a recordset in VB which shows the customer sales per month. I need
to take this recordset and format data for some fields ( like 5000 to
$5000 ) and show it in the table form and dump the table into a

What is the best/easiest means to return the serial/volume number of the
drive containing the OS using VB.NET?
I'm looking to get this information as a unique ID for
activation/registration of a custom application so as to tie the software to

I've created a user defined type and I'd like to specify its member
alignment.  Using c/c++, the #pragma pack() allows me to specify the packing.
Is there a way to do this in VB?
Thanks.

i want to create a button in the shape of oval.i put an imagebox and
put two picture as downpic and pic. how to put a pic as oval shape.the
other area should have transparent.how it is possible

I have VB6 SP6 on Win XP SP2 with all windows updates.
I have a project that I can run a "Start with full compile" which works just
fine.
However, when I get to building the DLL the progress bar for "Compiling..."

I've read a number of times that one of the primary disadvantages to using
the FSO and Dictionary objects is that they're not always distributable.  
Some sys admins disable scripting for increased security which causes the
objects to fail.

Dear list,
I have an application which exports and writes an xml file to the filesystem.
This works fine (until my doubts!). We are using vb6 sp5 with msxml 4.
I am setting a UTF-8 character encoding in the head of my xml file, using

Hello! I have a Question in VB. How Do I Run a MS-DOS Cmd in Visual Basic
Environment. e.g. TYPE info.txt > prn. I dont wan to use common dialoguebox  
controls.
Thanks.

How may I obtain all the combinations between the elements of two recordsets
?
For purpose RS1 (A,B) x RS2 (X,Y,Z) = RS3 (AX,AY,AZ,BX,BY,BZ)
Thanks in advance for your help.