VB Forum / General / October 2004

Hello!. I have a problem in Vb. How do I run/execute a MS-DOS cmd in Visual
Basic Environment. e.g. Type city.txt >prn.
Edit city.txt   etc.
I Don't want to use Commondialogbox controls.

Is there VB that will hide another field within a report when a checkbox in a
form is checked?  thanks for your help.

I also posted this in the Deployment section. Hoping to catch someones eyes
here.
Thanks for the feedback.
Up until now, I have been writing VB6 apps within my company and deploying

Does anybody know how to activate the mouse scroll wheel when developing
inside the vb editor?  That would be really nice.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Mike

I've been learning C in school for the past year, and know a little Java.
I've been thinking of taking a look at Visual Basic (played with version 2
in highschool years ago).  I've noticed that there's a plethora of VB
tutorial websites out there, but was wondering if someone ...

I have four fields with the following values:
Var_A = from 0 to 100
Var_B = from 101 to 500
Var_C = from 501 to 1000

Does anyone know if VB4 can be successfully installed and operated on the
Windows 2000 O/S ?  If so, are there any special considerations that need to
be taken during the install (as to not overwrite *.dll, *.ocx, etc.) ?

I've a problem!
I've wrote an EXE ActiveX to manage a GSM modem via RS232.
More or less the operations are:
1. I send a AT command to modem

Can anyone give me sample code in VB or .Net for implementing Lucene
search for the application.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,

I'm about to update my computer and OS,currently I running P3 500 with
ME,VB6 SP5. As I understand it you should compile using the oldest OS
likely to run the programme,I have an old slow laptop with W98se I
compile on. With the new system should I go with Win 2000 or XP

I am trying to read the contents of an ASCII file but I think that the characters in the file are causing problems. The characters can be any value from 0 to 255. I am reading the file like this:
Open App.Path & "\DataFile.txt" For Binary As #1
Line Input #1, data
The ASCII ...

I have a combox set to style 2, however when I pass an empty string to it
from my database it produces an error "Text" property is read-only.  How can
I pass an empty string without producing an error when the style is set to
2?  Appreciate the help

i am getting this error.
Run time error - -2147217887 (80040e21)
'Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status
value, if available. No work was done.'

I have a form with a treeview which is populated with a recordset from
a database. I build in a delete record option but I cannot get the
treeview refreshed so the deleted record is not any longer shown.
When I run the code that I created to populate the treeview I get

I am writing an app in VB, and I want to call into the kernel32's function
CreateSemaphore.  I went to the API viewer tool, and copied and pasted the
declaration, and here is how my declaration currently stands:
Public Declare Function CreateSemaphore Lib "kernel32" Alias