VB Forum / General / October 2004

What percentage of your routines have error trapping ("On Error Goto
<here>") in them?  Can anyone point me to any good tutorials on it?  I've
been programming in VB since VB3, so I'm no newbie to it.  But I currently
have a project on my plate to revisit all my Error coding and ...

How do I open a PDF file in IE or using ADObe application in visual basic
Command Button Click Event?

Our infrastructure is as follows.
* Development environment (Desktop) is Windows NT 4.0
* Server where any VB dll or exe are deployed is Windows 2000 Server.
This is the infrastructure at clients site. We need to take SOME OF

I have asked this question in the VC Newsgroup, but it's probably more
appropriate here.
I have a C++ application, that dynamically loads a dll and calls a couple of
functions. I have this dll written in C++. Now I need to write this dll in

I am using VB 6.0 and want to create labels and text boxes at runtime.  I
noticed there is no INDEX property available, so how does one go about doing
that?  
Thanks in advance

When I try to get help I'm asked to insert MSDN Disk2
I'd like to copy the CD to my hard drive so I do not have to insert the CD.
Do I simply reinstall MSDN?
Thanks

I am having a project which contains around 200 forms and all the forms had
crystal reports 5.0 (CRYSTL32.OCX version 5.0.0.208). By mistake one of our
guys saved the VBP with crystal reports 8.0 (CRYSTL32.OCX version 8.0.0.4).
So, as of now I am able to open the project with only ...

I want to emulate mouse click to a control in my application. I first write
a simple program to try out the idea.
I put 2 command buttons on a form.
When I press command2, command1 is expected to get a mouse click event.

I've got the following scenario:
VB application changes some values in an object. When the object is saved, a
recalculation of the database must start in the background allowing for the
client to operate normally.

We are writting a VB app that use SQL 2000 as it db. Our old software was
written in an environment that prevented users from writting to the database
tables. How can we employ this in a VB and SQL environment when users need
to write to tables using the application functions ?

is there any possibility to get the current module and the line number in a
VB program? E.g. to create a logging utility that logs the current module
and linenumber while calling logger.log "some string". In the method
logger.log it would be nice to find the calling method and the ...

out of certain reasons, I have to treat a Shift-F10 command in a textbox.
Because of company standards I am not allowed to change the command to
another key. But pressing F10 (oder Shift-F10) opens the Windows system
context menu (copy, paste, etc. ...).

Dear Groupies,
I have a VB form with one TextBox with its DataField bound to Field1 in
Table1. If I manually amend the value by changing it in the TextBox the
background database is changed. When I change it through code my Class

Is there a way to assign a keyboard shortcut to a command (like Next
bookmark) like there is in Word?
The various combinations of Ctrl-B, Ctrl-Shift-B, etc., don't seem to
be used for anything.

I have a number of user-defined types (UDTs) defined in a standard
module.  I have a class module in which I hoped to use some of these
types, and I was anticipating something in the class module such as
(e.g.)