VB Forum / General / October 2004

New VB6 articles... imagine that <g>
Manage VB6 Code Complexity with the State Behavior Pattern
http://www.devx.com/vb/Article/22082
Replacement for VB6s Replace$ - only faster!

Can someone recommend the best way to learn VB6? Is there an on-line school?
Thanks

I've been using ADO for a few years now and now I need to simply open
an access DB using DAO3.6 which has is password protected.
set dbtemp = opendatabase("MyDB.MDB",False,False," ;pwd=mypass")
I get an error about "cannot find...ISAM" something, something...

I'm tryind to create word doc programatically.
I'm using VB6, Microsoft Word 10.0 Object Library in W2K OS.
Here is the code:
Dim docNew As Word.Document

Hi, I am generatinf an instance of an MDI CHild by
Dim frm1 as form
Set frm1 = new frmMyForm
frm1.show

I have developed an application that uses the Courier New font in order to
line up columns of information on my screen in a listbox.  On my development
machine everything looks and line up just fine.  When I install the
application on other machines, the font appears to switch to ...

2147024770 automation error  specified module not found
I am getting this automation error when I run the VB6.0 installation setup
on my machine.
Any fixes for the same ?

I am stuck with a very basic issue.
I try to create a dll with VB.NET. I find in the documentation that I should
be able to set that up in the project property dialog:
Common Properties - General - Output Type.

I created a simple app (one form, and one access 2000 mdb file which serves
as data repository). I created with VB6 (SP5) on a win 98 system, and run it
with out using any installation process.
I carry it with me and use it in a win98se system (vb also installed) The

If you put line numbers in your code.
Can they be returned from in the error handler.
Ian

It appears that the single-line If format ignores the rest of the line
if the test is true, but not if it's false.
This sequence does what I would expect:
x="zzz"

I'm writing macros that produce headers for new documents in the .Net IDE.
But the way I'm writing newlines seems to confuse the compiler. For
example:
       Dim objTextDoc As TextDocument

I am trying  to use COMTI  to communicate with IBM host.
Part of message is  in binary which is Fix BIN(15) and length=2 .
and the data I am going to send is 158  ,
so I need to convert the 158 into byte array to send to the host.

I would like to convert integer 158 into byte array  and the of the array
is length=2 .
Can anyone help me pls?
thanks in adavnce

Can you tell me what is the correct way to manually register an Active
executable(created in VB)? I believe most ActiveX executables ar
registered when they are launched but I'm curious if they can b
registered from the command line. Using REGSVR32? or a postfix o