VB Forum / General / October 2004

How can I populate a textbox (txtFilename) with the path of a file I choose
via a Common Dialog (cdFileAttachment)?  I am not sure what the code looks
like to do this.  Thanks for the help.
Sean

Hello NG,
I've to call a c++-DLL in VB. The DLL exports this funktion:
namespace Tools
{

I keep getting this error message and it comes and go's, and it is not
always on the same set of code.
Can't show non-modal form when modal form is open.
Does any body have any idea what may be cousing this?

I want to rename a file which are having umlauts as below through batch
file.
C:\>rename "SAH000000004-001Ä ew.txt" "SAH000000004-001Ä_ew.txt"
If I execute the below code

I have to believe I'm not the first one to ask, but I couldn't find any
references to anything existing out there that were still valid.
I'm looking for a control that will allow me to split a form into 2
(actually 3, but let's start with 2) areas -- a treeview on the left and a

Does anyone, anywhere, know of a link or something that explains Excel
automation in Vb.net? Specifically, details (hell, anything) on building a
chart from VB.net in Excel? I found some stuff on VB6, but the some of the
differences between that and .net are like night and day.

When accessing a VB project on another PC it is littered with errors and
I can't see what the cause of it is as the setup matches my own PC. They
are both XP SP1, VB6 SP5, MDAC 2.8.
All the associated ocxs and dlls are registered, I have debugged the

Hi group
well I have a class, let's say Class1 which has a Name property.I also havea
Form1 which has a function with this signature : ChangeIt(ByRef Name as
String) when I run the following code:

Dear Group,
From all the posts I realise that there is no way to
automate VB with Adobe Acrobat and enter text into a text
box in an Adobe Acrobat pdf file or save and print a pdf

What is wrong with this line:
   If CLng(txtInternational.Text) <= 101 And CLng(txtInternational.Text

It causes "Type mismatch error".

am looking for a way to convert my batch file to an exe.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Can the Liquid Crystal Display on a laptop be programmed?
The reason I ask this is because even though I can adjust the brilliance of
the screen, the contrast is quite high and the colours appear
over-saturated.

My task is to retrieve data from Air Chillers via RS-232 port. As iam too
new to this, I need to know what should be the appropriate guidelines to get
the data from the chillers, which port do i've to open and any code will
surely be of help

I have been programming for more years than I want to say.  I was told last
Friday that they wanted me to start writing programs in VB and handed me a
book.  I guess I am having a problem understanding the term like: Project,
Objects and a few others that were in the book.  Is ...

I am using VB 6.0 to build an executable that includes a third-party ActiveX
control.  I started with a project that generated a single executable using
the third-party control and it compiles and runs fine.
I added a new project to the original project when I decided that I wanted