VB Forum / General / October 2004

hello all,
I built an app that has a webBrowser built in. It is intentionally very
simple have no toolbars. I added a print web page button to the form.
Unfortuneately I have no idea how to implement this print button.

I am using this SQL statement with a data grid to retrieve records.
Adodc1RH.RecordSjource = “select *, AlarmDate as AlarmD, NOD1 as NOD,
CurrentDate as CD dateadd(‘y’, -NOD, AlarmD) as RefillDate, datediff(‘d’, CD,
AlarmD) as DTA from RefillHTbl where MPID =” & PAID & “ order by ...

looking for a simple example of how to show and move the
merlin agent.
i wrote:
Me.Agent1.Characters.Load

I wrote a small application that collects information about a machine and
sends it to a SQL Server database.  If I copy the executable to another
machine and run it, everything works as expected.  But if I run it from a
network share, I get a "Class Not Registered" error, and ...

Sorry for the stupid question, but...
Does anyone have the xpath query to hand such that I can pass an attribute
value to search for, and it will return the IXMLDOMNode for this element.
e.g.

I have a small app to where in one section, the users will type in the same
name over and over again depending on who is running it.  I know all the
different names that would be type in.
I tried using a List box, but that didn't alway seem to save to the databse

Is it possible for a user to change the contents of a resource file after it
has been compiled.
I need to make a simple application for reading output from a scientific
machine. I would like this application to be customizable by the customer for

In some code I'm writing, I having somthing similar:
Sub Main
 dim x as myClass
 set x = new myClass

i have to re-use an excel spreadsheet for exporting recordsets.
sometime the export from sql contains fewer records than the previous export
so i need to delete everything that is there except for the first row.
just looking for a quick way to do it if there is one.

Is it possible to use VB to read from a serial port?  We have a machine that
is going to send data to a workstation.  They want to be able to capture the
data and put it in an excel file.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

Does anybody know how to write code or know of a program to emulate a RS232
port.  I have a program that I wrote to read data in from the serial port
and would like to test it out without the machine nearby.  I would like to
send the string of data into the buffer and then read ...

I am trying to learn some advanced gui techniques with
Visual Basic (more specifically VB6).  I like the look of
programs like Ad-Aware and SmartBarXP (Which is developed
entirely in VB).

Does anyone have a suggestions for generating a fairly simple serial number
for product regristration?
Thanks Arne

I'm getting ready to tear my hair out. Why am I getting "Type Mismatch" with
the following code? I have the treeview component added to my project. If I
use "On Error Resume Next" above the code it will execute fine.
'CODE IS IN A MODULE

Either it is late or I just don't understand the use of this function.
AFAIK Replace has the following format:
Replace(expression, find, replace[, start[, count[, compare]]])
where in my case: replace(expression,find,1,1,0) using the following