VB Forum / General / November 2004

Could you please tell me if Visual Basic.NET 2003 can be configured to work
with the Apache2 server, and how?
I'm using the book "ASP.NET Programming with VB.NET 2003, Step By Step," and
all of the sample files that go with the book are designed to work with IIS,

I test with this code, but is a little diference between ChildForm and
normalForm. Way?
Private Type POINTAPI
x As Long

I have written a dll in VB6 to interace with another system. Most times this
deploys and works well, but I have had a couple of reports that when people
are using it they are getting error 429 - Activex cannot create component.
This appears only to happen when the system is not ...

Is there a simple way to load text from a file into a List Box.  I know how
to do it line by line but was looking for a more efficient way.
Thanks in advance,
Les

One of my users downloaded my program, which is packed in WinZip self
extracting archive. She has XP but has not installed Service Pack 2.
When she clicks on the file to self extract nothing happens. Is there any
advise I can giver her?

Could any one help me on how to read
a system color correctly ?
I have tried with the following code :
Private Sub Form_Load()

Is there any one have Complete list of Restriction  key Word that can't use
for Variable.
Or is there any way to get from computer by programming.
Please Help me.

Most shells were written in a time where:
1) The internet wasn't especially prevalent
2) Neither were graphical interfaces (not like today, anyway)
3) The computer's time (and processing power) was much more expensive

How can you tell if the computer becomes idle?

Hi group
I have a problem could you help me? :
well I have a date for instance 03-11-2004 and I want to know which weekday
is the end of the month or the beginning of the month.

I have a program I wrote in VB
Nothing major.
Works fine on everybody's machine except for one.
When I run it, I get an error that says that the program did not initalize

I am trying to write an application in VB involving a number of forms.
The app involves choosing from to empty and move integer values
between objscts so as to arrive at a predetermined value (as in that
movie where the challenge is to empty buckets of water so as to

I'm wanting to create a numeric input box that accepts only digits and
whatever the fraction separator is for the user's locale. I know I can use
Format$ to coerce it, but that's not what I need in this case. How do I dig
into control panel from VB and find the fraction separator ...

Once that the user selects a printer with CommonDialog or VBPrnDlg,
how can I test that the printer is available before sending a text
string to it?
Stan Hilliard

I am generating an email from within my VB app. We all use the Outlook 2002
client with the most recent security updates, which means that when an email
is generated outside of Outlook (i.e.  from my program), the user is
presented with a window that tells them that a program ...