VB Forum / General / November 2004

I stuck my nose out from under my duvet to post this - more in hope
than expectation. I'll try to be brief:
I have a program (i think maybe you know this) which lets kids write a
story in 6 sections - the sections are in RT format. Each section is

I found out that using strings with binary data on PC's with MS Windows from
asia(china,taiwan) makes a lot of problems.
I assume this comes because these countries use DBCS char set instead of
ANSI. On such PCs Windows(or VB) will do automatic charset translations and

i'v created a dll with Binary Compatablity, and then
compile (and make dll) of my second version, after
changes some argument in a function.
should i get an error msg in the standard EXE

Not sure if i am in the correct group, however....
I need to "tidy up" the permissions on every users folder on our SAN location.
Because most of the folders "owner" are set to the individual user, then
this makes it difficult to administer locally. Taking ownership is ok however

Hi gang,
I've been experimenting with the following code snippet from MSDN.
It was originally written for use within Excel's VBA environment and, not
unsuprisingly, it works there.

I'm new to .NET and am using VB .NET as I am from a VB background.
I am having difficulty understanding the way .NET handles, passes and uses
objects.
I have had a look at the Micrsoft Data Access Application blocks for .NET

I'm facing a strange issue with ADO and VB. My application runs fine
with out any errors. But When I debug, I get a runtime error while
executing the ExecuteQuery method of ADO. This is not a consistent
behaviour but i can get the runtime error if I debug 3 or 4 times at a

what exactly is the "Unique Table" property of the
recordset?
when should i use it? why?

I have a VB6 program that allows the user to show pictures (and listen to
music and other sounds). It is designed to work on a computer that has its
window width and height set to be 800x600. However some people have their
computers set to have a wider width such as 1024 etc.

is there any free tutorial or online book about VB6?
Thank,
Jim.

when should i use "Friend" to declare a variable, why not
public?
thanks.

I am having a problem drawing a circle on a Picture control. VB6.
I can draw lines on it but cannot see the circle.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Dana

Is there any way to do Boolean logic on *long* strings in VB6?  For
example, given the two strings
  x$ = "1000010000"
  y$ = "0001010010"

I have a DLL that is written in Delphi. It uses a Callback function,
to send formatted data from a serial port to a VB application
My problem is, that everything works fine, as long as the application
is running within the VB6 IDE.

In early versions of basic that I have worked with there was a data
statement that allowed you to store data in the program that could the be
loaded into an array.
If memory serves me correctly it worked something like this -