VB Forum / General / November 2004

I would like to give my good old VB6 applications a more recent look
and feel and I'm wondering how I should proceed. Should I switch to
VB.Net? Does this give me a modern UI for free? I don't think so. I
had a look at CodeJock's and BCGsoft's libaries. BCGsoft looks more

I have a fixed size image/picture box control and want to simply resize a
picture to fit inside the image/pic box control whilst maintaining the aspect
ratio of the original picture without resizing the control that its going to
appear in.

Could i get the OutLook2000 New mail event in VB?
I can send email in VB , but don't know how to get the new mail event.
Does any body tell me how to do?

I use on_error in my MDIform and do not know how to resume after an error.
Here is what I have:
Error_Routine:
   If Err.Number = 5 Then

I need to import data from multi Spreadsheets with VB6 code. My code doesn't
work properly, the error message I got is: "Item cannot be found in the
collection corresponding to the requested name or ordinal".  Moreover, I
can't view the cells collection value from watch window, ...

When I'm working with a project, I may have some forms open, some MDI
windows showing the project source code, and other UI elements of the VB6
GUI in a certain state.
Then I save my project, and I do File->Remove Project

I have a listview which consists of several column, the first being the Time
Column. Now, when the user scrolls horizontally, the Time Column obviously
disappears. Is there any way I could have it show like Excel? I would like
the first column to remain there inspite of any ...

I am trying to print out a multiline textbox.
The printout shows every paragraph in one line, so most of text is missing,
no line break is made
my code

Using VB6 SP5
What are the opinions on re-using parameter names in Subs/Functions?
For example, If I have two separate Subs in a BAS module that both accept input
filename and output filename as arguments, is there any harm in giving the

Did the XP SP2 perform some security protection that causes INI files to
read as though they are always "read only" so that a test for FileExists
fails?  Code Follows (From the ms setup.exe prog vb5)
Giac

A project I am working on will contain a form that will be used to build
maps or diagrams. There will be a large background image and a palette of
symbols, etc that the user will select and then click the background to
place them.

Morning group,
I have a question regarding project references ...
If a standard EXE project is compiled with a reference pointing to a DLL in
one location, can that same DLL be distributed into another directory and the

I am looking into building a Product that would merge several Exe's into a
Suite product.
Currently we have 4-5 VB Exe's that I want to put into 1 product (Suite)
On the left side similar to Outlook I would have Buttons for each product

I'm doing some network programming as a "for fun" project.  I'm trying to
read in a protocol header and decode it's contents.
The contents are supplied in a byte array, the data I want is in byte 15 and
16?  The data is a single field stored as a two byte value?  How would I go