VB Forum / General / November 2004

An urgent plea for help. This was due today...
I have an Access 2003 database which lists the file names of pdf (Adobe
Acrobat) documents all of which are in the same folder on a shared network
drive. I need to create, in code or a query, links to these files. There

Does anyone have any code for reading an INI file for my application?
Thanks

With FSO (FileSystemObject) I am able to determine the size of a folder
(including its subfolders).
Now, I would like to determine the size of a whole disk (partition in
fact). Well, not really its size, but in fact the no. of MB occupied by

I am trying to make it so the user can choose the font and size they want to
be in the grid.
needless to say, when I set the font via code, it looks majorly wacked out.
Any ideas?

I often receive huge word documents, full of embedded screen captures that
were taken in .BMP format. I go through them, select each graphic, copy to
the clipboard, paste into Microsoft Photo Editor, save-as .PNG format, then
re-insert into the word document.  When I'm done, the ...

I have one problem in webbrowser control of vb.
If i set security levet to high, then IE is displaying sercurity alert
message before navigating to next page.
But when i used webbrowser control in vb and open same site,

I am working on a program that needs to send email with attachment. I am
using MAPI control to do the email. How can I set the MAPI to use a specific
POP and SMTP address in VB without the user to go through the profile dialog?
Thank you in advance

Anyone know how to automatically change the default value of Network Library
in MS SQL ODBC Driver fromNamed Pipes to TCP/IP?

Can someone tell me the way to draw a line in a richtxt control...
I assume you need to subclass !
Thanks

I have a #CONST defined in the startup form, but it does not seem to have
global scope in my application. I set this constant to compile an app
differently depending upon its value, and I test using #IF in a number of
classes and module invoked by the form. However, it only seems ...

Forgive me if I'm in the wrong place.
I need to get the current column count of my text box, but it does not work
if I scroll off the the right side.  It seems that the column is only
relative to window size, not actual size that is scrolled off the page.

I'm developping an application in VB. That same application has to be able to
read, create and print bar codes to register product information. I need
documentation (sites, books, ..., anything) in order to start working on this
task. Can you please help?

Does anyone know of any good add-ins or backup utilities for making an
instant backup of my VB project?

I would like my software to export data to Excel for charting.  I have
found various references to code that will do that but every piece of
code is missing something in particlar.
Could someone post a simple routinue that opens Excel, if it exists, I

I've experienced a peculiar bug. As soon as I use "Printer.***" as seen
in the short example below, function "RecEnr.Fields(***)" witch
immédiately follow, stops execution and give me this error message:
Run-time error '6':