VB Forum / General / November 2004

I hope this is one of those simple questions that for some reason or another,
I'm just missing the obvious.
I want my messagebox to display centered on the parrent form instead of the
desktop. The docs say to use

Hello --
I have a VB6 application that I'v written that has only one form.  The
application works... but I've noticed that from within my Form_Load
function, if the .INI file that I'm reading is does not exist, the

I'm using VB6 and MSWord2000 on a PIV 3Ghz.
I've created a project with a link to MSWord, ... a letter that opens, and
it fills a couple of bookmarkfields.
Now here's the thing : when I compile my project to an exe, on my desktop

We have an application that consists of sets of ActiveX Controls written in
VB6 that are running locally in internet explorer window.
On WIN2K the app was running without a problem.
Now our users have updated their machines with WinXP Service Pack 2 and the

I'm curious to know what the best practice is for adding form icons and
other icons used by my VB6 application.
Recently, I started creating an "icons" directory within my project folder
and copying any .ico files that I use within the application to this folder.

i wrote:
rsXML.Save "C:\SampleXml1.xml", adPersistXML
rsXML.Save xDOM, adPersistXML
.... ' iterate the recordset

I have some controls (Combos from Developer Express) which have not
the standard functionality to scrool with the mouse wheel in a combobox.
Is it possible to extend these controls (mybe with subclassing) to have such
mouse wheel functionality?

Hi group,
A time ago, people helped me here to use some key events.
Now I need to do one more thing
On the form, I need to send a string while pressing a key, and send another,

The VB executable file with the following block of code works perfectly in
Windows XP but the executable gets killed in Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
Help will be greatly appreciated.
Option Explicit

i'm new with xml, and i want to create an xml file from
my recordset object.
BUT i dont want to use the "save" method with
adPersistXML because i must control the data, so i can

Im trying to generate a dll from a microsoft support doc
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317327
In this document / project it makes references to two microsoft dlls,
'CDO for Exchange 2000 Library' and

I am writing a code where I end up with a 2D array of (X,Y) data points.
I want to fit a polynomial through those points. I am looking at an
order between say 3-7. Is there a code somewhere that I can use. Please
let me know. Thanks

Just a quickie - when I pass valid XML to the DOMDocument50 object which
contains the following processing instruction:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
and I then attempt to retrieve the DOMDocument50.XML property, I get:

My form has too many controls, so it is much easier to group them with
frames
in order to show and hide at runtime. However, I can't group some controls
in frames at design time, because a control may reside in different frames