VB Forum / General / December 2004

most of the time the following function works ok
(it is only called against text files)
they don't always have .txt as an extension however(don't think that should
matter)

What i am tring to do is?
Get the file date from a *.txt or *.dot file
Reason is I want to compare the the date of the master file
and if the master is newer than the current local file over write the older

 I have code below :
I have problem with data in the array , when i read item one items then
the next one time from RFID Reader , everything are OK .
But when i read two items data then read the next one item , the data

VB.NeT
Declare a structure with two members to store each record from the input
file The First member should be a date and the second a single precision
number. Declare a dynamic array of stuctures.

Sort of a strange question to ask after programming in VB for so many
years but it doesn't seem obvious to me so here it is.
Are there recommendations for organizing and maintaining reusable code
in Visual Basic 6?

We have been using ActiveReports for VB (not DotNet) since it first came
out. We have not designed a form for several years and now are finding out
that when creating a new form/designer there is no ActiveReports toolbar to
add items to a report.

Does anyone know of a listing of what versions of what files are installed
in each service pack?  I'm primarily interested in the runtime. I've got a
number of different machines where an exe is acting differently and I'm
finding that they have a different versions of some of the ...

Does anyone have a clue how to take 8 bytes out of an array and place them
into a double. I have the bytes in the IEEE format, I just don't know how to
plug them into there proper spot. Or barring that the method to derive the
number from the 8 bytes.

Please help me out in a file search.The code should search a particular drive
to find the file.The drive and the file name are given by the user.
            Thanks in advance.

In VB, where can I find the current setting in Windows for
the decimal separator

i'm developing a pda software....i'm not sure on how to communicate with the
server software whihc runs on VB6 on winsock.....i have the source for it as
well but i donnu how to make C# or Java communicate with VB6...i only have
to send string to each other...

While writing this plea for help, I think I solved my
dilemma, but I don't know why the statement that solved
the problem is necessary.  The inspiration for the
statement came from an undocumented VB example I found on

Hi, hope somebody can help...
I have two disconnected, read only recordsets (ADO 2.6). The format of the
recodsets match (field orders, names, types etc). I am trying to merge the
two recordsets into one, at the moment the only way i've found to do this is

hi..
I would like to build File Transfer Program with VB  & Vc++
VC ++ produces .DLL ..
And VB get the DLL and Call Functions in VC+ DLL..

If I know the Key of a Treeview Node, is there any way to grab the node's
Index or Text properties?
Thanks.