VB Forum / General / December 2004

What is the best way to open a website using the default program?
thanks

Sorry I should not be here, but I cannot find the related group.
I need to write a command-prompt script that deletes a folder with many
sub-folder and files. Is there a single command that will do the job ?
I try rd, rmdir, erase, del but it only deletes the files of the parent ...

I don't use VB constantly, but I've used it regularly over the years.  As
far as I can remember, a dropdown ComboBox has been 315 units high.  I
looked back to a couple of old programs, and sure enough, that is true.
Now, I find, I can only make them 420 units high.

After playing around with ADO recordsets for a few months now I have decided
to migrate from the Data Environment to using ADO recordsets. I am used to
setting the DataSource of the data-aware controls at design time. I think I
know the answer to my question intuitively but here ...

I am using  the WebBrowser object in VB6 -
wb1.Navigate www.testsite.com
How can I tell from VB if the web page loaded sucessfully?  How can I detect
there was a problem - maybe the user entered an invalid web address or maybe

I have a VB6 program which downloads a web page (using VB6 WebBrowser) and
needs to get the text from the page.
I have looked at the WebBrowser structure, and found the text from the page
in several parts of the structure. I therefore decided to use

My current project involves running an operation on all picture files in a
selected folder. The code needs to loop through each file, detect if it is
of the affected file type, then run the operation and go on to the next
file.

Hey all,
I have two computers running VB applications and each connected to a card
reader for taking attendance. The records are then inserted into a SQL
Server. Now, the problem is that there is a 30 second gap between the times

We have VB program who queries data from a SQL Server 2000 db using ADO and
stored procedure. The database can grow as much as 10 million records. When
the user queries data, the data returned to the user varies between 10,000
records to 500,000 records. The data is returned to ...

We have VB program who queries data from a SQL Server 2000 db using ADO and
stored procedure. The database can grow as much as 10 million records, and
every 4 days I delete data that are 4 days old. When the user queries data,
the data returned to the user varies between 10,000 ...

Sorry for my newby question:
it worked on W2K to open a Word document with:
Shell "C:\Documents and Settings\Document.doc"
I have updated the path and get: "invalid procedure call or argument".

Is there a way to reference a value from an array from a value within a
listview or combo box?  I tried using a find command but I'm not quite sure
exactly how to find the value within the array.  Thanks.

When I run the following code that uses the WebBrowser control, memory
usage continues to increase as each page is navigated to. It seems to be
related to the site navigated to, as not all sites produce the same
behavior. Maybe related to javascript on the site?

In a userform I have a textbox in which the user can input a value.
With a "before_update" event I check whether the input is valid. If
this is not the case, I want to show a messagebox, explaining why the
input is not valid. After getting rid of the messagebox by clicking

i need to adapt the coloumn size in a mfgrid control, to do that i save
for each coloum the max lenght of the text in the cell, then i resize
using that.
this to save