VB Forum / General / January 2005

I am not familiar with VB at all. So bear with me.
I created a VB program (vb6.0) that uses DAO. I put the .exe on a computer
on the network where my access dbase is at also. I mapped a drive on users
cpu and want users to be able use the map drive and to click on the .exe and

I wish to use the Internet control object INET [ or inet1 etc.].
I have initiated Project -> References and Components and INET is listed in
the Library ' InetCtlsObjects ' and appears in the Toolbox correctly.
When I try to drag & drop this object /control on to a form I get     '

Anyone can give me some idea about the future of VB6. Is it worth to start
programming in VB6 now? My main concern is will microsoft giveup vb6 in the
near future?
Thanks.

If using the following command:
   Dim PID As Variant
   PID = Shell("My DOS command", vbNormalFocus)
this creates a new separate asynchronous shell for each invocation.

I just got a new computer and am having a beast of a time getting
Visual Studio to install on it.  The computer is an HP Pavilion a750e
with an AMD Athlon 64/3700 processor, a gig of RAM, a 250 gig hard
drive, and Windows XP Professional.  I have MS Visual Studio

I want to create a process with activex exe. I can create exe server but it
allways appear in applications list in Windows Task Manager. How can I
create a process only show in processes list in Windows Task Manager and
show systray icon, like a spy (Windows messenger , MSSqlmanager ...

I am looking for VB.Net tools to develop an email processing program.

Being a recreational user I don't do much in VB, but I thought I understood
how to pass an  array between procedures.  I guess I don't  because the
answer ought to be obvious.   Given the following bit of code
Sub start()

In Visual Basic one can make subs that are called on certain events (for
example on mouse click).  Is it possible to make a sub, that works all the
time, from the moment  form is loaded to the moment form is unloaded?
It does not matter if usch sub runs parallel to events or if it ...

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I have an infuriating problem trying to export the contents of my ADO
recordset out to MS Word.
Basically, I have a basic word app and document, create them, and write out

I am trying to write an app that launches VBS app.
I have 2 problems:
1. I use shell to launch them. It seems that Visual Basic launches the
second VBS file before the first one is ended. Is there

I've written an application that writes a string variable to an
html-formatted file on the local hard drive and then I call up
Internet Explorer to display the file.
I would like to do this without writing to the hard drive.

I want to assign a type / structure to another through classes
I call it a structure VB calls it a typedef I think
I cant just go
classB.mystruct1=mystruct2  without using a ton of lets for each element of