VB Forum / General / January 2005

Do I need VB to reside on computers in order to sucessfully run
a VB.exe program? The VB.exe resides on a central computer that the users
would go to and click on the vb.exe program there. Do the other computers
need vb software? Or do they only need a component of VB software? I am

Any idea on how to add a sort indicator to the MS grid in VB6?
Thanks in advance

I've a color coded staff plan and I need to make report from it.
For example red means holiday, brown means illness... the cells also contain
codes that are shift codes, so I cannot change them.
I wrote a small finction to return the color value of the cell:

I get this message when I open a project as the project is loading
Method '~' of object '~' failed
However, I am able to load the project.
Strangely, I get this when I run one or two applications.

is it possible to hook DLLRegisterServer and write my own functions to
be called after a COM object has been registered?
Thanks.

I have a Adobe .pdf file stored on a server which I would like the users to
be able to open up by clicking a menu option.  Is this possible?  I just
want them to open the file in Adobe, not in my app.  Appreciate any help on
this.

How do I SORT a textfile using VBScript?
I can't seem to find information/Syntax/Usage/Code_examples about how to
SORT data using VBScript(6). Basically, I want to re-SORT a textfile (like a
log file data lines) alphabetically by 1st column. Alternatively, sort by

We have a small vb application that uses a dataenviromemt. It has been
working fine on a win 2000  server, but wehn w try and run it on a Win 2003
server we get an 713 error.
we have tested the data connection from that server to the database using

In VB6, the ComboBox had a method, ItemData. What is the equivalent method
in VB.Net?
Thank you..

I am trying to open a file, copy information from it and paste to another
document from within a word object. The code below is a subroutine and I get
an error message stating "had file name" (record is the "bad file name"
defined from within a subroutine that calls this ...

I have a VB6 application which backs up files from one drive to another. Is
there a way of running this when a user clicks on the 'Log out' or 'Switch
off Computer' icons.
I'm using Windows XP.

How does VB use memory with OOP.
1) when you create a object from a class does VB allocate memory for the
whole class (for every  var/function )or just what you use. Some people
create loads of extra class features which never get used.

please someone can explain me how to use DrawText and SetRect apis for
drawing text in different rectangle in my form.
i try to draw text with alignment (left top; left middle; left bottom;
.....)

I would like to programatically open a PDF document, find the first image (a
page header graphic), delete it and then delete all other occurances of it
within a multipage document, then save the document.
Is this possible with VB6?

I think I have figured out the vagaries of VB's variable declaration
syntax. Please let me know if there are any errors in this summary
table:
 Keyword               Declare         Scope           Duration