VB Forum / General / January 2005

Using VB6.  I want to write an exe that will open a text file (path is
static) and replace some of the text in the file.  For example, how would I
open up a text file that lives at C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Desktop\test.txt and change every occurance of the word "this" ...

First, feel free to call me misguided.
I'm having to continue someone else's programming setup
until I can do it differently. They have their projects
and standard EXEs from those projects on a machine that

I recall seeing a post here on how to obtain free ComponentOne grid. Could
someone please tell me how that is done?
Thanks
Harold

I am writing a script that will automate the transfer of files using FTP.  I
is all working very well, but I need to add some sort of error checking to
the script.  I would like to write to a file the name of all of the files
that are transfered in an FTP session.  Can anyone ...

I am creating a project that needs to get the title of a bunch of web pages.
e.g., I have the string "http:// intranet / webapp1 / thepage.asp"
I need to send that request off to the web server, get the html back, parse
the "<title>TheTitle</title>" out using a regex, and retrieve ...

Can I write and then read a user defined type to a file? I thought I could.
What is wrong with the following code?
Thanks
Hamil

I want to keep an initialization file in my VB6 development directory that I
open and read when my program starts. When compiled, the
"GetCurrentDirectory" will return the directory where the VB exe file is
located. Is there a way to get the same directory when I run the VB ...

MY CLAIM:
I CLAIM that the Circle Method in VB6 has a problem and if you can make it
work
as defined in the challenge then you are a VERY SKILLED programmer and

Can someone tell me what is wrong with the following code snippit?
Thanks,
Hamil.
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Hi NG!
Is there a function in VB6, that gives me the last day on the month of any
given month? E.g. June 2005=30, February 2005=28, February 2008=29
TIA

I seem to have come accross a problem related to different platforms
concerning new lines. I have been developing my application and since ive
changed to using a rich text control new lines have been working fine.
However i have now come accross a slight hitch. I compiled my ...

I'm trying to use the CopyFolder function within an application. When I add
the following line :
Dim fso as FileSystemObject
VB usually displays a list after you have typed the 'as' , but

I defined a variable in (General) part of the form and I define its value in
"Private Sub Measurement".
However, when "Private Sub Form_Activate" is running, variable is lost (out
of context).  Where I got it wrong?

List:
I've a new machine.  I copied over my projects from my old machine.
After copy, I had to fix a couple of references (for some reason, it
thought it could find the CRX runtime on CDRom) which made some sort of

I installed SP6 for Visual Studio 6. From what I can tell it cannot be
uninstalled. While that displeases me, I accept it.
Question: will uninstalling Visual Studio 6 completely get rid of SP6 (the
goal being to reinstall Visual Studio and applying SP5), or am I looking at