VB Forum / General / January 2005

I am trying to use Sockets with FTP.  First, I am trying
to understand FTP.  I started up a session of ftp.exe at
the command prompt (logged in, etc) from a client machine
and then called remotehelp to see a list of the server

Several DOD users just converted to WinXP and added some more security to
their network.  Now my software amongst others (MS Office, AutoCad & Win Help
System too) is causing a popup Installer Window to be displayed.  The
installer keeps coming back each time, it is never ...

I have a program that has arrays on it created on VB6.
I want that a 3rd person create a script, that script will do calculations
on that array and then send back to the VB6 program a new array with the new
values.

Hi, how can I hide the horizontal scrollbar in a listview?  This seems
like it should be almost trivial, but I can't see any property to set,
not sure if I am missing something obvious. Thanks.

Hi to all,
I've another question about serializzation of UDT.
I need to compact an UDT message before sending onto network, eliminating
all padding bytes.

The Microsoft Visual basic uses a set st6andard for the windows
appearances.
Is there someplace where I can acquire sets of different appearing
windows to replace the standard?

What is the best way to close down vb6 program?
I unload a form and then set it = nothing. I aslo tried "End"
Ok it closes that form but if I go to task manager the program is still
there with

I use MSQL Sever as my backend database and I have always used the port
number to connect to the MSQL sever. I got an email from someone saying that
they needed a way to connect using instance and not by port number. I do not
know what instance is and I cannot find it anywhere on ...

I am a relative newcomer to macros and VB. I'm using Office 2000 and building
macros through Excel and VB editor.
I just want to know the meaning of where a macro is saved - when one first
selects the 'Record Macro' command you are given the option of whether you

Hai,
I am programming using VBA in EXCEL97. When I use the following code
I get rutime error 1004 stating that the ADD method of OLE objects i
incorrect. (I am using the German version of MSOffice. I hav

vb 6 (sp 6)
were trying to write an application that will print RTF formatted files
through wordpad, but without having wordpad on the screen.
can anybosy suggest some code to do this ?

I thought I saw this question answered some time ago but I can't find
the reference.
When I exit VB6 and launch it again, it fails to "remember" my screen
settings, that is, I develop using full screen mode, but it always comes

I am using Visual Studio .Net. When I try to import system.web.mail it
does not recognize mail as a valid namespace of system.web.   I need
some help.  

Is it possible to loop through a text file in reverse order?  The reason
that I want to loop the file backwards is that it normally grows to several
hundred MB, and starting from the beginning using: "Do Until EOF(x) : Line
Input : (logic) : Loop" takes too long.

I have made 2 cursors, both are just a little pointer arrow like you see in
windows, just a little different.  I've made them as .ico files 32x32 so that I
can load them into an image list and keep my colors (if you load a cursor into
an image list then it loads it as 2 colors, ...