VB Forum / General / February 2005

I use a label control to show a string.  The width of the label is fixed. I
want to dynamically adjust the height of the label so it can fit the length
of the string. How can I do it? Thanks in advance.
Yolande

i am switching from a access front end to a vb front end for my database.  i
want to play around with vb for a little while before i decide to give ms
more money.  if i develop in vb express can i take the application and use it
with vstudio pro when i want to distribute?

I have a picture box where I drew a chart programatically with VB6.
I put enough scale factors so that whenever the user changes the screen
resolution the image stays the same. The program does this fine.
The problem is when I print it. Since I made the program in a 1024x768

How can get domain name from vb6?

I am building an application with a Resource file. When I used the VB6 P&D
utility to package it, I forgot to add this resource file to the file list.
Then, when I installed it in my PC and ran it, I expected some error will
happen because of my mistake. But, everything is fine, ...

Hi, the VB Format function does not format the time separator. For
instance, if your time separator is ".", like in Italian or German
locales the call to
Format(Now, "hh:nn:ss")

I want to know if a Command() function is empty and do one thing if emplty
and another if something entered.  Can I check it for Null, empty string
("") or ???   Thanks.
David

I am looking for code to automatically open the VB project screen maximized
(not VB itself, but the code windows).  I had code to do this once, but I
re-formatted my computer and must have lost it.
Thanks!

i have been requested to implement a vb code for an associate.
the script requires getting the data from a column in 370 units increments
until 100% or over is achhieved... its for a forecasting project.
any ideas on how should I proceed with this???

I would like to design and use "Forms" that I can apply to an
application, just to appear different than the "Form" structure
supplied within VB6.
Can someone point me to a utility that I can use to do this?

An irritating problem:
We have a form that has a multiline text box, 4 buttons (Ok, Cancel,
Help, and Reset) that launches a common dialog to allow a user to pick 1
or more files. After making a selection in the common dialog and

I am invloved in making our product Multilingual. I am using Resource
files to Localize the Codebase. code is working fine.
Now, when i change the Locale to somethin like French. Everything
changes accordingly, but the Msgbox buttons Captions remains unchanged.

I am new to Visual Basic .Net and would like to build a simple application
that searches a directory and returns the Path, Size and DateModified of all
files that end in ".MDB".
a)  I would create a form to allow the user to enter the directory to be

When I tried to create ActiveX exe without a form and a
control, in the Project property I can check 'Unattended
Execution' because it is NOT greyed out, but 'Retain in
Memory' is greyed out.  

I am looking for a good tutorial on creating COM objects. I have a small VB
application that I want to make a COM object out of and I have no idea
where to start. Many thanks!
Andrew