VB Forum / General / February 2005

If you know only the text value of an item in a listbox is there a
simple method of determinig its index number?
What happens if it occurs more than once in a listbox howw would you
determine the first  index and all indexes

I have a control (third party tab control) that I would like to appropriately
fit the screen as it resizes.  This is easy to do for width...but how do I
adjust for the height taking into consideration the title bars, status bars
etc and the varying sizes of these on different ...

I have problem iterating throung an element's children
The XML is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0
<MODEL type="Profitability">

Hello Friends,
Sorry for such a newbie type question but I need to get the proper file size
returned to me for large files.  I found a function but I am not quite sure
how to use it.  I'm not sure what to send the FileSizeHigh and the

Anybody know of a trick I can implement to get my 1999 MSDN to install on a
Win2000 PC?
Might it be as simple as a "CHICAGO" type thing?
BT3

Hi..
I got two project
Project A is ActiveX EXE
and Project B is referencing to Project A ...

My application has a problem only when run as a compiled file (meaning in VB
its OK).
The form just disappears !
I put some msgbox commands between some lines just to figure out which line

I've been looking at Shareware licensing apps and solutions - generating
license keys, etc - -
In particular - Visual Protect
has anyone had any experience with this product?   feedback?

I can take this to the SQL corner if you want me to, but I'm not letting go
of you guys/girls too easy.
   sql = "SELECT * " & _
         "FROM Pop3LocalMailBox AS T1 " & _

Im trying to dynamicly create a control array. But i seem to be having
difficaulty doing this. I thought i could this by passing a value to .index
of the componets but it doesnt seem to work. The code im using
   Set FrameTheatre = Controls.Add("vb.frame", "FrameTheatre")

Im trying to create a linux Epoch timestamp in visual basic. The reason for
this is im creating a application that uses a database to store records. And
i need to be able to display records within a four  hour period of this
date. I dont know if visual basic provides any ...

I am using MS Internet Transfer Control to read web pages
from the web. I have no problem with most pages, except
for the following
website: "http://businessweek.com/rss/technology.rss".

We have been using VB6 for a long time now and have many applications. Some
of these applications call an industrial process control API that requires
certain fields to be input as 16-bit integers.
Now we are converting everything to VB.Net 2003 and read that integers are

I'm building a VB App. This app needs to list all available Serial Ports to
the user.  Currently I do it by using a MSCOMM component to enumarate COM 1 ~
COM 16. (Setting its ComPort = 1, 2, ... 16 and check whether Error issued).
When a port is a Virtual port (on network), this ...

running windows 2000 in work
i want to biuld a screen on my computer that can look at info entered into
several text boxes on ten other computers - eg i look at computer number 1
and see what has been entered - and then computer 2 and see again - or look