VB Forum / General / February 2005

Is it possible to have a VB application that allows a user to created a DTS
package from selection made on the VB form.  The developer is creating
timesheet exports for different clients.  There are many to create.  The DTS
package includes connections to dattabases, excel ...

I have created an internet cafe manager program i used in our school
and it works fine for windows 98. however the problem is on how can i
disable the task manager and ctrl+alt+del if the OS is windows xp.
anyone know where can i found some code to start with?

My form consists of the array of labels and vertical scroll bar, which moves
that labels up or down depending on the window size.
After scrolling I want to take focus from the scrolling bar. It flashes and
it is very annoying.

I'm searching for code that reveals the comment on a computer in a domain,
such as shown in in windows explorer window when browsing through a domain
or workgroup.
THe "net view" command also gives a similar list with hostnames with their

I have a form that was created as the part of a project.
It has everything I need for another project I'm working
on. So I inserted the form from the other project. But I
realize now that it's the same form. So if I make any

When opening a file I use App.Path +"\FileName.Ext". In some cases due to
language change to Japanesse, the backslashes ("\") are changed to the yen
simbol causing my application not to find the file. How can I solve this
problem?

I thought I was trying to do something really simple, but can't figure it out.
I want to be able to click on a command button and have a known pdf
file open up in a user's default pdf browser.  (Kind of like when you double
click a pdf file from windows explorer)

How can I, based on having the exact path of the file I want to open, have
that file open using its default app, based on the extension?
I understand the Shell function, but all the examples I've seen use Shell
(app.name, filepath)

I am getting the html code of a wab page in the variable in VB6. I
want to remove all the html code and retaine only plain text. How to
do it?
Thanks

I'm not getting much help from the "Add-in" group and you folks have been
awesome in the past so here it goes,
I've written an add-in for MS Project it implements idextensibility2
When I launch my office application (MS Project) On connection fires

I'm having problems installing the above service pack.
First I downloaded and burnt it onto a cd - I double clicked on the file but
got a message saying that the exe file couldn't start. I then downloaded
again (direct onto my desktop) and the files were extracted into a  folder I ...

How can i change MsgBox "Help" Button Caption
Sun

I am getting hex numbers in from an RS-232 source and coverting them to store
in a database.  The numbers are 4 bytes long, but often have non-zero values
in the rightmost 2 bytes. Is there any standard coversion method that gets
around the following anomoly?

In vb.net 2003 im attempting to create an MSI using a 22 MSMs from VB6.
The install path i have creted looks like this:
Program Files
                   app

When opening a VB6 group project containing about 100 ocx VBPs im prompted
by each of the 100 projects "would you like to add to source safe".
Im not using source safe for this project. can anyone tell me how to turn
off the add to source safe prompts when opening a project ?