VB Forum / General / February 2005

I have some code that looks like the simplified code shown below:
Form1:
Private Sub Check1_Click()
 Call DeleteItem

Strange thing just happened. I wrote a program for work with a TreeView
control to load with all the employees names, ordered by Last Name. The nodes
are A,B,...You get the idea. Well, just a few days ago the nodes show up but
when you click on them, they are empty. The nodes ...

Given that VB6's collections can be addressed almost like arrays of variant
or arrays of class_objects, why do so many people use arrays and then have
to use the "Redim Preserve..." statement when they could simply use
Collection.Add and Collection.Remove and let the runtime deal ...

I'm writing an MFC ActiveX control and some C function expose in a DLL
that will be used in Visual Basic .NET and Visual C#.
I want to detect in my code if we are currently beeing debugged by any
debugger (Managed and Unmanaged debugger.).  Previously, we were using

If I getattr("filename") on a directory, I get the result x10
(vbdirectory), as expected. If, however, I disable 'allow indexing
service to ... <blah>' on the disc which contains the folder, and call
getattr again, I now get the result

I have made a small program that joins files together.At the moment it uses
available memory but recently I had a chance to join 2 large files that
totals over 1gig.It came up with an Out of Memory error.
I have a Gig of memory in total but obviously some is used for the system

I am developing a vb application to read the latest arrived mail from
"All public folders" through outlook. This should be dynamic as the
folders increase in the "All Public folders", The program should read
the folders accordingly.

I'm having trouble reading an INI file. I can read all of the sectinos
and values up to a certain point, after that point 0 characters are
returned from the GetPrivateProfileString function.
 charnum = GetPrivateProfileString(Section, Entry, sDefault, sRetBuf,

does anyboday know how to disbale autorun programmatically for all
cd/dvd drives, on all windows version 9x & NT without reboot ?
i have a found a MS KB Q155217 on disabling it but its only provide
info for NT OS and the instruction provided only works when system is

When I deploy my app (6 custom ActiveX DLL's deployed with app), something
goes goofy in the registering ... sometimes.  Target computer gets errors,
something about Automation.  Sorry but that's all I ever get from them (380
miles away), but I bet it's the "doesn't support ...

I'm using Winsock for SMTP, can I set a timeout for the connect, e.g.
With frmOptions2.Winsock1
  .RemoteHost = frmOptions2.txtEmailServer.Text
  .RemotePort = 25

To whom it may concern (any MVP's?)
I am fiddling with an API treeview usercontrol, using CustomDraw etc.
I coded it on Win2K with COMCTL5 and currently testing it on WinXP with COMCTL6.
One of the differences I noticed until now, is that while label text is drawn

In a standard VB project, I instantiate a class (within the project).
I then call a method in the class from Sub Main.
The method shows a Form.
I have noticed that the class's termination event fires before I have a

Tell me if this is a right idea.  I want to create some config files, for
examples, to assign file paths, and to verify user data input.  But I don't
know how to create config files, and how to read them in the program.  And
how to setup username/password for administrator to ...

How do I turn on line numbers to make it easier to debug?  Thanks.