VB Forum / General / March 2005

I've recently installed VB6 on a new hard drive, and when I try to mak
the .exe of an older project, I get an error window that says:
"License information for this component not found.  You do not have a
appropriate license to use this functionality in the desig

Is there a function or API in VB6 to see if a Network Drive is connected
and active based on the name of the folder and drive letter?
So for e.x.:
I already have \\AMSSRV\AMSTST mapped to N:

CSV is actually a very complicated format, so I've normally just let Excel do
it. However we're trying to streamline a number of our processes and now I
would like to use "pure" VB to do this.
Is there a way I could use some of the internal objects to export a "real"

I've run into a problem with the following scenario:
From my Visual Basic 6.0 application I try to open several pdf files, one
after another. The way I do that is by using 'Shell' command to launch Adobe
Acrobat application together with a given file. This is a sample VB code:

I am trying to use shell command to copy pcl font to the
printer and it does not work from within VBA or VB6.0
the code is the following
x = Shell("CMD copy /b E:\DEVELOPMENT\font-id.txt LPT1",

I'm attempting to debug a VB4-16 app that is giving me an "Undefined
function 'DatePart' in expression" when I attempt to use the results of this
SQL query:
SELECT Students.YearOfGraduation FROM Students WHERE (((DatePart('m',

I have the need to print the contents of a picture box along with some other
text I will place on the Printer object.
Does anybody know of a way to do this ?
Thanks, Dana

I have this statment behind a Form in VB,
      If rsPatient!FirstName = Me.txtFName And rsPatient!lastname =
Me.txtLName Then
       msgbox

I'm cycling through a db of string values and need to make this as fast
as possible
I have colon-delimited identifier strings e.g.
MyIdString = 12345:abcdef:xyz:12345.667

I am so confused I have looked at this so many hours and could not figure it
out. This is how I have it setup.
In an event a user wants to add a new patient, the system must check to make
sure that the first name and last name does not exists. if it exits and the

How can I force the user to enter a full date
I have this
Private Sub txtDOB_Validate(Cancel As Boolean)
If Not IsDate(Me.txtDOB.Text) Then

Hi, I am using Visual Basic6.0. I am having a login form where username and
password are stored in database. But i want to use the active directory
information
to login into the project. I don't want the user to have separate login for

I have VB6 EE on WinXP SP2.
I am trying to raise an error using following error from with-in a DLL:
   Err.Raise vbObjectError + 599 ', "ClassName",
Ironically, I am getting another error which says:

I am using Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 as email-client
I would like to DragAndDrop the Attachments directly
onto a VB6-Application-Icon and do sth. with it.
What I get in the Command$ is "C:\DOKUME~1\PETER\LOKALE~1\test.txt"

In the list of MS newsgroups, I see a microsoft.public.vb.ownersarea.
Is this news group DOA or do I need to do something special to access it?
Thanks
- Kev