VB Forum / General / March 2005

Is ther any where I can find Examples of how to connect these to a DAO
database table, none of the manuals I have show anything.  I have the Visual
Basic 6.0 Programmers guide, language manual, controls reference and the
component Tools guide.  

My forms will display data in textboxes. 90% of the time a user just
needs to look at the data, and 10% of the time want to edit the
database-table-record.
Accordingly, I want to display (only) the information and include an

Hello, sorry for the multipost but I think I wrote in the wrong one.
I'm looking for any service packs for Visual Basic .NET version 2003. I have
checked Microsoft, but with no joy.
Could someone please point me the way ?

From inside Visual studio 2003 if I try to open a form (form1.vb) I get a
Microsoft Development Environment Dialog which states"There is no editor
available for ' c:\project files\Project1\Project1\form1.vb'
Make sure the application for the file type (.vb) is installed.

My application is started by the run key of the current user and performs
certain operations at the user logon process. I want it to perform those
operations only after a given time (5 minutes or so) after the user logs on
and not imediatelly after the application is started.

Hey all,
I see a lot of web pages saying that certain types in VB (like controls) allow
for polymorphic treatment, and many more sites show how to create properties
on a class type, but I haven't seen a tutorial on how to actually do method

Let's say i want to provide functionality to my application thru plugins.
perhaps i need fax and email capabilities, so i create an email plugin and a
fax plugin.  also assume that i don't want to or need to build the classes
that actually send a fax or email (because windows ...

I am looking for a third party control that you can put on a form which will
hold controls and have some outlook functionality.  Basically, I want to put
a grid control inside this third party control which will allow you min or
max by clicking the header with down arrows like ...

I still want to use the visual basic 6.0 professional edition. However the
product is obselete. May I use the license of Visual Studio.net Professional
Edition to have the downgrade rights to visual basic 6.0 professional
edition? appreciate your advice. Thank you.

We have a situation where we need to show the caption of a lable to contain
a superscript.
For example, we have a text box for volume and the caption should say
"Volume m3" where 3 should be shown as a super script (as in 3 cube).

Hi..
I would like go fire Internet Explorer and let it navigate some sites by VB
program...
How can I do it ?..

I'm using P&DW for a VB6 application. A user installed my first version on
his windows XP, everthing went fine.
I released an upgrade, a bitmap image on the form and some form control
repositions (trying to make it look smarter) and my user can't install it

I have a VB6 app that's using a winsock control to communicate with an
industrial device. The device provides the server side of the
connection (my app is the client).
In my app, I'm checking the .state of the connection once a second. If

I've been asked if I could convert my app to send raw text data to a printer
via USB rather than serial/COM.
Right now, we open the com port and ship out our text printer data to that
port (a label printer).   I've searched the web, and there are comments

Is there a way to make a Label and Frame object have a transparent
background?
I want to use a textured bitmap as the background on the form, and it would
be nice to have my  Labels and Frames having transparent background instead