VB Forum / General / March 2005

An app I have has a problem - - it will install on Win2k just fine, but when
you try to install it on WinXP, it gets an error during setup:
is-N5IPT.tmp - Entry Point Not Found
The procedure entry point SetFileSecurityI could not be location in the

Has anyone seen this?
When you type into a cell in a DbGrid control, you do not
have a cursor and you can't see the data being entered.
Very odd.

IS THERE A TOOL:
TO CONVERT ACCESS REPORT TO CRYSTAL
Thanks...

I have 2 databases both in Access which I get VB to transfer a whole table
to be appended to another.
The code i use is :-
strSQL = "INSERT INTO [table8] SELECT * FROM [MS Access;DATABASE=" &

How can I find out the full path of a file if it is in the Windows path.
For example, if I was given a filename XYZ.  I can use the shell command to
simply execute this (as in Shell "XYZ") if it is in the windows path, but
how can I find out the location (and extension) of the file ...

I would like to set the width of a label so that it can display the
contents of a variable-length string variable, sorta like this:
cString = "Man, these Twips drive me nuts"
lblLabel.Width=Convert LEN(cString) to Number of Twips needed.

I was wondering what the following code would do...
mything("aField") = 5
mything.update
if mything("aField") is already = 5? Will an update message hit the database

What does the access option of the open command really do?
Ex: open "c:test.txt" for output access write lock write as #intFileNo
What will the 'access write' add to the command?
Does it make sense to add a 'access read write' to an open for output?

I have a new box that I'm getting set up and it's been a while since I've
done this:  where is the VSS client installation?  I have the VB 6.0
Enterprise Edition CDs.
Thanx!

Hello --
In my first use of Data Environment I created a frmFirst by dragging a
Command onto a blank form.  I should have dragged individual fields because
I did not the entire set of fields in the table represented by the Command.

I am writing a VP app that allows employees to clock in and out via the
store computer. Once the employee selects their name from a combobox and
then enters their password, a search is done to retrieve the date and time
from the last time they used the app. While I am not getting ...

When I try to run the Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit, Visual Studio loads the
.aspx file instead of Internet Explorer. I thought I could solve this by
changing the file association for .aspx files to Internet Explorer, but when
I do that I get the following message:

I'm working on a terminal emulator app and I want some of the buttons on the
number pad to operate differently to their equivalents on the main keyboard.
e.g. The - (minus) key on the keypad versus the - key above the P.
I can detect in the KeyDown event that the key is different I ...

I want to develop one small VB program,in that program while i am pressing a
button,variable count is increasing gradually,but if the time will be
12:00:00AM then the variable count should be zero.
for example,my application contineously running,if the system time is

for a GIS application I wanted to calculate the scale of the displayed
map and used the functions ScaleX/ScaleY. I get the impression that
the result of this function does not depend on screen-resolution.
Is there a way to find out the "real" size (in cm) of a window.